I've made the drive to Shea Stadium and Citi Field more times than I could possibly count. I've made that drive as a kid sitting beside my dad, as a teenager with friends, as a lifelong Mets fan, with my wife and children, as an author, and now as someone fortunate enough to cover the team I've loved for most of my life. Every great ballpark has a journey. For some fans, it's walking through the streets and bars of Chicago's Wrigleyville toward Wrigley Field. For others, it's

The 2010s Mets pitchers were full of huge names, and maybe one of the best pitchers to ever take the mound. The team provided the NL with three out of the 10 Cy Young Award winners that decade as well. Young studs, playoff dominance, and a World Series moment Mets fans would rather not talk about. The story began with Dickey’s floating knuckleball and Santana’s historic no-hitter. It accelerated with the arrival of Harvey, deGrom, Syndergaard and Wheeler, the power arms who t

Mets 14 Braves 3 (Citi Field, Flushing, NY) Mets record: 45-62 Mets streak: Won 2 WP-Zac Thornton (2-1) LP-Connor Thomas (0-1) Seat on the Korner: Francisco Lindor 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 Restaura

Cooperstown -- As America’s Pastime, baseball would seem to have an obligation to join in the festivities (such as they are) marking America’s semiquincentenial (that’s a 250th birthday, for those of you scoring at home), and during last weekend’s Cooperstown festivities, the National Baseball Hall of Fame rose to the occasion by honoring a former ballplayer who 50 years ago took time out from his center field position to play a game of Capture the Flag. Rick M

On Sunday in Cooperstown, Carlos Beltrán officially became baseball royalty. The Hall of Fame plaque will forever tell the story in bronze. But for those watching from the crowd—or from a clubhouse hundreds of miles away—it represented something much larger. It represented Puerto Rico. When I spoke one-on-one with Francisco Lindor one day after Beltrán's emotional induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame, the Mets superstar wasn't thinking about statistics or milesto

Mets' prospect Trey Snyder is off to a fast start in 2026 at Low-A St. Lucie, making him the focus of this week's edition of Minor League Mondays.

There is nothing quite like Hall of Fame Weekend in Cooperstown. For a few days, baseball is frozen in time. The legends. The stories. The reminder of why we fell in love with this game in the first place. Then you leave Cooperstown, head back toward reality, and for me that reality means a trip to Citi Field tonight — covering a Mets team facing one of the most important weeks of its recent history. Because while Cooperstown celebrates the players and moments that built base

There are baseball games. There are baseball events. And then there is Hall of Fame Weekend in Cooperstown. If you have never experienced it, imagine taking the Baseball Hall of Fame, emptying out its Plaque Gallery, putting the contents into pick up trucks and then telling them to drive very slowly down Main Street while thousands of baseball fans scream. That, more or less, is the Parade of Legends. And if you think I’m exaggerating, consider this: Cooperstown is a village

I've been around baseball for a long time. Long enough to have filled notebooks instead of Notes apps. Long enough to have interviewed Hall of Famers, All-Stars, rookies, managers and enough relievers to populate an entire stadium. And through all those years, one thing has never changed. I still love walking into a ballpark. I still get that little rush walking through the tunnel and seeing the field for the first time. I still enjoy clubhouse conversations. I still apprecia

Mets 8 Dodgers 3 (Citi Field, Flushing, NY) Mets record: 44-62 Mets streak: Won 1 WP-Cionel Perez (4-3) LP-Evan Phillips (0-2) Seat on the Korner: Tyrone Taylor 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

Last week, we wrapped up our little tour through the Mets' unexpected parade of interim managers with Mike Cubbage, the quiet baseball lifer who walked into Shea Stadium expecting to coach third base and instead walked out managing the New York Mets for the final week of the 1991 season. It was a fun detour through a forgotten corner of Mets history. This week, we're shifting back to what this series has always celebrated best—those players whose names make longtime Mets fans

Dodgers 4 Mets 3 (Citi Field, Flushing, NY) Mets record: 43-62 Mets streak: Lost 3 WP - Yoshinobu Yamamoto (11-6) LP - Nolan McLean (7-7) SV - Brock Stewart (1) Seat on the Korner: Yoshinobu Yamamoto 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

Before Joe Buck and longtime Cleveland baseball writer Paul Hoynes officially received their Hall of Fame honors this weekend, the newest members of baseball's media fraternity sat together one final time in front of reporters for a candid conversation that was less about awards and more about the journey. For Buck, recipient of the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting excellence, and Hoynes, honored with the BBWAA Career Excellence Award, the press conference offered a glimp

Cooperstown -- Tomorrow is coronation day for Carlos Beltran, who will enter the Hall of Fame wearing a Mets cap, making him, according to Hall statistics, one of three Mets so enshrined. But in touring the Hall’s museum this weekend, you have to wonder how committed the Hall is to preserving Beltran’s memory as a Metrpolitan. An exhibit at the museum highighting the three inductees – Jeff Kent and Andruw Jones are the other two – has a brief (roughly one minute) video int

Dodgers 4 Mets 2 (Citi Field, Flushing, NY) Mets record: 43-61 Mets streak: Lost 2 WP - Roki Sasaki (4-5) LP - Brooks Raley (4-5) SV - Tanner Scott (16) Seat on the Korner: Roki Sasaki 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

In the high-stakes theater of hot stove transactions, few deals capture the chaotic ambition of a winter overhaul quite like the January 2002 megadeal involving 11 players between the Mets, Brewers, and Rockies. Trades involving this many moving parts are rare enough; rarer still are those that completely alter the emotional and structural fabric of the teams involved. For us Mets fans, the centerpiece was a reunion. Jeromy Burnitz, the hard hitting All-Star who was drafted b

The Mets ignored run prevention and prevented themselves from winning as Milwaukee took the finale of a three-game series 4-3 on Wednesday afternoon.

For 64 seasons, the Mets have chased pitching. Sometimes they developed it. Tom Seaver. Dwight Gooden. Jacob deGrom. More often, they went shopping for it. The shopping list has produced Hall of Famers, Cy Young Award winners, World Series heroes and established aces. On paper, many of those acquisitions looked like the missing piece. Some arrived with baseball cards that belonged in Cooperstown. Unfortunately, by the time several of those pitchers unpacked their bags in Quee

Mets 4 Brewers 0 (American Family Field, Milwaukee, WI) Mets record: 43-59 Mets streak: Won 1 WP - Zac Thornton (1-1) LP - Brandon Sproat (3-5) Seat on the Korner: Zac Thornton 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 E

Before we dimmed the lights for our latest Kiner's Korner Long Island Ralph Kiner Chapter of SABR Movie Night, I posed a simple question to the audience. "How many of you remember where you were when Mark Fidrych burst onto the baseball scene in 1976?" Nearly every hand went up. That's baseball. One magical summer. One unforgettable player. One memory that somehow survives for half a century. As Mets fans, we understand baseball's unlikely love stories. Before 2012, R.A. Dick