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2011
New York Mess, Bullpen Still Useless, Mets Lose 6-3
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Jonathon Niese had a great start, but the bullpen collapsed YET AGAIN and the Mets lost against the Braves, 6-3
Game Notes
Jonathon Niese pitched a great game, going seven and two-third innings giving up two runs on eight hits striking out seven and walking one. Niese had everything working today, and with most Mets starters recently, the gas seemed to be running low in the eighth inning. What that has meant usually, is exactly what has happened. Worst case scenarios
Izzy came out for another outing…in hopes to deconstruct his arm, and walked a batter, then advanced him to second on a wild pitch, then with some Jose Reyes help (the ball literally went under his glove, he didn’t commit) and allowed a run to score. Izzy final line is one-third, one unearned run, one walk, one strikeout. K-Rod came in for the ninth, and gave up a home run to Eric Hinske, then a double to Martin Prado, an intentional walk to Brian McCann and a double by Freddie Freeman (and a stupid baserunning play to get them out of the inning) left the score at 6-3.
Honestly, someone in the pen needs to step u and stop the bleeding. Or a starter needs to go a full nine.
The offense today had one good inning, and put across all its run on singles, which has been fairly customary with the Mets missing Wright and Ike (Jason Bay’s power stroke, is still MIA as well). RBI hits by Beltran (#RBIWhore) Murphy and Pagan was all the runs the Mets could push across. After the seventh inning, if the Braves send out the 1-2 of Venters/Kimbrel, you don’t have much of a chance.
Ruben Tejada – 0 for 3. Cooling down a little bit, but still good.
Jose Reyes – 2 for 4 with a run and his seventh error of the year in a HUGE spot. That makes two in the last few games, on plays he could’ve made easily.
Willie Harris – I really do hope when David Wright returns, you aren’t on the team.
Turning Point
The Chipper Jones home run/Jose Reyes error. Without Chipper’s HR, that error doesn’t amount to much but a run.
Game Ball
Jonathon Niese. You go out, throw a quality game, and then have it spoiled by bad defense, bad pitching and bad luck.
On Deck
The Mets will hope to hold a lead (if they have it) in the seventh inning, sending Dillon Gee to the mound against Jair Jurjjens and the Braves. Game time is 7:10 P.M.
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About the Author: Sean Kenny
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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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Must be at least the tenth time this scenario has played out this season. WTF?!
Bay just sucks so royally. Were it my $, I’d dump Bay at ASB, and convert Turner to
LF.
Why would you IW McCann, to pitch to red hot Freeman?!
So f-ing DEPRESSING!
So depressing that i hope there isn’t a mass suicide in the stands. You have to be crazy to buy a ticket to see rookie league baseball at Citi Field so the fans are haLfway there.
the METS have truly hit bottom!
Niese deserved a win. The team let him down.
Someone find the freakin’ reset button on this season!
Same old story for the Mets: great start wiped out by late-inning collapse. Read all about the latest debacle: http://tiny.cc/912ry
the booth finally mentioned something that has been apparent for years. The mets lineup, even when fully healthy, seems to have trouble with the bullpens of other teams, good or bad. Some people would say they have a tendency to lie down with a lead, or whenever misfortune strikes. There is certainly nothing scientific about it.
I meant to say relax with a lead, or lie down whenever misfortune strikes. In any event, it is a sign of a team with a rotten core.
I truly feel sorry for Terry Collins. There isn’t enough Jack Daniels in the world that could get me through what he must be experiencing. Mr. Einhorn you just got suckered oiut of 200 Mil!
Maybe I’m an optimist, but I don’t necessarily lump this loss in with the rest as a “bullpen fail” even though it technically was.
An error by a normally very good shortstop and a blown up inning by an elite closer. Things like that will happen. I’d just say it was bad luck it happened in the same game on inning apart.
I mean, if it was Beato who blew up in the ninth, you can say “same ol’, same ol’” but Rodriguez has been nothing short of fantastic all year and you can’t really blame him for an occasional bad outing. He just picked the wrong time.
I think the bigger problem is that the Mets have only scored more than four runs in four of their last seventeen games.
Thank you for your insight. Now let me see, according to my statistics:
Bad luck: 20
Good Luck: 1
that bad luck will get you every time!
Kroc not the equal of Bravos closer. Now he’s blown two.
What is this rumor that he was pitching through
A lot of pain last night?
Russ, I’m not sure what you mean there. Kimbrel has pitched one more inning than K-Rod, they’ve given up the same exact number of earned runs (Kimbrel has given up an unearned run), K-Rod has walked one more batter, Kimbrel has blown four saves and K-Rod has blown one (first opportunity of the season, right?), they’ve each thrown the same number of wild pitches. Kimbrel is much more of a strikeout pitcher, yes, but K-Rod’s 9.00 K/9 isn’t exactly hurting, either.
By the way, these numbers are as of today, after Kimbrel’s good inning and K-Rod’s horrible one. If we had this discussion 24 hours ago, K-Rod likely has a marked advantage in a lot of numbers.
Kimbrel is doing it for 415K, K-Rod 12 M. Kimbrel cost a 3rd round draft pick, K-Rod a first rounder, The Braves will have Kimbrel for another 5 years if THEY want, we’ll have K-Rod for another year if HE finishes 55 games, at 17 Million dollars.
Like it or not K-Rod’s salary is taking away from our current team and the draft pick he cost us is potentially taking away from future teams.
When you weigh out ALL of the implications K-Rod would have to be perfect, just to be even.
Sure, if you want to talk about salary. I was comparing performance.
It wasn’t pretty, but Izzy did his job. I don’t consider it a breakdown by the bullpen, per se. Just K-Rod. We have seen this before. He has these lapses. A first row homer and then he implodes. What kills me is the shortest distance to a fence at Citi is that rightfield corner, yet the visitors take advantage of it far more than our hometowners do. There is just something screwy going on around here with these mets,to paraphrase Elmer Fudd.