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The Mets deserved to lose after Buck Showalter’s cowardly move

This was such a lame thing to do.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Oct 10, 2022

Showalter Explains Why He Asked Umpires to Check Musgrove’s Ear

The Mets manager controversially asked umpires to check the Padres’ All-Star starter during Game 3 of their NL wild-card series Sunday night.

Sports Illustrated · Oct 10, 2022

Padres’ Musgrove Rips Mets for ‘Desperate’ Move in Game 3

The Padres pitcher was checked in the sixth inning for foreign substances at the request of Mets manager Buck Showalter and was not happy about it.

Sports Illustrated · Oct 10, 2022

A Near Perfect Day of Baseball Games

For baseball fans without any vested interests in the eight teams playing this weekend, yesterday was just about the perfect day of games. The four games delivered just the right combination of tension and action—the formula for any good baseball game—by showcasing the variety of genres only our ...

Sports Illustrated · Oct 9, 2022

Bill Madden: Braves have the edge on the Mets, now and into the winter

NEW YORK — Hard as it must be for the Citi Field faithful to accept the fact the Mets won 101 games, the second-most wins in their history, and still wound up as a wild card, there is this dose of hard reality: The Braves were simply a better team.

Tribune News Service · Oct 9, 2022

Musgrove pitches Padres past Mets, into NLDS vs. Dodgers

NEW YORK — There was more champagne. There will be more baseball.

Tribune News Service · Oct 9, 2022

A Series of Unfortunate Decisions

The Cardinals absolutely crumbled in the ninth inning yesterday. There’s no other way to explain how they went from up two with two outs to go for a win, to down four and having to bat in the bottom of the ninth. Closer Ryan Helsley, who was called upon to…

Sports Illustrated · Oct 8, 2022

Mets Only Have Themselves to Blame for Starting Pitching Debacle

New York tried to get cute with its first three starters. Now, it’s one loss away from a more than promising season ending in heartbreak.

Sports Illustrated · Oct 8, 2022

Bryce Miller: Showalter's history with Manny Machado, Bob Melvin spice up wild-card opener

Buck Showalter thinks the mission involved the short-season Aberdeen IronBirds. He sent former Orioles star and coach Brady Anderson on a stealthy operation to see teenager Manny Machado do a few laps with the under-the-radar farm club.

Tribune News Service · Oct 7, 2022

Buck Showalter, Mets face new challenge in wild-card series

NEW YORK — Buck Showalter has managed in a myriad of situations throughout his 21-year major league managerial career. When the Mets skipper takes the field Friday night in the NL wild-card series, he’ll look over in the dugout and see an opposing manager that he once managed (Bob Melvin)…

Tribune News Service · Oct 7, 2022