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2011
Game Recap: Young Dominates, Bullpen Blows, Mets Lose 7-3
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Chris Young was dominant today, allowing one hit over seven innings but the bullpen blew it in the eighth, and then in the eleventh and the Mets lost 7-3, losing the series as well.
Game Notes
Chris Young looked excellent today, allowing one run on one hit over seven innings, walking two and striking out five. Young was exactly as advertised, having a 14:1 fly out to ground out ratio today. Young was consistently putting hitters in awkward positions, coaxing Jayson Werth into 3 foul pop-ups. When Young is in control and not laboring, he looks very confident on the mound.
The bullpen today was….inconsistent. D.J. Carrasco came out, and in two-thirds of an inning allowed two runs on two hits walking one, and spoiling the chance for a Chris Young win. Taylor Buchholz came out, and after walking two to load the bases, got Mike Morse to strike-out on three straight curveballs. Taylor’s final line was two-thirds of an inning, three walks and one strikeout. Tim Byrdak came out and pitched one-third of an inning, striking out one. K-Rod came out and got one out to end the top of the ninth. Blaine Boyer came out for the tenth, got out unscathed, then he was annihilated in the eleventh, giving up four runs, including a three-run blast. Boyer’s final line is four runs on four hits in two innings with no strikeouts.
The offense today existed in spurts, with the damage being done in the first inning by David Wright, scoring Jose Reyes and the second being an Angel Pagan single scoring David Wright. The Mets continued some offense in the fifth, with an Ike Davis broken-bat single scoring Willie Harris. After the fifth, the Mets couldn’t muster any offense, striking out sixteen times.
The offense today was confused by the Washington pitching, with Chris Young striking out three times, Willie Harris striking out 4 times and Brad Emaus striking out twice. Willie Harris has struck out 10 times in 24 at bats. Thats nearly 40% of his at-bats.
Jose Reyes, 3 for 5 including a lead-off bunt single. When Jose goes, the Mets go.
Ike Davis, 2 for 4 with an intentional walk, an RBI and two strikeouts.
Josh Thole, 0 for 4 with a few easy outs to second base and two strikeouts.
Scott Hairston, strikes out again. 7 K’s in 14 AB’s.
Turning Point
When Boyer Blew It.
Game Ball
Chris Young. Great game pitched, sorry about the lack of offense and the overworked bullpen. They killed you.
On Deck
The Mets will begin a serious against the Rockies, sending Mike Pelfrey to the mound against Jason Hammel. Game time is 7:10 P.M. and hopefully I can take some good pictures from my seats.
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NL East Standings
| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braves | 42 | 30 | .583 | - |
| Phillies | 35 | 37 | .486 | 7.0 |
| Nationals | 34 | 36 | .486 | 7.0 |
| Mets | 27 | 40 | .403 | 12.5 |
| Marlins | 22 | 48 | .314 | 19.0 |
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Chris Young looked spectacular. I found my way to a few highlight videos and I was impressed. I didn’t get to see the whole game on video (had to reserve myself to GameDay) but I liked his location and he seemed to keep people off balance, from what you’ve written. Which is exactly the way he has to pitch at Citi Field.
I think the turning point was more Carrasco than Boyer.
Yes, Boyer was terrible and I’ll continue ranting about him because he doesn’t deserve a spot on this team. I hear the Mets are contemplating a 13th pitcher until Bay returns.
Get Izzy and a Lefty…O’Conner/Misch?
We need them. I’d even take Izzy/Acosta. Anything but Boyer at this point.
The pen is being abused to this point.
Anyway, Ike’s having a good season so far. Good to see that.
Carrasco and Boyer are awful. Throw strikes.
As Yogi said: “This is like deja vu all over again.”
You want to keep on losing then keep IGNORING the main reasons why the Mets lose these games.
yes the Bullpen gave it up BUT the games is OVER in the bottom of the 10th inning if Jose Reyes steals 2B early in the count. Then the pitch sequence to Harris may be different, the different situation my change Harris approach and he bunts him to 3B. Then we have Reyes at 3B with one out with Wright & Davis coming up. Most likely this game is over in the bottom of the 10th
That’s why we lost the game. Not the bullpen. So keep ignoring the important strategic reasons why we lose games and you know what? You keep losing games.
Then Bobby Ojeda just minutes later echoed my sentiments almost word for word.
That’s why we lost the game. Not the bullpen.
I heard what Bobby O had to say. He also called out the BP just as harshly.
If it wasn’t for the BP, the game is over in the 9th. Reyes situation doesn’t even come into play. Might be a point going forward but not today.
The BP blew it.
Oh yeah..the bullpen is HORRENDOUS. I should have mentioned that in my post but i’m saying strategically the game should have been over in the bottom of the 10th. Reyes has to steal there, no questions asked. Period. If you want to win games you use your arsenal.
That’s why i say that’s where we lost the game. Not the bullpen. And I’ll stand by it.
Bayonne, you have a point about Reyes. But this is still on the BP for even putting them in extra innings.
However, the BP coughed up the lead long before the 10th. We shouldn’t have gone extra innings. Game should have ended in the ninth.
Didn’t help that the Mets didn’t get a hit after the 5th and struck out like 16 times.
Per Rubin:
The Met bullpen has allowed 45 hits and walked 16 hitters and hit two batters in 33.1 innings.
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That is one bad BP.
The bullpen was suckee-doodles yesterday that’s for sure. But let’s bring up that Reyes hit you guys are harping on. That was the only friggin hit since the FIFTH DAMN INNING (or was it the 3rd? My memory is a little off right now). Chris Young pitched his tuchus off, did what was expected of him and more. The offense is what let us down, along with the BP and Duda’s muffed play in the OF.
Chalk it up to “It’s April” and let’s hope they can redeem themselves against the Jimenez-less and Helton-less Rocks.
Well maybe he would steal if the horrid manager wouldn’t have had the bunt sign on. Maybe if you all would stop hatin on Reyes in preparing yourselves for his “happy” departure and started paying attention to the actual game you wouldn’t make so many assinine comments. NOBODY STEALS WHEN TRHE MANAGER CALLS FOR A BUNT..
Oh no..i LIKE Terry Collins and think he’s done a nice job. He’s going to have to learn that if Reyes will not go on his own than he has to give him the sign to go.
My post wasn’t a personal slight on Reyes just stating why i think Mets lost. And when it comes to winning and losing games..I have no favorites. Everybody is fair game and today it was a TERRIBLE job by Reyes. In my opinion his choice to not steal in the 10th inning cost us this game. Period.
You are aboslutely right when talking about how the 10th inning unfolded – 100% right exactly right.
YOU are ignoring the fact that this team was WINNING going into the 8th inning and the BP Blew it. If they did there job there would be no 10th inning. THAT IS WHY THE METS LOST THIS GAME, no other reason!!!
Nope, strategically – which is a word people like you ignore therefore you continue to lose games.
But STRATEGICALLY the Mets should have won in the bottom of the 10th. Bad bullpen, absolutely, but if Reyes steals LIKE HE SHOULD, the rest of the event unfold and most likely we win the game.
But talking about the bullpen is popular with regular fans like you.
You don’t know how to read, at all.
dude, i totally agree with you. Reyes has turned into a little pussy, is he afarid of stealing bases? if Reyes steals a base in that situation then the mets chances of scoring and winning the game jump up dramatically. but Jose has changed, he’s not the same as he used to be. I REMEMBER WHEN RICKY HENDERSON WAS FIRST BASE COACH IN 2007, HE ENCOURAGED TO STEAL EVERY TIME, AND REYES SET CAREER HIGHS IN SB THAT YEAR WITH 78. BUT NOW NO ONE MOTIVATES HIM TO STEAL, AND HES OBIOUSLY TOO SACRED TO DO IT ON HIS OWN.
*scared
Henderson encouraged reyes to steal every chance he gets and not be afraid of getting caught
Starter goes 7 innings giving up 1 hit/1 run. Leaves with a 2 run lead.
BP comes in and gives up 6 runs and I lost count on the walks.
We can talk about Duda and a defensive replacement or Reyes not running but the bottom line is the majority of this BP currently sux.
Start the revolving door now. DFA Boyer, bring up Izzy.
Nice srt you ask and you shall receive.
Mets moves- Izzy & Igarashi here tom, Duda sent down, Boyer DFA. Will carry 13 pitchers till Bay returns.
http://twitter.com/#!/KBurkhardtSNY/statuses/57199287586664448
LOL…so I just saw.
I had a feeling Izzy was on his way up at someone’s expense.
When asked about Izzy in the post game interview, he hesitated a few seconds and said something like ‘It’s being considered. Certainly’.
TC sounded completely exasperated with that BP. Said Carassco gives him 2 good outings previously, he puts him out there today and he does this. Said the walks are not acceptable. When asked what he was going to do about it, all he could say was something like ‘All you can do is impress upon them they’re in there to get outs. Throw strikes’.
I interpreted that to mean somewhat ‘hey, I can only work with what I’ve got here at the moment. Get me someone who can throw strikes and you won’t see the walks’.
This bullpen is real shlt. It’s going to be a very long season.
Once again it seems that even .the new regime can’t put together a decent BP, oh that’s right we are doing it on the cheap so we p/u D Backs leftovers like Boyer.
He might have an arm but he can’t pitch to save or hold a game.
Now is the time to question the reason Harris and Hairston are even playing as much as they do. Harris has a couple of good games and cause Mets have no other CF option we carry two no hit/good defense guys.
How much can we really complain when SA is living on the cheap, you get what you pay for, I think Yogi said that too.
But people like Craig Lerner, Berg, Cerrone had their minds already made up that everything Alderson touches turns to wine.
I think I even heard someone say that Cerrone and later Craig Lerner reposted that this bullpen was the Mets best ever? or one of the best? Or something like that…before the season started.
Why? Because everything Alderson does with those guys turns to wine…i mean koolaid
where are the apologists likes of jessep and chris? and many others that kiss the feet of the wilpons and tell you all the wonderful moves they make year in year out, a complete joke that you can go into this season with this pitching staff and think you can win and forget about the fact they have a medical staff that cannot tell you what a headache is, a clueless pitching coach, a frsnchise that is the butt of late night jokes, a empty citi field, a franchise that is heading for there 3rd staight sub .500 finish, and ownwers that need a ponzi scheme to run there team. i cannot wait to hear this years excuses, a new set same results but dont worry the writers of this site will tell you how great the new people are, meanwhile all the new editions are other teams recycled trash and the mets are hopeless in april yet again.
I thought this was Omar’s team. That’s what all of you guys said. If we win all these guys are Omar’s. He gets the credit. 130 of the 140 million dollar payroll is his. What kinds of moves would he have made this off season? Bring up Newenhaus? Havens? Fern? Wilmer? Harvey? You Omar apologists are too stupid to realize how he snookered himself and us with this “stars” and scrubs approach.
Bay might be able to do a little something but by the time he’s up and running Beltran will be out. Duda’s no Heyward, Thole’s no McCann, Gee is no Drabek, Emaus is no Prado, Parnell is no Kimbrell.
You can talk about stranding runners, blowing leads, strategy, commitment, instincts all you want to, it’s just BS. TALENT wins games. High end talent, that’s on the field for more than 3 years so you can add to it. Not a couple of expensive guys who play great for a three years, a couple of expensive guys who do nothing, a couple af expensive guys who can’t stay on the field and 18 guys taken in rounds 7-13.
All the strategy in the world will never overcome the talent disparity over a 162 game season.
Why are you comparing Gee to Drabek? Why Drabek?
Chipper (at age 39) is no Wright, Gonzalez is no Reyes, Mcclouth is no Beltran, and Kimbrell is no k-rod. Oh and I’ll take Davis over Freeman, and when Bay gets back I’d rather have him than Prado…
This is Omar’s team, your correct. It’s only what? a week into the season? there’s a lot of games left to be played, and our lineup will look much different when Bay gets back.
agee, go meander the streets of NYC and mutter a million different draftee names to anyone who’ll listen. It still doesn’t change the fact you’re a HUGE Second Guesser, everybody knows it and your baseball sense is still sophomoric.
..and it’s being proven you just use those millions names to manipulate your weak arguments anyway u can. Sure let’s just draft differently starting in 1961 or 62 (whatever) and everything would be different…go mutter in a long overcoat all your 1000,s of names but ur not fooling anyone.
Your act is tired around here
I’m no second guesser. I have never seen the sense is drafting less talented players than our competitors and trying to make up for it by collecting a few very expensive, post prime former All Stars who between injury, poor play and poor attitude frequently cancel out the sometimes brilliant play produced by a couple of these types. Because of the huge dollars committed to a handful of these guys we have to cheap out on the bottom third of the roster and settle for whoever we can find for the middle third.
That’s why we’ve only gone to the post season 3 times in the last 20 years and all three of those times coincided with one of our division rivals conducting a fire sale of their best players.
To continue to do the same thing and expect different results is the literal definition of stupid. Talent is what wins games. High end, in its prime talent. Well developed both in technique and baseball IQ and filled in around and below with more high end talent. The kind you don’t consistently find in the 7th-13th round.
Only an idiot wouldn’t understand that.
I won’t be “meandering the streets in an overcoat” chimp. I’ll be on the field playing ball while you continue to vent and rage against anyone who disagrees with you…..cause your a chimp.
No wonder your such a devotee of monkey ball.
If Omar was here then Boyer would not have been in there!
More likely Misch or Acosta.
No, he would have given Takahashi and Feliciano what they were asking.
Takahashi so far 6 games, 3 IP, 6 hits, 3 BB’s, 1 HR. Feliciano on the DL after having left behind a supplemental round draft choice (you know the round where we drafted Wright)
Both of these guys are getting paid 4M this year and next. Money that hopefully will be used to re sign Reyes or more likely was subtracted from the 2011 budget to help pay for Perez and Castillo.
If Omar was here – after yesterday he was have extended his contract and given him $20M
I am not ready to jump off the SA wagon yet, I like Terry though his overuse of BP (only one lefty and restrained with bench of Harris, Hairston, Nickeas, Murphy (only one who can consistently hit), but you get the team that you pay for: cheap players rarely turn out to be good as the DFA of Boyer shows.
What happened to plate approach of making pitchers wk while waiting for a pitch in your zone?
I also get frustrated at times with Jose and when he runs but he has lead off last 7 games and gotten on base and how many runs has he scored? 2 maybe.
whatever happens this year can’t be attributed to alderson.
i don’t possibly see what a gm of a bankrupt team can do in one year. by year 3, you can start judging the gm, and that’s only if there’s a sense of financial stability.
there is nothing that alderson can do to make this team win this year. he’s here under a mandate to cut the budget in half and hopefully win, not the other way around.
Oh, you saw the memo?
A typical Mets team snatching defeat from the jaws of victory–rather common occurrence since 2008 season. Like a lot of you (I’m sure), I felt pretty queasy once Young exited. It seemed clear that the Metsies couldn’t hit off of a tee today.
Once Crappasco gave it up, I watched, hopeful, but knowing we had to score immediately if there were going to be any way to beat the Gnats. Alas.
Aside from Parnell and K-Rod, the BP is amateur. Bucholz looks like a Sean Green-type. I dunno, the sky hasn’t exactly fallen yet, but this BP sure is beginning to make it look as if it will soon. Maybe Byrdak is worth keeping.
What a shame to lose the opening series like that. Ugh!
Parnell and Rodriguez haven’t exactly lit the world on fire this year.
You’re right, but they are proven commodities.
Did you see Parnell win that duel against Espinosa–wow!
I haven’t read the comments here but I need to rant on poor bullpen management. Every other person in this sport and every other sport has a defined role. But for some reason certain managers like to throw a century of sports management out the window when it comes to the bullpen. Talking about there’s no need for a defined role. That’s idiotic. Young did everything we could have asked in his second start of the year. He got an above quality start into the 8th with a lead. PUT IN YOUR 8TH INNING GUY DAMMIT!! If your eighth inning guy is tired, use your seventh inning guy. Do not put in you damn long reliever. All this “needing work” and “getting a guy some innings” stuff is just garbage. Play and manage to win the game.
For everyone getting worked up about a pen being fluid and not panicking- that’s bull. The best pen last year was San Diego, and their pen was very unfluid. Solid if you will. They had the same guys in there knowing their role the whole season. We may not have the best guys in our pen, but dammit we could at least use them right.
I’m not trying to bash our new manager or GM, but I’m not gonna praise them either. There have been poor decisions made in this young season both on the filed and in the front office. And anyone saying that giving Boyer a look before promoting Izzy was somehow a smart decision is a fool. Stop accepting bad baseball. Looks like the same old Mets to me.