Starting tomorrow, the Mets are offering a 25% discount on all tickets for all games excluding the Subway Series…Simply enter promo code “Dad” when checking out at Mets.com/FathersDay. Are the Mets kind or advanced sales not where they want them to be?
No word yet from Steve Cohen if he wants Pete Alonso’s LFGM two middle fingers t-shirt to be the brand or not. Gonna assume yes.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!: James McCann celebrates his 31st birthday today…He is 16- 43 (.372) with eight runs, four doubles, four home runs, 12 RBI, three walks and a 1.170 OPS over his last 12 games…Over his last 17 games, McCann is batting .310/.365/.638 with nine extra-base hits…McCann hit one home run over his first 33 games with the club and has hit five in his last 15 games.
Pete Alonso has one home run, three RBI and FIFTEEN TOTAL BASES AT HOME this year. Fifteen. It’s June 13th. Wow. As a comparison, Jacob deGrom has 7.
HIS NAME IS FRANCISCO LINDOR: Francisco Lindor is batting .314 (16-51) with 14 runs, three doubles, a triple, three home runs, six RBI, four walks and a .963 OPS over his last 13 games…He is batting .259 (21-81) with 16 runs, five doubles, a triple, three home runs, six walks and seven RBI over his last 21 games. Now you frontrunners who booed him love him.
Billy McKinney is batting .302 (13-43) since joining the Mets…He has 12 RBI and a 1.106 OPS in 13 games with the Mets…His 10 extra-base hits through 13 games with the team are tied for the second-most in club history with Joe McEwing…Only Pete Alonso (12) had more in his first 13 games as a Met.
NF Jeff McNeil is slated to start a rehab assignment with the Brooklyn Cyclones today…McNeil has been on the IL since May 17 with a strained left hamstring…RHP Dellin Betances is also set to start a rehab appearance with the St. Lucie Mets today…He has been on the 60-Day IL since April 24 with a right shoulder impingement…OF Albert Almora Jr. is currently on a rehab assignment with Triple-A Syracuse…He went 0-2 with a walk and played 7.0 innings in center field for Syracuse last night…Overall, he is 1-10 with a home run, a walk and two RBI in four games on his rehab assignment…Almora Jr. has been on the 10-Day IL since May 12 with a left shoulder contusion.
Today’s starter who is Joey Lucchesi, who the media told me had a great spring because the media somehow doesn’t understand how spring training lineups work.
On this day in 2012, R.A. Dickey set a new franchise recorded for consecutive scoreless innings, surpassing the previous franchise record of 31.2 scoreless innings by Jerry Koosman in 1973…It was the first of two consecutive one-hitters by Dickey as the Mets defeated the Rays, 9-1, in Tampa Bay… Dickey allowed an unearned run on one hit and struck out 12 in the masterpiece… The Mets collected 14 hits in the victory, including three by Andres Torres…For cool photos and interactive history information on the Mets, please visit the Mets Virtual Vault at metsheritage.com.
