LOS ANGELES — Is the chippiness between the Mets and Dodgers that crept up Friday finished? “We’ll see,” Francisco Alvarez said Saturday during a workout at Dodger Stadium. “We’ll see what’s the next step.” Alvarez was in the middle of one incident during Game 5. Dodgers’ Andy Pages exaggerated bat…
Carlos Mendoza shut down the speculation immediately. “Alvie is playing tomorrow,” the Mets manager said after the 8-0, Game 3 loss to the Dodgers at Citi Field on Wednesday. But the speculation concerning the playing time of Francisco Alvarez exists for a reason: The young catcher, who generally does plenty…
MILWAUKEE — Brett Baty is ready if the Mets need him, but otherwise he is content to just play the role of cheerleader in the postseason. The third baseman, a member of the taxi squad, has been traveling with the team and got to celebrate Monday’s postseason-clinching victory in Atlanta….
PHILADELPHIA — Jose Quintana turned the Citizens Bank bandbox into his personal sandbox Friday night with maybe the defining performance of his two-year Mets career. Fortunate early that several hard-hit balls were in just the right spots, the left-hander survived and pitched to weaker contact as the game progressed. He…
With one swing, Francisco Alvarez won a game Monday night. The Mets are hoping it becomes more than that for the young catcher. Perhaps, it could spark him out of a lengthy slump that has at least in part played a role in the Mets’ inconsistent offense of late. Mets…
The lack of home runs doesn’t bother Eric Chavez. That’s not the problem, the Mets hitting coach believes, when it comes to Francisco Alvarez’s extended slump. “Literally what I told him, I said: ‘Everybody wants to talk about homers, everybody wants to jump right into the homers.’ I told him:…
For the second time in three days, Francisco Alvarez was on the bench, but this wasn’t about rest. The young catcher is dealing with a nagging left shoulder issue he has felt for a few days, according to manager Carlos Mendoza. Alvarez was still available, but Mendoza preferred to give…
Mets fans clamoring for a look at the future will get their wish Sunday from Francisco Alvarez. Called up from Triple-A on Friday, Alvarez is expected to be the starting catcher Sunday against the Marlins, manager Buck Showalter revealed Saturday before Tomas Nido made his second straight start behind the…
ATLANTA — There are many culprits in a Mets offense that went silent when it needed to be loud. Francisco Lindor went 2-for-13 with five strikeouts in the series. Mark Canha struggled to a 2-for-11 line. In James McCann’s lone start, he showed no life in an 0-for-3 Sunday night. …
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