Home / links / Mets Shop / Submit a URLDavid Wright's voice was raspy and strained as he spoke before Friday night's game against the Blue Jays, which he started at third base for the Mets. Though Wright was sick with a head cold that he called "more annoying than anything," he still managed to crack the starting lineup.
Justin Turner's friendship with Ricky Romero predates their stint as roommates at Cal State Fullerton, where they helped lead the Titans to a College World Series title in 2004. On Friday, they faced each other for just the second time as Major Leaguers.
Major League Baseball has suspended Mets Minor League second baseman Daniel Muno 50 games for testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance, the league announced Friday.
Jon Niese set a new career high by allowing four homers, and tied an old one with eight runs allowed. The Mets could do next to nothing against Niese's counterpart, Ricky Romero. And the Blue Jays kept piling on runs in a 14-5 dismantling of the Mets on Friday night at Rogers Centre.
Sputtering for much of May, the San Francisco Giants’ offense is starting to come around.
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Andy is dandy: Andy Pettitte felt he was a little too “uptight” while taking the loss in his return start last Sunday afternoon. On Friday night, the 39-year-old left-hander looked nothing of the sort, allowing the Cincinnati Reds only four hits and striking out nine over eight scoreless innings in the Yankees 4-0 victory .
It was the first time Pettitte had tossed eight scoreless innings since July 8, 2008, and the victory attached to this marvelous outing was his first since July 8, 2010. Love that symmetry.
”I felt like I could do this, and now it’s just like I feel like the mind’s getting back there,” a beaming Pettitte said after his 241st win. ”I’m just hoping and praying the body holds up.”
I’m sure Yankees fans are doing the same, all the while wondering what might have been had Pettitte returned in 2011.
Just another save: Or at least that’s how Jonathan Papelbon played it off after his scoreless ninth preserved a 6-4 victory for Cole Hamels and Phillies over his former employer, the Boston Red Sox.
His real motivation? Simple.
He wasn’t going to sit there and lie about this being just another set of three games during the long grind of 162 during the regular season.
Few pitchers have been able to stop Mets third baseman David Wright this season. A fractured finger was not able to stop him. Apparently, illness is not able to stop him, either.
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