A crowd that came to see Jonah Tong and Jacob deGrom waited too long to see the latter because they saw the former for far too long during a disastrous first inning. Tong released the first pitch of Friday’s game at Citi Field at 7:11 p.m., when a fan base that has quickly fallen in love with the 22-year-old prospect …
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Mike Norvell and the Florida State Seminoles have added another prospect to #Tribe26, and the last name should be plenty familiar to FSU fans. Jonah Winston, younger brother of Heisman Trophy-winner Jameis Winston, has decided to keep the family pipeline flowing to Tallahassee. Jonah Winston, who goes by “JP”, is a 5-foot-9, 160 pound wide receiver who plays for Hoover …
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NEW YORK — After it all, after this night of so many unforgettable firsts, what Jonah Tong will remember most is what he couldn’t feel. It was the moment he was walking back to the dugout, a fifth-inning strikeout punctuating his major-league debut against the Marlins and sending the sellout crowd of Citi Field into another frenzy. “Everything got a …
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Jonah Tong’s mom, Karen, and dad, Alex, were in attendance, but this was the equivalent of 42,112 Little League parents at Citi Field on Friday night. Tong received a loud ovation — mostly standing — while walking in from the bullpen in right-center field to the dugout, side by side with Luis Torrens, as his Major League debut approached. And …
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For what surely will be the only time this year at Citi Field, a Juan Soto strikeout was met with cheers. Another long bottom of the inning had mercifully ended, this one entailing the Mets scoring seven runs. Finally, the 42,112 on hand could be done with the overwhelming and over-boring Mets offense and could watch Jonah Tong pitch again. …
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At age 14, Jonah Tong wanted to chase his baseball dreams as an outfielder. He told his coach with the Toronto Mets that he did not care to pitch because he was having so much fun hitting. “Yeah,” Rich Leitch told him, “but you’re not very good at it.” “But I’m still the best defensive outfielder that we’ve got,” Tong …
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The Minor Leagues’ most effective pitcher this season is getting his shot at the Majors. The 22-year-old right-hander leads Minor League full-season qualifiers with 179 strikeouts as well as a 1.43 ERA, .148 average-against, 40.5 percent strikeout rate, 29.9 K-BB% and 1.66 FIP over 113 2/3 innings at Double-A Binghamton and Triple-A Syracuse this season. His 0.92 WHIP places second …
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3:03pm: Mets manager Carlos Mendoza confirmed that Tong will be promoted and make his major league debut against the Marlins this Friday, per ESPN’s Jorge Castillo. 2:46pm: The Mets are set to promote top pitching prospect Jonah Tong for his major league debut, reports Will Sammon of The Athletic. They’ll need to clear space on both the 40-man and 26-man …
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Kristen Wiig is joining Jonah Hill in the Warner Bros. comedy feature Cut Off, with the stars playing a pair of entitled siblings. Hill directs the movie that the studio has set for worldwide theatrical release on July 17, 2026. He and Ezra Woods penned the script for the film that Jesse Ehrman and Zach Hamby are overseeing for the …
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Oscar nominee and multi-Emmy nominee Kristen Wiig is set to star opposite Jonah Hill in his directed and written Warner Bros original comedy, Cut Off. Warners is getting this one up and ready quite quickly with the pic shooting this fall, set for a global theatrical release of July 17, 2026. Cut Off will share marquees that weekend with Universal’s Christopher Nolan …
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