New York Mets
Mets Sweep Yankees in Subway Series
The final hit on Wednesday night bounced into the glove of Aaron Hicks, and of course he didn’t want it. Hicks, the Yankees’ left fielder, gathered Starling Marte’s game-winning single, held it for a while and then flung it aside like a piece of gum. A ball boy retrieved it and tossed it into the […]
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Nolan Ryan Had a Softer Side. He Just Hid It (Very) Well.
Like the Beatles did shortly before him, Nolan Ryan performed at Shea Stadium and sang on the Ed Sullivan Show. The former is a well-known and well-told part of Ryan’s life, the early days of a Hall of Fame career that eventually launched the Ryan Express as if by rocket fuel. The latter, when he […]
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Max Scherzer Finishes Rehab Stint and Is Set to Rejoin Mets
HARTFORD, Conn. — An ace right-hander with 3,000 strikeouts and a Hall of Fame résumé took the mound at Citi Field on Wednesday afternoon. He fired eight shutout innings against a first-place team on his way to a victory. It lined up precisely with the Mets’ vision for their summer, except for one big detail. […]
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Pete Alonso and the Mets Are Breathing Deeply and Winning Games
Last season, the Mets were in first place in their division for four months before collapsing. They finished with a 77-85 record, their 10th losing season in the past 15. One of the biggest culprits: an offense that was one of the worst in Major League Baseball. Only three teams scored fewer runs, and those […]
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Mets Finish West Coast Trip As Second MLB Team to 40 Wins
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Closer Edwin Díaz emphatically wrapped up the Mets’ 10-game West Coast trip with a five-out save to preserve a 4-1 win over the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday night. But it was a decidedly smaller moment in the series that spoke volumes about the chemistry and character of these National League-leading Mets. […]
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Noah Syndergaard Adjusts to Life With the Angels
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Those who vividly remember Noah Syndergaard on top of the mountain, hair flying and fastball sizzling, may not recognize the 2022 version of the man they called Thor. The long hair is still there, even if the 100-mile-an-hour fastball has turned into a memory after two years lost to injuries. But in […]
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Buck Showalter and Bob Melvin Face Off in Mets-Padres Series
SAN DIEGO — They were hired with much fanfare over the off-season and have received rave reviews around Major League Baseball for their early work with their new teams. Both have won three Manager of the Year Awards and, should things keep up, would be strong contenders in this year’s voting as well. But before […]
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With Jersey Retirement, Gil Hodges Connects the Dodgers and Mets Again
By 1980, Fred Wilpon would purchase the team, adding another layer of connective tissue: Wilpon attended Brooklyn’s Lafayette High School with Dodgers Hall of Famer Sandy Koufax and was a rabid fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers. It was under his watch that Citi Field opened in 2009 with so many Dodgers-related touches — most notably, […]
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Five Mets Pitchers Combine for No-Hitter Against Phillies
The Mets and the Phillies had done this before in Flushing. On Father’s Day in 1964, Philadelphia’s Jim Bunning twirled a perfect game against the Mets at Shea Stadium. Bunning needed only 90 pitches in an effort now memorialized in Cooperstown, N.Y., on his Hall of Fame plaque. If Bunning’s game was a masterpiece for […]
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