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They win the dumb thing!

Mets average with imaginary RISP is 1.000.

For all the talk of “wasting” deGrom's magnificent first two starts, don't sleep on Nimmo's seven hits and six walks in five games resulting in only two runs scored for Brandon. The 2021 Mets are proving capable of not taking advantage of any asset at their disposal.

Nimmo CF Lindor SS D. Smith LF Alonso 1B McNeil 2B Conforto RF McCann C Guillorme 3B Walker RHP

Stephen Tarpley serves as 27th man for today's doubleheader.

Walker in the opener, Stroman in the nightcap.

After nine pitches in two days, two games in one day. That's the plan. 4:10 twi-night first pitch.

“An exclusive forecast expert” might beg to differ.

The home team. Nido sits. Nimmo CF Lindor SS D. Smith LF Alonso 1B McNeil 2B Conforto RF McCann C Guillorme 3B Peterson LHP

How about a visitors' lineup? McCutchen LF Hoskins 1B Harper RF Realmuto C Bohm 3B Segura 2B Gregorius SS Quinn CF Anderson P

Kremlinologists are fascinated that J.D. Davis has been bumped from last year's cover and Carlos Carrasco gets a spot while Edwin Diaz doesn't. Jake has been represented on seven consecutive covers, an unofficial Official Yearbook record.

Ed Kranepool tells Kevin Kernan that Don Grant was OK by him. Kranepool sheds new light on the career of M. Donald Grant, the chairman and minority owner of the Mets from their inception when Joan Payson owned the team. “I really got along with Donald Grant,'' he said. “Donald Grant, I thought, was a very professional person. He got a bad rap for all these trades. They blamed him for that. He was really a gentleman.'' It was on June 15, 1977 when Tom Seaver was traded. The Franchise was sent to Cincinnati. “Donald Grant was not a baseball man, he was a financial man. If he gave you his word on something you could shake his hand and go to the bank. He helped me when I had my one problem with (GM) Joe McDonald. He gave his word and he kept it. I always respected him and I hate to see people rip him apart.'' Ed also vacationed with Willie Mays. https://ballnine.com/2021/04/10/amazin-journey/https://ballnine.com/2021/04/10/amazin-journey/

Steve's got a rain guy.

The suspended game will be scheduled for nine innings. The scheduled game that night will be seven innings.

David Peterson for the Mets. For the Phillies, we turn to Carnac the Magnificent. “How do you catch Anderson?” “How do you catch Anderson?” [blows in envelope...] “Chase Anderson.”

Rain quite possible Monday night, but when has that ever stopped the Mets from playing a third of an inning?

BANG! Game suspended, not postponed. To be continued as part of a split doubleheader on Tuesday Aug. 31 at 1:10.

Marcus has tweeted he won't be pitching for another five days.

Mets commenced to playing on this date in 1962. No better way to celebrate than by spending quality rain delay time with the three voices who brought it — and the 17 seasons to come — to us in living black & white and even color. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jONB0SSFMZohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jONB0SSFMZo

Even Donald Fagen thinks starting on time was ill-advised. https://youtu.be/CpJRc4RZPqEhttps://youtu.be/CpJRc4RZPqE

Conforto dropped to sixth. Nimmo CF Lindor SS D. Smith LF Alonso 1B McNeil 2B Conforto RF Guillorme 3B Nido C Stroman RHP John Curtiss starts/opens for the Fish.

More on the new team doc (club release). DR. KATHRYN McELHENY NAMED METS HEAD TEAM PHYSICIAN FLUSHING, N.Y., March 30, 2021 – The New York Mets today announced that Dr. Kathryn McElheny has been promoted to Head Team Physician. Dr. David Altchek will continue in his role as the team's Medical Director. As Head Team Physician, McElheny will oversee the day-to-day operations of the Mets medical department. She has served as the Mets' Non-Operative Medical Director for the past two years. McElheny will succeed Dr. Struan Coleman. Dr. Coleman will be relocating to Washington, D.C., where his wife is a member of the Biden administration. He will continue to serve as a consultant with our entire Mets medical team. “We are excited to have Dr. Kat McElheny take on a more senior role on our medical staff,” said Mets' President Sandy Alderson. “Her experience in medicine and with the Mets will be an integral part of keeping our players in peak physical condition. I would also like to thank Dr. Struan Coleman for his fifteen years of extraordinary service with the Mets and look forward to continued collaboration.” Dr. McElheny is dual board certified in Pediatrics and Sports Medicine and is a member of the Primary Care Sports Medicine Service at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. She received Sports Medicine fellowship training at Hospital for Special Surgery where she served as a fellow team physician for the New York Giants and New York Mets. Dr. McElheny graduated with honors from Emory University in 2009 where she was a member of the track and cross country team. She went on to graduate magna cum laude from Loyola Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago where she was voted a member of the AOA national honor medical society. She completed her residency training at Weill Cornell/New York Presbyterian Medical Center in New York where she was Chief Resident. Dr. McElheny has authored or co-authored multiple scientific papers, with ongoing research projects largely concentrated in baseball injury prevention at both the youth and professional level.