Yet again, the Mets lose to the Nationals sinking even further with no help in site. Winning their second game in a row against the Mets, Washington held New York to one run and 4 hits.
Obviously it doesn’t matter who we play because our team is so bruised and battered that even the healthy guys have lost hope.
The lonely core player on the team had this to say…
“We’re not going to be able to go out there and score runs at will. We really have to be clicking on all cylinders to score runs and obviously right now we are not.” – David Wright
Jerry Manuel has to be running out of excuses and confidence as well.
“What happens is that when you are in the situation we are in, every team we play, because (we’re) deficient of talent, every team we play is going to be in the game.”
Game Recap
Mike Pelfrey (7-6) and Craig Stammen (3-5) both went scoreless for the first three innings.
Luis Castillo was ejected early after arguing over a close call in the 2nd inning. It was the 33-year old’s first career ejection. Fernando Tatis replaced Castillo at 2nd base.
In the 4th inning Ronnie Belliard’s sacrifice fly scored Nick Johnson. Stammen retired the first 12 batters before David Wright finally singled in the 5th.
The only run scored via a fielding error after Angel Pagan tripled to left center and Cristian Guzman overthrew the ball in the top of the 6th inning.
In the bottom of the inning Josh Willingham hit his 13th home run, driving in Adam Dunn who was on second base because Jeff Francoeur was blinded by the lights and couldn’t get the out.
Stammen pitched into the 8th inning before being relieved by Jason Bergmann. Mike MacDougal earned his 6th save after completing a 1-2-3 inning.
That’s it folks, the short and not so sweet recap. The Mets are now 44-50 and 10 games behind the 1st place Phillies.
I’d like to make a suggestion, maybe they should stop wearing those bad luck black jerseys… I mean, I’m not one to be superstitious but damn, I’d try anything at this point.
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Time to shift gears and think about 2010. This team is so listless right now. The black unis suck.
I didn’t get to watch the game until the 4th inning had started. Did Castillo deserve to get tossed? We now have to go play the Astros with this Bernazard thing hanging over the clubhouse. This stinks.
Hard to say as it was very quick and must have involved a “magic word”. It was on an attempted force play with the throw from David coming on the 1B base side of 2nd pulling Castillo almost off the bag. He had the ball in his glove, but it momentarilty bobbled around in his glove. When it was firmly secured, the runner had reached 2nd. Gary and Keith said clearly safe. Luis started to complain and Jerry came out of the dugout. By the time Jerry reached the foul line, Luis was already ejected. Either very short fuse by the ump or a “magc word” invoked by Luis. Probably the latter but no way to know. That’s how I remember it happening.
Another lackluster game by the Mets. I have been picking Goats since the ASG break. This is a tough one. There are 2 candidates: Pelfrey for giving up the 3 runs especially the Willingham HR, or Francoeur for the loss in the light ball. I pick Pelf because the Francouer gaff was not really a difference maker.
GOAT: Pelfrey
For the 2nd Half, the GOATS are: Parnell, Pelfrey, Cora, Perez, and Pelfrey again.
“3 and yer out” Jeopardy Sweepstakes: Pelfrey takes the loss, but his outing was technically not BAD. So I guess this breaks his streak at just one strike in the books. He is off the hook beause mediocrity does not counts as BAD on this team. That leaves Perez as the only starter on the hook. Or does it, since Warthen said his last start was “encouraging”? Probably they are all off the hook. since with this team BAD must be REALLY BAD, RIP ROARING STINKO, to be counted as bad. Mediocre or normal bad is considered good in the Bizarro universe of the Mets.
There is another comment that I have, which relates to Oliver Perez. During the game last night, Keith took exception to a remark of Ollie’s in which he stated “Walks are a part of baseball.” Yes, walks ARE a part of baseball, but good pitchers minimize them and make sure they bear them and don’t allow walked batsmen to score. Ollie walked 2 and hit a batsman in 6 innings. Two of those scored. Yes, they are a part of baseball. Bad pitchers make them and lose games because of it. Not pitchers who earn $36Mil over 3 years.
Another fine job by Omar (Jerry and Warthen too) for paying elite pitcher salary levels to a guy who doesn’t understand the importance of not handing out free passes to base.
I’m glad Keith called him out on this. I guess the legacy of ‘69 and all that Tom Terrific brought to this organization is dead. Very sad indeed. “You start with STRIKE ONE and go from there.”
I thought it was interesting that they brought Oliver Perez up too. And of course their crticism of Oliie was completely justified.
I was surprised that they only spent a half inning discussing the Tony B story though. And even then, they simply glossed over it andd simply said it needed to be taken care of ASAP. I wanted to hear them have a solid discussion on it considering it has now been the biggest story of the last 48 hours.
Obviously too hot to handle. Very controversial and easy to get in the doghouse. They have to be aware of who pays their paychecks and the possibility of becoming a asacrificial lamb. They are generally pretty free with their opinions and criticism, but this topic is a little too sensitive for them to tread without caution. I can’t blame them for that at all.
I think the Luis Castillo event said it all. No matter what the Mets do, everything turns out wrong. They lost the series to the Nats. We are officially a worse team than the last place team in the leauge. So sad.