Boomer & Carton: Mets, Rangers, Yanks -- It's All Good!
Boomer and Craig opened up this Thursday edition of the Morning Extravaganza talking about a New York sports scene you can be proud of.
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Boomer and Craig opened up this Thursday edition of the Morning Extravaganza talking about a New York sports scene you can be proud of.
The Mets -- yes, your 11-3 Mets -- are indeed the core of the Big Apple. They are younger, hungrier and better.
Now that was a major league debut to remember. Kevin Plawecki proved he was up to the challenge of filling in for the injured Travis d'Arnaud on Tuesday night.
Catcher Kevin Plawecki made an impressive big league debut, contributing with his bat and glove as the banged-up New York Mets won their ninth straight game by beating the Atlanta Braves 7-1 Tuesday night.
Chris Young and Stephen Drew homered in a three-run seventh and Nathan Eovaldi earned his first win with the New York Yankees, 5-2 over the Detroit Tigers on Tuesday night.
Plawecki, 24, has never appeared in a major league game. But he'll start when New York opens up a three-game series against the Braves at Citi Field on Tuesday night.
Here are 14 sluggers that Mets fans loved at one point or another. Some were good, some were bad and some were just ... ehhhh. But they were all RIDICULOUS on one level or another.
The team said Monday that d'Arnaud will be in a splint for three weeks after his right hand was broken when he was hit by a pitch a day earlier.
The New York Mets will continue their best-ever first homestand this week after beginning their home schedule with seven straight wins for the first time in club history.
With higher expectations for 2015, three of the first seven home crowds exceeded 41,000 and two others were around 39,000.
Mets fan favorite Wally Backman has been waiting patiently for his shot to manage in the major leagues. That opportunity could come in Miami.
Can they continue to weather the storm? It won't be easy, and the challenge just got more daunting. But maybe there's something special about this team. It certainly feels that way early on.
The career hits leader, who agreed to a lifetime ban from the sport 26 years ago, has been hired by Fox as a guest studio analyst.
Boomer and Craig were all over the 10-3 first-place Amazin's - who have won eight in a row and not yet lost at Citi Field -- to start Monday's program.
Matt Harvey won his third straight start to begin his comeback season and the banged-up New York Mets, despite losing two important players to injuries, held off the Miami Marlins 7-6 Sunday for their eighth consecutive victory.
