Edgy MD

Pa-CHE earning his mo-NE.

Trying to squeeze two innings out of Lavender was questionable. He's just a man.

Nate Lavender 1 2 3. Working on a career-long no-hitter.

I liked Brent Suter better when he played ice hockey.

Pintaro is homesick for Syracuse.

... Baty.

All year: Benge, Bichette, McLean, Manaea, Torrens and ...

Amazingly, Elder has outlasted Scott.

Understood. I imagine the Mets aren't there, though.

Alvarez did not even get into the picture running to first on that GiDP.

He's one of the guys that would keep them out of the lineup if they were on the team.

"Speaking of golfers who play baseball, Jeff McNeil got his 1,000th hit last night." That's a professional transition by Gary right there.

Didn't we get enough "Take Me Home, Country Roads" singalongs in the last series?

Scott leaving too much over the ploot.

Lindor just gave us an idea of the loft that rode underneath a Kingman homer. Or, since it went to right, a Strawberry homer.

May it be scored as a walk.

Let's chase this guy NOW!!!!

If the pitch still goes into the catcher's mitt, the ball didn't hit you enough for you to deserve first base.

Brett Baty, the walking, talking reason that Morabito, Mauricio or Clifford aren't on the roster.

It's gonna be a finish not to be missed.

My first instinct would be very different from "today's game," and that would be Bill Dickey and Yogi Berra, but then I remembered neither played in 1945 and 1946 because old Bill and young Yogi were fighting Hitler. Also, catchers don't play every day, and Dickey was kind of a platooner the first half of his career, and Yogi playing a lot of outfield the second half of his. Carl Yastrzemski took over for Ted Williams pretty directly, creating an uninterrupted line of succession in left field, but Carl kind of drifted to other positions too from time to time.

Red-jot Jorge Polanco back in your Mets lineup. Slinger Christian Scott RHP 3-3, 3.15 ERA, 92 SO Lineup A.J. Ewing (L) CF Francisco Lindor (S) SS Bo Bichette (R) 3B Carson Benge (L) RF Jared Young (L) 1B Marcus Semien (R) 2B Brett Baty (L) LF Jorge Polanco (S) DH Francisco Alvarez (R) C Twirler Bryce Elder RHP 8-6, 3.69 ERA, 104 SO Lineup Drake Baldwin (L) DH Ronald Acuña Jr. (R) RF Matt Olson (L) 1B Michael Harris II (L) CF Ozzie Albies (S) 2B Mauricio Dubón (R) LF Austin Riley (R) 3B Jim Jarvis (L) SS Sean Murphy (R) C

Things that happened this season: Craig Kimbrel was a 2026 Met, for a not insignificant part of the season. He didn't even start the season as a Met. He pitched AAA ball for a few weeks to get in game shape and then became a regular part of the bullpen rotation until he wasn't. I know you remember this, but doesn't it feel like forever ago? Like it happened sometime between the Guns 'n' Roses reunion and the Covid lockdown? Also a Met in 2026 — Tommy Pham. It happened. There was this thing where a guy pitched the eighth inning, got the job done, and nobody told him he was out of the game, so he returned to the mound in the ninth, only to see another guy approaching from the direction of the bullpen, in between the lights flashing on and off, and they just stood there and looked at each other wondering who didn't belong. You probably remember this, happening, if not all the principles, but these pitchers were Huascar Brazobán and closer Devin Williams. Doesn't it feel like this happened during the Willie Randolph era?

I imagine the idea is that Pache is with the team in order to get two or three trips to the plate a week, and they don't see an advantage to the team or to the development of those three players to call them up to serve in such a role. That may change as things go forward, if and when they decide perhaps to give up on Baty's or Polanco's seasons, or perhaps if an injury creates a need.

Keith Keith wasn't working this series, but he's reported in the past that one of the first players to greet him when he arrived in the Mets clubhouse was Kingman saying "Mex, you're my ticket out of here." I'm kind of surprised Kong made it to the end of 1983. I certainly don't remember him lasting the full season. Looking him up, now, his last 23 appearances were as a pinch-hitter, going 0-for-his-last-10 with a walk.