What a game my friends!
The Mets showed some fight, some heart, and some grit… Call it whatever you want, but they played some of the best baseball of the season in taking three games out of four against the St. Louis Cardinals.
In today’s finale, they touched up Cardinals ace, Chris Carpenter for three runs thanks to a two-run double by Nick Evans who comes through again in the clutch. Manuel put Evans in the lineup as a reward for last night’s heroics when he hit a two-run homer to win the game, and once again he delivered for the Amazins.
Johan Santana started the game and immediately got into trouble in the first two innings, but came out of it allowing just one run. He got some big outs including a huge one with the bases juiced and Albert Pujols at the plate. He got Pujols to fly one to left. Sit down Albert!
He got into trouble again in the sixth inning and allowed another run, but the most intense part of the game came in the seventh inning when Pujols singled and Yadier was at the plate representing the winning run. (sound familiar?) Yadier lined out to F-Mart… Sit down Yadier!
Speaking of F-Mart… Martinez made a dazzling diving catch in centerfield, robbing Brendan Ryan of a sure-fire. Sit down Brendanl!
After a scoreless inning by Pedro Feliciano in the eighth, Frankie Rodriguez came in to close it out.
K-rod quickly got two outs, but was squeezed by the ump and the result was two walks. With the tying and winning runs on base, Yadier Molina was back at the plate and in a position to burn the Mets again, but he induced a hard liner to left and right into Jeremy Reed’s glove it landed. I thought I told you to sit your ass down Yadier!
I am so proud of our guys… To win like they did in the face of such enormous adversity with all the injuries, has been so amazing to behold.
I’m giving the game ball to all of them. They have embodied the spirit of team work and pulled together against all odds!
Bring on the Yankees!
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What a great game to watch. It was such a nail biter, and I cant believe we pulled it out. These guys manned up. Great recap by the way.
Awesome game from the Mets today, I love the fire in the “b” team. After Beltran went on the DL this team did not give up. We are now 1 game behind the Phillies, hopefully Tampa Bay will come through with a win tonight.
NEVER SAY DIE!!! LETS GO METS BABY!!!
Don’t stop believing!
With apologies to Ernest Thayer, the writer of “Casey At The Bat”, here’s my version of the last stanza…
Oh, somewhere in this Flushing sky, the sun is shining bright
The organ is playing somewhere, and somewhere hearts are light
And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout
Today there is joy in Metsville – mighty Yadier has lined out!
Nick Evans BETTER be in the lineup tomorrow playing 1st base!
Oh wait! Daniel Murphy got a bloop pitch hit today so that means he’ll play 1st base tomorrow vs the Yankees even though it’s a tough left handed pitcher cause Manuel has a “hunch.” Evans will not play because he has had 2 back to back 2 hit games. Manual has a “hunch” that a rookie left handed singles hitter will do better against one of the best left handed pitchers in MLB. Nick Evans BETTER be in the line up playing 1st base on Friday!
Sorry. .. had a Manuel moment there. HEY! We’re only 1.5 games back!!!!
LETS GO METS!
I like Evans at 1B. He was taking some grounders there Monday night during BP. On the F-Mart catch, I saw it from the Promenade level – 2 hands on the diving grab. I’ll bet it went unnoticed on TV.
Sure can’t complain about this series with the Cards. The Evil Genius LaRussa gets foiled by the forces of good. Is Nick Evans back on track? If so, what great timing! JMan is finlly evening out the work load across the Bullpen and now they’re getting the job done. FMart is starting to look like a vet in CF. Alternating the catchers is keeping them rested and paying dividends in offensive contribution. David’s BA is going out of sight and the RBI’s can’t be far behind. The rotation is hanging in tough even with 2 guys out of commission. Can we keep this formula working especially through the Yanks series? I guess it’s true: Ya Gotta Believe! The time may be now to make a serious move on the Philthies. LGM!
Jerry Manuel might get fired one of this days and probably be replaced by Bobby Valentine (???) but he will probably be elected Manager of the Year when the awards are handed, and that is because people with baseball intellectual knowledge appreciate the efforts in managing a team with basically no superstars, lack of pitching, second class players, unappreciated fans, bad press and is keeping this team in the race to the playoff. He is showing why he was previously Manager of the Year and his value keeps increasing every day, is really sad that we as fans are watching one of baseball finest manager and we are not appreciating it…
Up until this Cards series, what was keeping the Mets in the race has been the collapse of the Phils, not the managing of Jerry Manuel. The Mets had been losing 2 out of 3 for series after series until the Cards came to Citi. You can’t be competitive if you’re playing .333 ball for extended periods. Hopefully, the Cards series represents a genuine change in performance. With the Cards series, the fundamanetal play was strong almost error free and with no base running blunders and with sound mgmt for the first time in a long time. If Jerry can keep performance up to what was achieved with the Cards, I will agree with you. But for now, I think the verdict on Jerry still needs to be confirmed with consistency. The proof will be in the pudding (that’s a silly old saying).
I have to say I was proud of them. Finally. They won, they won for Santana, the won a close game, the won a series. Nice going.