{"id":157304,"date":"2025-08-19T02:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/157304\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T02:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T02:43:11","slug":"mets-can-only-hope-francisco-alvarezs-frustrating-luck-is-due-for-a-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/157304\/","title":{"rendered":"Mets can only hope Francisco Alvarez&#8217;s frustrating luck is due for a turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They were having fun. At last. Finally. After a two-month slog that turned their baseball season upside-down, the Mets, at last, seemed to have rediscovered some of the small joys of baseball. They\u2019d spent Sunday<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/17\/sports\/mets-soaking-in-cool-energy-of-little-league-classic-as-memories-come-flooding-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> mingling with Little Leaguers at Williamsport, Pa.<\/a>, some of them sliding down that town\u2019s hills in dry sleds like they were the 12-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in the bottom of the seventh inning, they had a 7-3 lead on the Seattle Mariners, and Brandon Nimmo was FaceTiming the Little League World Series Kidcasters, Thomas Gamboa and Roman Brunetti, on ESPN2. Starling Marte photo-bombed over Nimmo\u2019s shoulders; they looked finally to have shed the weight of an extended, prolonged slump.<\/p>\n<p>Then, Francisco Alvarez, leading off the inning for the Mets, drilled a ball off the wall in right field at Journey Bank Ballpark. It was his third hit of the night, his second double. And nobody was happier for Alvarez than Nimmo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlvy!\u201d Nimmo screamed, shaking his fists. \u201cAtta way, Alvy!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They were having fun. At last. Finally. After a two-month slog that turned their baseball season upside-down, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,7697,1266,405,403,1305,5226,5225,5228,5227,62,2632,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-157304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-francisco-alvarez","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-mets","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-sports-columnists","20":"tag-sports-plus","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115053134124773987","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}