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Diamondbacks 7 Mets 2 (Citi Field, Flushing, NY) Mets record: 7-5 Mets streak: Lost 1 WP - Ryne Nelson (1-1) LP - David Peterson (0-2) Seat on the Korner: Corbin Carroll 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 Re

Mets 4 Diamondbacks 3 (10) (Citi Field , Flushing, NY) Mets record: (7-4) Mets streak: (W4) Last 10 games: (6-4) WP - (Weaver 1-0) LP - (Sewald 0-2) 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 presented by

The New York Mets' story at shortstop in the 2010s was one of transition. It began with a star, moved through uncertainty, paused for one of the most emotional moments in franchise history, and ended with a young player who looked like the club’s next long-term answer—from José Reyes to Rubén Tejada to Wilmer Flores to Amed Rosario, the decade at shortstop mirrored the uneven but compelling path of the team itself. At the start of the decade, the position still belonged to Re

Mets 5 Giants 2 (Oracle Park, San Francisco, CA) Mets record: 6-4 Mets streak: Won 3 Last 10 games: 6-4 WP - Huascar Brazobán (1-0) LP -Keaton Winn (0-1) S-Devin Williams (2) Seat on the Korner: Luis Torrens 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

Welcome back to Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing, our weekly stroll through the Mets attic the place where the yearbooks are a little dusty, the bubble gum cards stick together, and every once in a while you stumble across something that makes you stop and say, “Wait… I remember that.” Last week, we sorted out the tale of the two Bob Millers, a pair of pitchers who shared not only a name, but a spot on the same 1962 Mets roster forcing Casey Stengel to rename one of

Mets 9 Giants 0 (Oracle Park, San Francisco, CA) Mets record: 5-4 Mets streak: Won 2 WP - Clay Holmes (2-0) LP - Landen Roupp (1-1) 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 Restaura

Despite going into the 2016 season as defending National League champions, the Mets still had a bittersweet taste in their mouths as a result of coming up short in the World Series against the Kansas City Royals. The roster that won the franchise’s fifth National League pennant underwent some changes during the off season. Daniel Murphy cashed in on his break out post season in 2015 to sign a free agent contract with the NL East rival Washington Nationals. With the prospect o

Mets 10 Giants 3 (Oracle Park, San Francisco, CA) Mets record: 4-4 Mets streak: Won 1 WP - Nolan McLean (1-0) LP - Tyler Mahle (0-2) Seat on the Korner: 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 & Sports

Opening Day always brings hope. The day after? That’s when reality—and curiosity—set in. Following this year’s opener, we posted a graphic on Kiner’s Korner highlighting several key players no longer with the Mets and how they performed in their first games elsewhere. What happened next surprised even us. The post took on a life of its own, racking up over 70,000 impressions and sparking plenty of conversation. Some loved it. Some didn’t. Some wanted more. Some probably wante

Giants 7 Mets 2 (Oracle Park, San Francisco, CA) Mets record: 3-4 Mets streak: Lost 3 WP - Robbie Ray (1-1) LP - David Peterson (0-1) SV - Blade Tidwell (1) Seat on the Korner: Luis Arraez 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

If you walk through the annals of Mets trade history, you'll find deals that built dynasties and others that still make the Shea faithful reach for the antacid. The Tampa Bay Rays, despite only joining the league in 1998, have managed to supply a surprising amount of both. It began with the quest for veteran stability during the 2000 World Series run and hit a fever pitch with the 2004 deadline disaster that still haunts many today. July 28, 2000. Mets get OF Bubba Trammell a

Cardinals 2 Mets 1 (11 innings) (Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri) Mets record: 3-3 Mets streak: Lost 2 WP -Gordon Graceffo (1-0) LP -Tobias Myers (0-1) Seat on the Korner: Masyn Winn 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

If you spend enough time around collectors, you start to realize something important. The best collections are not built in a hurry. They are built over time, piece by piece, memory by memory, often without a grand plan. Sometimes, they begin with something as simple as a name on the evening news that makes a six-year-old kid stop eating dinner and start paying attention. This month’s Kollector’s Korner Met-o-ra-bil-ia Hall of Fame inductee is exactly that kind of collector.

Cardinals 3 Mets 0 (Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri) Mets record: 3-2 Mets streak: Lose 1 WP - Andre Pallante (1-0) LP - Kodai Senga (0-1) SV- Riley O'Brien (1) Seat on the Korner: Andre Pallante 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 proudl

The 2000s Mets' shortstops story was the end of an era and the beginning of something even better for fans in Queens. The beloved, hot-shot fielding shortstop, Rey Ordonez, was on the decline, and the team needed to find a reliable replacement for his super range and super glove. Well, the decade ended up producing a fruitful upgrade for years, Jose Reyes. Ordonez, in 2000, suffered a catastrophic forearm injury really early in the season. The injury happened on May 29, on a

Mets 4 Cardinals 2 (Busch Stadium, St. Louis, Missouri) Mets record: 3-1 Mets streak: Won 1 WP -Clay Holmes (1-0) LP -Kyle Leahy (0-1) SV-Devin Williams (1) Seat on the Korner: Bo Bichette 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 presente

Pirates 4 Mets 3 (Citi Field, Flushing, NY) Mets record: 2-1 Mets streak: Lost 1 WP - Dennis Santana (1-0) LP - Richard Lovelady (1-1) Seat on the Korner: Ryan O'Hearn 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 R

Welcome back to Sunday School: Forgotten Faces of Flushing, our weekly stroll through the Mets attic the place where the yearbooks are a little dusty, the bubble gum cards stick together, and every once in a while you stumble across a name that makes you stop and say, “Wait… I remember that guy.” Last week we untangled the curious case of the two Bobby Joneses two pitchers, same name, overlapping in the larger orbit of baseball history, and enough confusion to make even a sco

Mets 4 Pirates 2 (Citi Field, Flushing, NY) Mets record: 2-0 Mets streak: Won 2 WP - Richard Lovelady (1-0) LP - Hunter Barco (0-1) Seat on the Korner: Luis Robert Jr. 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 Res

If the old baseball adage holds true that sometimes the best trades are the ones you don’t make, consider this corollary that applies to the 2015 New York Mets: Sometimes, the best trades you make are the ones that happen because one you did make falls through. A convincing argument could be made that the Mets made it to the World Series largely because the July trade that would have sent Wilmer Flores and Noah Syndergaard to the Milwaukee Brewers fell through