Sep
15
2011

Mets Waste A Solid Start From Pelfrey, Lose 2-0 To Nats

An article by Hojo's Mojo

New York Mets' Starting Pitcher Mike Pelfrey Delivers

How many solid pitching performances have the Mets wasted this season? Ten? Fifteen? Whatever that number may be, chalk up another one as a rare brilliant start by Mike Pelfrey was laid to waste by an anemic offensive performance in the Mets 2-0 loss to the Nationals.

The Mets are reeling right now. They can’t seem to put it all together. The defense has fallen off a cliff since the calendar turned to September. In fact, David Wright committed his seventh error in nine games and 17th of the season. That error by Wright led to the two unearned National runs that won them the game.

Pelfrey (7-12) pitched a heck of a game, allowing just six hits and two walks while fanning six through seven innings.

The Mets had a few opportunities to score some runs, with their best opportunity coming in the ninth when Nationals closer Drew Storen walked the first two batters of the inning. Unfortunately, Terry Collins made a terrible decision to let Justin Turner bunt and he proceeded to pop it up to the pitcher for the first out of the inning. Jason Pridie would follow with a groundout, and Jose Reyes hit a liner for the last out of the game.

What is the deal with all these ill-timed, poorly executed bunts lately?

Justin Turner’s pinch-hit double in the seventh was the Mets’ only extra-base hit of the game.

The Mets were 1-for-11 with runners in scoring position and left ten men on base tonight. They have stranded 40 runners over their last four games.

The loss was the Mets fifth straight and the seventh in their last eight games. By now you’ve heard that the Mets have been mathematically eliminated.

“Obviously, it’s disappointing each year that you don’t go to the playoffs, no matter what the circumstances are,” Wright said. “And this is another one of those years.”

The Mets must now avoid a four-game sweep at the hands of the Nationals. Another loss tomorrow will drop the Mets to fourth place behind the Nats. Rookie Chris Schwinden will get his second start of the season and goes up against Tom Milone at 1:10 PM.

Lets Go Mets!

About the Author: Rob Johnson

3 Comments + Add Comment

alex68 September 15, 2011 at 7:26 am

hojo, you don’t do the Goat and all that when doing the game recap? because, OBVIOUSLY we know exactly who lost the game for us, look, the season is over with, we have the 40 man roster here, i have no idea what collins is trying to do, is pretty much OBVIOUS david wright needs a day off. he’s struggling mighty with the bad and in the field, he’s been atrocious to say the least, this team needs to see who else can play now that the roster expanded, david needs a day off, he’s letting his offense affects his defense or vice versa. encouraging to see mike pelfrey pitch well,but i hope sandy doesn’t become a prisioner of the moment and give this guy a multi year deal or even sign him, he’s a guy who’s very incosistant and the mets behind him won’t be better than pitching behind stinson, and stinson might give you a better chance.
alex68 September 15, 2011 at 9:46 am

by the way, i am sure some ppl here are happy the mets are losing this way, that means sandy will get a better draft pick next year.. (roll eyes)
again. he needs more time to be judge, i get it, but if a GM gets credit for turning a franchize around in 1 year (arizona’s kevin towers) he also should be credit for having a bad offseason right?? sandy in his first year did TERRIBLE. just terrible. ohh, and for those who are drooling about sandy’s prospects, nimmo hit 211 with 2 hr’s in 12 games for the mets this year. funny, with all the posts about nimmo from the sandy’s apologist you’d think they hide out once they saw nimmo’s struggles, also, i was thinking had he hit 350 5 15 in those games, they’d be marching to bud selig’s office to vote for sandy to be executive of the year.. ugh..
let’s see how he does next year, 2 years in, we’ll see how “creative and smart” our beloved GM is.
86mets September 15, 2011 at 12:00 pm

An ode to the Mets 2011 season, set to the music of Jimmy Buffet:

Wasting away again in CitiField-a-ville…..searching for their(Mets) lost winning swagger……some people say that there’s a Wilpon to blame, but I know, it’s both Fred and Saul’s fault…..

Sad what you can come up with when your team’s losing, isn’t it? LOL

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