Showing the Yankees the Bronx
Maybe Friday's rainout was a good thing. It allowed the Mets to have their team meeting, get everything off their chests and hopefully focus on baseball again. If that was the case, it worked - big time.
The two-game sweep of the Yankees at the Stadium was everything a Mets fan could have hoped for. Saturday's win had a strong if not dominant effort by Santana (despite the pesky long balls), and a four-out save by Billy Wagner, who is walking the walk and talking the talk. In between, there was a three-run rally in the fourth when the Mets sent nine men to the plate against Honest Andy Pettite, then two homers off Kyle "Straight Fastball" Farnsworth by Reyes and Wright. Beltran and Delgado had two hits each and the Mets looked like a winning baseball team for a change.
Of course, Sunday's prime time matchup between Ollie Perez and Chien-Ming Wang could have turned the momentum right around, but we got the good Ollie for a change. He was a little shaky early but he settled down nicely after pitching out of a fourth-inning jam, and he ended up pitching into the eighth for the first time all season.
Scary stat posted by ESPN early in the game, that Perez was one of only two MLB pitchers this season to not get into the seventh through eight starts. The other guy? Barry Zito. Not good company.
Ollie got plenty of support, despite incompetent umpiring. Delgado was clearly robbed of a three-run homer in the fourth inning. Thankfully, it didn't come back to haunt the Mets, as these things often seem to do, especially when the Yankees are involved. Delgado ended up getting an RBI single anyway, and a 6-0 lead was instead a 4-0 lead.
We could take solace in taking the moral high ground after the replay showed the ball was definitely out, hitting the foul pole on the black. Why is it black at the bottom? Maybe so you can see the mark if the ball hits it, which is exactly what happened. Why Bob Davidson didn't go out and check is beyond me -- instead he was influenced by the likes of Jeter and Damon and the second-base ump, who didn't have nearly the view as the third-base ump, who got it right the first time.
Pathetic. At least Davidson admitted his error, but as you can read here, he has no class whatsoever. Jerry Manuel stepped up for Willie and got ejected, taking "the bait" that Davidson put out there.
Great to see the Mets put the hammer down, too. A long blast by Church (turns out his idol growing up was Jack Clark - good choice), another homer by Reyes and two hits by Wright kept the Yankees on their downward slide while the Mets are finally looking up for a change.
Maybe Willie is a genius after all.
The two-game sweep of the Yankees at the Stadium was everything a Mets fan could have hoped for. Saturday's win had a strong if not dominant effort by Santana (despite the pesky long balls), and a four-out save by Billy Wagner, who is walking the walk and talking the talk. In between, there was a three-run rally in the fourth when the Mets sent nine men to the plate against Honest Andy Pettite, then two homers off Kyle "Straight Fastball" Farnsworth by Reyes and Wright. Beltran and Delgado had two hits each and the Mets looked like a winning baseball team for a change.
Of course, Sunday's prime time matchup between Ollie Perez and Chien-Ming Wang could have turned the momentum right around, but we got the good Ollie for a change. He was a little shaky early but he settled down nicely after pitching out of a fourth-inning jam, and he ended up pitching into the eighth for the first time all season.
Scary stat posted by ESPN early in the game, that Perez was one of only two MLB pitchers this season to not get into the seventh through eight starts. The other guy? Barry Zito. Not good company.
Ollie got plenty of support, despite incompetent umpiring. Delgado was clearly robbed of a three-run homer in the fourth inning. Thankfully, it didn't come back to haunt the Mets, as these things often seem to do, especially when the Yankees are involved. Delgado ended up getting an RBI single anyway, and a 6-0 lead was instead a 4-0 lead.
We could take solace in taking the moral high ground after the replay showed the ball was definitely out, hitting the foul pole on the black. Why is it black at the bottom? Maybe so you can see the mark if the ball hits it, which is exactly what happened. Why Bob Davidson didn't go out and check is beyond me -- instead he was influenced by the likes of Jeter and Damon and the second-base ump, who didn't have nearly the view as the third-base ump, who got it right the first time.
Pathetic. At least Davidson admitted his error, but as you can read here, he has no class whatsoever. Jerry Manuel stepped up for Willie and got ejected, taking "the bait" that Davidson put out there.
Great to see the Mets put the hammer down, too. A long blast by Church (turns out his idol growing up was Jack Clark - good choice), another homer by Reyes and two hits by Wright kept the Yankees on their downward slide while the Mets are finally looking up for a change.
Maybe Willie is a genius after all.
posted by Gaspo @ 6:40 AM
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