Mets Morning News: I Was Saying Boo-chette

The Mets looked fairly hopeless and bad through their first seven times up, but against all odds and tradition, they suddenly looked good and became winners.

Prior to Sunday's victory, the Mets sent leaping Jefry Yan to Syracuse and recalled Tobias Myers in his place.

In a lost season with a lot of young players on the roster, having a stretch of struggles and failure ends up teaching them enough to be beneficial when it's all said and done.

The Jonah Tong who joined the Mets yesterday morning is not only a year older than the Jonah Tong who debuted last year, but a year more mature and wiser .

If the Mets called up Mark Vientos looking for some sort of defensive improvement at first base, they're severely disappointed thus far .

In Sunday's latest game, the Nationals coughed up another late lead, letting the Dodgers sneak off with a 7-5 win in a game where C.J. Abrams crossed the 30-homer plateau.

Joe Morgan, a veteran of four big league seasons as a player and another four as manager of the Boston Red Sox died on Sunday at 95 years old .

Umpire Doug Eddings' apology to Hancel Rincon for stopping the game to make him straighten his hat only came after an official reprimand from Major League Baseball the night before.

Pete Crow-Armstrong became the second player in baseball this season to hit 40 home runs and, if all goes well, he'll add the 40-steal mark to that statline over the next three weeks.

On the career milestone front, Aroldis Chapman saved his 400th big league game in the Red Sox's sweep-clinching win over the Orioles.

Gerrit Cole found himself in the history books once again, though in a derogatory sense this time, as he became the first pitcher to ever give up three consecutive home runs to start a game twice in his career .

Dave Roberts is hopeful that Shohei Ohtani can return to the Dodgers' lineup today after a stretch of four straight games with the four-time MVP on the bench.

Peyton Tolle struck out a dozen Orioles in the Red Sox final game in Baltimore and even found the time to do a push-up on the mound while facing Pete Alonso.

On this date 10 years ago , news that the Mets signed Tim Tebow first came out.