Category Archives: Major League Baseball

Baxter walks into history, Mets down Padres 6-2

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Aaron Yorke

Last night in New York’s 6-2 win over the San Diego Padres, Mike Baxter became the first Mets player to walk five times in a nine-inning game. He’s the first major league player to walk five times in a nine-inning … Continue reading →

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Thole gets railroaded, Mets lose to Padres 3-1

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Aaron Yorke

Ugh what happened last night? R.A. Dickey was rolling along and didn’t even allow a base hit until Yonder Alonso ripped off a single in the fifth inning. Dickey was able to keep Alonso from scoring, but in the next … Continue reading →

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Mets to wear sweet 1989 throwbacks tonight in San Diego

Posted on August 3, 2012 by Aaron Yorke

19…19…1989 Check it out! It’s Metro gone retro. The Padres are holding a throwback party, and as their costumes, the Mets are wearing road jerseys from the 1989 season. Unfortunately, from 1988 through 1992, the Mets wore boring Yankees-style “New … Continue reading →

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Mets win wild one in San Francisco, back at it tonight

Posted on July 31, 2012 by Aaron Yorke

Last night the Mets won a crazy game in which they fell behind the San Francisco Giants 4-2, came back to take a 6-4 lead in the eighth, blew that 6-4 lead in the ninth, and finally won 8-7 in … Continue reading →

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Davis slugs three home runs, Mets lose to Snakes 6-3

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Aaron Yorke

When your team’s suddenly hot young slugger hits three home runs in a game and your team only scores three runs… well that’s pretty sad. Tonight (Saturday), the Mets lost to Arizona 6-3 even though Ike Davis went 4 for … Continue reading →

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Mets get amazing Harvey debut, then go right on losing

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Aaron Yorke

Havery’s incredible debut Thursday night gave the Mets some hope for the future, as 2010 first round pick Matt Harvey’s major league debut went better than anyone could have imagined. The rookie became the first player in the modern era … Continue reading →

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Mets are hopefully done losing now

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Aaron Yorke

Thanks to the Penn State football team being in dire straights, my attention has wavered a bit from the Mets, who are in admittedly less dire straights. Don’t tell the Mets fans, though. Sure, a 47-51 record after 98 games … Continue reading →

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Paterno statue down, sanctions coming Monday

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Aaron Yorke

On Penn State It appears the day of reckoning is upon us. This morning the Joe Paterno statue outside of Beaver Stadium was removed and reportedly placed in “storage.” Around the same time, a source within the NCAA that “unprecedented” … Continue reading →

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Mets Saturday morning: Santana to DL, Hefner up

Posted on July 21, 2012 by Aaron Yorke

After last night’s Johan Santana start that was not awesome (well, it was for the Dodgers, and particularly for Luis Cruz, who hit his first major league home run), Terry Collins discussed maybe skipping the lefty’s next start, because he … Continue reading →

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Mets bullpen panic and more Penn State yapping

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Aaron Yorke

On Wednesday afternoon for The Daily Stache, I wrote a preview for the Mets vs. National game, but what I want to write about now is the beginning in which I wrote about why the awful bullpen situation has not … Continue reading →

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