You Can't Argue This: Frustration's Mounting
The Recap: Nats 3, Mets 2
Back to back homeruns off John Maine and an ineffective Pedro Feliciano combined to doom the Mets, who couldn't muster any offense at all against a depleted Washington team playing on the road with a rookie pitcher on the mound.
THE GOOD:
Every position player on the team had at least one hit in the game, but no one hit in the clutch until Angel Pagan's solo homer in the ninth. And with Rod Barajas' 2 hits, how is he hitting only .244? He's been the biggest surprise on this team in a good way - you'd think he'd be hitting .300 at least! And speaking of surprises, John Maine is quitely turning in some nice outings, today going 6 innings while allowing just the 2 back-to-back dingers from Met killers Adam Kennedy and Ryan Zimmerman. Of course, as a reliever, Takman was solid as usual again.
THE BAD: If you can't beat a team with their top 2 relievers not available and with a rookie pitcher on the mound, that's pretty bad. Gary Matthews Jr. pinch hit in the game and struck out. Please copy and paste that statement and insert into every recap of each game he plays this year. He's beyond bad at this point, but unfortunately I can't think of a worse word I can use while keeping this blog rated G.
Jeff Francoeur is still swinging at pitches that Vlad Guerrero takes and Jason Bay only hits the ball when the pitcher throws it at the exact spot he happens to swing the bat, as in today's game when he struck out for the final out with the tying run on base. Something has to be done about the lack of timely hitting and the alarming strikeout rate that's permeating the middle batting order on this team. Could it be the batting coach? After all, who hires a batting coach that only hit .240 for his career?
THE UGLY: Frustration is ugly, and it was certainly on display in this game when Jose Reyes was ejected for arguing a called third strike, just a day after David Wright was booted in a similar circumstance. Jerry Manuel was also ejected for defending Reyes (he didn't defend Wright however... hmmmm...). Reyes had another bad game hitting out of the 3-spot with 2 more strikeouts and probably overacted to the call. But you never know, sometimes good things come from ugly incidents.
Back to back homeruns off John Maine and an ineffective Pedro Feliciano combined to doom the Mets, who couldn't muster any offense at all against a depleted Washington team playing on the road with a rookie pitcher on the mound.
THE GOOD:
Every position player on the team had at least one hit in the game, but no one hit in the clutch until Angel Pagan's solo homer in the ninth. And with Rod Barajas' 2 hits, how is he hitting only .244? He's been the biggest surprise on this team in a good way - you'd think he'd be hitting .300 at least! And speaking of surprises, John Maine is quitely turning in some nice outings, today going 6 innings while allowing just the 2 back-to-back dingers from Met killers Adam Kennedy and Ryan Zimmerman. Of course, as a reliever, Takman was solid as usual again.THE BAD: If you can't beat a team with their top 2 relievers not available and with a rookie pitcher on the mound, that's pretty bad. Gary Matthews Jr. pinch hit in the game and struck out. Please copy and paste that statement and insert into every recap of each game he plays this year. He's beyond bad at this point, but unfortunately I can't think of a worse word I can use while keeping this blog rated G.
Jeff Francoeur is still swinging at pitches that Vlad Guerrero takes and Jason Bay only hits the ball when the pitcher throws it at the exact spot he happens to swing the bat, as in today's game when he struck out for the final out with the tying run on base. Something has to be done about the lack of timely hitting and the alarming strikeout rate that's permeating the middle batting order on this team. Could it be the batting coach? After all, who hires a batting coach that only hit .240 for his career?
THE UGLY: Frustration is ugly, and it was certainly on display in this game when Jose Reyes was ejected for arguing a called third strike, just a day after David Wright was booted in a similar circumstance. Jerry Manuel was also ejected for defending Reyes (he didn't defend Wright however... hmmmm...). Reyes had another bad game hitting out of the 3-spot with 2 more strikeouts and probably overacted to the call. But you never know, sometimes good things come from ugly incidents.
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