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Last Night’s Action: Losing to Bottom-Feeders
Mariners 11, Mets 0: Yes, the Mets are on the verge of being swept by the worst team in baseball. Seattle rocked Mets starter Oliver Perez for six runs in five innings and the Mets looked lost against Mariners knuckleballer R.A. Dickey. To be fair, they would look lost against a slow-pitch soft…
Last Night’s Action: Broken Wang?
Yankees 13 Houston 0: It should have been a great day for the Yankees. An easy win completing a 5-1 road trip should supply plenty of reasons to smile. But all the delight was dashed in the sixth inning when Chien-Ming Wang started limping on the way to scoring the first run of his career. Wang…
Last Night’s Action: Granting a Reprieve
Mets 7, Rangers 1: With the rumors swirling about Willie Randolph’s job, the Mets manager got help from an unlikely source. Oliver Perez threw seven innings of one-run ball — against the best offense in the American League — and the Mets got to talk about a win rather than why they seem to …
Last Night’s Action: 2-1 Is A Bummer
Kansas City 2 Yankees 1: The Yankees had their chances, in fact they had a lot of chances, but their own failures and a terrible umpiring sign kept them from capitalizing and they fell to the lowly Royals Friday night. Darrell Rasner was very effective, pitching eight innings while allowing o…
Last Night’s Action: Back To Winning
Yankees 5 Toronto 1: Derek Jeter got his 2,416th hit, a RBI-single that put the Yankees ahead 1-0 and moved Jeter past Mickey Mantle on the all-time team hit list. It was Jeter’s only hit of the night, but the Yankees had plenty of offense. Johnny Damon had three hits and a RBI, Wilson B…
Last Night’s Action: Gasping for Breath
Rockies 4, Mets 1: The thin air of Denver will not be missed by the Mets. Sunday’s loss was their moment in three games there and their fifth in seven games overall. John Maine was inefficient, needing 121 pitches to scrape through six innings. Jose Reyes didn’t help the cause by committing a…
Last Night’s Action: Mets Take Round 1
Mets 7, Yankees 4: With ace Johan Santana on the mound, the Mets had to have that game. They got it. Santana shook off three Yankees home runs — and got some help by the Yankees’ questionable baserunning — to earn the win against the team that flirted with trading for him in the offseason. …
Last Night’s Action: One Up One Down
Mets 4 Phillies 2: The Mets pulled out the win thanks to a home run by Jose Reyes and some nifty relief work from Aaron Heilman. Heilman came in with the bases loaded and only one out in the eighth and allowed only one run to give the Mets a 4-2 margin heading into the ninth. Billy Wagner too…
Last Night’s Action: Pop Goes The Mets?
Marlins 5 Mets 4 (10 innings): Forget the final score, the biggest news was Pedro Martinez grabbing his left leg after a pitch in the fourth. Pedro later told reporters he felt a “pop” and will head for a MRI shortly. Needless to say, “pop” is not a good thing for a pitcher to feel and …
Mets Take lead in Santana talks
According to the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Twins have told the Mets that they would trade Santana to New York if the Mets added gifted outfield prospect Fernando Martinez to a package that currently includes outfielder Carlos Gomez and young pitchers Deolis Guerra, Phil Humber and Kevin Mulvey.
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Mets trade Milledge for Nationals’ Church, Schneider
After two seasons of fixed trade speculation, the Mets finally have moved Lastings Milledge in a deal that afternoon to the division rival Washington Nationals. In return, the Mets get Outfielder Ryan Church and Catcher Brian Schneider. Milledge was not always a model citizen as a Met, either on the…
Sell the Whole Farm for Santana
There has never been a pitcher fairly like Johan Santana. You could sign him a left-handed Pedro Martinez, but that would insult his uniqueness. Once thought too short to be a starter, the reticent Venezuelan hero has been the key to that decade’s baseball renaissance in Minnesota, during which the …
Mets Need Crafty, Albeit Unglamorous, Offseason
Generally, the worst mistake humans manufacture when trying to predict what baseball teams will do is focusing on what they would like to do, and what they would ideally do, rather than what they can do. There is no doubt that Mets general manager Omar Minaya would like to fill the team’s emptin…
