Mets Sweep of Tigers Not Quite Wright
The Happy Recap: Mets win Series, 2-1
After 2 convincing victories against the Detroit Tigers, the Mets went for the sweep in last night's game, only to see David Wright come up short once again in a big spot with the bases loaded in the Mets bottom seventh, derailing a nice Mets comeback from a 6-1 deficit and sending the Citi loyal home wondering what would happen if the Mets played a real American League team.
THE GOOD: Jesus Feliciano had a career night in yesterday's 6-5 loss, going 3-for-5 and looking like a real MLB hitter (although we're not convinced yet). And Jose Reyes was a one-man demolition crew in Wednesday's 5-0 contest, just a double away from the cycle. RA Dickey raised his record to 6-0 in that game, going eight innings of just 4 hit ball which begs the question: why couldn't he have pitched the ninth for the shutout?!?
There is no questioning the Mets offense on Tuesday's rainy night, when the team belted out 16 hits for 14 runs in the biggest run explosion in the short history of Citi Field. Just look at the stat line for the first 5 hitters in that game: Jose Reyes: 3 hits, 3 runs, 1 rbi; Angel Pagan: 4 hits, 4 rbi, 3 runs; David Wright: 3 hits, 3 runs, 2 rbi; Ike Davis: 3 hits, 3 rbi, 1 run. The amazing part about the game was despite the run production, Jon Niese couldn't go 5 innings to qualify for the win. Jerry Manuel tried to let him get it, but the rain delay must have distracted him. Either way, you can only conclude one thing from the run outburst: Johan Santana was not pitching.
And out of the 6 outs recorded by newly promoted Bobby Parnell in the series, 5 have been by strikeout. Perhaps he has arrived?
THE BAD: It's hard to get on someone who's leading the NL in rbi, but it gets easier when one considers how often Mr. Wright comes up short when the "big hit" is needed. Interestingly enough, the same was said years ago about current Mets batting coach Howard Johnson, who once drove in over a hundred runs one year without one of them being considered a "game winner''. That being said, we'd all rather see a Mets team WITH David Wright than without, so we'll just have to settle for what Wright does bring to the team and leave the clutchness to someone else.
From the pitching side of things, Takman just didn't have it last night, allowing 6 runs and 8 hits in just 4 innings of work to suffer his 3rd loss (although if David Wright just hit the ball, Takman would have been taken off the hook!). But then again, even if the Mets did tie the game in the ninth, they were out of pitchers anyway and KRod would have had to pitch until whenever - bad bullpen management last night by Jerry, which luckily for him, didn't haunt him since the Mets went down meekly in the ninth 1-2-3 - and of course the MetsFanClub.com crew had to witness the game in person!
And as luck would have it with Carlos Beltran being rehabbed into coming back the team, the Mets best hitter, Angel Pagan, had to remove himself from Wednesday night's 5-0 victory due to injury and got the night off last night. We don't think it's anything serious - that is, until the Mets medical staff gets a hold of him, in which case Pagan may be out for the rest of the season.
By the way, who were those people at the game last night comparing Jason Bay to George Foster?.. and Bobby Bonilla?... and Mo Vaughn?...
THE UGLY: You never like attending a game when the Mets lose, but it's even uglier when you have to drive through a flash hailstorm to get to the game in the first place. 85 degrees and sunny one minute, then a torrential downpour with 60 mph winds and hailstones the size of golfballs crushing the car windshield the next! The 10 minute storm knocked down trees on the parkways, flash flooded the roads to the stadium, and caused traffic issues costing thousands of dollars - but it wasn't ugly enough to stop us all from going to the game.
After 2 convincing victories against the Detroit Tigers, the Mets went for the sweep in last night's game, only to see David Wright come up short once again in a big spot with the bases loaded in the Mets bottom seventh, derailing a nice Mets comeback from a 6-1 deficit and sending the Citi loyal home wondering what would happen if the Mets played a real American League team.
THE GOOD: Jesus Feliciano had a career night in yesterday's 6-5 loss, going 3-for-5 and looking like a real MLB hitter (although we're not convinced yet). And Jose Reyes was a one-man demolition crew in Wednesday's 5-0 contest, just a double away from the cycle. RA Dickey raised his record to 6-0 in that game, going eight innings of just 4 hit ball which begs the question: why couldn't he have pitched the ninth for the shutout?!?
There is no questioning the Mets offense on Tuesday's rainy night, when the team belted out 16 hits for 14 runs in the biggest run explosion in the short history of Citi Field. Just look at the stat line for the first 5 hitters in that game: Jose Reyes: 3 hits, 3 runs, 1 rbi; Angel Pagan: 4 hits, 4 rbi, 3 runs; David Wright: 3 hits, 3 runs, 2 rbi; Ike Davis: 3 hits, 3 rbi, 1 run. The amazing part about the game was despite the run production, Jon Niese couldn't go 5 innings to qualify for the win. Jerry Manuel tried to let him get it, but the rain delay must have distracted him. Either way, you can only conclude one thing from the run outburst: Johan Santana was not pitching.
And out of the 6 outs recorded by newly promoted Bobby Parnell in the series, 5 have been by strikeout. Perhaps he has arrived?
THE BAD: It's hard to get on someone who's leading the NL in rbi, but it gets easier when one considers how often Mr. Wright comes up short when the "big hit" is needed. Interestingly enough, the same was said years ago about current Mets batting coach Howard Johnson, who once drove in over a hundred runs one year without one of them being considered a "game winner''. That being said, we'd all rather see a Mets team WITH David Wright than without, so we'll just have to settle for what Wright does bring to the team and leave the clutchness to someone else.
From the pitching side of things, Takman just didn't have it last night, allowing 6 runs and 8 hits in just 4 innings of work to suffer his 3rd loss (although if David Wright just hit the ball, Takman would have been taken off the hook!). But then again, even if the Mets did tie the game in the ninth, they were out of pitchers anyway and KRod would have had to pitch until whenever - bad bullpen management last night by Jerry, which luckily for him, didn't haunt him since the Mets went down meekly in the ninth 1-2-3 - and of course the MetsFanClub.com crew had to witness the game in person!
And as luck would have it with Carlos Beltran being rehabbed into coming back the team, the Mets best hitter, Angel Pagan, had to remove himself from Wednesday night's 5-0 victory due to injury and got the night off last night. We don't think it's anything serious - that is, until the Mets medical staff gets a hold of him, in which case Pagan may be out for the rest of the season.
By the way, who were those people at the game last night comparing Jason Bay to George Foster?.. and Bobby Bonilla?... and Mo Vaughn?...
THE UGLY: You never like attending a game when the Mets lose, but it's even uglier when you have to drive through a flash hailstorm to get to the game in the first place. 85 degrees and sunny one minute, then a torrential downpour with 60 mph winds and hailstones the size of golfballs crushing the car windshield the next! The 10 minute storm knocked down trees on the parkways, flash flooded the roads to the stadium, and caused traffic issues costing thousands of dollars - but it wasn't ugly enough to stop us all from going to the game.
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