Mets start homestand with momentum-draining loss to Marlins
NY Post
The notion that the Mets might be in a position to make a run at the National League wild-card race seemed wildly farfetched Tuesday night.
They got just four hits, made a pair of costly errors and generally looked like a team that was still on London time in a 4-2 loss to the last-place Marlins.
And it came in front of another small crowd at Citi Field, where the Mets have played poorly all season.
For a team that wants to stay away from a second straight trade deadline sell-off, the Mets sure didn’t play like it, which bothered Francisco Lindor.
“Any loss hurts, but especially since it felt like we were flat,” Lindor said. “Even the crowd was [flat] because we didn’t give them anything to get going. The vibes, I didn’t like it. We all have to do a better job of bringing energy. We tried, but it didn’t happen.”
Carlos Mendoza pointed to the team’s brief outburst in the bottom of the second as evidence his players weren’t impacted by the odd schedule they’ve dealt with, including the added days off, for the two-game series against the Phillies in London.
It feels right that on the day we celebrate Aaron Judge joining an elite pantheon of athlete — the multi-time winner of the Most Valuable Player award — that we take a walk back to the beginning, when Judge was little more than a 6-foot-7, 280-pound curiosity who mostly specialized in striking out.
The NFL has warned its players to take precautions against a “transnational crime ring” that is suspected of orchestrating a number of break-ins of athletes’ homes including Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce.
Joel Embiid isn’t pleased with details of the 76ers’ team meeting after Monday’s loss being leaked, telling reporters after Wednesday’s road loss to the Grizzlies, “whoever leaked that is a real piece of s–t.”
PHOENIX — Jalen Brunson didn’t want to comment on the NBA looking into his father’s promotion and contract as a potential salary-cap circumvention, but the point guard certainly had a message to anybody questioning Rick Brunson’s coaching credentials.
PHOENIX — Wednesday brought some cautiously optimistic updates for the Knicks frontcourt.
The Greatest Escape in franchise history was perpetrated by Glen Sather, when the general manager extricated himself and the Rangers from the final five years of Scott Gomez’s contract by moving the $7,357,143-per-year center to Montreal on June 30, 2009 after two years in New York.
The Yankees publicly are on the same page: Hal Steinbrenner, like Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone before him, said that issues with the club’s fundamentals did not hover over the team all season.
The first day of the rest of Daniel Jones’ dwindling time with the Giants arrived Wednesday, with Jones in the building, in the meetings, on the practice field (although not doing very much) and not at all part of the game plan for the next game, relegated to a non-participant role for the remainder of the season.
There will be a little extra magic for Knicks-Spurs on Christmas Day.
The quickest way for the Giants to climb out of quarterback hell is also the quickest way to extend their stay there for at least three more years.