Sam Neumann

3 weeks ago | metsmerizedonline.com | Sam Neumann

If this is Brett Baty’s coming-out party, you might want to buy stock — and now. The former top-100 prospect appears to have turned a corner in his latest opportunity to prove he belongs in the big leagues. Since being recalled from Triple-A Syracuse to replace the injured Jesse Winker (oblique), the 25-year-old Baty has rediscovered his swing. In two games against the Chicago Cubs, he’s launched three home runs, including a multi-homer performance in Saturday’s 6-5 loss.

1 month ago | metsmerizedonline.com | Sam Neumann

Clay Holmes had to deal with two rain delays on Saturday. It didn’t matter. He threw 13 pitches before being sidelined by Mother Nature. He returned nearly 50 minutes later to finish the first inning with a scoreless frame. He’d only throw 57 more pitches on the afternoon, as the weather was really the only thing affecting him from going the distance. Holmes left his latest start of the season with a 2-0 lead.

1 month ago | metsmerizedonline.com | Sam Neumann

Kodai Senga would be the first to admit he didn’t have his sharpest stuff in Saturday’s 3-0 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. It wasn’t that the St. Louis Cardinals — now losers of three straight at Citi Field — batted him around the ballpark. But Senga’s signature forkball wasn’t missing bats like it usually does. He managed just four strikeouts over 5 2/3 innings, a far cry from the whiff-heavy outings he’s flashed before, like his dominant showing in West Sacramento.

2 months ago | metsmerizedonline.com | Sam Neumann

Francisco Lindor joked postgame that someone might need to check on Jesse Winker’s hamstrings. Lindor delivered the walk-off sacrifice fly in the New York Mets’ 3–2 comeback win over the Blue Jays on Saturday, but it was his old buddy Winker who did the heavy lifting. Winker ripped a game-tying, two-run triple in the bottom of the eighth — his second triple of the night — to set the table for Lindor’s heroics.

2 months ago | metsmerizedonline.com | Sam Neumann

Griffin Canning had faced the Houston Astros nine times before Saturday. None of those outings looked anything like this one. Coming into the game, Canning owned an ugly 0-3 record and a 6.69 ERA against the reigning American League West champions. Astros fans likely expected more of the same — another rough night for a pitcher they’d torched before. Instead, they ran into a version of Canning they’d never seen.