Category: Michael Baron
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Noah Syndergaard, and his challenge with the, ‘mental side’ of pitching
Noah Syndergaard’s first season in the big leagues most certainly has had more highlights than lowlights. After all, he’s 8-6 with a 3.19 ERA in his first 19 big league starts. That’s really good for a first-year pitcher, and is a big reason why the Mets are where they are with 37 games to go. But…
Michael Baron
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Jeurys Familia’s new splitter helped save the Mets on Tuesday night
It was another long and taxing night for the bullpen on Tuesday night in Philadelphia, having been asked to get the last 12 outs of the game in an effort to preserve their fifth straight win and Noah Syndergaard’s first win on the road in 2015. And just like they did on Monday night, the bullpen…
Michael Baron
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Sean Gilmartin, the true savior on Monday, continues to be a great story in baseball
Monday night in Philadelphia had “bad night” written all over it. The Mets were trailing 7-2 in the third inning to the hapless Phillies. An old foe in Ryan Howard delivered the keynote with a three-run home run on an off-night for Jacob deGrom, and Domonic Brown capped his poor night with a three-run home run of his own.…
Michael Baron
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Jacob deGrom chose a great night to have the worst start of his career
For a while anyway, Monday night looked like one of those games in that third of the season the Mets were just destined to lose. That’s because Mets ace Jacob deGrom, who entered his start on Monday with the second-best ERA in baseball at 1.98, threw out his worst start of his career against the Phillies on…
Michael Baron
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David Wright has written a romantic chapter in the Mets story about 2015
The Mets have been writing themselves quite the script for a Hollywood feature film over the last month, bull charging their way into first place as a run scoring and pitching machine Flushing hasn’t seen in nearly 30 years. But in this particular scene of the film, it wasn’t about a team win, or or…
Michael Baron
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