There are plenty of rumors swirling around the New York Mets. New York has had an up-and-down start to the 2024 campaign but does have the talent to compete for a postseason spot. The Mets have shown some flashes but have been inconsistent to begin the campaign. One big question that the club will have…
The New York Mets will retire Dwight “Doc” Gooden’s No. 16 and Darryl Strawberry’s No. 18 in 2024, the team announced Thursday. Here’s what you need to know: Both players were key members of New York’s 1986 World Series-winning team. The right-handed Gooden was the 1984 National League Rookie of the Year and won the 1985 NL…
It might be the national anthem of Queens by the end of the week. You have to believe that Atlanta Braves fans were already peacocking over anyone who supports the New York Mets in their lives when Brandon Nimmo stepped to the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning on Sunday night. After all, the Braves had already…
As Atlanta Braves fans have been made painfully aware of over the past week-plus, there is an ongoing dispute between Comcast-Xfinity and Diamon Sports Group, which owns Bally Sports, the broadcast partner for Braves games and other MLB teams. As such, Xfinity customers have been unable to watch Braves games on their normal Bally Sports network. That,…
Corey Seager hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning and the Texas Rangers rallied past the Oakland Athletics 4-2 on Monday night. The defending World Series champions were trailing 2-0 until Seager drilled a full-count pitch from Lucas Erceg (1-2) over the right-center wall with two outs. Texas added an insurance run in the…
Ronald Acuña Jr. stole the show and won the NL MVP Award, deservingly so, but the season Matt Olson had for the Atlanta Braves in 2023 cannot be ignored. The 30-year-old set a Braves franchise record and led the NL with 54 home runs. His 139 RBI were second in Braves history and also led the NL….
In one of the New York Mets’ final spring training games, third baseman Brett Baty failed to cleanly handle a chopper. With two outs, the ball ate up Baty and traveled into left field. On the play, the Yankees scored two runs. Until that point Friday, Baty looked fine at third base during spring training. And it was merely one play…
The Texas Rangers scored four runs but the Oakland Athletics scored nine runs. It’s not that Oakland catcher Shea Langeliers has had a particularly good season so far this year, but you would not even conceive that as a possibility if you’d watched him play against the Rangers. After a three-homer game against Texas in April, Langeliers finished a…
Adolis García hasn’t appeared in a “real” baseball game since Game 3 of the World Series on Oct. 30. The American League Championship Series MVP landed on the injured list with an oblique strain after the Rangers’ matchup with the Diamondbacks, which shut him down for the remainder of the Rangers’ title run. But despite not…
NEW YORK — In the wake of his near no-hit performance against the Chicago Cubs last week, Luis Severino was asked if he was back to the pitcher he used to be. “I think I’m in a different position right now,” Severino said. “Before, when I was a little younger, I was thinking too much about striking everybody out….