Sep
13
2011

Gee Strong, But Offense Can’t Come Through In Mets 3-2 Loss

An article by Sean Kenny

Dillon Gee had another good outing, but the bullpen struggled late and the Mets stranded 17 runners in their 3-2 loss to the Nationals.

Game Notes

Dillon Gee had another outing just short of quality, going five and two-third innings, giving up two runs on six hits, walking two and striking out five. Gee was strong for his whole outing, minus the sixth inning when he was hit hard for both of his runs. Gee hasn’t seemed to tire, and has become more of a pitcher. The only issue with Gee is the propensity in which he has issued walks.

As with most September baseball, lots of pitching changes. Pedro Beato, Dale Thayer, Tim Byrdak, Bobby Parnell and Daniel Herrera all saw work, and Thayer/Parnell were the least effective, with Thayer being charged for the run that Parnell allowed to score. After that, Parnell saw another one and one-third innings of work, and struck out three.

The offense stranded a large number of runners, and got both of their runs in the fifth on a Lucas Duda single, that scored Jose Reyes and then scored Ruben Tejada after a misplay by Nats RF Jayson Werth. A failure to bunt in two different situations by the Mets didn’t help the chances to push runs across.

Nick Evans – 0 for 4, with two strikeouts and five runners stranded. Nick has come down to earth as of recently, and whether its his expected performance or being exposed to more righties is to be decided

Lucas Duda – 3 for 4 with an RBI. Popped out in a big situation in the seventh on the first pitch. Still, a great day for Lucas.

David Wright – 0 for 4 with two strikeouts. Uh-oh. Some bad defense seems to be working its way into David’s AB’s.

Jose Reyes – 3 for 4 with a run and a walk. Jose has reclaimed the batting title lead as of the publishing of this post.

Turning Point

Ineffective bullpen pitching by Dale “I Only Throw Fastballs” Thayer, and Bobby Parnell.

GOAT

Nick Evans. The bullpen gave up the run, but stranding a third of your teams baserunners is extremely bad.

On Deck

The Mets will have the third game of a four game series and send Mike Pelfrey to the mound and face off against Brad Peacock in his first major league start. 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

7 Comments + Add Comment

alex68 September 14, 2011 at 7:53 am

how can ANYONE let alone someone who went to an ivy league school sign a bum like thayer?? wow, anyways, mets bats were again asleep, it seems mr wright needs a day off.
anyways, glad to see reyes take the batting title again, but news said he is having issues with the hamstring again. that is not good news. gee pitched well enough to get to W, but he failed once again in the 6th inning, where his ERA is like 1000, hopefully next year he’ll be able to fix this problem that bugs him.
duda nice game, couldn’t get the hit in the 7th, that did us in.
thayer, sucks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- alex68 September 14, 2011 at 7:59 am
  
  by the way, i know ppl in this site like evans (GOD KNOWS WHY), but let’s face the facts people, HE SUCKS!!!!!! stop putting a player who’s never amounted to anythin, hasn’t done anything, can’t hit in the majors or even makes the team in ST the “GOAT” of anything, especially in mets losses. funny how wright goes 0-4 with 2k, stranded 3 runners on base, plays shaky defense again, and yet nick evans is the GOAT.. what is going on here!!!
  
  also, DUDA struck out in the 9th inning i meant to add it in my last comment as well, funny, i was praying for a walk so we would’ve seen david with bases loaded and 2 outs on a 1 run game.
Metfan September 14, 2011 at 8:54 am

The more I see Wright at the plate (0-5 Sunday) and last night I am now to the point of saying, one good game at the plate every so often just isn’t good enough. I have now come around to the side of the fan base that says to trade him. I think Jason Turner should be given a shot at third. It took me a long time to come to this way of thinking but he is just NOT A CLUTCH HITTER and let’s move on without him.
- alex68 September 14, 2011 at 9:02 am
  
  welcome to the DARK SIDE metfan.. the CORE salutes you..
  - Metfan September 14, 2011 at 9:29 am
    
    Well you know ever since grade school when the sisters told my mom “you know that son of yours, he just seems to be a little slow.”
Metstheory22 September 14, 2011 at 9:10 am

I have not seen Gee pitch in a while until his last two outings. He seems to have changed his follow through. He is not sharp on it, looks like his ends are not at same spots.
- Metfan September 14, 2011 at 11:18 am
  
  Is he justr starting to get a “tired arm” at the end of the season and just wearing down. I have always sais the baseball season is to long and 162 games plus playoffs and World Seriews is toooooooo long! We need to have a 150 game season and be all done by Sept 30th. Football is going to go in the opposite direction and they want to go to 18 games which will cause massive injurt problems. It is all about the money.

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