Dropped Popup Goes Mets Way; Helps Pelfrey to Long Awaited Win
It turns out Luis Castillo isn't the only one dropping easy popups to cost their teams victories. This time, the Orioles Aubrey Huff flubbed a David Wright popup in the seventh inning to account for the margin of victory in the Mets 6-4 win last night in Baltimore.
Baltimore... those schedule makers are tough. Why they make ANYONE travel to play in Baltimore is beyond logic. When people in Detroit say things like "well, things are bad... but at least we don't live in Baltimore", you know Baltimore's a bad town. Everyone always talks about Camden Yards and how great the stadium is. They forget one small problem however: it's in Baltimore.
Anyway, Mike Pelrey finally won a game (it's been about 5 weeks since his last victory - We fully expect Pelfrey to be singing the Subway "5 dollar footlong" jingle) and raised his record to 5-2, going 5 and 2/3 innings and allowing 2 runs against a pathetic Oriole team. How this team's won 27 games already I don't know...
The Mets 6-2 ninth inning lead looked safe until Bobby Parnell started the inning and quickly turned it into a save situation for KRod, which of course, he converted. (This guy's money - Omar gets kudos for this deal). Other than Carlos Beltran and Daniel Murphy (0-fer 8 between the two), the Mets lineup displayed some pretty nice hitting.
Coming off their most lopsided loss in almost 9 years and having lost 8 of their last 12, the Orioles look to be the cure for the Mets woes. David Wright is locked in at the plate with a hit in 11 straight games and going 24-for-43 (.558) during the streak. Tim Redding is going tonight against Koji Uehara (yes, that is spelled correctly) and who cares what the matchup is on Thursday - nothing other than a catastrophe should stop the Mets sweeping this series.
Then again, it's Baltimore - that's a catastrophe in itself!
Baltimore... those schedule makers are tough. Why they make ANYONE travel to play in Baltimore is beyond logic. When people in Detroit say things like "well, things are bad... but at least we don't live in Baltimore", you know Baltimore's a bad town. Everyone always talks about Camden Yards and how great the stadium is. They forget one small problem however: it's in Baltimore.
Anyway, Mike Pelrey finally won a game (it's been about 5 weeks since his last victory - We fully expect Pelfrey to be singing the Subway "5 dollar footlong" jingle) and raised his record to 5-2, going 5 and 2/3 innings and allowing 2 runs against a pathetic Oriole team. How this team's won 27 games already I don't know...The Mets 6-2 ninth inning lead looked safe until Bobby Parnell started the inning and quickly turned it into a save situation for KRod, which of course, he converted. (This guy's money - Omar gets kudos for this deal). Other than Carlos Beltran and Daniel Murphy (0-fer 8 between the two), the Mets lineup displayed some pretty nice hitting.
Coming off their most lopsided loss in almost 9 years and having lost 8 of their last 12, the Orioles look to be the cure for the Mets woes. David Wright is locked in at the plate with a hit in 11 straight games and going 24-for-43 (.558) during the streak. Tim Redding is going tonight against Koji Uehara (yes, that is spelled correctly) and who cares what the matchup is on Thursday - nothing other than a catastrophe should stop the Mets sweeping this series.
Then again, it's Baltimore - that's a catastrophe in itself!
Labels: baltimore, catastrophe, KRod, Pelfrey, popup, subway series
posted by Mets Fan Club @ 8:12 AM
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