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2012
Mets Fall To The Phillies 8-4 On Memorial Day
An article by Former Writers
Navy diver says "Let's Go Mets!" on this grateful Memorial Day.
The Mets three-game winning streak came to an end as the Phillies came to Citi Field and beat them 8-4 on a beautiful Memorial Day.
Jon Niese, the $25MM man, cannot make it past the sixth inning. He gets pulled after five innings, plus two batters in the sixth. Four runs on two hits, a homerun, five walks, and striking out seven on 115 pitches. Those are Oliver Perez numbers he’s throwing out there. A lot of the fans disagreed with Terry Collins’ decision to pull him after the last walk, but three of the walks he gave up scored. He needs to go deeper into games and stop back-pedaling with these poor starts. I know the two errors from Wright and Murphy was hurtful and the Mayberry homerun was crushed, but the five walks? Yikes! He’s lucky the Mets bats were able to save him from a loss. He walks away with a no decision and a 4.55 ERA.
Ramirez came in and pitched a 1-2-3 sixth inning with two strikeouts. Parnell not as lucky giving up a run on two hits and a walk. He’s gone back to just throwing 100 MPH fastballs and not actually pitching. Rauch pitches a scoreless inning, only allowing one hit.
Manny Acosta once again pitching in a game where it’s close. Again, he sucks. With only recording one out in the ninth he gives up three hits and then allows a three-run bomb by none other than Ty Wigginton. Acosta’s sixth homeurn in his twenty-two innings this season. An ERA of 11.86. Mejia and Beato are both close to making their big league returns. Acosta will be no more soon.
The rookie, Jack Egbert, comes in to finish the ninth. No hits, no walks, no runs allowed. Just two quick outs.
Vinny Rottino hits a two-run homer thanks to the new dimensions at Citi Field. Rottino got to play today because Andres Torres had to care to the birth of his child earlier this morning. Happy birthday, Baby Torres, here’s a homerun from daddy’s replacement. Speaking of Torres, he comes out of nowhere for a leadoff, pinch-hit double in the eighth.
Scott Hairston goes 1-4 with a two-run blast that tied it in the sixth. That was Hairston’s fifth homerun of the season. This one would have been gone in the old Citi Field.
David Wright goes 0-4. That makes it 0-for last-14 and it lowered his batting average to .373 on the season. He is human after all, shocking.
Ike and Duda combined to go 0-6 with four strikeouts.
Notes
Justin Turner left the game in the top of the fourth with an injury. Expected right ankle sprain with x-rays negative. Good news.
After Turner’s injury David Wright moved over to play shortstop. This was the second time playing short in his career. Last time was last August against the Braves. Before that? High school.
For possible depth options if Turner is out for a period of time, Tejada still rehabbing and Cedeno who has tightness in his quad. The Mets may have to make a 40-man roster move for Omar Quintanilla. Mets don’t see Valdespin as a shortstop. This team has terrible depth right now.
Former Met, Ty Wigginton, had six RBIs today. He’s also the reason Thole’s on the DL with a concussion. Hurting his former team in more ways than one.
Game Ball
To all the men and women in all the armed forces who have risked their lives to keep us safe. Whether past or present, deceased or still fighting, we want to thank you all for doing what you do. Also, blessing to the families who have lost loved ones overseas in war or have family fighting there today. God Bless America.
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I think they’ll call up Valdespin. He has some experience at SS plus it would only be till Tejada gets back hopefully this week. Quintanilla would require creating a roster move and they prob rather not do that right now.
Mets down a run heading into the top of the 9th every1 had to be scratching their heads when they saw Acosta coming in to pitch. Acostalypse Now soon followed.
Positives for me on this Memorial Day was Hairston with a nice 2 run HR to tie the game as he continues to fill in nicely in Jason Bay’s absence and Ramirez & Rauch at least doing their job in keeping the Phils off the board.
Hope everyone had a nice Memorial Day weekend.
40-man roster spot move*
Welcome Jack Egbert! Much success.
BNHarrington (Beat Writer / Columnist) #Mets call up Schwinden and Quintanilla. Q is tough loss for #Bisons at SS. Backman has said he’s been their MVP so far.
http://twitter.com/BNHarrington/statuses/207226930032951296
The end of Acosta?
Collins brain locked on keeping Niese in game in 6th, starting Ike against Hamels (pathetic ab’s today) and bringing Acosta into a one run game in 9th.Also felt Teufel way too conservative not to send Johnson on the Turner hit to right with 2 outs.It proved costly when Turner got caught and injured in rundown and will probably miss a month.If he sends the runner, he would have scored and Turner would not be on the DL
Though the drawn in dimensions hurt us today, let’s not forget tthe other day most all our runs came via home runs that would have been outs or off the wall last season and a 9-0 rout would have actually been a much closer ball game.
drawn in dimensions? It’s now a normal park and is still bigger than Shea Stadium so what drawn in dimensions? As opposed to a canyon maybe.
I’ll repeat it one more time for those of you who still question the drawn in fences.
It’s bigger than Shea Stadium. One more time, it’s BIGGER than Shea Stadium – let that sink in
Bayonne,
Drawn in, as compared to last year. Wasn’t meant to imply it turned into a pill box like Cincy, Philly or the new Yankee Stadium. Still a pitcher’s park but not the Grand Canyon.
Still….I would love to see who has been helped more by the drawn in fences us or them!
Maybe not fair to look at yet considering Ike’s reduced status at the mo but I would love to see a breakdown of how many of Our HRs were helped by the new dimensions and how many of the Opposition HRs were helped by them.
If I can remember where I read it I’ll post the link but it has definitely been on the positive side of the ledger as far as the long ball. The fences haven’t really hurt us as much as they have helped.
Joey the drawn in fences had no bearing on the game. Mayberry’s HR was an absolute missile that would’ve went out of every park in the majors and Wiggintons shot also cleared the old dimensions, if anything they helped as Rottino’s HR would’ve been a double last year and the balls hit out the other day would’ve been off the wall not outs. Unless Spiderman is on SD no one was catching those balls. Like Bayonne said it’s still bigger than Shea in most spots except down the lines and straight away center by 2 feet.
Fonzie,
I was talking about the 9-0 game.
Joey I was going by your comment, “Though the drawn in fences hurt us today”. That was meant for yesterdays game which if you see the replays of the HR’s Philly hit both were out in last years park as well. All 3 HR’s the other day were not out last year, they would’ve been doubles but with 2 out they would have scored 2 on Hairstons HR and a 3rd when Rottino’s HR that would’ve been a 2B last year which would’ve scored Hairston if he was on 2nd any way, so it would’ve been 3-0 instead of 4-0 and Nickeas Grand Salami would’ve plated 3 runs, so they would’ve won 6-0 instead of 9-0. Not too mention the positive affect it has had on Wright being able to relax and not try and pull the outside pitch. I say all and all they have had a positive affect on the team.
Hi Fonzie,
I was wondering about them still being extra base hits myself. It seemed that by the arch of the homers as they were coming down and where they did eventually land that all three could have possibly been caught against the wall. Of course, I’m only going by recollection now and only a computer analysis could answer the question. But it is fascinating to think there might have been a chance the blowout could have been a much closer 2-0 or 3-0 affair – or even an outside chance of being scoreless altogether – had it been played last season.
But you know, even though the dimensions are deeper than Shea in most parts, because of last year they appear much, much closer.
Can’t continue to run a team out there with only 3 regulars, Ike, Duda and David, and then Ike struggling and David can’t carry team on his own; you can’t win playing most of your bench players for extended innings plus Niese didn’t look good today even in scoreless innings.
The Mets have a tough schedule the next few weeks and heading into it as the walking wounded – with Justin Turner the latest casualty. This has diluted our bench. We still need a fifth starter. Our bullpen has been uncertain.
Yet we can hope that Duda, Davis, Murphy, Kirk and Wright still find their hitting shoes and Hairston continues as a decent fill in until Thole, Tejajda and Bay return and that the Mets hold their own playing no worse than slightly below 500. If we can just hold our head barely above water until those regulars return and Beato and Famija do the same to help the bullpen, it’s still a long season.
Game ball – very appropriate and well said.
Thank you to all you Vets out there, especially my DH who made it home from Vietnam.
What is so Sad Srt is we talk about all those who don’t make it home but the truth of the matter is even those who make it back never really make it all the way back!
They leave a piece of themselves on that battlefield that they can never get back!
We can’t forget those warriors either!
Anywhere from 20-30% of the homeless in the US are veterans. Sad.
Yes, Tr,
That is the saddest part of it all. Our returning veterans are greated with Yankee Doodle Dandy but are then literally ignored by politicians who then only pay them lip service.
Attached is an article from the disabled veterans organization regarding the shame of the whole thing by both sides of the aisle.
http://www.disabledveterans.org/2011/07/18/obama-republicans-seek-23-billion-disability-pay-cut/
Well I know the group I work with had stopped that number from increasing by 20 more Vets in the Mid-Hudson Valley area last year…(not sure what the count is this year yet)
Found employment for another 10 and helped another 4 or 5 find housing that doesn’t have a steering wheel!