Benjamin Grimm

Cuddyer 0.4 Duda 1.9 Flores 1.5 Goeddel 1 Plawecki 0.6 Robles 1

Colon 1.5 Duda 0.5 Flores 1 Granderson 2.5 Monell 2 Nieuwenhuis 1 Recker 0.5 Tejada 1

Carlyle 0.5 Familia 0.75 Lagares 2.5 Niese 4.75 Tejada 1.5

Cuddyer 1 Harvey 2.5 Robles 1

Voting for Wednesday night's game, the second half of the two-game sweep over the Orioles, will close over the weekend, but not before 10 a.m. on Saturday. Schaefer POTG 5/6/15 - Mets 5, Orioles 1

Newsday wrote: David Wright's injured hamstring is "doing very well," the Mets said in a statement Friday. But the rest of that sentence about the Mets' captain and third baseman included this: "in the last few days, he has experience some lower back pain." advertisement | advertise on newsday Wright underwent an MRI at the Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan, and no structural damage was discovered. The Mets said Wright will resume baseball activities when the discomfort in his back lessens. Wright injured his hamstring in an April 14 game against the Phillies trying to steal second base in the eighth inning. He was placed on the 15-day disabled list the following day.

Seeing "Synder" and "clock" together makes me think of Cinderella. Maybe "Cinderella" would be a better nickname for Noah than "Thor" is.

From 2011: Dearth of walkoffs

It is great, isn't it? I used to do that a lot, especially during the 2006 season. I don't do it as much anymore because I don't seem to have the ability to watch an entire baseball game, so I'm okay with catching a few innings here and there. The nice thing about MLB.TV is that you have more flexibility to choose the home or away broadcast, but DirecTV may include that with Extra Innings. (Verizon doesn't, and last time I heard, Comcast doesn't either.)

Voting for Tuesday night's win over the Orioles will close on Friday morning, some time after 10 a.m. Schaefer POTG 5/5/15 - Mets 3, Orioles 2

The Mets have played 28 games so far this season, and all of them have ended after nine innings. Have the Mets ever gone this deep into a season with no extra-inning games? The answer is yes, twice. The record is 33 games, set in 1981. That record run ended with Game 34 on May 20, when the Mets beat the Giants 4-3 at Candlestick Park in 10 innings. Lee Mazzilli scored on a sac fly from the bat of Alex Trevino, and Jeff Reardon held on to close out the win. (He was the winning pitcher because he had also pitched the ninth.) The previous record had been 31 games, set in 1977 with a streak that was snapped in Game 32 on May 15, a 4-3 loss to the Dodgers at Shea. A footnote here is that not all of the first 31 games went nine innings; there was a seven-inning game at Candlestick on May 8, a 10-0 loss in the second game of a double-header sweep by the Giants. The Mets didn't play an extra-inning game in 1988 until Game 26 and waited until game 23 in 2009. If the Mets can make it through the two upcoming series in Philadelphia and Chicago without playing an extra-inning game, they'll set a new club record. I wonder if Gary or Howie know about this?

I think the 1000th Met is gonna be some 35-year-old journeyman veteran for whom the Mets will be his 9th team.

NICKNAME METHODOLOGY!

Suddenly, I wanna puke in his car!

deGrom 5 Granderson 2 Herrera 3

SCHAEFER METS PLAYERS OF THE WEEK, 2015 Week ending April 11, 2015: Travis d'Arnaud, 4.86 points. Week ending April 18, 2015: Lucas Duda, 8.80 points. Week ending April 25, 2015: Matt Harvey, 6.45 points. Week ending May 2, 2015: Daniel Murphy, 8.63 points.

So far this year, Colon has walked one batter in 40.1 innings. I would think that this is a pretty rare feat, but I haven't noticed that anyone has noticed this. Could it be that it's not as rare as I'm thinking it is?

Colon 5 Duda 0.75 Flores 0.75 Murphy 1.5 Plawecki 1.5 CTorres 0.5

I do wish that Curtis didn't have a four-year contract. But on the other hand, I hope that he turns it around to such a degree that we'll be glad to have him on the team in 2017.

I'm going to assume that Zvon intended to vote for Alex Torres, since Carlos did not appear in this game.

I'm going to assume that John Cougar Lunchbucket intended to vote for Carlos Torres, and not Alex Torres, since Alex did not appear in this game.