News about Francisco Lindor

A snake was found slithering on the top step from the Dodgers' dugout during Game 2 of the National League final on Monday afternoon. Pitcher Brent Honeywell was walking back to the bench when he spotted the reptile and pointed it out to his team. The broadcast then captured the snake as it tried to weave its way out of the players' sight.

Baseball, late commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti once wrote, was 'designed to break your heart.' Philadelphia Phillies fans know exactly what he was talking about after Wednesday's gut-wrenching season-ending loss to the rival New York Mets in Game 4 of the National League Divisional Series.

Raised by a New York Yankees fan and married to a supporter of the crosstown Mets, Ivanka Trump let her allegiances be known as both teams continued their respective playoff runs on Wednesday night. 'OMG! METS,' she wrote on X, repeating the team's abbreviated catch phrase as New York beat the rival Philadelphia Phillies, 4-1, to clinch the divisional series in four games. Francisco Lindor's sixth-inning grand slam helped move the Mets into their first National League Championship Series since 2015. They're now awaiting the winner of Game 5 of the other NLDS series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres.

The champagne was flowing in the Mets' locker room on Wednesday night after they beat the Phillies 4-1 to advance to the National League Championship Series for the first time since 2015. After a season that began with an 0-5 start and a record 11 games under .500 in June, New York's fairytale season has raged on after they moved past Philadelphia in four games. And the ensuing celebrations afterwards were understandably wild as a raucous locker room sprayed alcohol all over - as is tradition after winning an MLB playoff series.

No longer busy with her father's presidential run, Ivanka Trump and her family checked in on the New York Mets' 2024 campaign at Citi Field on Sunday. Ivanka, husband Jared Kushner and their soon-to-be 11-year-old son Joseph attended the Mets' 3-2 loss to the visiting Miami Marlins on Sunday. Most importantly, Joseph got to meet several Mets stars, including shortstop Francisco Lindor and left fielder Brandon Nimmo on the field.

Expletives, racial slurs, and punches were all flying as part of the chaos at Yankee Stadium this week, where the Bronx Bombers dropped a two-game set to the crosstown Mets while both teams' fans took aim at each other. The Yankees were outscored 15-5 during defeats on Tuesday and Wednesday, the first of which was further marred by the vicious brawl that has since gone viral. The footage fails to show how the rival Yankees and Mets fans ended up fighting, but two women and a dozen or so men appeared to be involved in the brawl.

Tampa Bay Rays pitcher Ryan Pepiot was forced to leave Sunday's game against the New York Mets after taking a line drive off his left leg during the third inning. Pepiot started the game for the Rays and had allowed two base runners in the top of the third when Sterling Marte came to bat. Marte makes solid contact with Pepiot's 89 mile-per-hour pitch, with the comebackers giving the Tampa Bay starter no time to react and banging off his leg. 

Lindor was 1 for 31 in at-bat this season, the third-longest hitless streak of his career, but the four-time All-Star didn't let the drought get in his way. 'I felt like I've had good at-bats,' Lindor, who also ended with a 0-for-24 skid, said. 'I had good at-bats the day before.' It's just one of those things that they must get through. I put my head down as soon as I touched the ball. It was like, 'Thank God,' I guess, as I stepped up.' It was great to serve and help the team win.'

The struggling hitter has a.032 batting average, a.184 on-base percentage, and a.032 slugging percentage in the first eight games of the season. Though it's still early in the season, some Mets fans have already started hitting out at Lindor, blaming his family members in the midst of his woes. Katia Reguero Lindor's wife posted two troubling private messages she had received from X, formerly known as Twitter, this week.

Steve Cohen, the Mets' owner, is clearly still trying to reshape the organization following the Wilpon administration, whom he criticized on Sunday. Cohen, the team's founder, said at the time that if they didn't win a World Series within three to five years, it would be a "disgust." The Mets won just 75 games last year, and Cohen criticized his predecessors while speaking at spring training.

On Monday night, a female baseball fan went to a mile to knock her male counterparts to a ball at Citi Field. Francisco Lindor of Chicago turned a foul ball into stands that were largely empty following a lengthy rain delay during the first game of the New York Mets' three-game series against the Cubs. Some fans opted to stay in the rainy weather, but as Lindor stuck the ball into the crowd, two male spectators rushed through the packed seats to look for it.

After being struck on the hand by a 97 mph pitch from Albert Abrams, rookie Francisco lvarez was dismissed in the ninth. As the New York Mets defeated the New York Yankees 9-3 in their Subway Series opener on Tuesday night, umpires found lvarez at the pitch for strike three and then called him out. Pete Alonso homered twice and drove in a season-high five runs, while Justin Verlander pitched six shutout innings before being seated in the victory. Jeff McNeil had three RBI and three runs for the struggling Mets (47-53), wishing for a big week that might persuade ownership not to sell at the trade deadline on Aug. 1.

Francisco Lindor homered and scored two triples in his five hits, Francisco Alvarez homered for his third straight game, and Arizona defeated Arizona. The once-struggling Mets had three hits in eight innings, earning their fifth straight victory. Carlos Carrasco (3-3) had three runs in eight innings. Alvarez was the first Mets rookie to have three homers in a three-game sequence twice in a season - Larry Elliot was the only other New York rookie to do it once, and Pete Alonso scored his 26th of the season.

In June, the Mets have lost 16 of 22 games and finished fourth in the NL East. What's more is that the New York franchise holds the fourth-worst record in the league overall. So far, Cohen will not only try to solve his team's rotten season, but also provide insight into what's gone wrong for a team that was supposed to rival the Yankees prior to the 2022-23 season. Cohen tweeted on Tuesday, 'I will be doing a press conference tomorrow morning before the game.' 'You'll get it straight from me.'

As New York's air quality index reaches a 185 rating due to smoke overtaking the sky as a result of Canadian wildfires, the Yankees took the field in potentially volatile weather. On Tuesday, thick smoke from the north descended on New York City, with an orange glow hanging above the iconic skyline, covering the Statue of Liberty's famed monuments. The Bronx was no exception, as the sky over Yankee Stadium glowed a mix of orange and dark grey.

Shortstop Francisco Lindor of the Mets ended a double play against the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday night, with his soft toss to teammate Pete Alonso bouncing twice before arriving. After Kody Clemens's first run in second in the fifth inning of the eventual 4-1 win, Philly's Edmundo Sosa lined a ball at Lindor. Lindor was able to play both directions because he had less energy on his throw than he normally would.

In a thrilling match up to its name, Justin Verlander outlasted Shane Bieber, while the Cleveland Guardians defeated the Cleveland Guardians 2-1 on Sunday night for a doubleheader sweep. Francisco Lindor homered against his former teammates and Jeff McNeil, who was defeated by Jeff McNeil in the tiebreaking game with a sacrifice fly off Bieber in the eighth inning. Brooks Raley defeated New York's fifth straight victory after a 6-16 drop.

The New York Mets fought the Cleveland Guardians 10-9 on Friday night, with Pete Alonso tied the game with a grand slam in the seventh inning and Francisco Lindor hitting an RBI single in the tenth. Gabriel Arias hit a two-run homer against Drew Smith (3-1) in the top of the 10th. Mark Vientos and Francisco lvarez tied for first place in the bottom half of the game against Emmanuel Clase (1-4). Brandon Nimmo scored an infield single before Lindor, facing his former team for the first time, was able to singled out diving second baseman Andrés Gimenez.

Jonathan India drove in three runs in the Cincinnati Reds' 7-6 victory on Tuesday night, beating the Mets for the 12th time in 15 games, and Buck Showalter was ejected for the first time as New York's boss. With New York trailing 4-1 in the fifth, Cincinnati's Kevin Newman hit the ball up the middle and then a sliding Wil Myers, with his right arm extended in the direction of Francisco Lindor's direction, preventing the shortstop from making a clean play. The 66-year-old Showalter was drafted by the Mets before the 2022 season in 2022. Mark Wegner, the crew chief, was tossed by Mark Wegner. "It's pretty obvious what it was," Showalter said. "But it's impossible to imagine four guys not being able to see what happened." There are at least three ways to make the game right. We had chances for it not to matter. We just didn't pitch really well early on," the pitcher said.

Francisco Lindor and Pete Alonso homered, David Robertson got four key outs, and the Mets defeated San Diego to take two of three from the Padres in a rematch of their playoff series last October. Tylor Megill (3-0) had three runs, three hits, and three walks in five innings for the Mets, who lost last year's Wild Card Series to the Padres 2-1. Brandon Nimmo had three hits and two RBIs, and Tommy Pham had a run-scoring single in the Mets' seventh. Despite a 7-6 record, the Mets are only batting.218.

While wildly celebrating the team's 5-2 victory over the WBC-favorite Dominican Republic last week, the 29-year-old Puerto Rican saw his international teammate fall to the ground in agony. Lindor told The New York Post on Monday, 'It was heartbreaking,' referring to Diaz's freak injury in his first game back with the Mets. 'I never knew I loved Edwin so much until I couldn't stop screaming.' And that's when I learned that Edwin was a favorite. It's one of those moments when you wish you could go back and do it in a more deliberate way so no one goes through it.'

Puerto Rican baseball fans have lost their hair to help their team win the World Baseball Classic. With 192 men going blond for the nation, the supporters tied for the most hair dyed in Guinness World Records. The baseball team's first dyed their hair blond ahead of the 2017 World Baseball Classic as a joke, unexpectedly launching a dyeing craze in Puerto Rico that left pharmacies and beauty supply stores bared of hair dye.

According to the New York Post, the team revealed their newly produced Super Bowl commercial on Twitter on Thursday, with the commercial costing around $1 million. After Sunday's big game, the publication said 'additional placements' would increase the total value of the ad buy to $1.5 million, while one-third of local viewers in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut will see the commercial. Various Mets appear to be ticket salesman in an office in the commercial, which will reportedly be shown before kickoff and in the first half of the Eagles-Chiefs game in Arizona.

Now it's the New York Mets' turn to be concerned about Carlos Correa's physical fitness. According to The Athletic, the Mets have reportedly raised questions about Correa's surgically repaired right leg, potentially jeopardizing his nine-figure contract. Both sides may have to restructured contracts or if the offer is withdrawn, he could return to the free agent market if the contract is retracted. Correa, a former Houston Astros and Minnesota Twins shortstop, has recently agreed to a 13-year, $350 million deal with the San Francisco Giants, who sparked similar questions about his physical health before he canceled the contract altogether. Steve Cohen, the Mets' owner, swooped in, adding Correa and potentially raising New York's 2023 payroll over $500 million, including taxes. Correa has reportedly agreed to play a third base alongside well-established shortstop Francisco Lindor, but the scheme seems to be in jeopardy.