30
2010
These Marlins Have Become Our Nemesis
An article by Former Writers
Remember a few years back when the Braves were rolling to 14 straight division titles, and the Mets seemingly lost 80% of their games against Atlanta? Thankfully time and Atlanta’s mediocrity for a few years has evened that back out, but now the Mets have a new regular nemesis–the Florida Marlins.
The Mets, who lost 11 of 18 games against Florida last season, are so far 4-8 against them this season, including losses in Puerto Rico the past two nights. In the standings, the Mets are 1.5 games back of Atlanta and leading the NL wild card race, and they are 6 games ahead of the Marlins, who are 37-40 on the season. But for some reason, we just don’t match up well against these guys.
There is talent on the Florida roster, but not the kind of talent that should be dominating our Mets. Cody Ross, who is batting .295 this year, is batting .413 against the Mets with a .652 slugging percentage. Against the Phillies, Ross is batting .143. Jorge Cantu, who is hitting a mediocre .265, has feasted on Mets’ pitching for a few years now, and is batting .304 against them this year. By comparison he’s hitting .219 against the Phillies. Ricky Nolasco is 7-6 with a 4.84 ERA this season, but 2-0 with a 3.96 against the Mets.
I haven’t exactly dove in to figure the rest of the teams’ stats against the Mets, but it’s not pretty, at least from our side of the ledger. And this ineptitude against the Marlins can’t keep happening if the Mets want to reach the postseason this year.
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I think Nemesis is a stretch of the imagination. The majority of the Mets losses against the Marlins were games we should have won, but basically handed them the win through either stupid mistakes, fat pitches, or from the black cloud known as 2007-2009.
I don’t view the Marlins as a threat, nor an advesary. They don’t have our number, if anything we underestimate their abilities and it bites us. They have some talent, but lets not create a disillusion of the Marlins being our Megatron to our Optimus Prime, PLEASE!
This “article” couldn’t have just been a response to another post? Geez, guys.
I don’t know if they are our nemesis but I will say one thing I can’t stand it when the Mets play this Marlins team. I know it sound petty but I just can’t stand looking at some of their players. Especially Cody Ross/Dan Uggla. They annoy me just by looking at them much in the same way F. Cervelli does for the Yanks when I see him. Im glad we are done with this series in PR as it was kinda strange in a way I can’t describe. Maybe it was looking at that horrible turf on TV….
The Marlins are a strange team. They can’t play defense but they sure can hit. Last night though, they had so many ‘seeing eye’ hits against Pelf. That is what frustrated me.
In a batting cage, the Marlins would be world champs. Unfortunately for them, the game is played between the lines.