16
2011
Mets Lose Both Games In Doubleheader Against Braves; 4-2, 4-0
An article by Former Writers
Game One: Game Summary
Mets get out slugged as DJ Carrasco gets over matched against the Braves’ long balls. The bullpen holds together, and the offense fell silent. Mets lose the first game of the double header, 4-2 to the Braves.
Game Notes
When the Mets chose DJ Carrasco to start for them in a pinch spot, they new it would be a long shot. They did not know it would become literal. Three balls left the yard in just the first four innings all coming off the Braves’ bats. He threw over 80 pitches in 3.2 innings of work with allowing three runs on four hits, three walks and struck out two batters. Now he will not be available for a good two-three days, and these double-headers are gonna ware out the already drained bullpen. Not a great choice by Collins.
Iggy continues to have a good come back into the majors with getting his only batter out. Misch pitched two innings in relief giving up one run on one homerun, one walk, and struck out two. Parnell also pitched two innings, allowing no runs, one hit, two walks, three strike outs.
The offense fell silence when they Mets easily could have taken the lead. Only Willie Harris and Jose Reyes had RBIs.
Wright: 0-4, 2 K
Davis: 0-3, K
Emaus: 0-4, K
Total of six hits, and 1-6 with RISP. No bueno.
Turning Point
All of the homeruns that kept the Braves scoring.
Game Ball
Parnell had the best outing in that game.
Game Two: Game Summary
Pelfrey continues to struggle as he gets tagged for eleven hits and four runs in five innings against the Braves. And just like the first game, the bullpen was there, but the bats were not. Mets continue their lose streak with a 4-0 loss to the Braves.
Game Notes
Mike Pelfrey still has yet to find his rhythm yet as he gets take out after five innings. There just always seemed to be runners on bases when Pelfrey is pitching. After five innings, four runs have come across on eleven hits and surprisingly only one walk. He struck out three and had another one of his ‘yips.’ When your “Ace” is Mike Pelfrey with an ERA over 9, you know you are in trouble. Pelfrey receives his second loss of the season.
Pedro Beato continues some great bullpen outings with two hitless innings and three strikeouts. He has yet to strike up an ERA. And I didn’t think anything of him during Spring Training. Taylor Buchholz also provided a hitless inning with a K.
Wow, I thought the offense was bad in the first game…this one was just ridiculous. Two total hits. Yupp, you read that right. I understand that it’s Jurrjens, but just two hits is sad. The biggest hit was a double by Murphy, who later made a terrible decision to try to steal third when the Mets were down by three at the time and got himself caught stealing. Just sad.
Turning Point
It was all down hill for the Mets
Game Ball
Beato and Buchholz for three hitless innings.
Up Next
Dillon Gee will have his first start of the season in replace of Chris Young tomorrow. He will be going up against Tommy Hanson (1-2, 3.38) and the Braves. Game time is 1:35 PM.
PS. I hate listening to Mets games on Fox. They said the wrong names, gave out the wrong stats, couldn’t pronounce names correctly, the Mets side of the scoreboard was off the screen, the announcer’s anti-Mets comments, and they didn’t even know what an oblique muscle was. Ugh!
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NL East Standings
| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braves | 27 | 18 | .600 | - |
| Nationals | 23 | 23 | .500 | 4.5 |
| Phillies | 22 | 24 | .478 | 5.5 |
| Mets | 17 | 26 | .395 | 9.0 |
| Marlins | 13 | 33 | .283 | 14.5 |
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This team is garbage.
Not quite. Eventually garbage rots away-not so for the METS!
Dont worry it’s only April. <— What the really really smart Mets fans say.
It is only April and the Mets aren’t mathematically eliminated yet . . . soon but not yet. On the other hand — the way this team is playing means it’s gonna be a looooooooooooooong season. Oi vey.
Tough loss. Wait I am repeating myself.
7 games below .500 is about 5 more than i figured they might finish the season at.
Murphy made a bonehead mistake trying to steal 3rd. Collins said it best.
“There’s a fine line between aggressive and dumb. He tried to create something that just wasn’t’ there”
No one is hitting right now. the Mets had 2 hits in the 2nd game and both were retired on caught stealing.
Trying to find a positive in getting swept in back to back double headers for myself and all I can come up with is this.
Over the last 4 games the pen has pitched good.
Here is the pen line over the last 4 games:
13.1/IP 9/H 4/R 4/ER 4/BB 16/SO 6/IH 2/IS
IH – Inherited runners
IS – Inherited runners that scored
Losing streak at 7 games. Gee on the hill tomorrow looking to end it.
LETS GO METS!!!
Hey, at least Pelfrey has pitched 5 innings in back-to-back starts, AND allowed FEWER runs than innings pitched! That’s improvement, right? Maybe by June he’ll feel up to pitching 6 innings a start. Hey, you gotta take hope where you can get it with this club. I don’t think it’d be as upsetting if this were a really young team with little ML experience. But this is a team led by veterans, such as Wright, Reyes, Beltran, Pelfrey, Dickey, Rodriguez, etc., etc. They shouldn’t play this badly. But, then again, they shouldn’t have last year either. Injuries were a valid excuse in ’09. They had some injuries in ’10 but not enough to continue using it as an excuse. What’s the problem in ’11? 4 and 11, 7 games under .500, and a 1-6 record at home. This is getting old, real quick. Goes to show that there’s more fundamentally wrong with this team than just Oliver Perez and Luis Castillo.
Watching Pelfrey it struck me. He is Aaron Heilmann wearing Mike Pelfrey”s uniform and number-Am I the only one who picked up on this?
Im glad i stocked up on the Pepto for this year…it’s comming in handy.
My March over/under was 76 wins…I may have to readjust that.
Have we ever lost four games in three days, or in two consecutive playing days?
BTW, David is looking pretty bad when we need him.
Yeah all you naysayers just wait until Bay comes back-we’ll show you for a game or two until the wussie goes down again-you just wait!