FINALLY LOOKING LIKE TEAM TO BEAT

BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog • LoHud: Carpiniello: For former batboy Lozito, seeing stars was a dream
Lucky Lozito...while I had to machete through Jersey weeds to retrieve balls for the Cuban All-Stars. There is the friendship with Kentucky senator Jim Bunning, a Hall of Fame pitcher. “I have a personal friend of mine at work whose sister was ...

BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog • Rosenthal: A-Rod should be participating in Home Run Derby
Around the Horn Davey Johnson, the manager in the Futures Game and in the upcoming Olympics, joked Sunday that he taught A’s general manager Billy Beane “everything he knows” about statistical analysis. Johnson, who was Beane’s manager with ...

BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog • (Luis) Castillo Set to Return, but to a Crowded Spot (RR)
Luis Castillo, who is recovering from a strained hip flexor, is eligible to come off the disabled list on Thursday. But in his absence, Damion Easley and Argenis Reyes have held down the fort. Easley is batting .292 and providing solid defense. Reyes ...

metsgrrl.com • REVOLUTION 9.
Friday night, we were cautiously optimistic, still. Good Oliver or Bad Oliver? Would there be bats? Would there be hits? Would there be runs? The 2008 Mets we know are the ones who stomp all over the Yankees and then lose to the Mariners, remember?  ...

The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus • Streaking
The Mets have won nine straight games . Feel free to bask in that for three days. I was basking as well, until ESPN's Jon Miller reminded us that the last time the Mets reached ten in a row was the not the Miracle Mets of '69, not the bad guys who ...

Beltran and Pelfrey lead the Mets, 7-0

Mets stay hot going into break
Here’s the happy recap from Shea, where the Mets surged into the All-Star break with their ninth straight win, 7-0 over the Rockies on Sunday: • Mike Pelfrey is now 6-0 in his last six starts after tossing eight scoreless innings. ...

Mets finally over '07 collapse
It took more than half a season, but the Mets are finally back to being a contending team, not one haunted by the collapse of last September. And for those who say that the Mets are beating up on lousy teams, I refer you to the middle of May, when ...

IRON MIKE COMING UP ACES
The 51,293 on hand last night rose to their feet, twirling their white towels and chanting Mike Pelfrey's name. A year ago they booed him, but now they were cheering, urging him off the bench and, finally, to the top step of the Mets dugout for his...

METS, PELFREY ON CLOUD NINE
Sure, it was just the Rockies and Giants, also known as two of the worst teams in baseball. But who knew the Mets suddenly would turn into the '71 Orioles? The Amazin's incredible weeklong run of lights-out pitching continued unabated last night...