22
2012
Arr, Dickey Stifles The Pirates In A Swashbucklin’ 3-2 Victory Over The Pirates
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Dickey probably could have gone the entire game tonight the way he was dealing – 7 dominant innings led the Mets to a 3-2 victory.
Summary
I have come to the conclusion that I need to see as many of Tricky Dick’s games as I possibly can, because this man can seriously pitch. R.A. started tonight and was foolishly removed after 7 innings (I will get to that in a short while) after allowing 5 H, 0 BB, an ER, and striking out 11. He took advantage of an aggressive Pirates lineup tonight and it looked masterful. Cue Rauch to take over with a 3-1 lead in the eighth, and a little trouble for Danny Murph going back on a broken bat McCutchen pop up allowed a run to score. Tim Byrdak would be on to finish the eighth with an easy out. Kudos to him once more. And lo and behold, the aggressive Pirates stayed aggressive and got Frank Francisco through the ninth for save number 11 for him.
Mets were on the board early in what turned out to be somewhat of a pitcher’s duel, as James McDonald went 7 IP and allowed only one run – an RBI single down the line for Mike Nickeas, where he was thrown out at second by Jose Tabata. The Mets would break a 1-1 tie in the 8th with a scorched RBI single for Lucas Duda. It was a 2-out RBI single that was followed by a well-hit ball to third by super Murph, which was bobbled by Alvarez and led to the second run of the inning. Let it be known that preceding Lucas Duda was David Wright, who K’d on a really…confusing pitch with 1st/2nd and 1 out.
Earlier in that innings, Dickey was leading off and Collins pulled him for PH Andres Torres. So. Many. Things. Wrong.
Dickey would probably have been a more formidable bat at the plate at this point with Torres 1 – 30 something at this point. In addition, after only 88 pitchers, 0 BB, 11 K, and overall domination in a pitcher’s park, you remove RA Dickey? Terry… I can’t defend you here, brother.
Defense on the infield was not bad out there today – exception being Murphy’s little mishap. The outfielders had a little trouble out in PNC today but it did not hurt as much as it could.
Hero Of The Game
I could gush over R.A. Dickey all day, man. All day. He improves to 6-1 and lowers his E.R.A. to 3.45.
Notes
So let us see… Frankie lowers his ERA to an impressive 7.13. Impressive only in the sense that he has 11 saves with an ERA over 7. Hold #11 for Byrdak, 4th for Rauch.
You’re killing me, Collins.
11 strikeouts for Dickey is a career high.
On Deck
Jon Niese looks to rebound from the shellacking he took over the border against the Pirates tomorrow, and will be opposed by Charlie Morton. Niese is 1-0 with a 2.45 ERA in two career starts vs. the Bucs. 12:35 start.
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Nice win.
Dickey was just cruising along tonight with those 11 Ks. I’m still scratching my head at lifting him for a PH, especially Torres. Torres?
Byrdak is almost automatic anymore.
Good to see a couple of the other guys step up to get the job done on a rare night that DWright goes 0 for.
Let’s take the rubber game tomorrow – and the series.
unless there was some extenuating circumstance, I don’t understand the move either. But, thankfully no harm no foul.
Dickey and Wright are All Stars! Did anyone want to punch Collins in the nose when he took out Dickey? I did!!! Lets go Metsies!!!
There have been may times when I wanted to punch Collins as hard as I could humanly punch someone and tonight was just another one of those times. How in the world do you PH for RA there with only 88 pitches and in total control of that game and then use Andres 1 for 34 Torres to do the pinch hitting. Not to mention handing that game off to the bullpen. Just like lifting Niese when he was throwing a shutout against the Marlins and PH with a flu ridden 170 hitting Ike Davis with a 438 hitting Mike Baxter getting splinters on his ass still on the bench. This guy can not manage a game to save his life. We are now seeing why no one would hire this moron to manage since 1999. He’s Jerry Manuel with a fiery personality, nothing more.
I remember how terrible a move I thought it was when Omar Minaya signed Dickey and now he is my favorite Met and I even bought a Dickey jersey in April. If you haven read his book, you should. He’s a class act and we’re lucky to have him.
Talk about 2 lineups struggling to score runs. Though give some credit to McDonald and Dickey. 18 strikeouts combined between the 2. A rare 3 strikeout night for Wright.
Ike just continues to struggle. Collins said they were going to wring the rag dry before deciding to send Ike down. That rag looks to just about be wrung. Positive tonight was simply Francisco giving us a 1-2-3 9th inning.
Niese on the hill 2morrow hopefully they can win it and split the road trip 3-3 as they come home to face the Padres.
LGM!
Love the win. Love the Pirates Of The Caribbean featured image even more!
The big question of the night is – How bad is Ike Davis?
The big guy is hitting a buck nothing with no improvement in sight.
He’ll need to be sent back to the minors where he can (hopefully) work out his problems.
Funny how many on this forum were considering him an all star and the future of the Mets during the off season while trying to trade Murph and David. Without those two we would be at least ten games under .500 right now.
Duda was great – he hit what could have been a normal grounder through the first baseman’s glove. He hits the ball so hard that unless its hit right at somebody its very hard to field.
R.A. got the win which was great but using your best PH to bat leadoff, cause of lack of hitting doesn’t leave much in terms of hitters on bench, Hairston who is a HR or K guy and Torres who doesn’t seem to know how to bunt for a hit at least try it since you aren’t hitting.
Untile Thole and Tejada return then this lineup can’t sustain innings plus the lack of power, Ike, is making it harder to score runs in bunches so we shall see what happens to Ike after tomorrow’s game.
Apparently, TC and Warthen discussed removing R.A. in that spot for the great Torres. Warthen didn’t think it would make a difference, and that R.A. could keep getting ‘er done.
In the end, T.C. sort of made the right decision as he hoped for a rally, and we ended up scoring two, though the leadoff man didn’t matter at all, and that would have been R.A.
Maybe FF begins to turn things around for a while.
Nickeas was dazed and confused after game b/c of three different knuckleballs that R.A. had going. All things considered, R.A. is more of an ace at this point than The Johan.
Here’s hoping the bats find some life tonight. Let’s see if Niese can turn a few bad starts around, too.
I guess Terry is better being a lucky idiot than unlucky tonight. I like Terry but man are some if his decisions perplexing.
Agreed, but I am guessing this is the most frustrating part of managing to most of us armchair guys/fans. Figuring out exactly when to remove a pitcher who is doing what he’s supposed to when your team is down a run or so, or tied. I have to believe these are agonizing decisions, and I imagine TC had no qualms about R.A.’s continued ability to make outs, but I suppose he figured that Dickey might kill a rally by batting lead off and whiffing or making an out. Better let Torres do that instead…
So it goes.
well, look at the bright side. Using torres there at least eliminated the chance of him coming up later in an actual key spot with the game on the line!
Great game by dickey who’s pitching like an all star this year, great clutch pick me up hit by lucas duda, who came trough after david the MVP wright struck out. I read a funny line by collins who after andres the nice guy torres struck out said: “had i known that, i would’ve left dickey in, he could’ve done that” Lol.. Let’s get the series win today and come back home…
Duda does what a good teammate should, a team is only successful if everyone pitches in, not just one guy.
No, No, didn’t see that snotty comment coming “david the MVP Wright struck out”. It would kill you if the guy won it or even had a good year. Another great fan that hates DW more then loves the NY Mets. Bringing that up, makes all the difference in the world in this Win right?
Marlins.com or Dodgers.com or anyteamwithoutDW.com
Lol…all i said was he was the MVP… What’s wrong with that?? Can’t win.. If i say he’s not i get hammered, if i do i get hammered as well… SMH
Alex68 — most of your silly, inane stuff I just overlook. It’s just Alex68 continuing to act like a juvenile. You’re getting from MMO posters the attention you seem to crave. Your motto: Hate me, Love me, Don’t ignore me.
Des, yet you choose to never ignore me… Please do.. You bring nothing to the table other than post a comment AFTER i or bayonne post a comment.. This site is to talk baseball, if you don’t like what i say then move on to the next poster/comment…
But of course, ever since you have been exposed for the type of person you are you are no longer irrelevant… Move on ok..
Looks like the bull has been gored in more ways than one . . . . lol.
Collins tried to lose the game by removing Dickey but even that couldn’t bring down the Mets. Collins has no clue how to manage his pitchers and its just going to drain the already bad bullpen before too long. Dickey should have pitched a complete game or at least gone farther into the game. Good that the Mets won but the bullpen gives me headaches.