May
27
2011

K-Blah’d, Mets Lose 6-4

An article by Sean Kenny

The Mets as a team pitched well, but the bullpen wound up being the culprit of loss again today, and the Mets lost the opening game in the series, 6-4 to the Phillies

Game Notes

Chris Capuano, coming off a disastrous outing in the Bronx, went six effective innings, allowing two runs on four hits with one walk and eight strikeouts. Cap looked good today, and the return of Chase Utley just helps that platoon split. Capuano only had thrown 78 pitches, but was pinch hit for in the seventh.

The bullpen today had mostly negative results. Pedro Beato, after the worst two outings of his young career had a clean inning. Jason Isringhausen got himself into trouble with a leadoff single, stolen base and then a Jimmy Rollins double on a hanging curveball. He managed to get out of the inning on guile, getting a fly out, pop out and then fly out. K-Rod came out today and did his usual tight-rope act, but with the assistance of a bad fielding play by Daniel Murphy, allowed the Phillies to scratch across three in the ninth for the win.

Bullpen’s sometimes falter – lets just hope this was a one time issue. Izzy couldn’t hold the Phillies in the eighth, putting the Mets in a bad situation.

Offense today existed in spurts. #RBIWhoreBeltran had a big day. knocking in some RBI. Mets did some major stranding, and for the sake of long winded rebuttal’s on how the Mets need to hit with RISP, we go to individual stats

Jose Reyes – 2 for 5 with three runs. Jose is just on another planet right now in terms of productivity.

Turner – 4 for 5 with an RBI. The kid seems to understand how to play the game.

Harris & Hairston – 0 for 2 in pinch-hitting duty. Harris was in a big spot, Hairston was in a HUGE spot, against a lefty.

Daniel Murphy – 1 for 5 with an SB and three runners stranded. Also, two bad defensive plays not scored as errors that led to runs.

Turning Point

Murphy misplaying the grounder in the ninth that scored the first run of the inning

Game Ball

Chris Capuano pitched a great game, and if it wasn’t for the situation in the game he would’ve stayed in

On Deck

The Mets will hit the field tommorrow, sending Mike Pelfrey to face off against the Phillies and Cole Hamels. Game Time is 7:10 P.M.

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

11 Comments + Add Comment

Midwestern Met May 28, 2011 at 12:36 am

K-Rod’s tightrope finally snaps and it costs the Mets a win against the Phillies. Read all about it: http://tiny.cc/4dr0p
gary s. May 28, 2011 at 12:57 am

I was at the game and didn’t understand why they pulled capuano with 78 pitches in the best performance of the year for the lefty.Removing hom for Willie Harris in a tie game made no sense.He had the same chance to get a hit as Harris the out machine did.Harris and Hairston and Bay are killing this team all year
- harry c May 28, 2011 at 8:12 am
  
  It is clear why they pulled him. He has proven that if he goes past 6 he is horrid. The manager doesn’t have any trust in him deservedly so.
Jerry M May 28, 2011 at 1:05 am

Murphy opnly made one bad play. The play where he didnt guard the line was by instructions from Collins to Turner and him to play more iin from the line.
Mr North Jersey May 28, 2011 at 2:30 am

Good choice on the gameball. Watching the phillies feed they were scratching their head at Collins decision to pull Capuano when he did. They felt he was doing the Phillies a favor by pulling Capuano there.

I believe Capuano was quoted to say that he understood the decision to take him out fwiw.

Off Topic: I am reading that Dickey hopes to make his next start? Is the tear not that serious that this is even a consideration?
- Lou May 28, 2011 at 9:23 am
  
  Agrred. Well if the dunce Collins (worst managerial decision made so far) is going to pull Chris, why would you have Harris pinch hit. That was a guaranteed out!
Lou May 28, 2011 at 9:21 am

After watching last night’s game and now that we are 8.5 back at the end of May and headed deep into the cellar. the Mets should start now on a dismantling and rebuilding program. There is no wild card to be had. We got stomped by the Cubs and lowly Pittsburgh put the whupping on them yesterdsay. What does that tell you. Identify key players to keep like Ike Davis,Gee, Niese, Paulino (I like him better than Thole) etc., and start dealing the rest. I see no upside in trying too hang onto guys we can’t afford like Reyes and Beltran and Bay we are stuck with. He stinks so bad even the cesspool cleaning guys won’t go near him. The sooner we get on with this the sooner the pain will be over. This is a sad team to watch! I know Einhorn will only get 25% but in the interest of his money, hope he has some influence unless he hust wanted a 200 million dollar owner’s box?
- harry c May 28, 2011 at 6:57 pm
  
  Hey Lou were you around in 69 or 73???? Guess not…. 8.5 back in May and you want to quit. Talk to the 10 Giants, the 51 Giants, the list goes on and on. Maybe thtin orem, eitherhais team stinks, maybe not, but you really are clueless about baseball to give up with that deficit in May.
  - Lou May 28, 2011 at 11:03 pm
    
    Well Harry add another loss tonight to the total and the loss was against the first place team. I ‘ll stick with what I said. The Mets are dead meat!
srt May 28, 2011 at 11:10 am

No getting around Murphy’s miscues at first last night.

However, if Izzy didn’t give up a run, if KRod didn’t put 2 on before Murphy let that ball go by, this game could very well have ended different.
I know it’s Frankie’s MO but constantly putting guys on in the 9th before he shuts the door, well, leaves a greater chance of not getting that door shut.

Point being there was more than one ‘goat’ in that game last night.
- Lou May 28, 2011 at 11:20 am
  
  And that’s the point you ade so well. See my post above and hope you understand why I say start the rebuilding process now!
  What is the point and what do you gain by letting this dead fish just lie around and rot?

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