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NL batting champion Jeff McNeil agrees to four-year, $50 million extension with Mets: report

NEW YORK — The squirrel has found his nut.

Tribune News Service · Jan 27, 2023

Padres stun Mets with four homers off Max Scherzer en route to 7-1 victory in Game 1

NEW YORK — Fans received orange towels Friday as they entered Citi Field.

Tribune News Service · Oct 8, 2022

Jeff McNeil beats Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman to win batting title

NEW YORK — With Jeff McNeil leading the National League and the entire league with a .326 average, the Mets opted not to play their infielder/outfielder, instead letting him rest ahead of the postseason matchup against the San Diego Padres. As it turns out, he won the batting title anyway.

Tribune News Service · Oct 6, 2022

Marlins’ Bleier Called for Three Balks in One At-Bat

This hadn’t happened in MLB for more than a century.

Sports Illustrated · Sep 28, 2022

Marlins play spoiler at Mets (despite Bleier’s balk bonanza), but Cooper fractures finger

At the end of the best and healthiest season of his career, Garrett Cooper’s awful injury luck struck again Tuesday when he fractured the pinkie on his left hand in the fifth inning of the Miami Marlins’ 6-4 win against the New York Mets.

Miami Herald · Sep 28, 2022

Mets limp their way to 6-0 loss in series finale against Brewers

A game that got off to an ominous start for the Mets ended with a 6-0 loss to the Brewers.

Tribune News Service · Sep 21, 2022

Mets overcome rare glitch by Jacob deGrom to sweep Pirates

NEW YORK — Jacob deGrom did what you would expect him to do against the Pirates on Sunday: He deGrominated.

Newsday · Sep 18, 2022

Daniel Vogelbach hits homer against former team as Mets beat Pirates, 4-3

NEW YORK — A second straight win, a wish fulfilled, a team that looks to be discovering itself again.

Tribune News Service · Sep 17, 2022

How the New Mets Are (Mostly) Overcoming Decades of Dysfunction

Are attitude, personnel and money enough for MLB’s most confounding franchise to become a normal winning team?

Sports Illustrated · Sep 16, 2022

Costly error, lack of hitting burn Mets in loss to Nationals

NEW YORK — Jeff McNeil ranged far to his right to field Luis Garcia’s potential inning-ending double play ball on the backhand. As the Mets’ second baseman started to transfer the ball to his hand for a flip to second, he dropped it for an error.

Newsday · Sep 4, 2022