R.a. Dickey

The Phillies’ Cole Hamels turned in another spectacular outing last night, tossing a 4-hit, 8-inning shutout to lead his team to a 4-1 victory. It was Hamels’s 8th quality start of the season and 32nd since the beginning of last year, pushing him...

They hide it pretty well. The Pittsburgh Pirates are masking their ineptitude at the plate with excellent pitching and somehow playing nearly .500 baseball with the worst hitting in the majors and while being one of the worst hitting teams of all tim...

The Mets turned to R.A. Dickey to put them back on the winning side of things, and that’s exactly what he did last night. He was opposing James McDonald, who has broken onto the scene so far this season, but the knuckleballer put together his 2...

Lucas Duda smacked a go-ahead RBI-single in the top of the eighth in support of starter R.A. Dickey and the New York Mets edged the Pittsburgh Pirates 3-2 on Tuesday night.

A gutty win?  Homeruns?  Offense?  Great work from the bullpen? That is everything the Pirates had last night.  It looked bleak, but the Pirates chipped away and got the job done.  Michael McKenry is basically going to be a lifelong Pirate if he...

After a quick dip into interleague play for the first time in 2012, the Mets and Pirates go back to just a normal, National League showdown at PNC Park. Both teams have been struggling recently; New York is coming into this series after losing two...

NEW YORK—My 88-year-old Aunt Adele attended what likely was the first baseball game of her life with me the other day: New York Mets vs. Cincinnati Reds at Citi Field. Just maybe, when she was 10 or 12, she said, she saw a game, but if so, and she...

The Mets and the Reds concluded their two-game set at Citi Field with an afternoon matinee, allowing New York time to get up to Toronto for their weekend series against the Blue Jays. For Cincinnati, they will be heading across town to take on the Ya...

Joey Votto and Brandon Phillips make their first trip to New York this season to face David Wright and the Mets for a short, two-game set. New York is coming off a split with the Milwaukee Brewers, with their season record standing at 20-16 before t...

Sunday's walk-off grand slam stung and stunned New York. But it wasn't the first time. Or even the ninth.