Fans Expect Sweep - Mets Oblige
The Happy Recap: Mets Sweep Lowly Birds!
Despite not having won a road series in almost a year, just about every Met fan had to expect them to sweep a series at Baltimore, home of the absolutely dreadful Orioles. In fact, one could go as far to say anything but a sweep would have been a complete failure for the road-challenged Amazin's. But the Mets came through, easily winning Friday's game 5-1 behind another knuckling performance from R.A. Dickey, narrowly winning Saturday's game 3-1 behind Takman's 7 strong innings, and coming through with a laugher in today's 11-4 rout with Big Pelf on the mound. It was the first time the Mets swept an opponent on the road since September 2008 when they played an actual big-league team.
THE GOOD: Starting pitching, starting pitching, starting pitching... What looked like a sore spot to start the season has really become the team's strength. Johan Santana... Mike Pelfrey... Jon Niese... R.A. Dickey... Hisonara Takahashi... Right now in baseball, is there anyone better? The stats say no. R.A. Dickey is 4-0. He went another 7 innings of 1 run ball. Takman's won 5 games already and just gave up 1 run in his outing. The Sheriff (Mike Pelfrey) was the recipient of an offensive outburst today (making up for his 9 strong innings of 1-run no-decision during his last outing) and picked up his much deserved 9th win of the year (his 5th straight win decision). The common denominator: Met pitchers are not walking batters and they're pitching ahead in the count.
Could the offense be coming around as well or was it "just the Orioles and their cozy stadium"? From today's game, David Wright went 3-for-5 with 2 homeruns and drove in 4 runs. He now has 25 rbi in his last 26 games. Jason Bay also homered and went 4-for-4 and scored 4 runs, breaking his 0-for-16 draught. Chris "The Animal" Carter hit a first inning 3-run dinger. And every Met in the starting line got at least 1 hit in the game. (Jose Reyes: 2 hits, Jesus Feliciano: 2 hits, Alex Cora: 3 hits)... the good goes on and on as the Mets totaled 18 hits in the game.
David Wright also had three hits and 2 rbi in Friday night's game, a game which included another Carter 3-run shot. (and another 2 hits from Jose). Then Jose went yard in the next game with a 2-for-3 performance. He's been on fire since MetsFanClub.com taught him how to hit!
THE BAD: On Saturday night with the game close, Jeff Francoeur hit a shot just over the rightfield fence for his 7th home run of the season. His reward for that? Mets manager Jerry Manuel benched him in today's game. Turns out it really didn't matter, but we all know how to put a streaky hitter in a slump, right? Sit him after a good game. Happens all the time. If Francoeur goes 1-for-12 in the next three games, let no one be surprised.
THE UGLY: From the looks and actions of the Camden Yards faithful, you could have sworn this series was being played in New York. Cameras panning the stadium showed Met jerseys after Met jerseys with an inordinate amount of cheers and applause coming at every run the Mets scored. Oriole fans: Granted your team is atrocious, but outright blatantly rooting for the opposition is just plain ugly.
No matter how bad the Mets are, at least Met fans don't root for the other team - they just boo loudly. We'd never stoop that low. Baltimore fans: if you don't like your team, just stay home instead...
Despite not having won a road series in almost a year, just about every Met fan had to expect them to sweep a series at Baltimore, home of the absolutely dreadful Orioles. In fact, one could go as far to say anything but a sweep would have been a complete failure for the road-challenged Amazin's. But the Mets came through, easily winning Friday's game 5-1 behind another knuckling performance from R.A. Dickey, narrowly winning Saturday's game 3-1 behind Takman's 7 strong innings, and coming through with a laugher in today's 11-4 rout with Big Pelf on the mound. It was the first time the Mets swept an opponent on the road since September 2008 when they played an actual big-league team.
THE GOOD: Starting pitching, starting pitching, starting pitching... What looked like a sore spot to start the season has really become the team's strength. Johan Santana... Mike Pelfrey... Jon Niese... R.A. Dickey... Hisonara Takahashi... Right now in baseball, is there anyone better? The stats say no. R.A. Dickey is 4-0. He went another 7 innings of 1 run ball. Takman's won 5 games already and just gave up 1 run in his outing. The Sheriff (Mike Pelfrey) was the recipient of an offensive outburst today (making up for his 9 strong innings of 1-run no-decision during his last outing) and picked up his much deserved 9th win of the year (his 5th straight win decision). The common denominator: Met pitchers are not walking batters and they're pitching ahead in the count.Could the offense be coming around as well or was it "just the Orioles and their cozy stadium"? From today's game, David Wright went 3-for-5 with 2 homeruns and drove in 4 runs. He now has 25 rbi in his last 26 games. Jason Bay also homered and went 4-for-4 and scored 4 runs, breaking his 0-for-16 draught. Chris "The Animal" Carter hit a first inning 3-run dinger. And every Met in the starting line got at least 1 hit in the game. (Jose Reyes: 2 hits, Jesus Feliciano: 2 hits, Alex Cora: 3 hits)... the good goes on and on as the Mets totaled 18 hits in the game.
David Wright also had three hits and 2 rbi in Friday night's game, a game which included another Carter 3-run shot. (and another 2 hits from Jose). Then Jose went yard in the next game with a 2-for-3 performance. He's been on fire since MetsFanClub.com taught him how to hit!
THE BAD: On Saturday night with the game close, Jeff Francoeur hit a shot just over the rightfield fence for his 7th home run of the season. His reward for that? Mets manager Jerry Manuel benched him in today's game. Turns out it really didn't matter, but we all know how to put a streaky hitter in a slump, right? Sit him after a good game. Happens all the time. If Francoeur goes 1-for-12 in the next three games, let no one be surprised.
THE UGLY: From the looks and actions of the Camden Yards faithful, you could have sworn this series was being played in New York. Cameras panning the stadium showed Met jerseys after Met jerseys with an inordinate amount of cheers and applause coming at every run the Mets scored. Oriole fans: Granted your team is atrocious, but outright blatantly rooting for the opposition is just plain ugly.
No matter how bad the Mets are, at least Met fans don't root for the other team - they just boo loudly. We'd never stoop that low. Baltimore fans: if you don't like your team, just stay home instead...
posted by Mets Fan Club @ 2:05 PM
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