The Mets Police – Page 269 – What Mets fans talk about when not talking about the actual games.

April 20, 2022

Exciting Mets-Giants game notes!

LHP Carlos Rodon (1-0, 1.50) vs. RHP Chris Bassitt (2-0, 0.75)

New York swept a doubleheader from the Giants for the first time since July 13, 1979 at Shea Stadium…

The Mets are 9-3 through their first 12 games…That is tied for the third-best record through 12 games in franchise history…Also, 2015, 1986 and 1985…The best record through 12 games is 11-1 done by the 2018 Mets, followed by 10-2 by the 2006 team, and we all know how many championships they won!

Pete Alonso hit his 109th career home run on Sunday vs. Arizona and yet, he’s really not that good at baseball.

Alonso is toed for fourth in the NL with 14 RBI…He is batting .217 (10-46) with eight runs three doubles, three home runs, 14 RBI, two walks, a .478 SLG and a .761 OPS in 12 games this year…He is batting .353 (6-17) with six runs, two doubles, three homes, 11 RBI with a 1.389 OPS in four games as a designated hitter this year.

Francisco Lindor has reached base safely in all 12 games this year…He is batting .310 (13-42) with 10 runs, four doubles, three home runs, nine RBI, nine walks, a .442 OBP, a .619 SLG with a 1.061 OPS…He ranks sixth in the Senior Circuit in OBP and OPS and eighth in SLG. However, now that Baez is gone, Lindor is the Most Despicable Met so he can rot.

April 19, 2022

New York Mets vs. Formerly New York Giants doubleheader game notes

Tuesday, April 19, 2022 • 3:10 P.M.
Citi Field • Flushing, NY
GAME ONE: RHP Alex Cobb (1-0, 3.60) vs. RHP Tylor Megill (2-0, 0.00) GAME TWO: RHP Logan Webb (1-0, 1.29) vs. RHP Max Scherzer (2-0, 3.27)

The Giants are 7-2!

The Mets are set to play their first doubleheader of the season today…Last year, the Mets played 14 doubleheaders…According to Elias, the last time a team played 14 or more doubleheaders in a season was in 1979, when the Mets played 19 doubleheaders and the Expos played 15…The Mets went 11-3 in the first game of a doubleheader and 6-8 in the second game…This will mark the first doubleheader between these two teams since April 23 2012…The Mets lost both games.

STARTING OFF: The Mets starting staff has gone 6-0 with a 1.07 ERA (six earned runs/50.1 innings) with 11 walks and 59 strikeouts…That is the best 10-game start since the advent of the earned run in 1913, per Sportradar…New York’s starter has allowed one or no runs in eight straight games…According to Elias, that is tied for the longest streak in team history (also, May 20-28, 2010)…The starting staff leads the majors in ERA, opponent’s batting average (.158) and isthird with 59 strikeouts…Their 50.1 innings rank sixth.

THRIVE AT 5.0: Tylor Megill has thrown at least 5.0 innings, allowed no runs and yielded three hits or fewer in each of his last three starts since October 1, 2021… Only three pitchers have ever put up a comparable line in four consecutive starts: Joe Musgrove (September 20, 2020-April 9, 2021), Michael Fulmer (May 27-June 12, 2016) and Jake Arrieta (September 22, 2015-April 4, 2016).

LET’S GO STREAKING: Megill has won three straight starts, marking the first time he has won consecutive outings in his career…His scoreless streak currently sits at 16.1 innings going back to his September 24, 2021 start at Milwaukee…It is the second-longest scoreless streak of his career, behind 17.2 scoreless innings from July 10-28, 2021…This is the second time Megill has produced at least two straight scoreless starts (also, 6.0 IP on both July 17 at Pittsburgh and July 23 vs. Toronto last season).

MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE: Max Scherzer has won 13 consecutive decisions, tied for the longest winning streak of his career (he also won his first 13 decisions of his 2013 Cy Young Award-winning season with Detroit)…His teams have won each of his last 16 regular season starts…He is unbeaten in his last 21 starts (more on this below), going 13-0 since June 4, 2021 with a 2.60 ERA (35 earned runs/121.0 innings) to go along with 154 strikeouts and just 26 walks in that span.

WIN, WIN, WIN: Scherzer has not suffered a loss in any of his last 21 starts…That is tied for the 16th-longest streak of starts without a loss in modern MLB history… Tonight, he aims to tie his opposing starter, Logan Webb, who is currently on a 22-start streak without taking a loss…Roger Clemens (30 straight) holds the all- time mark…The last pitcher before Scherzer and Webb to have a streak this long was Walker Buehler, whose 23-start unbeaten streak lasted from 2019-2021.

April 18, 2022

Good job Steve!!!!! Mets rained out early tonight!

Steve has done many really great things (and some horrible like bringing back black uniforms) but one of my favorites is the EARLY RAIN OUT.

In olden times the Wilpons would have fans drive to Queens and sit there for three hours hoping for a “window” even though we all knew toe forecast.

Steve understand fans are customers and fellow humans and does not waste our time. Thanks Steve!

METS-GIANTS POSTPONED TONIGHT

Makeup Game Scheduled for 3:10 p.m. Tuesday, April 19

as Part of Single Admission Doubleheader

FLUSHING, N.Y., April 18, 2022 – The New York Mets have announced that tonight’s game against the San Francisco Giants has been postponed due to rain. It will be made up as a single admission doubleheader Tuesday, April 19 beginning at 3:10 p.m. Gates will open at 2:10 p.m. and game two will begin approximately 30-40 minutes after the conclusion of game one.

Tickets for tonight’s game WILL NOT be valid for admission to the makeup doubleheader. A digital voucher will be loaded into each attending patrons My Mets Tickets account (accessed by clicking the Vouchers tab in the Ballpark app) and will be accessible tomorrow.

Fans may exchange the voucher for a ticket comparable in price and location to another Mets 2022 regular season home game at Citi Field (including the makeup doubleheader, but excluding the July 9 Keith Hernandez number retirement, July 26-27 Subway Series vs. Yankees and August 27 Old Timers Day), subject to availability.

Ticket holders for tonight’s game with a prepaid parking pass will automatically receive a voucher redeemable for a new prepaid parking pass in their My Mets Tickets account. Fans that paid for parking on-site for tonight’s game, can visit www.mets.com/rain for information on how to receive a parking voucher redeemable for a future 2022 regular season Mets game, subject to availability.

Complimentary tickets to today’s game and those marked “NO RAINCHECK” have no value and do not constitute a rain check.

For more information, please visit Mets.com/Rain.

April 18, 2022

Is this the Seaver Statue going for a ride? How did it get installed in secret?

Several folks have sent me this. Shouldn’t they have throw a tarp on it or something? Do we really move such things with a $19 U-Haul? I guess one doesn’t make all that many stadium statues so there’s probably not an official Statue Transportation Device.

How did this move around in the daytime with none of you noticing it being installed? Wouldn’t you need some sort of Lift Heavy Thing Device? Was nobody at Citi Field that day? Not even a rogue employee snapped photos of the installation? Nobody on the Subway noticed a statue being installed?

Hmmm.

April 17, 2022

Mets naming press box after Jay Horwitz today

Very nice..

Today, the New York Mets will dedicate the press box at Citi Field in honor of Jay Horwitz, the head of team’s Media Relations department from 1980-2018, in a pre-game ceremony beginning at 12:30 pm…The ceremony will take place in the press box and will be attended by Mets President Sandy Alderson and Mets Hall of Famers John Franco and Mookie Wilson

Hopefully nobody throws a boiler sponsorship on it. That got awkward with the Bob Murphy broadcast booth for a while.

Pete Alonso:

Last Game: 0-4

Career vs. ARI: .175 (10-57), 3 HR

Streak: 0 for last 6