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Mets 10, Rockies 5 (Coors Field, Denver, CO) Mets record: 14-22 Mets streak: Won 3 WP - Freddy Peralta (2-3) LP - Michael Lorenzen (2-4) SV- Devin Williams (5) Seat on the Korner: Freddy Peralta We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets. Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly presen

If you hang around enough minor league bullpens long enough, you start to realize they are a lot like college dorm rooms, except with radar guns, higher stakes, and a stronger likelihood that someone can throw a baseball through a brick wall. That pretty much sums up Syracuse Mets relievers Alex Carrillo and Ryan Lambert, two guys whose journeys intersected long enough for me to sit down with them and let the conversation roam from international glory to viral fame to the sim

Some folks like to get away, take a holiday from the neighborhood Hop a flight to Miami Beach or to Hollywood But I'm taking a Greyhound on the Hudson River Line I'm in a New York upstate of mind... Billy Joel sort of. While others might jet off to the beach or head out to the Hamptons, I once again found myself doing what has apparently become an annual tradition—packing up the car and heading north for a good old-fashioned baseball double-dip. Year two of the upstate swing.

The story of Mets catchers in the 1990s is really two stories that collided. The first is Todd Hundley’s: a homegrown catcher, defensively trusted before he was feared, who slowly became one of the most powerful catchers baseball had ever seen. The second is Mike Piazza’s: a superstar dropped into Queens in midstream, instantly changing what the Mets looked like, what they expected from the catcher’s spot, and how the franchise imagined itself. Everyone else who caught for th

Mets 4 Rockies 2 (Coors Field, Denver CO) Mets record: 13-22 Mets streak: Won 2 WP -David Peterson (1-4) LP - Tomoyuki Sugano (3-2) SV - Devin Williams (4) Seat on the Korner: Carson Benge We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets. Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly presented

Back in 1971, a small group of baseball thinkers gathered in Cooperstown—the spiritual home of the game—to start something that would grow far beyond their wildest dreams. That group became the Society for American Baseball Research. Today, it’s a worldwide community thousands strong, made up of people who share one simple trait: they love baseball. Not “they can calculate launch angle in their sleep” love. Not “they’ve memorized every OPS+ since 1912” love. Just… love baseba

This week's edition of Minor League Mondays focuses on fireballing relief pitching prospect Ryan Lambert.

Mets 5 Angels 1 (Angel Stadium, Anaheim, CA) Mets record: 12-22 Mets streak: Won 1 WP - Clay Holmes (4-2) LP - Jack Kochanowicz (2-1) Seat on the Korner: Clay Holmes We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets. Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly presented by The Main Event Rest

Every Sunday here at Kiner’s Korner, we dust off the attic of Mets history and pull down a “Forgotten Face of Flushing.” Some wore the uniform for years. Others barely had time to find the clubhouse spread before disappearing into baseball obscurity. But this week is different. Over and above our Derek Bell forgotten Met piece here is one that's about an “Almost Face of Flushing.” A player who, for a brief, dizzying moment in February of 2021, felt like he was about to be the

Welcome back to Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing, our weekly wander through the Mets attic, where last week we bumped into Rick Anderson, a man who waited nearly a decade for his shot… and made the most of every second once the door finally cracked open. This week, we stay in that same neighborhood of “brief but memorable,” but instead of quiet persistence, we turn to something a little louder… a little flashier… and, because this is Mets history, just a little bit

Angels 4 Mets 3 in 10 innings (Angel Stadium, Anaheim, CA) Mets record: 11-22 Mets streak: Lost 1 WP - Ryan Zeferjahn (2-1) LP - Austin Warren (0-1) Seat on the Korner: Oswald Peraza We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets. Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly presented by The

The most unusual season in the history of the New York Mets and the sport of baseball took place in 2020. On March 13th, 2020, President Trump declared a national emergency because of a pandemic that became known as Covid-19 or the Coronavirus Pandemic. Quarantines, entry bans and other restrictions were implemented as thousands of cases were being reported. On March 16th, the White House advised against any gatherings of more than ten people. Three days later, U.S. citizens

Mets 4 Angels 3 (Angel Stadium, Anaheim, CA) Mets record: 11-21 Mets streak: Won 1 WP - Huascar Brazoban (2-0) LP - Jose Fermin (0-1) SV - Devin Williams (3) Seat on the Korner: Ronny Mauricio We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets. Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly present

Mets' starter Clay Holmes was a clear choice to take home Met of the Month honors for April.

Every now and then, you set out to do something productive and wind up in a place where productivity goes to die—somewhere between YouTube, baseball nostalgia, and “how did I get here and why is it 2:17 in the morning?” For me, it started innocently enough. As I’ve been working to build the Long Island chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR, for those of us who enjoy explaining acronyms almost as much as we enjoy box scores), shameless plug: if you’re a L

Nationals 5 Mets 4 (Citi Field, Flushing, NY) Mets record: 10-21 Mets streak: Lost 2 WP -Mitchell Parker (2-0) LP - Luke Weaver (2-1) S- Gus Varland (3) Seat on the Korner: CJ Abrams We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets. Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly presented by The

Coming off a lost weekend to the Colorado Rockies, when we look back at the trade history between these two National League teams, we see a history of indirect consequences. The largest deal was another huge three team trade that will be examined in a future piece about mega-deals. The most famous intersection of these teams was a trade that NEVER really happened. Following the 2000 season, NLCS MVP Mike Hampton famously departed for free agency as his family fell in love wit

Nationals 14 Mets 2 (Citi Field, Flushing, NY) Mets record: 10-20 Mets streak: Lost 1 WP -Cade Cavalli (1-1) LP - David Peterson (0-4 Seat on the Korner: Curtis Mead We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets. Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly presented by The Main Event Restau

If you want to understand the Mets’ mindset going into tonight, don’t start with the standings, the injuries, or even the schedule that suddenly looks like a gift from the baseball gods. Start in the clubhouse, where the message is somehow both simple and impossibly complicated. Relax. But also step up. Don’t press. But produce. Ignore the noise. But fix everything. Carlos Mendoza stood there pregame sounding like a man trying to balance a glass of water on a moving train. Th

Mets 8 Nationals 0 (Citi Field, Flushing, NY) Mets record: 10-19 Mets streak: Won 1 WP -Clay Holmes (3-2) LP -Zack Littell (0-4) Seat on the Korner: Clay Holmes We select a Star of the Game and virtually invite him to take his Seat on the Korner — just as Ralph Kiner did on WOR-TV Channel 9 during the early days of the New York Mets. Continuing the tradition of Rheingold Beer sponsoring Kiner’s Korner, this season every seat is proudly presented by The Main Event Restaurant