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2010
Acosta Blows It, Mets Lose 8-7 In Game 1
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Jonathon Niese was abused in his final outing of 2010, but the Mets offense came to his rescue.
Game Notes
Jonathon Niese had his second straight poor outing, and leaves a sour taste in his mouth exiting the 2010 season. Jonathon went two and two-third innings, giving up six runs on ten hits with no walks and three strikeouts. His location was off after the end of the second inning, throwing everything down the middle. Was this probably general fatigue? Yes. Should he have been done for the year? Probably. Does it matter? No.
The bullpen had another long day today, with Ryota Igarashi making his first appearance since September 10th and pitching one and one-third innings of perfect baseball, striking out one. Raul Valdes came out and pitched one and two third innings, giving up one hit and walking one. Sean Green finished the sixth inning with a strikeout. Green has been pitching much better recently, striking out many batters thanks to his slider spinning. Elmer Dessens pitched the seventh inning, giving up two hits. Pedro Feliciano walked one, and he scored when Manny Acosta allowed two hits and two runs. Hisanori Takahashi had to stop the bleeding, giving up a hit and striking out one over one and one-third innings.
The Mets offense erupted in the fourth inning, after Chris Carter knocked in Lucas Duda and David Wright in the second inning, when Jose Reyes tripled over the head of RF’er Corey Hart, scoring Jesus Feliciano then scoring himself on a throwing error by Rickie Weeks. Lucas Duda then proceeded to crush a ball to right field, his third of the season. Lucas has 13 hits this season, eight of them for extra-bases. Angel Pagan would hit a single, and David Wright crushed a ball to nearly dead-center, scoring Pagan and putting him over 100 RBI for the fifth time in his career.
Ike Davis, 0-2 with three walks and a strikeout. Ike has been seeing the ball much better in September.
Mike Nickeas, 2-4. Possibly seeing 2011′s backup backstop.
Jose Reyes, 3-5 with three extra-base hits, a run scored and one RBI.
Turning Point
When Jonathon Niese was rendered useless in the third inning.
Game Ball
Goes to the fan, but tip of the hat goes to David Wright for notching his fifth 100 RBI season
On Deck
….R.A. Dickey is pitching as I type this in the second game of the double-header. Tommorrow, Dillon Gee faces Chris Narveson at 7:10 P.M. to close the series.
About the Author: Sean Kenny
Sean Kenny is a student/writer currently attending school at the City College of New York. For more Mets news, notes and thoughts follow him on twitter @TheSeanKenny
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Marlins | 23 | 19 | .548 | 2.5 |
| Mets | 22 | 20 | .524 | 3.5 |
| Phillies | 21 | 22 | .488 | 5.0 |
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How many times do the Mets have to run Acosta out there to figure out why the Braves let him go? He has not shown me anything. He throws hard with no movement and he has cost us two games in the past week.
Speaking of the BP, does Jerry have it in his contract that he has to run Feliciano out there every game the rest of the year regardless of performance?
He sucked in the 1st game and he could not throw a strike to a batter (Counsel) trying to give him an out and then you bring in the always reliable Mr. Green (in the 2nd game).
I will lose it if Green or Acosta are part of this BP next year and the fact that Pedro can pitch just about every day does not mean he has to.
If he can’t get lefties out then what use is he, plus getting older will certainly limit his effectiveness, he has bamboozled the Mets and staff into pitching him all the time. Results are what matter and lately he is lacking results.
Oh, please can anyone tell me how Mike Carp is doing or Joe Smith, two guys we traded for an injured closer, Putz, and a can’t throw straight, Green, relief pitcher who were traded to Mets site un-seen by the brilliance of Omar, sheesh what a waste land the Mets BP has become.
It needs to be blown up over the winter, Pedro, Parnell, Takahashi, and who else, this has now become a problem now with K Rods problems and Takahashi wanting to leave.
Sarge, in 106 major league plate appearances, Carp has one home run and five RBIs with a .264/.358/.374 slash. He’s marginally ok. His cup of coffee with the Mariners last year was very encouraging, but he regressed this year terribly.
Joe Smith has been pretty effective. In 88 appearances for Cleveland, he’s 2-2 with a 3.73 ERA. He walks 4.6 batter per nine innings, though. He balances that out with a good H/9 and K/9 ratios.
The main part of the deal (at least to me) was getting Heilman off this team. He might actually be the worst pitcher in history. With the Cubs and D-Backs, he’s 9-12 with a 4.39 ERA and a 1.41 WHIP
Thanks Xman.
I was at the game(s) yesterday. I am not a doctor, trainer, baseball manager, etc but Niese looked awful from the beginning. His body language told me he was exhausted and done.
Again, no doctor, but I sat field level, 1b side not too far up from duggout, and before he went into his windup it was very noticable (to me) that his left shoulder was so much lower then his right.
I think after the last start they should have shut him down. Isn’t he far over his innings pitched from last year?
I know the “don’t baby them” arguement will come out, but if he’s not getting it done, he’s not getting it done….