Reall enjoying the Mets start so far. Fun to watch and something seems to be building. That being said remember it's April 11th. Still many more games. I think they have things going the right way and will be in it for the long run but an injury or something and it'll be the same old Mets. I also like what Callaway is doing but I am leery, this being a Jet board we should be, one word "Mangenius." Callaway seems to have the right thing and is the right guy but things can change quickly.
Yeah, Matz isn't any good either. He hasn't pitched more than 5 1/3 innings in any of his 5 starts this season, and has given up less than 3 earned runs in a start exactly once. The team's run differential is down to +9, so this pace is simply not sustainable. Really hope Vargas can step up starting on Saturday, because 2 starters just isn't going to cut it (3 isn't either, but it's better than 2).
Yeah as it stands right now the Mets only have two acceptable starting pitchers. Who would have thunk that! Entering the season I thought Noah/Degrom A(+) pitchers. Matz/Wheeler/Harvey at C but maybe B pitchers. Boy was I overly optimistic.
What a joke. Syndergaard gives up 1 run in 71/3 innings and then an error by Rosario leads to an unearned run making it 2-2. The Mets go ahead in the top of the 10th and then Familia comes in and with two outs gives up a single and double (that probably should have been caught by Lagares) and it's tied again.
Well, it was inevitable that Sewalsd would eventually mess up too. Remember when the pundits all made fun of the Mets fans for panicking after that awful collapse against Washington? They were 12-2 at the time, and are 3-6 since then. Just sayin'.
It's crazy that after the start they had we aren't even out of the month yet and they only have a 0.5 lead in the standings. lol
Well, we know the Mets have two starters. Still no sign they have any others (including ones currently pitching out of the bullpen). Tonight’s game is big - they really need Vargas to hit the ground running.
Syndergaard looks terrible, and throwing a strike on a 1-2 count to Freddie Freeman with men on 2nd and 3rd and no one out in the top of the 1st was a terrible decision.
Noah wasn't good, but managed to dance through raindrops for 6 innings. Cespedes bails out Ramos and it's still 3-1. Cespedes also 3 for 3 with a HR.
A hit that is almost caught in right field, and a pop fly into the outfield that is allowed to fall in, and the Mets have the tying runs on in the bottom of the 9th.
Three straight bad hitters (Rosario, Flores, and Reyes) can't get a big hit, and the Mets lose 3-2 despite some pathetic play by Atlanta in the 9th. Mets are 6-9 since the 9-game winning streak.
Biggest thing from then and now is we aren't getting big hits with RISP. Think we were 0-7 yesterday with RISP.
Exactly - what they were doing then wasn't sustainable (batters hitting .200 striking out 3 times and then hitting a home run in the 9th to win it), and it hasn't been sustained. It was never very realistic that this team was going to be a contender this year, and it looks like they won't be. The problem is that almost all of the players they might count on going forward are playing poorly (Rosario, Conforto, Flores, Wheeler, Matz), so what is the team's future? Other than Syndergaard and Nimmo (and maybe Sewald and Gsellman), who on the team under the age of 30 can you say is having a good year? (Don't say de Grom - he's 30 - and don't say Familia - we all know his numbers are very misleading, and always have been). Speaking of Nimmo, he needs to play more, probably in RF (with Bruce either moving to first or to the bench).
