It has been argued (by me) that overcoming a bullpen as terrible as New York’s this season is a tribute to both the tremendous offensive talent and frontline starting pitching the Mets possess.
But as Sunday’s 7-6 loss to the Braves demonstrated, the reverse is also true. It takes a historically awful Mets bullpen to Read More
The Mets don’t look like a winning team customarily looks. It seems impossible to imagine that a team with a bullpen so unreliable, and utterly devoid of quality performers, could manage to make the playoffs, let alone contend for a championship.
But as the Mets showed again Thursday night in a 7-2 victory over the Read More
The great parlor game of New York’s 2008 season has been seeing whether a team can overcome criminally negligent pitching out of the bullpen and win a division title. But as the Mets showed Tuesday night in a 1-0 loss, and over their last five games, a bullpen may be overcome—a bullpen and offensive drought Read More
Total Chaos for Mets Postseason Pitching Generally, the roster questions facing a first-place team are few. The Mets, who lost 7-4 to the Atlanta Braves Sunday, lead the Phillies by one game, yet the pitchers who would make up their postseason staff are still largely a mystery.
Between the 18 pitchers currently with New York Read More
All season long, the 2008 Mets have been invariably compared to the 2007 version that lost a near-certain chance at the playoffs. Every series, particularly against Philadelphia, the team that benefited from New York’s late collapse, has been inspected for signs of a return to last year’s disappointments, or definitive proof that the Mets had Read More
It was easy to think back to New York’s epic collapse in 2007, when the Mets lost a seven-game lead with seventeen left to play, after New York lost to the Phillies on Friday night and Sunday afternoon. The results allowed Philadelphia to move within a game of the Mets, before the series conclusion on Read More
The New York Yankees entered September seven games behind the Boston Red Sox for the wild card spot, and 12.5 games behind division-leading Tampa Bay. The last time the New York Yankees entered September more than the seven games out of a playoff spot was 1992, when the Melido Perez, Andy Stankiewicz Yankees entered September Read More
New York’s 8-7, 13-inning loss to Philadelphia Tuesday night played out like a single-game version of the Mets’ 2007 collapse. In fact, the Mets even managed a miniature replica of last September, when they blew a seven-game lead with seventeen games to play, by losing a seven-run lead with seventeen outs to play.
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The struggles of the Mets’ bullpen in the season’s second half astounding even by comparison to the very worst teams in recent memory. Following Sunday’s 6-4 loss to Houston, in which the bullpen gave away a 4-3 seventh-inning lead, New York’s bullpen ERA since the break is 5.89. To put this in perspective, no National Read More
In the Mets’ tiered ticket pricing plan, only Opening Day, the Subway Series and the final regular season game at Shea Stadium cost more than a ticket to any of the three games this week, a series New York swept with a 5-4 walkoff win last night.
While in years Read More
