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The last thing the Mets needed was another injury to a starting pitcher.
- Dominic Smith wasn’t expecting to be called up to the Mets earlier this week.
- On Tuesday night, the Mets would’ve taken Max Scherzer’s less-than-100-percent performance over the one they got from their big-league staff in an 8-2 loss to the Astros in the opener of a two-game set.
- The Mets aces are taking significant steps toward their upcoming returns to the rotation.
- Jeff McNeil believes he caught his hamstring tightness early and can likely avoid the injured list.
- David Peterson pitched into the sixth inning with his wife expected to go into labor imminently, and the New York Mets beat the Miami Marlins 6-0 despite losing Jeff McNeil to injury.
- In his major-league debut, Marlins right fielder Jerar Encarnacion cranked a grand slam on Seth Lugo’s sixth pitch, a 93 mph sinker that didn’t dip enough.
- Just for a moment, Buck Showalter stepped away from his inexhaustible reflections on baseball and shared a special memory of his dad on this Father’s Day.
- Taijuan Walker has never been better.
- There’s at least one reliever the Mets expect to strengthen the bullpen before their eventual acquisitions at the trade deadline.
- With his No. 1 fan in the house, Francisco Lindor put on a show.
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- There’s at least one reliever the Mets expect to strengthen the bullpen before their eventual acquisitions at the trade deadline.
- With his No. 1 fan in the house, Francisco Lindor put on a show.
- “I’m hoping the 29th day, he’s throwing,” Mets manager Buck Showalter said.
- One day after Eduardo Escobar’s health-related absence that caused him to be admitted into a hospital, the Mets were feeling a little better about the well-being of their starting third baseman.
- Mets righty Tylor Megill was forced out of Thursday night’s game in the fourth inning with shoulder discomfort.
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- Ugly, sloppy baseball. The Mets did nothing right in Wednesday’s 10-2 defeat to the Brewers.
- Buck Showalter appreciates his center fielder’s growth and work ethic, but he doesn’t want it to cost Brandon Nimmo his marriage.
- After getting shellacked in his previous outing and feeling “beyond embarrassed” for leaving the bullpen vulnerable, Chris Bassitt pounded the Brewers through eight shutout innings in Tuesday night’s 4-0 Mets victory at Citi Field.
- Max Scherzer’s oblique strain is 90% recovered, but only halfway there. The expensive ace revealed he received a P4P injection not long after suffering his injury, and the treatment went well enough to begin his tedious climb to the finish line quickly.
- The Mets closer answered the call.
