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Home >> Game Recap >> Mets 9th & Extra Inning Recap - Relievers Backwards, Last Chances Stranded as Mets Lose, 7-5 in 10 Also, check out Rich Sparago's much more thorough 1st part of the May 24th game against the Mets and the Braves.

Atlanta Braves' right-hander Brandon Beachy tossed 4.0 innings of two-run baseball in his first rehab start for Gwinnett, and the Braves scored two runs in the seventh to upend the Toledo Mud Hens, 3-2 on Friday night at Coolray Field.

Evan Gattis got his first taste of the Big Apple on Friday night, and by now no one should've been surprised that he took a big bite.

NY Mets player Matt Harvey and his supermodel girlfriend Anne Vyalitsyna watch the Rangers play the Bruins last night at Madison Square Garden.

The Ike Davis Watch has reached the next phase: If the Mets finally do decide to demote the underachieving slugger, who would replace him at first base? Manager Terry Collins today named the three obvious candidates on the current roster: Daniel Murphy, Lucas Duda and Justin Turner.

The Braves make their first trip to Citi Field to battle the Mets as they try to extend their six-game winning streak.

While the media covering the Mets - whether it be beat reporters, the SNY TV crew, or Mets Radio Network voices - may think it's best for Davis to be shipped out, what intriguing stories would be left to cover on a team that already had its one-way ticket to Irrelevance punched? There are already plenty of bad performers on the stages of Las Vegas.

One of the few bright spots for the Mets in this not-so-merry month of May has been the reemergence of Daniel Murphy as a force at the plate.

In talking to people surrounding the team on Wednesday, it feels to me like Ike Davis could get the weekend to find some hits, otherwise he could find himself headed to Triple-A before his teammates start a four-game stretch against the Yankees next week.

Before everyone gets all up in arms, allow me to say that this article isn't about to pin the Mets' 17-27 record solely on the desk of manager Terry Collins .

Yet, even Matt Harvey's worst start of the season gave the Mets a chance Wednesday.

Faith and Fear in Flushing made its debut on Feb. 16, 2005, the brainchild of two longtime friends and lifelong Met fans.

Television cameras from the Mets' broadcast caught a brief moment of apparent disharmony in the Reds' dugout in the midst of their 7-4 victory on Wednesday afternoon.

When I realized that Matt Harvey Day was falling on Mike Piazza Day, I thought the Mets couldn't lose.

With the full extent of damage from a tornado that tore through the Oklahoma City area on Monday still being assessed, Mets pitcher Jeremy Hefner was considering ways to aid his old hometown.

After a surprisingly strong first month of the season, the New York Mets are now 17-25 and sitting in a disappointing fourth place in the NL East.

Tonight at Citi Field, the Mets were done in by a sloppy first inning. After recording the first two outs in the top of the first, Jonathon Niese walked Joey Votto before eventually loading the bases.

At Sunday's Chicago Cubs game at Wrigley Field, pitcher Travis Wood hit a two-run homer to put the Cubs up -- but a guy trying to grab the ball bumped the woman next to him, and she gave him a cold shower of suds.

The Cubs went 3-3 for the week that ended Sunday. The team won two of three against the Rockies , but lost two of three against the Mets .

A few days ago in Chicago, Mets coaches sought again to solve their leadoff problem in yet another of a seemingly endless series of meetings about the ever-changing batting order.