NL East

The family of a 60-year-old man who fell 40 feet to his death at Turner Field last year filed a lawsuit against the Atlanta Braves and Major League Baseball Tuesday. 

Watch your backs, opposing hitters. There's a gang of gunslingers in the National League East, and they've got their sights aimed at you.

We're not talking about the New York Mets, though their starting rotation is indeed sterling despite some early hiccups.

Noah Syndergaard can throw really hard. Just ask his catcher.

The New York Mets pitcher dropped the hammer of Thor during the team's 5-2 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday, dealing a pitch with enough force to leave a mark on catcher Kevin Plawecki, who had to block it with his chest protector.

It's April. No one is out of anything. Panic buttons should be stowed until further notice.

But so far, things aren't going according to plan for the New York Mets.

In the never-ending game of "who traveled the farthest to see an athlete play," one fan tried to trump others at Citizens Bank Park for Saturday's Washington Nationals-Philadelphia Phillies game by detailing his 4,000-mile trek on a poster.

New York Mets starting pitcher Jacob deGrom has been placed on Major League Baseball's family emergency list due to complications with his newborn son's birth.

Imagine if the Washington Nationals had started this way last year.

Come to think of it, the Nationals were supposed to start this way last year. Start this way, finish this way, play all year this way.

"The boys are playing as good as you can possibly play," broadcaster F.P. Santangelo said on MASN when the latest Nationals win ended Friday night.

Bryce Harper hit the century mark in home runs, and he did it in style. 

The 23-year-old reigning National League MVP hit the 100th homer of his career, a grand slam, in the third inning of Thursday's 6-2 win over the Atlanta Braves.  

As the Washington Nationals learned in painful fashion just a season ago, in the bigs, everything that can go wrong will go wrong.

While the neighboring New York Mets rose as the power in the the National League East, a flood of injuries combined with underwhelming play by just about everyone not named Bryce Harper ensured that the Nats would be left out of the October conversation.

Philadelphia Phillies relief pitcher Daniel Stumpf was suspended 80 games Thursday for his first violation of Major League Baseball's policy against performance-enhancing drugs.

The Phillies released a statement following the suspension and made a corresponding roster move: