Both falling in the top 10 of the league based on total home runs this season, Los Angeles ranks sixth with 187 homers and New York is eighth with 177.
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This season’s playoff appearance is the Mets’ first since 2007, and team captain David Wright sounded none too pleased about his teammate’s no-show.
The Mets will take on the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League Division Series, which will begin on Friday night at Dodger Stadium.
ROSTER nearly SET: With Gilmartin heading to Los Angeles, and Carlos Torres heading to Florida to work out, the team’s final roster is pretty much set.
New York Mets starting pitcher Matt Harvey (33) looks towards the…
ARLINGTON, Texas – Yovani Gallardo will start for the Texas Rangers in their ALDS opener Thursday, and ace lefty Cole Hamels will pitch for the AL West champions in the second game at Toronto. Even at Citi Field, when the Mets lost two games, the Dodgers really only touched up Jon Neise, scoring six runs in three innings, and let’s be honest, if Niese is a factor in this series, we’re sunk. Zack Greinke will take the mound for Game 2 against rookie righthander Noah Syndergaard and lefthander Brett Anderson will start against Harvey on Monday…
NEW YORK (AP) – Michael Cuddyer and the New York Mets are well aware of the challenge ahead. Why alienate your best pitcher two days before the franchise embarks on its first playoff run since 2006?
It’s an imposing 1-2 pitching punch that manager Terry Collins referred to last month as “those two animals”. “We’ll see what happens”. The right-hander went 13-8 with a 2.71 ERA this year in his first season back from Tommy John surgery. But the star of Game 6 of last year’s World Series rebounded down the stretch, flashing his 100-mph fastball while going 4-1 with a 3.14 ERA in seven starts in September. The left-hander has won three of the past four NL Cy Young Awards. Greinke went 19-3 while leading the league in ERA (1.66) and WHIP (0.84).
Harvey said he “apologized to everybody, told them it’s not going to happen again”. I thought it was a good workout.
“I think we’re going to do just fine. I don’t care. The only thing I care about is he wasn’t here and so that I have to worry about and that I have to take care of and I have”. Who knows what’s truth or fiction?
The Mets rolled through August and passed the Matt Williams’ Washington Nationals as if they were Durocher’s Cubs, and they were laughing all the way.
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Collins plans to start three left-handed hitters against Kershaw: Curtis Granderson, Daniel Murphy and Lucas Duda.
