30
2010
Dickey & Frenchy Fuel Mets 10-4 Win Over Brew Crew
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The Mets avoided the sweep this afternoon and took the finale by a 10-4 score thanks to Dickey’s solid effort and a big day at the plate for Jeff Francoeur who exploded for four hits today.
Game Summary
R.A. Dickey gave the Mets another solid outing today and improved to 2-0 with a 2.84 ERA. Dickey worked seven innings and allowed four runs, three of them coming on a pair of home runs by Rickie Weeks. The knuckleballer showed excellent control for his third straight outing and walked none while striking out three. It was Dickey’s longest Major League outing since he pitching seven innings on Aug. 5, 2008. He is certainly making a solid case to become a permanent member of the rotation barring any trades in the future.
The Mets’ bullpen, shutdown the Brewers for the final two innings, with Pedro Feliciano, Elmer Dessens and Frankie Rodriguez all getting some work.
Jeff Francoeur was the hitting star of the game and after a two hit game on Saturday, Frenchy had a big four hit game today that included two doubles, two RBI, three runs and a stolen base, his sixth swipe of the season. It was his seventh career four-hit game, and it looks like he’s finally out of his prolonged slump and ready to go on another one of his hot streaks.
Henry Blanco caught the knuckleballer and had a great day going 3-for-4 with two doubles, a walk and two runs scored. He is now batting .306 and defensively he has not allowed a stolen base yet this season.
Angel Pagan hit a two-run homer in the seventh, his fourth, as part of a 2-4 day with a couple of runs scored. He continues to play some solid baseball in every aspect of his game. If Beltran comes back, and I know that’s a big if, Pagan has earned the right to at least a platoon in rightfield with Francoeur. Truth be told, with the way Francoeur demolishes LHP (.325 vs LHP), and Pagan RHP (.300 vs RHP), we’d be getting tremendous production out of that corner.
Our own Mikey J was at the game and sent me this pic from his phone. Maybe he’ll tell us about his experience when he posts later this week.
Turning Point
Luis Castillo had the biggest hit, breaking a 2-2 tie with a two-out, two-run single in the sixth inning.
Game Ball
Jeff Francoeur gets the game ball with the hope that he builds on his 6-8 weekend.
On Deck
The Mets head out to Petco Park in San Diego where Hisanori Takahashi takes on Kevin Correia in the first of a three game series. Tak has been tremendous and looks to pick up his fifth win. Game time is 10:05 PM. LGM!
About the Author: Joe DeCaro
Went to my first Mets game, a Mayors Trophy game at Shea, in '73. We beat the Yankees 8-4 and I was hooked. I marched in two Banner Day parades, and before the Grand Slam single, there was the "Hendu Can Do" grand slam - I was there. I've collected Mets memorabilia all my life and started Mets Merized Online to feed my addiction.
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R.A. Dickey — Welcome aboard. Enjoy your voyage.
Mike Francesa thinks Dickey is a “career minor leaguer.”
HE ALSO THINKS HE’S A SPORTS GENIUS
Most starters who turn to the knuckle ball were career minor-leaguers. (Fat)So?
Frenchy’s getting hot at the right time, as we head to the surprisingly good San Diego Padres. He needs to keep it up.
We held close for the first half of the game, before we really buried their bullpen.
Nice to win on the road and avoid the sweep.
BTW: sorry to be a stathead stickler, but Blanco actually has allowed a stolen base. But he’s still 86% at throwing runners out, so it’s all good.
Blanco is amazing.
He usually catches over 40% of runners on attempted steals.
I checked this season’s records. The only stolen base this season was in the third straight shutout game we rang up against the Phillies. Victorino hit a single in the sixth inning, and with 23 straight scoreless innings already on the boards, he was desperate to generate a run. He stole second against Pelfrey/Blanco. We all know that Big Mike pitched his way out of the situation and the Mets rang up the shutout.
Blanco as good a receiver as I have ever seen. And he has a gun too. He is so calm back there, and has to move so little. I always thought Grote was the best D catcher I saw, but Blanco does everything right as well. Very few great D catchers were great hitters, Bench being an exception. I don’t want to hear anyone mention Pudge because he led the league in passed balls several times. And he had a rep for calling an excessive number of fastballs with speedy men on base. Plus, he was a juicer.
Here is hoping that Mets get over their Padres allergy; they have had a really bad time recently playing in San Diego and the fact that they are playing so good at this time does not mean Mets can’t beat them in series, minimum split cause their hitting especially in the OF is hands down better than San Diego’s.
Good time to break out of road slump since this park plays a lot like Citi field and Mets, especially pitchers, should pitch as though pitching at home.
Sarge, not that there’s anything more than a coincidental consideration; but by my recollection we haven’t played well in SD since “THE COLLISION”(Beltran/Cameron). from which Beltran returned AMA(against medical advice) to play with unhealed facial fractures with Cammy not heard from remainder of that season. Myopic Beltran detractors referring to him as SOFT would do well to remember that above & beyond courage.
Joe, I dont think Francoeur will accept being a platoon player at 26 years old and that it could lead to a bad situation of a disgruntled player on the team. He’s a streaky player on offense but is steady on defense and one of the best if not the best in rightfield. It may just be that Pagan goes back to being a 4th OF, even though he has proven to be an above average everyday player who can impact a game with his clutch hitting ability. I don’t think Beltran will come back at all this season. Him and his agent knew exactly what they were doing when he elected to have surgery in January. All they care about is making sure he is healthy and 100% for his walk year in 2011 so he can get one more big payday, probably from the Yankees or Red Sox.
Original, you’ve an excellent point given more credance by the fact Beltran’s reped by Boras. It’s quite likely that IF Beltran DOES return, his capabilities, like Reyes’ may need quite sometime to return to normal. If so, it may be best to platoon Pagan & Beltran leaving Frenchy alone or really screw with them by using Carlos as the #4 floater off the bench until he proves 100% returned. Boras declared War with this whole surgery BS & has continued it by advising Perez to resist reassignment. Boras is slime & is our jihadist. the NYM would bew best to avoid his clients since Boras has done nothing but work against us in nearly every transaction.Shopping Beltran to NYY @ a discount after reaching understanding w/NYM, directing Lowe to ATL, sticking us with Perez, making Beltran believe his January surgery was not bound by club approval.
The only concern to Scott Boras, as proven repeatedly is Scott Boras’ wallet. Since ownership refuses to buyout Perez’ contract & Boras is trying to force it by advising Ollie to non-concur with reassignment, in my opinion, Ollie should be informed that unless he agrees to reassignment, he will not be used under ANY circumstances for the remaining 1.5 yrs due. ostensibly making perez unmarketable by anyone to any club potentially forcing him to retire, masking Boras no additional money. I would also, as I said before, consider not reinstating Beltran to everyday CF status, until he is proven capable of contributing on a reg high level. DRACONIAN measures for certain; but I don’t see a downside. There are few enough high payroll teams for Boras clients. Boras can ill afford to truly piss one off. I’m certain Omar pissed Boras off last yr by publicly focusing solely on Bay for LF not allowing Boras to use us as leaverage(mystery team) on Stl for Holliday
If Carlos Beltran and his agent indeed wrote off this season by waiting till January to be operated on then I would love to see the Mets trade him for some value. His replacement Angel Pagan has done a terrific job so far and more importantly has stepped up his mental approach to the game. He is no longer making the base running and defensive blunders from years past. At this point I’d trade Carlos for a quality pitcher in a heartbeat.
This team may or may not be in the running for a playoff spot at this point. Pitching will tell the story. A must would be getting rid of Oliver Perez who can only be a cancer as he languishes at the end of the bench of the bullpen. His team mates can not be happy that he refuses to go to the minors and try and work out his problems. He is getting paid regardless as it seems that short of murdering someone he can do what he likes without violating his contract. What a joke…Send him packing to show other teams who might gamble on him that he is a coward!
Alan, consider this Beltran has a complete No Trade & until he proves capable of playing productivly potential is his value is lower than GMJ.
As far as Francoeur is concerned, i have this feeling: ou see a lot of guys look awful during a slump, but you are confident they will come out of it. i do not get that feeling with Francoeur. Why does it take a guy month to remember that he went the other way a lot last year when he had some success? I could actually s= ee Jeff falling down an offensive well and slumping himself out of the league.