Welcome back to A Pod of Their Own, an all-women led Home Run Applesauce podcast where we talk all things Mets, social justice issues in baseball, and normalize female voices in the sports podcasting space.

This week, we talk about the Mets’ first series of 2026. We review the good (Luis Robert, Lindor looks like Lindor, the high-leverage relievers, the rotation, Carson Benge’s debut) and the bad (high-leverage Dicky Lovelady two days in a row, Bo Bichette’s rough at-bats, Sean Manaea’s velocity).

We also talk about the Mets bringing in J.D. Martinez as an advisor to the front office, new information revealed about the Luis Robert trade, ABS challenges, and more.

We then wrap things up as we always do with Walk-off Wins, where each of us talks about what’s making us happy this week, baseball-related or otherwise.

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