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    On a 3-4 Road Trip

    The Mets’ last week has been awfully shaky. For a team that is supposed to be a major playoff contender, they didn’t have a desireable week. After escaping the miserable Puerto Rico series with a win, they lost the first game of the Nats series,...

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    The Mets are well on their way to playing bad baseball

    So, about a minute ago, Ryan Zimmerman hit a sacrifice fly to score Willie Harris (who else?) to win the game for the Nationals by a 2-1 margin. Johan Santana was brilliant, but obviously the Mets got their first inning run on an Ike Davis...

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    8 in a row, shut out the Yanks!

    The Mets defeated the Yankees 4-0 tonight, with a standard-issue stressful ninth inning. The Mets got a run off of Javy Vazquez early when David Wright doubled with 2 outs and Ike Davis singled him home. Wright made a good slide around the tag of...

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    6 in a row, 5 on the road

    Don’t look now, but the New York Mets are on the aforementioned winning streaks, and are the hottest team in Major League Baseball. They are 11-2 in June. Tonight’s game was a breeze (well, pretty much) as the Mets took a 5-0 lead in the...

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    Home Cookin’: Mets win, 4-3

    The Mets overcame an early 3-0 deficit, which was the result of some bad defense on the Mets’ part. In the second inning, Angel Pagan played a deep fly ball at the wall in center into a triple, a ball he probably should have caught....

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    Mets & Cora Throw Away Great Takahashi start, comeback stalled by Yanks at 2-1

    The Mets lost the first game of the Subway Series tonight by the score of 2-1. Javier Vazquez got the win, Elmer Dessens the loss. I was at this game, and frankly, it was the most boring baseball game I’ve ever been to. Takahashi did...

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