Mets down to final 3
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The Mets announced yesterday they have narrowed their field of candidates for their vacant managerial job to three, and a baseball official familiar with the team&#39;s planning said Willie Randolph remains the clear favorite.
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Mike Piazza&#39;s eighth-inning single off reliever Luis Ayala helped the Mets edge the Expos, 3-2, in front of 3,664 at Olympic Stadium on Wednesday night.
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These aren&#39;t meaningful games the Mets are playing. But at least yesterday&#39;s 11-9 loss in 13 innings to the Phillies was entertaining.
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The Mets dropped their fourth consecutive game last night, a 6-3 defeat in 10 innings against the Philadelphia Phillies at Shea Stadium.
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The Metsâ latest loss came after they frittered away three separate four-run leads, which undermined their feisty comeback in the ninth.
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The Pittsburgh Pirates again prevented the New York Mets from clinching the NL East when Ronny Paulino hit an RBI double with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning for a 3-2 victory Saturday night.
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Talk about an East Coast bias! One look at the latest All-Star balloting is enough to make anyone outside New York and Boston cringe. The Mets, Yankees and Red Sox have dominated the fan vote so thoroughly this season that 10 of 16 starters &amp;#151; not including the two pitchers &amp;#151; on July 11 in Pittsburgh could come from those three teams.
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In the thick of a pennant race, the New York Mets are sticking to quite a formula: poor fielding plus poor pitching equals defeat after defeat.
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The New York Mets scored two runs in the top of the 17th inning on Saturday to beat the Houston Astros 5-3 in a game that matched the longest this season.
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NEW YORK - The Mets made their pitch to Pedro Martinez. Now the attention shifts to the Boston Red Sox to see if the World Series champs are willing to up their bid.
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The New York Mets and St. Louis Cardinals used their offenses to show why they are the top two teams in the National League.
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NEW YORK (Sports Network) - After losing the Carlos Delgado  sweepstakes to Florida, the New York Mets have filled their  vacant hole at first base with veteran Doug Mientkiewicz.
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The New York Mets completed a crucial  three-game sweep of the Atlanta Braves as Tom Glavine finally  got the better of former team mate John Smoltz in a 3-2 win on  Sunday.
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The Mets (79-61) got solid efforts from starter Mike Pelfrey and their bullpen, and the teamâs defense chipped in with a handful of outstanding plays.
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The New York Mets are desperately trying to hold on in a rapidly tightening division &#151; and trying just as desperately to avoid a historic late-season collapse.
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The Braves&#39; sense of timing is impeccable. Whenever the Mets are down, along comes their tomahawk-chopping nemesis to show them up.
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WASHINGTON D.C.  - The slumping New York Mets lost their fifth game in a row on Tuesday, a 9-8 defeat to the Washington Nationals, and saw their National League East lead over the Philadelphia Phillies shrink to a game and a half.