Faith and Fear in Flushing

Based on where the Seattle Mariners went last season and where the Seattle Mariners sit this season, it is fair to say that on Wednesday afternoon at T-Mobile Park, the New York Mets beat a playoff or at least playoff-caliber team. The Mariners made the postseason in 2025 and lead their division in 2026. The Mets missed the postseason in 2025 and linger in last place as 2026 ...

“Give me the name of a baseball player.”
“Darryl Strawberry.”
“No, a real one!”
—Frasier and Martin Crane, Frasier, “A Cranes’ Critique,” Season 4, Episode 4, October 22, 1996

Dr. Frasier Crane and his brother Dr. Niles Crane, haughty denizens of Cafe Nervosa that they are, would probably shudder if the jingle for what they’d likely consider a...

What the Mets did to anger the baseball gods is an interesting question. So is what they did to MLB’s schedule makers.

There they were playing in the middle of the night on the other side of the country, starting their fourth West Coast trip of what’s still a young season, and given all that I’m surprised it went as well as it did.

The Mets got solid pitching fr...

It’s good to win a baseball game.

It’s good to win a baseball game against the Marlins, who are a collective blight on baseball, an affront to the concept of not just team sports but also leisure-time activi...

Saturday afternoon at Citi Field served as the site of several notable transformations. Christian Scott, previously 0-for-15 in his attempts to gai...