The Unhappy Weekend Recap
As frustrating as it was to watch the Mets hit into five double plays and leave the bases loaded time and again after amassing 14 hits and eight walks -- you score seven runs, you should win. You're up 6-2 early, you should win. But we saw the Bad Ollie Sunday and it allowed the Brewers to take 2 of 3 from the Mets at Shea, killing any good will after the Mets won the Phillies series.
The eighth inning was the clincher. No outs and runners on the corners when Castillo grounds to first. Brady Clark breaks on contact despite the fact that the Mets are down two, Fielder steps on first and throws Clark out at the plate. Then, to make matters worse, Guillermo Mota of all people comes in, walks Wright and Beltran only to get our hopes up, and then Delgado pops out to end the inning.
Clutch is something that the Mets have not been this season, unless you're Angel Pagan or Ryan Church. Wright, Beltran and Delgado - the middle of the order - have all started slowly, especially with runners on. Wright did hit his 100th career homer, though. Yay.
Saturday saw a less-than-Johanish effort from Santana and the Mets lost, 5-3. Ben Sheets was perfect for six innings after the Mets took a 2-0 lead in the first. Santana, who gave up the most homers in the AL last season, allowed three dingers to Hall, Weeks and Gabe Kapler, who is playing much better than Gabe Kaplan.
Jose Reyes missed both game with a hamstring strain but says he should be back on the field Tuesday - we'll see.
The two losses deflated the Mets, who were riding high after taking two from the Phillies and after Nelson Figueroa earned his first win as a Met Friday night. The Brooklyn-born-and-raised Mets fan, who was drafted by the Mets in 1995 out of Brandeis, had a thrilling homecoming, pitching a perfect game for 4 2/3 innings before allowing a walk and a double. Figueroa ended up pitching six innings. Joe Smith, Aaron "Two-Run" Heilman and Wagner each tossed a hitless inning to complete the two-hitter.
Figueroa's performance gives the Mets some comfort at the bottom of the rotation, but the mistakes and the poor clutch hitting have hurt this team more than anything else, and the fans are letting them feel it with boos.
Here's the deal -- you want to boo Heilman after losing the lead, get hoarse doing it. But don't boo a guy COMING IN to the game like fans did Thursday night for Scott Schoeneweis. Shea is becoming an ugly place to play for the home team, and it shouldn't be, especially in its final season.
The eighth inning was the clincher. No outs and runners on the corners when Castillo grounds to first. Brady Clark breaks on contact despite the fact that the Mets are down two, Fielder steps on first and throws Clark out at the plate. Then, to make matters worse, Guillermo Mota of all people comes in, walks Wright and Beltran only to get our hopes up, and then Delgado pops out to end the inning.
Clutch is something that the Mets have not been this season, unless you're Angel Pagan or Ryan Church. Wright, Beltran and Delgado - the middle of the order - have all started slowly, especially with runners on. Wright did hit his 100th career homer, though. Yay.
Saturday saw a less-than-Johanish effort from Santana and the Mets lost, 5-3. Ben Sheets was perfect for six innings after the Mets took a 2-0 lead in the first. Santana, who gave up the most homers in the AL last season, allowed three dingers to Hall, Weeks and Gabe Kapler, who is playing much better than Gabe Kaplan.
Jose Reyes missed both game with a hamstring strain but says he should be back on the field Tuesday - we'll see.
The two losses deflated the Mets, who were riding high after taking two from the Phillies and after Nelson Figueroa earned his first win as a Met Friday night. The Brooklyn-born-and-raised Mets fan, who was drafted by the Mets in 1995 out of Brandeis, had a thrilling homecoming, pitching a perfect game for 4 2/3 innings before allowing a walk and a double. Figueroa ended up pitching six innings. Joe Smith, Aaron "Two-Run" Heilman and Wagner each tossed a hitless inning to complete the two-hitter.
Figueroa's performance gives the Mets some comfort at the bottom of the rotation, but the mistakes and the poor clutch hitting have hurt this team more than anything else, and the fans are letting them feel it with boos.
Here's the deal -- you want to boo Heilman after losing the lead, get hoarse doing it. But don't boo a guy COMING IN to the game like fans did Thursday night for Scott Schoeneweis. Shea is becoming an ugly place to play for the home team, and it shouldn't be, especially in its final season.
Labels: Brewers, Figueroa, loss, Perez, recap, Santana, Wright
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