9
2011
Duda Delivers A Walk-Off Hit And Leads Amazins To A 9-8 Win!
An article by Former Writers
Game Summary
Another sub-par start for Pelfrey, smashed up bullpen, but thankfully the Mets offense never died. After losing two of the biggest offensive attributes, the Mets rallied late to get the walk-off victory, 9-8!
Game Notes
Mike Pelfrey; here we go again. Another Mike Pelfrey sub-par start tonight. He’s not the groundball pitcher we knew a couple years ago with his impressive sinking fastball. Expect him to be the first person sent out of New York in the offseason. But for now we have him and he gave us 6.1 innings pitched with four runs on nine hits, two walks, and four strikeouts. 107 pitches, 4.53 ERA, no decision. Not a great start but thankfully the offense has backed everyone up and kept the Mets in the game.
Beato finished up the seventh inning for Pelfrey. He later came out for the eighth but walked a batter then hit a batter, and was taken out. Iggy relieved him and gave up a walk, a K, two hits and four runs – two charged to Beato – in an inning pitched. Don’t expect Igarashi back next year either, if he does, it’ll be a minor league contract. Izzy pitched a scoreless inning, giving up one hit and later got the win.
Mets offense has been quite something this season. Nine runs, twelve hits, three homeruns, and a walk-off hit!
With homeruns for Pagan, David Wright, and Jason Bay, the 200th homerun of his career. Mets seem to have their pop back!
Turner with two hits, Wright with two hits, and Lucas Duda with three hits and the walk-off hit! Wow.
The Mets have lost Jose Reyes for while and Daniel Murphy for the season, but not their never-say-die attitude. They rallied for three runs in the ninth against ex-Met Heath Bell to produce a 9-8 victory. Lucas Duda had a two-run walk-off single, which followed David Wright’s RBI.
Mike Baxter, former Padre, in his Mets debut, had a pinch-hit RBI double. Nice.
Willie Harris: 0-3, and only saw seven pitches. Where’d Nick Evans go?
I have no words with this game, only celebrations! Pitching has been a sore spot, but thank the baseball Gods for the Mets offense!
Game Ball
Lucas Duda! Three hits and the clutch!
Up Next
Capuano and Matt LeBlanc face off in CitiField. Game time is 7:10 PM.
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NL East Standings
| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braves | 24 | 18 | .571 | - |
| Nationals | 23 | 20 | .535 | 1.5 |
| Phillies | 20 | 23 | .465 | 4.5 |
| Mets | 16 | 24 | .400 | 7.0 |
| Marlins | 11 | 32 | .256 | 13.5 |
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The Duda abides
this team simply will not let you walk away. You are forced to watch and hope.
Sonofa…….I was gonna do the Duda abides. Sneaky ninja post.
Amazin’ Avenue did it before both of you…
http://www.amazinavenue.com/2011/8/8/2352361/mets-9-padres-8-the-dudabides
why a thumbs down
that joke gets tossed around Twitter, the blogosphere and the entire internet when a Mets fan can make a pun anytime His Royal Dudanees does something positive.
Dudacious…
There are just so many!
I’d never heard of duda abides… I feel dumb especially because I’m a blogger who Gould be keeping up with these things…
Starting to sound like John Sterling there…
Am I? I think I’m gonna cry now…
:(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(
Finally a little joy in Mudville!!! What an exciting finish!
Everytime I think of the name Duda, I think about the bad guy in “New Jack City” who stuttered. They called him the “DUDDA MAN”….Well, now we have the “The Duda Man” lol
Great win tonight. This team teases like a hot woman who wants to give it to but she’s playing hard to get..LOL
I love this team: with nothing left to lose, why not go out there and win?
http://midwesternmet.blogspot.com/2011/08/game-114-mets-9-padres-8.html
No one mentions he fact that we kicked Heath Bell around?!!
That was huge.
Pelf sucks, and igarashit has got to be demoted, waived,
Dumped.
Once again it was Du Da impossible to the rescue.
great win.. because at the end that’s what matters, again, i go back to the bullpen, igarashi sucks BIG TIME, but thanks sandy, you obviously know more than us so, also, beato has hit the “rookie wall”, is a shame this bullpen has been as BAD as there is since the krod trade, certainly hope that the 2 PTBN we got worth something, at least to pass the towels around… ugh.. we keep watching as fans we are, but this team was poorly constructed, and with a little chance to be a little better the GM and front office gave up on them.. i do not know what this front office will do in 2012, my grade for the F/O in 2011 was a D-, entering 2012 they got money, we’ll see how “smart and savvy” our GM really is..
by the way, crazy idea, we know parnell sucks, since alderson gave up on the season quicker than us fans, why not let parnell be the closer? it sounds crazy, but we need or should be evaluating who’s stay and who goes, what we need during the offseason, if parnell closes, and fails, then we def know we’ll have to get a closer.. he’s sucked as a SP, Middle reliever, Set up reliever, might as well give him the last chance to see what he’s got.. we got NOTHING to lose right GM??
Well why don’t you apply for the GM job. I’m sure the bullpen struggles are a direct connection with KROD leaving, because KROD certainly would have been in that game last night right?
The only people giving up are the nimrods that think they are smarter then the FO right now, those dangerous people with keyboard and a lower IQ then a banana.
This team was poorly constructed, because a GM that was coming into a mess, with no money to spend was going to just twist his nose and poof, it’s all fixed, yeah that’s how it happens………
Wake up
I really feel bad for you… that’s the best you can come up with??????
Well since talking about baseball, how it works is so over your head it’s a hopeless cause, so yeah……….
Igarashi has sucked but what do you want from Alderson? He couldn’t cut everyone Minaya signed.
so wait, you blaming minaya for igarashi, yet praise alderson when he’s giving us boyer, thayer, hu and eamus???????????????????
BE CONSISTENT!!!!
And which one of those players is presently on the roster? Thayer is on the 40-man and that’s it.
I am being consistent. The guy had a guaranteed two year deal, very similiar to Carrasco, signed by Alderson. That’s the danger of the two year deal in the bullpen. That’s probably the thinking behind not resigning Takahashi for 2/8 and Choate for 2/3.
Blame Alderson all you want for Carrasco or Minaya for Igarashi but to put any blame at all on anyone for no cost additions that didn’t work out and were quickly dispatched isn’t the right way to look at it.
For every guy you pick up in this manner who does contribute (Paulino, Capuano, Turner, Pridie, Beato, Hairston, your going to have an Emaus, Hu, Thayer, Santos, Sullivan or Newhan. It’s unavoidable, but for a team with holes to be able to fill some without spending assets is vital. It’s a numbers game.
Next year we’ll be stuck with Carrasco too just remphasizing the point.
so agee, alderson couldn’t cut evryone minaya signed, well, alderson can’t cut everyone he signed either right.. that’s my point, you wanna take a shot at minaya, well, take a shot a sandy too while you at it ok..
You don’t get it do you? Hu was acquired for an 4A pitcher and was a spare infielder in case someone went down. He didn’t do anything so oh well no skin off anybodies back. Boyer was on the roster because Izzy was in extended spring training. He was a minor league signing so minimal money was involved. Again no skin off anybodies back. Emaus was a rule 5 pick so again minimal money was involved. We tried him out and he didn’t pan out oh well.
Omar had signings like Alex Cora- who had a 2 million dollar vesting option for literally no reason, Ollie Perez- don’t need to say anything, Luis Castillo- no comment, Scott Schoeneweis,and Moises Alou- yay first pick for a combine 102 games in 2 years. I’m not even going into all of them.
Point of the whole story. You have trust issues
Iggy has shown a propensity to not hold a lead or pitch with runners on base so his entrance last night,I guess Terry was looking for a strikeout, was baffling.
I would of brought in D.J. as much as his pitching worries me because of Iggy’s past failures.
I thought this was the game for Pelfrey but his instant implosion against a light hitting is very frustrating.