Yesterday, Miami Marlins manager Ozzie Guillen was suspended for five games for his comments he made about former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, which included Guillen saying “I love Fidel Castro” in an interview he did for Time Magazine. This is much different than anything Guillen has said before. In Chicago, he was often in trouble for …
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Tonight at Citi Field, the Mets seemed done from the start. Dillon Gee took the mound for the Mets against Nationals starter Ross Detwiler. The Mets were without Ike Davis, who doctors are monitoring for valley fever, and David Wright. It was announced before the game that Wright would sit, and later in the game …
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The Mets improved to 4-0 tonight as they beat the Nationals at Citi Field by a score of 4-3. Mike Pelfrey started the game for the Amazin’s, and gave up three runs on ten hits in 5.2 innings. He really wasn’t bad. He struck out a career-high eight batters and was decent enough to keep …
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In the fourth inning of tonight’s game, rookie outfielder Kirk Nieuwenhuis hit his first major league home run, a two-run bomb to right field that tied the game at three. Nieuwenhuis is the first Met since Mike Jacobs to hit a home run in one of his first three major league games.
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After sweeping the Braves over the weekend, the Mets will look to the Nationals to be their next victims as they start a three-game series in Citi Field tonight at 7:10. David Wright comes in hot for the Mets tonight. David has driven in a run in each of the first three games of the season. …
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Although the Met offense looked great today, pounding the Braves’ pitching staff for seven runs on eleven hits, the real story of the day may have been what Niese did- or almost did. Recently-extended Jonathon Niese was stellar through six, holding the Braves hitless until Freddie Freeman broke it up in the seventh. Still waiting …
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