Lefty Specialist

Always nice to take a series from the Braves and cut their lead to a mere 14 games.

Attended today in Section 414. It was, as Buster Poindexter liked to say, Hot, Hot, Hot. Ball was flying , as the 5 HR's would indicate. Getting blown out in the previous two games meant the good part of the bullpen was fresh. Soto kind of Cadillac-ed it around the bases on his homer, but that's why you pay him $51 million a year, I guess. And the Mets soccer jersey was cool. It's even adult-sized, unlike many things they give away. Attendance was sparse (school not out yet, a day game during the week, and did I mention Hot. hot, hot?) But a good day all around.

To get to 90 wins, they'd need to go 61-36 the rest of the way., which is .628 ball. Just don't see that happening. .A .600 pace gets you to 87 wins, probably not enough. Since the end of the 12-game losing streak, they've gone 22-20, a .524 pace. Keep that up and you're looking at roughly an 80-82 record.

Well, that was nice. Benge living up to his billing- in every step towards the bigs he started slow then turned it on. He seems to be getting comfortable now. And nice outfield defense all around.

4 runs in an inning? Is that allowed?

So, they were good for a week but now it's back to being the Same Old Shitty Mets.

Wow! That was quick! 2-0! Rackytack alert....

Caught it on the replay, Bichette's hit was on a 40.2 mph curveball from Rivas. That's like slow-pitch softball.

So, is this the Vidal Brujan game? Confusion about the position player rule!

Well, this frees up my summer......

Wrong time to post this, after a sweep where they looked pretty good against a team that's playing poorly right now. They can probably limp back to .500 at some point because there's a lot of talent here. But they could just as easily be 20 under because they can't sustain any offense. The answers you get to this question might look a little different if they get swept by the Yankees.

This is the kind of baseball I'd hoped they would be playing. But they have to keep doing it for a sustained period and I don't know if they have it in them. We've seen flashes of offense followed by games they score 1 run on three hits.

Love him or hate him, he was a helluva manager.

Tommy John surgery upcoming....

Not optimistic. Not as bad as they looked during the streak, but not good. Just don't see them playing the sustained stretch of good ball that would get them back in the playoff conversation.