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Photo by Elsa/ Your Thursday morning dose of New York Mets and MLB news, notes, and links. Meet the Mets The Mets split their doubleheader against the Marlins with their pitching and offense clicking in the first game and mistakes dooming them in the second. Joey Lucchesi got the start in Game 1 and was solid once again. He pitched into the seventh and gave up two runs but was not helped by Trevor Gott who allowed the inherited runners to score. It was still another good performance and in nine starts Lucchesi ends the year undefeated. The offense did plenty to back him...

Photo by Megan Briggs/ A quick review of how the Mets’ pitchers fared over the past week. The rotation was not as impeccable this week as it has been most of the rest of the month, but nobody put up a true stinker. José Quintana, however, did have arguably his worst start in a Mets uniform and the bullpen had some poor performances in close games in the Phillies series. We’ll get that José Quintana start out of the way first. It was an odd outing for Quintana on Saturday; he struck out ten batters and didn’t walk any, which is an incredible...

Photo by Elsa/ The doubleheader ended—as so many do—in a split. Having beaten the Marlins in the first game of their doubleheader this evening at Citi Field, the Mets lost the second game despite having a couple of their best players reach notable milestones during it. Miami won 4-2, but on the way to that result, Kodai Senga recorded his 200th strikeout of the season, and Francisco Lindor hit his 29th and 30th home runs of the season, giving him his first 30/30 season of his major league career. As for the runs that scored, Jon Berti led off the game with a home...

Photo by Elsa/ Lindor is just the fourth player to achieve the feat in a Mets uniform. Francisco Lindor came into the Mets’ doubleheader against the Marlins with 27 home runs and 30 stolen bases on the season, but during the second game, he hit his second and third home runs of the doubleheader to give him 30. With that, Lindor joined the 30/30 club for the first time in his career, having hit 30+ home runs three times in Cleveland but never having stolen 30 bases in a single season. Lindor is just the fourth player in Mets history to have a 30/30 season and the first...

Photo by Gregory Fisher/Icon Sportswire via The Mets scored eleven runs in the first of two games against the Marlins. The Mets blew out the Marlins in the first game of their doubleheader today at Citi Field, scoring eleven runs and allowing only two. If that’s how the Marlins are going to play, the fact that they would have to start Braxon Garrett on short rest on Sunday won’t even matter in the National League Wild Card race. Following a postponement of the series opener last night because of unplayable conditions at Citi Field, plenty of sanctimonious words...

Photo by Jim McIsaac/ Following a postponement last night, the Mets play two against the Marlins today. Game 1 Marlins Lineup Jorge Soler - RF Josh Bell - DH Jake Burger - 3B Bryan De La Cruz - LF Jon Berti - 2B Yuli Gurriel - 1B Jazz Chisholm - CF Nick Fortes - C Garrett Hampson - SS Braxton Garrett - LHP Mets Lineup Brandon Nimmo - CF Ronny Mauricio - 2B Pete Alonso - 1B Francisco Lindor - SS Mark Vientos - DH Jeff McNeil - RF Francisco Alvarez - C Brett Baty - 3B Tim Locastro - LF Joey Lucchesi - LHP Broadcast Info First pitch: 4:10 EDTTV: SNYRadio: WCBS...

The show is back to talk the last two weeks in baseball. It’s been so long since we’ve talked Mets, they got a new POBO! Grace, in her first solo show, discusses David Stearns’ hiring, potential moves he could make, and the expectations fans should have/temper. Then, a little 2023 Mets discussion, but how much is there really to say at this point? Then, Grace goes over all the general baseball news the show missed! The Padres have internal beef! Where does it start, where does it end, who’s responsible and for how much? The Angels have drama with all their star players...

Photo: Chris McShane Catch up on all the Mets prospects in yesterday’s minor league action! Triple-A: Syracuse Mets (33-41/28-44) NO GAME (SEASON OVER) Double-A: Binghamton Rumble Ponies (35-34/35-25) EASTERN LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES, GAME ONE BINGHAMTON 9, SOMERSET 2 (BOX) EASTERN LEAGUE DIVISION SERIES, GAME TWO BINGHAMTON 2, SOMERSET 0 (BOX) EASTERN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES, GAME ONE ERIE 9, BINGHAMTON 6 (BOX) EASTERN LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES, GAME TWO ERIE 10, BINGHAMTON 0 (BOX) The Binghamton Rumble Ponies entered last night’s game two of the Eastern...

Photo by Jim McIsaac/ Your Wednesday morning dose of New York Mets and MLB news, notes, and links. Meet the Mets The Mets were rained out on Tuesday night. They will play a doubleheader against the Marlins today. Ken Rosenthal says the Shohei Ohtani sweepstakes this winter will come down to the Mets and Dodgers. The Rumble Ponies were eliminated from the Eastern League playoffs. Anthony DiComo looks at how the Mets playing this week will impact their draft lottery chances. Around the National League East AD The Phillies won on a walk-off single in the 10th inning to...

Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports While it wasn’t raining in New York this evening, the field was in no condition for a game The Mets and Marlins were set to play the first game of their three-game series at Citi Field tonight, but the game was postponed because the field was in an unplayable state following the rain that Tropical Storm Ophelia dropped on it over the weekend. With the Mets having been eliminated from the playoffs already, the game doesn’t mean much to them. But the Marlins are fighting for a Wild Card spot in the National League in a race that...

Photo by Megan Briggs/ The Mets return to Citi Field for one final 2023 homestand, beginning with the Marlins. Mets lineup Brandon Nimmo - CF Ronny Mauricio - 2B Pete Alonso - 1B Francisco Lindor - SS Mark Vientos - DH Jeff McNeil - RF Francisco Alvarez - C Brett Baty - 3B Tim Locastro - LF Joey Lucchesi - LHP Marlins lineup TBA Broadcast info First pitch: 7:10 ESTTV: SNYRadio: WCBS 880, WEPN 1050

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/ A quick review of how the Mets’ position players fared over the past week. The Mets took two of three from the Marlins but then were swept in a four-game series by the Phillies over the weekend. All of the games in the Phillies series were close games and the offense did enough to win—at least in the first three games—but the Mets were let down by their pitching. Still, the offense didn’t look great this week, putting up an 82 wRC+ as a group over this seven-game stretch. This meter is definitely more feat-or-famine than most meters of...

Dominic Hamel | Photo by Alejandra Villa Loarca/Newsday RM via What minor league players put up the best numbers this past week, September 19th to September 24th? Jaylen Palmer Week: 6 G, 19 AB, .368/.556/.632, 7 H, 2 2B, 0 3B, 1 HR, 7 BB, 8 K, 1/1 SB (Triple-A) 2023 Season: 59 G, 64 AB, .167/.290/.268, 33 H, 6 2B, 1 3B, 4 HR, 32 BB, 92 K, 19/25 SB, .274 BABIP (High-A)/42 G, 146 AB, .143/.260/.222, 18 H, 1 2B, 0 3B, 3 HR, 17 BB, 62 K, 8/9 SB, .246 BABIP (Double-A)/21 G, 238 AB, .250/.380/.594, 16 H, 4 2B, 0 3B, 6 HR, 13 BB, 29 K, 3/4 SB, .333 BABIP (Triple-A) In 2019,...

Photo by Megan Briggs/ Can the Mets continue to play spoiler? The Mets welcome the Marlins to Citi Field as the Fish are currently looking in on the playoff picture from one game out. With six games left in the regular season, the Marlins can’t afford any unnecessary losses, and with a history of being spoiled by the Marlins at the end of a season, the Mets are probably trying to hand the Marlins as many loses as they can. Although the Marlins have won six of their last ten, they only managed to split the series with the Mets last week, and happen to be facing two of...

This week on the show, we get excited for Dollars for Dingers on Saturday, clown on the A’s for gifting a recovering alcoholic cheap wine, and discuss the battle in the courts over MLB’s antitrust exemption. Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, an all-women led Home Run Applesauce podcast where we talk all things Mets, social justice issues in baseball, and normalize female voices in the sports podcasting space. This week, we begin by talking a little bit about the Mets, but mostly getting excited for Dollars for Dingers, which is on Saturday at 4:00pm at Ebbs at Citi...