Pedro Martinez News

Faith and Fear in Flushing made its debut on Feb. 16, 2005, the brainchild of two longtime friends and lifelong Met fans.

Sometime over the next three months, a Major League team will agree to a large contract for John Lackey.

Ben Sheets missed all of the 2009 season rehabilitating from right elbow surgery.

Beginning at any point after midnight tonight, the widely held but unfounded notion that the Mets are unwilling to invest in expensive free agents may take a few more hits.

Buster Olney ranks the Mets as the fourth-most likely team to win the John Lackey Sweepstakes.A This is on the heels of David Lennon saying that the Mets will be serious bidders on the Angel free agent as well.

New York Mets fans, are the best fans because no matter what happens they are always loyal and proud of their team.

The first time Alex Anthopoulos called a baseball general manager was nine years ago.

Having helped mold the careers of Pedro Martinez and Orel Hershiser, Dave Wallace became recognized as one of the game's most respected pitching coaches.

Hollywood would be hard pressed to write a better script than the one we have today in real life.

A city seethes in anticipation. Outside Yankee Stadium, workmen wielding power washers crisscross the walkways on a crisp autumn afternoon, dutifully cleaning each and every groove between thousands of concrete squares.

Pedro Martinez has jokingly referred to himself as an old goat since joining the Phillies in July.

There's an Ed that hangs around my interlocked-up Yankee-fueled bar...but I'm not sure his last name is Roso.

It was 1990, and Pedro Martinez , then a scrawny 18-year-old in his first season of pro ball, had just allowed four runs in the first inning of a rookie-league game in Butte, Mont.

IT'S remarkable that here we are, all these years later, and this is the pitching match-up we are getting at Yankee Stadium in a World Series elimination game.

Two old warriors - the Phillies' Pedro Martinez, 38, and the Yanks' Andy Pettitte, 37 - will start in Game 6 of the World Series on Wednesday.

Phillies veteran right-hander Pedro Martinez has a chance to shut down the Yankees on Thursday night and place his club in control of the best-of-seven World Series.

As scripts go, Game 2 of this World Series promised to be pure Hollywood, with a South Bronx setting: Aging Hall of Fame-caliber hurler, relying on guts and guile, returns to baseball's biggest stage, perhaps for the final time.

It had been a relatively uneventful news conference by Pedro Martinez standards.

The Aroldis Chapman market is going to be interesting to judge. The Mariners are the latest team to jump seriously into the bidding, possibly hoping to have another front-line arm so they can deal Felix Hernandez before he reaches free agency.

In the bleachers, memories are longer than even the throw-backs of opposition home runs.