Mets lose heartbreaker to Cubs after controversial play at plate for final out: ‘Wrong call’
NY Post
For eight innings, the Mets grew frustrated with bats that would not awaken.
For the final inning, the frustration was redirected to a ruling from the MLB Replay Center that “cost us a game,” manager Carlos Mendoza said.
Pete Alonso was thrown out at the plate in a chaotic finish to a 1-0 loss to the Cubs on Wednesday at Citi Field, where 22,485 fans, one manager and one clubhouse were upset at the league’s interpretation of what constitutes blocking the plate.
MLB teams were sent memos, pictures included, this spring concerning the league’s push to enforce base obstruction.
Those memos, Mendoza said, told catchers that they could not have their foot on the plate without possession of the ball.
Down one run and mounting a rare threat, with runners on second and third in the ninth, Jeff McNeil lifted a fly ball to medium-depth left field.
SALT LAKE CITY — The Knicks could not fully salvage a two-way clunker Saturday night, and their longest winning streak of the season is history.
If Brian Daboll will be fighting to keep his job across these next seven weeks, it is not lost on Tommy DeVito that he is the one who has been entrusted to help his coach save it.
Kevin Shattenkirk is 35, a Stanley Cup champion and now a father of three with his wife, Deanna, after having a second daughter in September.
SALT LAKE CITY — An encouraging upgrade in his availability status didn’t result in Miles McBride’s return to the Knicks lineup.
This is pretty much the deal.
Uncertainty has followed Zion Williamson off the court.
SALT LAKE CITY — The “Dimes” nickname is open in New York now that quarterback Daniel Jones has been released by the Giants, and perhaps it can be a fitting team-wide moniker in another sport.
General Curtis LeMay: “You’re in a pretty big fix, Mr. President.”
Last spring’s ultimate defeat, coming on top of a quite similar one 24 months earlier, should have proved once and for all that the Rangers’ skill game, impressive at it at may be in spurts, does not overcome their physicality deficiency at the final-four level.
Jon Berti, who started three postseason games at first base for the Yankees when Anthony Rizzo was out with fractured fingers, was non-tendered by the team prior to Friday’s deadline, as was left-hander Tim Mayza.
CALGARY, Alberta — The Rangers needed just 16 seconds to get back into a game they had no business being in over halfway through.