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A game pitting Chris Bassitt — the Mets’ leader in innings pitched — against Sandy Alcantara, the National League Cy Young frontrunner, featured seven runs in the first two innings.

ATLANTA – Max Scherzer delivered a brilliant performance in his most important start yet for the Mets.

NEW YORK — The pitching was the issue, Buck Showalter explained.

Baseball is beautiful.

Buck Showalter can read the National League East standings as well as you can, and he admits to doing so even at this relatively early stage of the season.

NEW YORK — Jeff McNeil stepped to the plate in the bottom of the fourth inning with runners at the corners and his team down by one.

DENVER — Taijuan Walker aced the tough assignment of pitching at Coors Field in his fifth-career start at the National League’s third-oldest ballpark.

NEW YORK — The Mets dodged a bullet in the shape of a big, fat E1 on Tuesday afternoon, as what could have been a crucial fielding blunder by pitcher David Peterson ended up as nothing more than a footnote.

After a trade that went from bad to worse following his second-career PED suspension, the Robinson Cano era in Flushing has come to an end.

ST. LOUIS — After having striking for just five extra-base hits in their previous six-plus games, the Cardinals exploded for three in the same inning Wednesday. Doubles by Yadier Molina and Tommy Edman and a two-run triple by Dylan Carlson highlighted a five-run fourth inning that gave the Cardinals the…