The Latest Breaking News from Buck Showalter

Buck Showalter can read the National League East standings as well as you can, and he admits to doing so even at this relatively early stage of the season.

Giants manager Gabe Kapler announced his national anthem protest on Friday in the wake of the mass shooting at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. A day later, his Mets counterpart, Buck Showalter, said he supports Kapler’s action and would support his players if they chose to do the same.

NEW YORK — Perhaps the Mets can rename their MRI scanner the “Jacob deGrom Tube.”

Whenever, wherever was a lie!

NEW YORK — Not much has gone wrong for the first-place Mets to start the 2022 campaign.

The Mets beat the Phillies the other day by scoring seven runs in the ninth inning. Good for them. At least they have a May memory to cherish before the many blown leads to come. The Mets began Tuesday with a six-game lead in the National League East. Looking forward…

WASHINGTON — Nearing the end of an important two-week stretch of schedule, 13 consecutive games against their fellow members of the NL East, the immediate group against which they must measure themselves, the Mets are — as manager Buck Showalter would say — presenting well.

The ace was placed on the 60-day IL due to a stress reaction on his scapula.

PHILADELPHIA — An unsexy but important piece of the Mets’ hot start was on display again Sunday: They have not been streaky.