I have no coherent thoughts about the team these days, so here is a collection of incoherent thoughts.This morning, I texted my friend Joe asking the question “So, who gets fired today? Just HoJo or do they have the balls to fire Jerry?” This evolved into a discussion of David Wright (as my conversations with [ ... ] ...
Posted in Facebook ... The Mets (58-57) will look for the series victory against the Phillies (64-51) tonight at Citi Field. Game time is 7:10 pm. The lineup is as follows: 1. Jose Reyes SS 2. Angel Pagan RF 3. David Wright 3B 4. Carlos Beltran CF 5. Ike Davis 1B 6. Fernando Martinez LF 7. Josh Thole C [ ... ] ... Leave a Comment ...
Phillies 6 Mets 5 Not even seven homegrown players in the lineup could beat Roy Halladay and the Phillies. The Mets had seven fruits of the farm in their lineup: Jose Reyes, David Wright, Angel Pagan, Ike Davis, Josh Thole, Ruben Tejada, and Fernando Martinez. Yet, all that fruit — some of it very fresh [ ... ] ...
Heading into the All-Star Break, the Mets find themselves in a good position ... At 48-40, they are 4 games back of the NL East leading Atlanta Braves and a game back of the Wild Card leading Colorado Rockies ... A 2-4 homestand to conclude the first half against NL contenders Cincinnati & Atlanta was a bit of a setback; but those two wins were both Johan Santana shutouts ... The team is playing better than what most of the prognosticators had them at the beginning of the season (80-82) and
Frankie Rodriguez made a good pitch. David Wright made a great pickup and throw. Ike Davis made a fine scoop. But Hanley Ramirez made everything easier on the Mets by taking his sweet time for the first third of his trip down the first base line ... We appreciate it, Hanley. We know you’re capable of doing [ ... ] ...
Finally in possession of confidence to match his talent, Mike Pelfrey has become a stabilizing force for the Mets. Tuesday, with the help of home runs by David Wright and Ike Davis, the 6-foot-7 righthander led the Mets to a 4-2 win over San Diego ...
Mike Pelfrey did his part to make the New York Mets forget their embarrassing series-opening loss to the San Diego Padres. Pelfrey quieted San Diego's bats one night after they did so much damage, and David Wright and Ike Davis homered to lead the New York Mets to a 4-2 win over the Padres on Tuesday night ...
Jonathon Niese finally won at Citi Field and David Wright even cleared the fence. Whenever they play at home these days, everything seems to go right for the New York Mets. Niese pitched brilliantly in his return from the disabled list and Wright hit a rare long ball at home, sending the Mets to a 6-1 victory over the Florida Marlins on Saturday ...
David Wright, whose opposite-field homer in the top of the sixth inning Wednesday pulled the Mets to within 4-3, was curiously absent at third base in the bottom of the 10th inning after striking out swinging to end the top half ...