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Alonso, who has homered more in less than half a season than Jason Bay did in three fancy free years, is now in a three-way tie for 19th place with Rosario and Nieuwenhuis.

Let's echo Saturday night's result Sunday afternoon. [YOUTUBE]OQEeASSzJLw[/YOUTUBE] Syndergaard vs. Hoffman.

21ST HR: Hundley: 84th Game of 1996 Beltran: 76th Game of 2006 Alonso: 64th Game of 2019 Kingman: 53rd Game of 1976

Longtime minor league announcer John Sadak filling in for Wayne-Oh on the radio side tonight. TV is Fox, featuring Kevin “Guys” Burkhardt and future Mets manager Joe Girardi.

Whole lotta winning is what we'll be bringing... [YOUTUBE]NvgzNEPhYQA[/YOUTUBE] Jeff McNeil – 2B Pete Alonso – 1B Dominic Smith – LF Michael Conforto – RF Wilson Ramos – C Todd Frazier – 3B Amed Rosario – SS Carlos Gómez – CF Steven Matz – LHP

As part of the roster maneuvering to accommodate Dallas Keuchel, the Braves have shifted Darren O'Day to the 60-day IL.

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This weekend's in-house alums — the Original Frank Thomas (though I wouldn't put it past the Mets to have mistakenly brought in the White Sox slugger)...and thread namesake Rico Brogna!

Jeff McNeil – 2B Pete Alonso – 1B Michael Conforto – RF Dominic Smith – LF Wilson Ramos – C Todd Frazier – 3B Amed Rosario – SS Juan Lagares – CF Jacob deGrom – RHP

Normally I wouldn't contextualize a two-time All-Star in the dark horse stable, because once a player has been an All-Star, I'm inherently convinced he's going to be golden forever (all right, we got Jerry Moses!), but Ray Knight was so at the bottom of the barrel -- Cashen couldn't give him away -- that his resurrection to not only everyday player but the guy who kept making a difference from April through October was most stunning. Ojeda I'd categorize more as a very pleasant surprise in terms of revealing his ceiling. Mitchell did indeed bust out from the fog of Tides, but most of his wow factor ("wow, he can play short!") played out in the first month and after a while he settled into his semi-regular left fielder role, not quite the revelation in the second half he was in the first. Knight kept bringing it until he brought home the go-ahead run in Game Seven. Also, Ray Knight was pretty much the only player whose presence in the Met lineup I ever booed as a matter of course. Not Knight, but Knight's presence. Drove me crazy Davey played him at all instead of Hojo as 1985 unfolded. What fun to be turned around in a year's time.

The Athletic reporting the Braves have signed Dallas Keuchel to a one-year deal.

Shoutout as well to Ed Hearn, who was not in evidence early and proved a solid backup to a Kid who (k)needed his share of time off.

Most dark horses seem to emerge as the season unfolds. Mitchell and Ojeda (and Knight) were big April factors. Of course in 1986, April practically was the season.

Edgy MD wrote: Chapman is dead on. Heck, the award should be called The Kelvin Chapman Award. Edgy MD wrote: With respect to Bob Ojeda, Dark Horse 1986 has to be Ray Knight. He was a complete load in 1985, and in 1986, he was earning MVP votes. Or am I shortchanging Rick Anderson here? Anderson is closer to the dark horse ideal, perhaps, but probably not a big enough contributor to the 1986 trajectory. They were already pretty close to death grip mode when Uncle Andy showed up and his most famous appearance came in a losing cause. When he returned, the division was safely tucked away. Ojeda had a career year, and certainly rose above his projected maybe-fifth starter status, but given where he was coming out of ‘85, Knight might be premier candidate.

Off the radar for five years and suddenly a platoon starter on a first-place club...Kelvin Chapman had to be the dark horse of 1984, even more than his fellow second baseman Wally Backman, who had fallen out of organizational favor pre-Davey Johnson but at least had been on the big club for a while every year since 1980.

Frazier enters a three-way tie with Nimmo and Hairston for 16th with his 13th Citi Field home run. Rosario ties Nieuwenhuis for 19th with his 11th Citi Field home run. Smith is in a three-way tie with Plawecki and Francoeur in 23rd place, each Met having nine Citi Field home runs apiece.

Or tweeted pictures of them @mets.

MET CG SHUTOUTS AT CITI FIELD, 2014-Present Noah Syndergaard 2 Jason Vargas 1 MET CG VICTORIES (9 IP) AT CITI FIELD, 2014-Present Noah Syndergaard 2 Jacob deGrom 1 Jason Vargas 1

Vargy's shutout of the Giants was the 21st nine-inning complete victory thrown by a Met at Citi Field and 16th such shutout.

Amed Rosario ties Pete Alonso and Jason Bay for 20th with his 20th. Michael Conforto pulls six ahead of Curtis Granderson and within six of David Wright by hitting his 44th. Adeiny Hechavarria becomes the third current Met with three Citi Field Met home runs, joining J.D. Davis and Jeff McNeil.

One homer more than Cano, one ribbie fewer.

Vargy's been http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2019/06/06/vargy-my-man/My Man since...what time is it?

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