Los Marlins... Loss Mets
The Recap: At least the Mets leave Puerto Rico with a win under their belts
Facing an underperforming, clubhouse riddled, infighting, and chaotic Florida Marlin team and playing "away" games in San Juan, the Mets avoided a sweep by edging out a 6-5 victory last night in a game no one wanted to play.
THE GOOD: After a tropical storm delayed the start time for the game, David Wright and the Mets came out swinging, putting up 3 runs in the first to seemingly make it easy for Mike Pelfrey. Instead, the Sheriff struggled mightily himself and like Jon Niese last week, couldn't make it to the required 5 innings to gain a victory, which Elmer Dessens vultured with his 1-out 5-pitch outing instead. But a win's a win, and avoiding a sweep is always a good thing.
But getting back to David Wright (and we know we've been on him for not always hitting in the clutch). If he doesn't start the All-Star game something's wrong. Actually, there's a lot of things wrong with the All-Star game, but we'll have to leave that to another post. Over the series, Wright went 8-for-13 with 2 doubles, 2 runs and 2 rbi, while playing a superb defense too! Everyone points to the call-up of Ike Davis as the renaissance part of this season, but the return of David Wright as a hitter (with his 14 homeruns and league leading 63 rbi) is really the catalyst of the Mets winning season so far.
And the fact that the Mets played tough in a game facing a sweep in hot, humid weather, with everyone playing tired in a ballpark located off American soil, and with a possibly injured Jose Reyes on the bench is big.
THE BAD: Met pitching allowed 17 hits in yesterday's game alone. Florida also was atrocious in the field, committing 4 errors (there were more but scored otherwise to a lenient hometown official scorer). KRod's ninth inning was scary to say the least ... And the Mets STILL won the game 6-5!
The real bad part of the series was the first game Monday night when Florida pounded RA Dickey for five runs, giving the knuckleballer his first loss of the season. This is the same RA Dickey who pitched 3-hit, shutout ball for eight innings in his last outing, when manager Jerry Manuel wouldn't allow him to finish the game out. At that very moment, MetsFanClub.com predicted the visibly upset Dickey would get hammered in his next start, and unfortunately, we were right. The Mets lost that game 10-3 with Dickey's bullpen replacements (Fernando Nieves and "Why I Oughta!" Igarashi) both getting hit hard as well.
Then we still have to mention Jason Bay, who in a meaningless game that the Mets lost 10-3, smoked 2 homeruns to account for all the Mets runs in the opener. Thanks Jason, but I'd prefer the 2-run shot when the Mets are down by one in the late innings, something we have yet to see this year for the multi-millions you're getting paid. Jason Bay now has 6 home runs on the year, with two 2-homerun games, which means he's hit exactly 2 dingers in all his other games combined.
And speaking of bad, how about Takman's third inning of the Mets 7-6 loss on Tuesday? He gave up 6 runs that inning, but luckily for him, the Mets actually came back in that game to take him off the hook by somehow tying the game in the ninth. By that time, KRod was spent, having pitched in the eighth inning (the Mets were losing at the time 6-5) because Manuel wanted to "get him some work" and didn't believe the Mets had it in them to actually rally to tie the game. Read between the lines on this one folks and it's pretty bad: Jerry wanted to get KRod some work, the Mets were losing at the time, and Jerry didn't think the Mets would see a bottom of the ninth inning. It's always nice when the manager displays the confidence needed for his team to win.
THE UGLY: And perhaps the ugliest story of them all: One year from today, the Mets will add to their payroll a 47-year-old, past-his-prime power hitter who has a reputation as a malcontent--a player who has been retired from professional baseball for nine years and won't play another game again. Starting on July 1, 2011, Bobby Bonilla will remain on the franchise's payroll for 25 years, collecting an annual salary of $1,193,248.20. Those are the terms the Mets agreed to Jan. 3, 2000, when they bought out the final year of his contract. Don't believe it? Read it from the horse's mouth from the Wall Street Journal
Facing an underperforming, clubhouse riddled, infighting, and chaotic Florida Marlin team and playing "away" games in San Juan, the Mets avoided a sweep by edging out a 6-5 victory last night in a game no one wanted to play.
THE GOOD: After a tropical storm delayed the start time for the game, David Wright and the Mets came out swinging, putting up 3 runs in the first to seemingly make it easy for Mike Pelfrey. Instead, the Sheriff struggled mightily himself and like Jon Niese last week, couldn't make it to the required 5 innings to gain a victory, which Elmer Dessens vultured with his 1-out 5-pitch outing instead. But a win's a win, and avoiding a sweep is always a good thing.
But getting back to David Wright (and we know we've been on him for not always hitting in the clutch). If he doesn't start the All-Star game something's wrong. Actually, there's a lot of things wrong with the All-Star game, but we'll have to leave that to another post. Over the series, Wright went 8-for-13 with 2 doubles, 2 runs and 2 rbi, while playing a superb defense too! Everyone points to the call-up of Ike Davis as the renaissance part of this season, but the return of David Wright as a hitter (with his 14 homeruns and league leading 63 rbi) is really the catalyst of the Mets winning season so far.
And the fact that the Mets played tough in a game facing a sweep in hot, humid weather, with everyone playing tired in a ballpark located off American soil, and with a possibly injured Jose Reyes on the bench is big.
THE BAD: Met pitching allowed 17 hits in yesterday's game alone. Florida also was atrocious in the field, committing 4 errors (there were more but scored otherwise to a lenient hometown official scorer). KRod's ninth inning was scary to say the least ... And the Mets STILL won the game 6-5!
The real bad part of the series was the first game Monday night when Florida pounded RA Dickey for five runs, giving the knuckleballer his first loss of the season. This is the same RA Dickey who pitched 3-hit, shutout ball for eight innings in his last outing, when manager Jerry Manuel wouldn't allow him to finish the game out. At that very moment, MetsFanClub.com predicted the visibly upset Dickey would get hammered in his next start, and unfortunately, we were right. The Mets lost that game 10-3 with Dickey's bullpen replacements (Fernando Nieves and "Why I Oughta!" Igarashi) both getting hit hard as well.
Then we still have to mention Jason Bay, who in a meaningless game that the Mets lost 10-3, smoked 2 homeruns to account for all the Mets runs in the opener. Thanks Jason, but I'd prefer the 2-run shot when the Mets are down by one in the late innings, something we have yet to see this year for the multi-millions you're getting paid. Jason Bay now has 6 home runs on the year, with two 2-homerun games, which means he's hit exactly 2 dingers in all his other games combined.
And speaking of bad, how about Takman's third inning of the Mets 7-6 loss on Tuesday? He gave up 6 runs that inning, but luckily for him, the Mets actually came back in that game to take him off the hook by somehow tying the game in the ninth. By that time, KRod was spent, having pitched in the eighth inning (the Mets were losing at the time 6-5) because Manuel wanted to "get him some work" and didn't believe the Mets had it in them to actually rally to tie the game. Read between the lines on this one folks and it's pretty bad: Jerry wanted to get KRod some work, the Mets were losing at the time, and Jerry didn't think the Mets would see a bottom of the ninth inning. It's always nice when the manager displays the confidence needed for his team to win.
THE UGLY: And perhaps the ugliest story of them all: One year from today, the Mets will add to their payroll a 47-year-old, past-his-prime power hitter who has a reputation as a malcontent--a player who has been retired from professional baseball for nine years and won't play another game again. Starting on July 1, 2011, Bobby Bonilla will remain on the franchise's payroll for 25 years, collecting an annual salary of $1,193,248.20. Those are the terms the Mets agreed to Jan. 3, 2000, when they bought out the final year of his contract. Don't believe it? Read it from the horse's mouth from the Wall Street Journal
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