FIGURE IT OUT….OR ACCEPT FAILURE!
I just finished writing recently about how disadvantaged Brooklyn Cyclones hitters are when hitting on the home field.
Brutal contrast between Brooklyn Road Warriors and Home Team Wimpy Wimpy Wimpies.
Mauricio sputters at home, clobbers on the road.
Luke Ritter? 8 homers, 25 RBIs on the road…sensational.
At home? 1 HR, 2 RBIs…deflational.
But nearer and dearer to our hearts….those NY Mets?
A not-so-bad 148 runs in 39 road games.
Just 118 runs in 35 home games, though.
Not so good hitting on the road, but awful at home.
Last year? 31 road games, 159 runs. Great.
At home? Just 127 runs in 29 games. Not nearly as good.
I did an article or two over the past few years about the Met’s lack of home field advantage, how over a span of years, they hit worse at home and somehow won as few home games as road games.
That kind of thing is a pennant chase killer.
The Yankees, meanwhile, have a significant home field win advantage over the past several years.
Which enhances pennant chances.
I don’t have answers to that, but Zach Scott needs to find those answers.
Pete Alonso has ONE HR AT HOME ON JUNE 28? Ten on the road??? See Luke Ritter above.
Something is drastically wrong.
Just 7 Alonso home RBIs?
Something is WRONG! VERY, VERY WRONG!
Answers are needed?
Yes! Real, actionable answers.
Don’t just tell me that Wuhan bats are more dangerous than a Mets’ home bats.
Failing to fix this is accepting Mets offensive failure.
So…fix it. Whatever it takes.
The Mets suffer from “Systemic Failure to Hit At Home-ism.”
And it is:
Way past the time to figure out why!
Boy, THAT was a doozy last night. 20-2 drubbing. Mets fans everywhere no doubt envisioned a 2-0 perfect game at the end of the top of the first. And they were right. It was a perfect disaster, and perfectly embarrassing.
Somewhere, Nimmo, Cookie, and the IL Legion are rehabbing, while the S.S. Mets has been torpedoed and is taking on water?
Be thankful for Tylor Megill. If he had flopped in his two starts, instead of leading the Mets to 2 wins, this team would be in a free fall that my brother would describe in one word: UGLY. A word which he is already using, but without the CAPS.
9 comments:
Tom - you have to play the style that helps you win in your home park. In Brooklyn, Fonzie showed how in 2019...speed...agressive base running...manufacturing runs...defense.
The only hope here is that Jake goes tonight but he needs at least 8 innings of shutout ball and I think the old rule of having to score more than the opposition to win still applies. The Nats who were left for dead are rolling and they have a real SS who comes up big when needed. It's really hard to imagine Lindor being this bad offensively in any scenario you could of thought of and we have him for 10 and a half more years dam man its time to man up.
John, the Mets’ run manufacturer is in shutdown.
Lindor means uh-oh in Spanish.
I think George Foster even had a better first year than Lindor.
First year isn't why you paid $341 million to keep him long term.
Not sure what the problem is. Alonso has had past success at home.
Ray, Alonso over-pressuring himself.
And the Mets have the best home record in baseball !?!?!?
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