You’re telling me that Buck Showalter couldn’t get back into a major league dugout for three years because teams’ owners and new-age front office personnel thought the old school manager would demand too much authority?The culture shift in Queens has been as dramatic as the turnaround in the Mets’ record from 77-85 in 2021 to 69-39 this year,on Saturday that extended their division lead to 5 ½ games … and with Jacob deGrom on tap Sunday for the finale of this five-game set, in which the...
“This is what you play the game for,” Max Scherzer said after seven shutout innings of bravura work in Game 2 through which he struck out 11 while throwing a season-high 108 pitches. “We’re just playing great baseball right now.” Pete Alonso celebrates with teammates after scoring a run on a play at the plate during the Mets’ 6-2 Game 2 win of their doubleheader sweep.They are playing hardball, the way Pete Alonso did while going in hard to second base to break up a double play in the third inning of the nightcap. That hustle led to a throwing error by Dansby Swanson that brought in the third run of the game.