NOTE: This plan is without Jose Reyes. I would like to have Jose Reyes back, but here I will be looking at an alternative: life without Jose. First, let’s start with the players with guaranteed contracts for next season: Johan Santana $24MM Jason Bay $18.3MM David Wright $15.25MM R.A. Dickey $4.75MM D.J. Carrasco $1.2MM Now, …
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2011: The season in review
The Mets ushered out the 2011 season in an afternoon win against the Reds on Tuesday. They finished up with a 77-85 record, “earning” them fourth place in the NL East, worse than what was expected by most at the beginning of the year. Today, we’ll look into the big headlines of this season, analyze …
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Mets pound Hernandez, win 6-3
Today, the Mets looked to take the series from the Nationals down in Washington D.C. The Mets had won 7-3 on Friday night behind a solid six innings by R.A. Dickey and three home runs by Met hitters. Last night, the Nats jumped ahead of the Mets early with a 5-0 lead. The Mets came …
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Thread: Mets (67-70) vs. Nationals (64-73)
Here is this afternoon’s Met lineup: Jose Reyes SS Ruben Tejada SS (Reyes is fine, he’s just getting a day off) Justin Turner 2B Lucas Duda RF David Wright 3B Angel Pagan CF Jason Bay LF Josh Satin 1B Mike Nickeas C Mike Pelfrey RHP vs. Livan Hernandez Talking points: The Mets lost last night …
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Mets battle back, fall to Nationals in ninth 8-7
Coming off a solid 7-3 victory in D.C., the Mets sent Dillon Gee to the hill to take on rookie Tom Milone. Gee started off the game by giving up a lead off home run to Ian Desmond down the left field line after a scoreless first by the Mets. After a scoreless second for …
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Mets mount amazin’ comeback, but the bullpen blows it, lose 11-9
The afternoon Mets vs. Brewers game was all about late inning heroics. The Mets and Brewers each came back from multi-run leads late. Here’s how it all went down. In the top of the first, Jerry Hairston Jr. got on with a one out walk. In the net at-bat, he was driven home by Ryan …
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Mets play very well all around, beat Padres 7-3 to take the series
The Mets, who were 1-4 on their West Coast road trip, came into today’s game after winning the first game of the series and then losing in the second game 6-1 in an awful offensive performance. Dillon Gee took the mound for the Mets, trying once again to become the first Met rookie pitcher to …
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Padres pound Dickey early and Parnell late fight off comebacks, beat Mets 9-5
After two straight late game comebacks by the Mets the past two nights, the Mets finally came back down to Earth with a 6-4 loss tonight to the San Diego Padres. Coming off a Lucas Duda walk-off single two nights ago, and a Ruben Tejada game winning walk in the eighth inning of last night’s …
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Murphy, Jose hurt, Parnell blows it again, Met lose 6-5
The Mets season was greatly altered in today’s game. Like…: Jose Reyes left the game very early with a tight left hamstring, the same one that landed Jose on the DL last month. It seemed to be a mild pull, but it required Jose to visit the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York for …
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Turner hits two home runs, Met bats explode, beat Braves 11-7
Just a day after Met fans had their hearts ripped out of them, the Mets came to play against the Braves at a wet, rainy, Citi Field. The game time was pushed back to about 8:10, as heavy rain came over the New York area for about an hour, and reappeared in the eighth inning. …
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Mets Headlines
- Final: Braves 5 Mets 3
- Rapid Reaction: Braves 5, Mets 3
- Alfonzo eager to represent Mets at FanFest
- Zack Wheeler will be back but six-man rotation won't last long
- New addition Young slots in leadoff for Mets
- Follow tonight’s Mets game
- Mets place Scott Atchison on the 15-day disabled list with groin injury
- With Atchison to DL, Mets recall Brown
- Mets ink first-rounder Smith, plus dozen more
- Official ruling gives Wright another career hit