It's that time of year for the Mets again!

as reported by KSN Reporter Ethan Kwassman

With both the Phillies losing to the Pirates, and the Mets completing a three-game sweep with a 8-2 victory over the Nationals on Sunday, the Mets not only increased their NL East lead to a season-high 5 games, but also their magic number to clinch the division went down from 37 to 35 games. Yes, its once again time to think playoff baseball for the Amazins, who are now a season-high 17 games (70-53) over .500.

If the Mets pennant pack doesn't get you going, how about this stat: any combination of 35 Mets wins or Phillies/Braves loses (Braves trail Phillies by 1/2 game), the Mets will be NL Eastern Division champs for the second straight year. The Mets have 37 games to go, which makes this even look more promising, with still plenty of games remaining against their important division rivals in Atlanta and Philadelphia, as well as those left against the Florida Marlins, and the Washington Nationals.

Thanks to 7 innings of 2-run, 3-hit ball from Orlando Hernandez and a 2-hr, 4-rbi afternoon from Carlos Beltran (who's been torrid since coming off the DL), the Mets now have the biggest division lead out all 6 of the divisions. They can thank the Yankees winning ways and the Red Sox recent loses for that feat as well. Now, the Mets can build off it, with a 3 game series coming up versus the wild-card leading San Diego Padres tomorrow night.

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Yankees have Hillenbrand on their mind!

as reported by Ethan Kwassman KSN Reporter

According to various reports from the NY newspapers, ESPN, and sources circulating the web, the New York Yankees are very close to some sort of deal for Anaheim Angels DH Shea Hillenbrand to be acquired in a deal to come to the Bronx and play first. The Yankees have couldn't be in a better time to need a first baseman, as slugger Jason Giambi is our for the season with a foot injury, defensive genius Doug Mientkiewicz is on the 60-day DL from a brutal collision he suffered when colliding with Mike Lowell in a game earlier this month in Fenway, and Miquel Cairo is contributing as a starter, but there are several times already since he's taken over the role that he shows his signs of being a back-up role player. Prospects Josh Phelps and Andy Phillips both still need seasoning at the plate and in the field.

Hillenbrand is hitting .255 with 3 homers and 20 rbis in 184 at-bats thus far this year for the Halos, and with Casey Kotchman, the starter at first for the first-place Angels in the AL West, and their depth in their DH spot, this could be beneficial to the Anaheim Angels of Anaheim, also for the sake that they can get some slugger (a prospect of course), in return. The Angels, despite their hefty (45-26) record, they are 11th in the AL in homers, (Vladimir Guerrero leads them with 12), and Josh Phelps could contribute big-time in a DH role for them.

Major trouble for Maine thus far in LA

as reported by Ethan Kwassman KSN Reporter
(as shown on METS.COM front page)

Currently, the Dodgers are batting against the Mets in the bottom of the sixth with a 3-1 lead, after defeating the Mets by a score of 5-3 yesterday, for the Amazins' third straight loss.

Like yesterday, the Mets got started off good with David Wright scoring on a rbi single by Carlos Delgado, his 39th run batted in this year. However, the weirdness the Mets are going through continued in the bottom of the 2nd when the Dodgers hit 3 consecutive homers by former Brave 3B Wilson Bettemit, Dodgers prospect RF Matt Kemp, and who would have ever guessed it?!!!: the starting pitcher Hong-Chih Kuo! (his first major league bomb and rbi) Now, its 7-8-9 hitters on opposing teams puting the Mets in a hole.

It's getting frustrating. The Mets you-kn0w-what line will be in action in tomorrow's episode of The Sports Docket if the Mets can't battle back 2nite. David Wright is the only Met hitting 2nite, he can't do it himself.

Benitez saves another for the Mets, as they win in 12!

as reported by KSN Reporter Ethan Kwassman


Carlos Delgado hits second of two homers, his 7th of the year at is mobbed by teammates (inset) on rout to 5-4 Mets win in 12 innings. Mets scored 2 runs with 2 outs and a runner on second in the bottom of the 12th. Duces were wild @ Shea, as well as the combo of C-Del and C-Bel.
I'm too pumped right now to even write about the Mets amazing 5-4 win in 12 innings 2nite (another extra inning game). Delgado's walk-off run was so powerful and so crushed that, it threw the book (for English class) out of my hand when he hit it. I write a more extensive report entitled, "The Benitez Balk Report"! Like my alliteration there, laughing out loud (lol). If you don't know what a balk is, just know it helped produce another "Reyes run", a phrase coined by Mets SNY -TV Great Announcer Gary Cohen.

The Mets are now 16 over (33-17), and sent a postcard via e-mail to Brew Crew in Milwaukee for defeating the Braves tonight and putting the Mets a season-high 5 games up in the division. By the way if you're wondering, I put Yankees finally show signs of "live" instead of "life" intentionally. However, I do sympathize with Yankees fans, and I want Yankees fans to realize there's always a team that's a little bit more exciting (cough * cough * a lot more uh uh), in Flushing, Queens yo! Rite Jon? Aight, also guys, YOU HAVE TO check out this article from ArmChairGM.Com by a San Francisco Giants, and about his team's closer saving already the second game this month for his former team. Mets fans know what I mean. Woah! What a show we'll have tomorrow on BlogTalkRadio.Com.

Some signs of live despite another Yankees loss to Jays!

as reported by KSN Reporter Ethan Kwassman

Despite the New York Yankees losing 3-2 to the Toronto Blue Jays tonight and falling a season high and a 1978-esque 14.5 games behind the Boston Red Sox in the AL East, there were some signs of the Yankees beginning to turn it around this year:

1. Jason Giambi homered in the seventh off reliever Kevin Downs to tie the game at 1. His 7th homer of the year, and finally coming through in the clutch for those Bronx Bombers for the first time in eons.

2. Andy Pettitte was brilliant again: (7.1 INP, 6 H, 3 R (1 earned), and 3 K). However he fell to (3-4), despite his magnificent 2.51 ERA.

3. The Yankees actually made less errors than their opposition. The Yanks made 2, and the Jays made 3! This time it wasn't Robinson Cano, it was his fellow infielders, SS Derek Jeter aka Captain Colon and 3B Alex Rodriguez aka E-Rod (as Steve Somers say). (Remember this is a Mets fan dishing out these very compassionate nicknames!)

4. Yankee reliever Scott Proctor actually pitched 2/3 of an inning and didn't allow a base-runner, allow the Blue Jays already regained the lead 3-2 when he game into the game in the bottom of the eighth inning!

5. Joe Torre actually stayed in the dugout all game, as opposed to on the diamond meaning that there weren't many calls to argue.

However, the bottom line is that the Yankees lost their 5th straight, and the Red Sox keep on rollin' with a 4-2 win over the AL Central leading Cleveland Indians. But, there is some signs of life looming out of the Bronx Bombers.

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