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McLean's brilliance and hot bats lead Mets to win as Soto suffers injury
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

John Coppinger
Apr 43 min read


Spring Training Day 6: Professionalism, Competition and a 2026 Mets Team that Might Be Special
By the time I pulled into the complex at Clover Park for my sixth and final day of covering Mets Spring Training, the place felt almost civilized. No 6:00 a.m. cattle call. No players stumbling in before sunrise for picture day obligations. The press room didn’t open until 9:45. The clubhouse doors welcomed us at 10. It felt like baseball had hit the snooze button. And honestly, after a week of controlled chaos, it was kind of perfect. The room itself was quiet. Not tense qui

Mark Rosenman
Feb 208 min read


Holmes for the Holidays: Mets’ Clay, Sproat, Tong, and McLean Deliver Cheer
If you were wandering through Citi Field on Thursday morning and thought you’d accidentally taken a wrong turn into the North Pole, don’t worry. You weren’t hallucinating from too much egg nog. You had simply stumbled upon the Mets’ annual Kids Holiday Party, one of those rare baseball events where wins and losses don’t matter, the standings are irrelevant, and the only thing anyone is trying to pad is a gift bag. As part of the MetsGiving initiative, the Mets along with the

Mark Rosenman
Dec 18, 20258 min read


Mets Trade Rumours Leave me Dazed and Confused
You know those social media posts that pop up every day asking things like, Describe your mood today with a movie title? Or a song? Or the old internet classic where you create your “adult film name” by combining your first pet with the last name of your least favorite Mets reliever and yes, mine would be Coco Looper thanks for asking. Honestly, that’s how my brain has always worked. I don’t process life in neat paragraphs. I process it in pop culture references movies, lyr

Mark Rosenman
Dec 16, 202511 min read


What Happens in Vegas (Hopefully) Doesn’t Stay in Vegas: David Stearns Talks Mets at the GM Meetings
The annual General Manager Meetings are sort of the appetizer before baseball’s offseason buffet.The Winter Meetings get all the glory, the signings, the trades, the Scott Boras monologues that go longer than a game-winning home run given up by Ryan Helsley, but the GM Meetings? That’s where everyone starts slow-cooking the rumors. And this week, the baseball world descended on Las Vegas, which feels appropriate, because nothing says baseball wants to distance itself from a g

Mark Rosenman
Nov 12, 20255 min read


Let's call the 2025 Mets what they actually were ...
First off, let me get some semantics out of the way: Everyone and their mothers are calling the plight of the 2025 Mets a "collapse"....

John Coppinger
Oct 2, 202513 min read


Mets 8-5 Win Over Cubs Stalls Cincinnati's Hunt for Red October
Mets 8 Cubs 5 (Wrigley Field, Chicago, IL) Mets record: 82-77 Mets streak: Won 1 L10 : 5-5 WP - Nolan McLean 5-1 LP - Shota Imanaga...

Mark Rosenman
Sep 25, 20256 min read


Mullins misplay ruins comeback and caps a sloppy loss to Nats
Nationals 5 Mets 3 in 11 innings (Citi Field, Flushing, NY) Mets record: 80-75 Mets streak: Lost 1 WP - Sauryn Lao (1-0) LP - Tyler...

John Coppinger
Sep 20, 20254 min read


Mets Torrens-ial downpour floods Tigers
Mets 12, Tigers 5 (Comerica Park, Detroit, MI) Mets record: 75-64 Mets streak: W2 WP - Nolan McLean (4-0) LP - Sawyer Gipson-Long...
joelsunshine12
Sep 2, 20256 min read


An August to Forget, A September to Remember?
I try to be positive here, even though after the Mets’ 11–17 record in August, it’s not always that easy. The good news? The Amazin’s are...

Mark Rosenman
Sep 1, 20252 min read


Mets Fans Get to See that Tong,and He Doesn’t Disappoint in 19-9 Win Over Fish
Mets 19, Marlins 9 (Citi Field, Flushing, NY) Mets Record: 73-62 Mets Streak: W1 Mets Last 10: 6-4 WP: Jonah Tong (1-0) LP: Eury Perez...

Mark Rosenman
Aug 29, 20255 min read


McLean Masterful As Mets Sweep Phils
Mets 6, Phillies 0 (Citi Field, Flushing, NY) Mets Record: 72-61 Mets Streak: W3 Mets Last 10: 7-3 WP: Nolan Mclean (3-0) LP: Taijuan...

A.J. Carter
Aug 27, 20254 min read


McLean Dies Hard and the Mets Offense Explodes
Mets 12, Atlanta 7 (Truist Park, Atlanta, GA) Mets record: 68-60 Mets streak: Won 1 Last 10: 5-5 WP - Nolan McLean (2-0) LP - Joey...

Mark Rosenman
Aug 23, 20257 min read


Hello, Nolan! McLean's debut exactly what the doctor ordered in Mets win
Mets 3 Mariners 1 (Citi Field, Flushing, NY) Mets record: 65-58 Mets streak: Won 1 WP - Nolan McLean (1-0) LP - Bryan Woo (10-7) SV -...

John Coppinger
Aug 16, 20253 min read


Mr. Met and Mr.Hyde A Tale of Two Seasons
There’s an old saying in baseball that you’re never as good as you look when you’re winning and never as bad as you look when you’re...

Mark Rosenman
Aug 16, 20257 min read


The Cowboy Otani Rides to Flushing: Nolan McLean Gets the Ball Saturday
It’s not every day the Mets hand the ball to a guy nicknamed The Cowboy Otani. Then again, it’s not every day the Mets hand the ball to a...

Mark Rosenman
Aug 14, 20253 min read


Soto, Rogers, Helsley,Mullins, and the Art of the Stearns Heist: A Trade Deadline Coup for the Ages
Mets Recent Trade Acquistions Let’s be honest: nobody saw this coming. Not like this. Not clean. Not surgical. As the trade deadline...

Mark Rosenman
Jul 31, 20255 min read


New York Upstate of Mind: Road Trip Diary: Walk-Off Wonders, Young Arms, and Francisco Finding His Groove
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...

Mark Rosenman
Jul 10, 20256 min read
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