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2010
Blanco Walk Off Homerun Beats Giants 5-4 In Extras
An article by Dave [Retire 31]
Mets take two from the Giants with back-to-back walk-off homeruns, this time from Henry Blanco. Mets win 5-4 in 11 innings.
Game Notes
Johan Santana took the mound today and had a nice bounce back outing after giving up a personal worst ten runs in his last start. Santana went 7.2 innings, the longest any Mets starter has gone all season, beating Pelf’s start yesterday by a third of an inning. Santana let up eight hits, but only allowed three runs to cross the plate. He struck out six Giants batters and walked zero. That made 32 straight innings by Mets pitchers without giving up a walk. That later ended with a walk by Frankie Rodriquez in the tenth. Santana, however, only walked away with a no decision after the bullpen gave up his lead.
Nieve, Feliciano, and Mejia all pitched to one batter each to get the last out of the eight inning. Feliciano had a blown save, sixth blown save for the Mets this season. The rookie Mejia has only given up two runs and struck out eight batters in the thirteen innings he’s pitched this season.
Frankie Rodriguez pitched the ninth and tenth innings, walking two and striking out one. Hisanori Takahashi came in the eleventh and shut down the Giants. He pitched a 1-2-3 inning with two strikeouts. Takahashi leads the bullpen in strikeouts with 28 K’s on the season. Takahashi ends up getting the win.
Mets bats couldn’t get much going in the game. Bay and Pagan led the Mets offense with two runs-batted in each. Wright and Francoeur combined for 0-7 with two walks and five strike outs.
Of course the biggest hit of the game was Henry Blanco’s walk-off homerun in the eleventh inning to give the Mets a 5-4 win. Three days ago there were no walk-off homeruns in Citi Field’s history. Now there’s two in two days. This was also the first career walk off homerun for Blanco. Blanco was later pied in the face by Alex Cora when being interviewed by Kevin Burkhardt.
Luis Castillo left the game in the eight inning. Bone bruise on his left foot, he is day-to-day. Cora will be starting tomorrow.
Turning Point
Henry Blanco’s clutch walk off homerun to clinch the win for the Mets.
Game Ball
Santana had a great, long start but Blanco’s homerun shocked everyone and was amazing!
On Deck
Oliver Perez looks to get the sweep against the Giants as the Mets take on the undefeated, defending two time CY Young champion Tim Lincecum. First pitch at 1:10 pm on SNY.
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It is awesome to see that the Mets Catchers have hit back to back game ending wins.Thanks you for handling the staff great and some great hitting.Keep it up Guys.
..and it’s very weird our catchers are hitting game winning HRs while Benjie Molina is in the house
Henry Blanco’s walk-off homerun was the real deal. Congrats to Henry.
Lastings Milledge also had a homrun the other day for the Pirates, or so he thought.
Milledge was bamboozled into believing his liner in the fourth inning against the Chicago Cubs on Thursday night had cleared the left-field fence at PNC Park for his first career grand slam.
Certain he had gone deep, Milledge raised his fist rounding first base, put his head down and went into a trot. Cool.
The fireworks guy at PNC set off the pyrotechnics that explode every time a Bucs player goes deep. Music also began to blare. What a glorious moment for the Bucs!
But the ball had not cleared the fence. It hit the top and stayed in the field of play.
Milledge was between second and third base when he realized the Cubs had him in a rundown. He was tagged out.
Score that a two-run double and a big ol’ base-running blunder.
This is what happens, Lastings, when you don’t run everything out!
(Thanks to Yahoo Sports for the information.)
Yeah, I saw that on SportsCenter. So glad we got rid of him.
Does anyone know when Igarashi is coming back and the bullpen can use him?
Me, too.
Lastings is definitely high maintenance.
Rumor has it that Lincecum isn’t pitching tomorrow. Apparently, Molina was depressed and ate him. Panda devoured the leftovers…
…Speaking of Lincecum, my son, Liam, did his best to imitate him last Wednesday night on Long Island in a sanctioned Little League Majors Division game. The young man pitched a perfect game and struck out every batter in the process. The opposition hit one foul ball and two foul tips, that’s it.
If that wasn’t enough, the last nine outs that he recorded were by strikeout. Thus, he has struck out 27 batters in a row. That’s just insane.
So, for now, Liam holds the bragging rights in our house and its going to be really tough for his two other brothers to unseat him, and they’re not slouches, either.
Whew! Such are the glories of parenthood!
Oops – the last nine outs recorded were in the game previous to the perfect game; hence, 27 outs in a row by way of strikeout. Wish I could write as well as he pitches.
BTW, Blanco had a great game. Don’t be surprised to see him catch tomorrow so that Barajas can rest his bruised paw one more day.
Again this team wins despite the manager. Good job today guys.
I did ot get removing Santana after he got their best hitter out. Sandoval was batting right handed, so it was not a case of leaving him in ofr one more lefty batter, More mysterious decisions from The Manuel.
Pitch count determines when the manager pulls out a pitcher, remember he has to think about saving his pitchers for the whole season and possibly the playoffs…so far Jerry Manuel is keeping the team in contention, even thou we are last in hitting in the major leagues…its been his handling of the pitchers that is keeping us in the race…hopefully the team will start batting and we could put some distance between the rest of the teams, this division is a tough one…LGM
Good point about pitching keeping this team in contention, Sammy. To jdon and gdfther, who like bashing Jerry just because it’s fun, not because there’s a real reason to, here’s why he was right.
Most pitchers will have low pitch counts agaisnt the free swinging Giants, like Pelfrey and Santana did. When to take them out depends on the kind of at bats the hitters are having against the pitchers. In the first four innings on Friday, the Giants only mustered one run on three hits. Over the final 3+, they touched Pelfrey for two runs on five hits, and the two batters that reached in the 8th off Pelfrey scorched the ball and the heart of the order was due up. 85 pitches or not, it was time for him to go.
On Saturday, there was a similar situation. In the 8th, the first two guys singled, and that was followed by a hard line out and a fly ball deep enough to score a run. A hot right-handed batter was up, so Johan had to go. Easy to say he should have stayed in now, but if he had, and the inning continued like it was going, Jerry would have been killed for leaving Johan in too long.
Jerry gets killed for everything he does, but the only thing he’s done with a healthy Mets team is win. He had something like a .630 winning percentage after he took over in ’08, had the team 7 games above .500 before the injuries last year and this year, the Mets are contending again. Lay off him.
If you think Jerry is a good handler of pitches, well, fine. I disagree, however. Let’s see if any of these guys are performing well in a another month or two. Jerry is a knee jerk handler of pitchers. I attribute the early success to the players themselves. The managerial moves have been head-scratching, and that is being kind.
Great win yet the BP continues to be an enigma. How many times have the BP be given the lead, Ollie in Cincy, Johan yesterday, and not held the other team. You want the win totals to come from your starter not the BP.
Jerry needs to find another arm, hmmm Mejia, that can help take the load off of Nieve until Ryota returns cause while he may throw hard his ball does not move and eventually he will wear down, same with Pedro, he is not getting younger and all these years of appearances will take its toll on him.
Hoping that Ollie has the same stuff as last game and gets his first win against the Freak. LGM!
i really could get used to this walkoff stuff. Pretty darn cool.
I was in the Mens room on the concourse level washing my hands when Blanco hit this homerun, Compeltely missed it. But I did catch Barajas walk off homer from Section 115 row 6, Awesome Seats!!