• Amed Rosario’s walk-off homer leads Mets to sweep of Yankees

    Amed Rosario’s walk-off homer leads Mets to sweep of Yankees

    The Mets made themselves right at home at Yankee Stadium on Friday. They won both ends of a doubleheader against the Yankees and look to be on their way to getting a deep-pocketed owner. And they ended the night by walking off the Yankees in their own stadium, as Amed Rosario finished the nightcap with …
  • Dominic Smith’s heroics propel Mets to comeback win over Yankees

    Dominic Smith’s heroics propel Mets to comeback win over Yankees

    A day after the Mets and much of the rest of Major League Baseball opted not to play in an attempt to protest racial injustice, there was no talk of another day of postponements. Instead, the Mets and Yankees took the field in The Bronx on Jackie Robinson Day, and Dom Smith — whose words …
  • There is a Mets surprise waiting for all of us

    There is a Mets surprise waiting for all of us

    You get the sense that if they could, the Mets would channel one of the signature moves of the seminal figure of one of their ancestral forebears. That would be John J. McGraw, also known (though never to his face) as Muggsy, who for 31 years won 59.1 percent of the 4,424 games he managed …
  • Mets provide update on their coronavirus situation

    Mets provide update on their coronavirus situation

    So many negatives has never seemed so positive for the Mets. The team released a statement Saturday night saying two rounds of COVID-19 tests taken by the traveling party from New York to Miami late in the week have all returned negative. In addition, tests for all close contacts that remained in Miami were negative. …
  • Subway Series fans don’t have to choose between devotion and compassion

    Subway Series fans don’t have to choose between devotion and compassion

    The seduction has been easy, for those who’ve invited it in. There were some sports fans who’ve done what some of the athletes have done — they’ve opted out, either for now, or for the duration, or for good. They’ve done this for a variety of reasons: simmering resentment over baseball allowing its labor issues …
  • Mets’ coronavirus crisis puts Subway Series in shambles

    Mets’ coronavirus crisis puts Subway Series in shambles

    As the Mets await the results of their most recent COVID-19 tests, the entire Subway Series this weekend has been postponed. Friday’s series opener had already been called off, after a Mets position player and coach tested positive Thursday in Miami, but MLB has now postponed the rest of the three-game set at Citi Field …
  • It was only matter of time before coronavirus hit New York sports

    It was only matter of time before coronavirus hit New York sports

    This hits home now. We always knew that was a possibility, if not a certainty. As the coronavirus made its merry way around Major League Baseball, infiltrating random teams and picking off games like a sniper — the Marlins, the Cardinals, the Reds — New York could hold its breath, then exhale, then say: At …