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Brad Penner/USA TODAY Sports Mike Baxter received a whipped-cream pie to the face from Justin Turner after delivering a walk-off RBI. FIRST PITCH: Shaun Marcum heads to the mound tonight at 7:10 in search of his first Mets victory. Marcum (0-2, 7.2...

Seth Wenig/Associated Press Juan Lagares took away an extra-base hit from Andrew McCutchen to end the top of the ninth and set up the Mets' 3-2 win Thursday. On the day Juan Lagares joined the Mets, Terry Collins suggested some organization off...

WHAT IT MEANS: Clint Hurdle inserted his closer, Jason Grilli, with the score tied for the bottom of the ninth. The Mets found magic again anyway. Marlon Byrd led off with an infield single, advanced to second on a sac bunt from Andrew Brown and s...

Associated Press The Mets face (l to r) Jeff Locke, Wandy Rodriguez and Jeanmar Gomez during a four-game weekend series, plus Francisco Liriano making his Pirates debut. METS (13-17, fourth place/NL East) vs. PITTSBURGH PIRATES (18-15, second place...

David Wright tied with the Nats' Adam LaRoche for sixth in NL MVP balloting released Thursday night. Each tallied 86 points, trailing winner Buster Posey (422 points), Ryan Braun (285), Andrew McCutchen (245), Yadier Molina (241) and Chase Headley (1...

Terry Collins was not placing Bobby Parnell in Justin Verlander's class. Not by a long shot. But the Mets skipper thought there was a valid point to be made in terms of their relative pitching repertoires. As with Verlander, Parnell has the abilit...

WHAT IT MEANS: The Mets split a six-game road trip to Toronto and Pittsburgh with a 3-1 rubber-game victory against the Pirates on Wednesday afternoon along the shores of the Allegheny River. Frank Francisco produced a 1-2-3 inning for a save for ...

Recap | Box score | Photos WHAT IT MEANS: Lucas Duda produced a two-out, tiebreaking RBI single and third baseman Pedro Alvarez's error on a would-be inning-ending grounder by Daniel Murphy resulted in another run in the eighth. And the Mets ul...

PITTSBURGH -- Nine starts. One win. That's all Johan Santana has to show for his 3.24 ERA in his first season back from shoulder surgery. Vincent Pugliese/US Presswire Johan Santana could not protect a four-run lead Monday. This t...

WHAT IT MEANS: Johan Santana could not protect a four-run lead and the Mets dropped the ball in the eighth inning -- literally -- en route to 5-4 loss against Pittsburgh in Monday's series opener. Santana served up a game-tying two-run homer to No...

Rich Pilling/MLB Photos via Getty Images and Kirby Lee/Image of Sport-US Presswire NL Bruce manager Bruce Bochy used one of his All-Star picks to select Carlos Beltran. National League manager Bruce Bochy said it was a "difficult call" to select Ca...

Francisco Rodriguez had a streak of 19 straight successful save conversions snapped when he allowed a two-run homer to Brooks Conrad in the ninth and D.J. Carrasco balked home the winning run an inning later as the Mets lost to the Braves, 9-8, in 10...

R.A. Dickey's ERA has dipped from 3.98 to 3.76 before he even took the mound Thursday. That's because a Major League Baseball committee ruled that Daniel Murphy ought to have been charged with an error in Pittsburgh on Andrew McCutchen's grounder. As...

Jared Wickerham/Getty Images Angel Pagan makes a catch at the center field wall in the seventh inning against Lyle Overbay. Pirates manager Clint Hurdle was ejected for arguing Pagan trapped the ball. Angel Pagan's disputed leaping catch at the wal...

Daniel Murphy's misplay on a two-out grounder by Andrew McCutchen in the third allowed the eventual decisive runs to score in Pittsburgh's 3-2 win against the Mets on Saturday night at PNC Park. Jason Bay returned to the lineup and snapped his drough...

Third base coach Chip Hale did not second guess himself for holding Angel Pagan at third base on Lucas Duda's two-out double to right field in the eighth inning. Pagan, the potential tying run, was stranded at third base when Jose Veras recovered to ...