Mets Rally Late Again But Francisco Blows It As Mets Lose 6-5

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• Mr North Jersey May 12, 2012 at 2:22 am

  Mets come in to Miami withstand their initial blows and rally back to take a 5-3 lead.

  Normally the story has been ending there with the Mets winning the game but not tonight. Ramirez, Parnell & Byrdak did their jobs for the most part though Parnell was the victim of a fielding error by Ike that led to Reyes eventually scoring. But the Mets had the lead with 3 outs to go as they headed into the bottom of the 9th and Francisco on the mound.

  Francisco though simply stunk it up. Not only did he fail to hold the lead but he failed to keep it tied. In one word he “Failed”.

  Positives for me I will go with Capt Kirk coming through with a big hit. I’d give it to Ike but his error is still bothering me. I expect better from him defensively.

  Dickey on the hill 2morrow. Let’s still take 2 out of 3.

  LGM!!!
• Metfan Lou May 12, 2012 at 9:17 am

  Please Terry Collins explain to the Met fan base one more time why Frank Francisco is your closer. When he came in I turned over to another game on MLB.TV because I had that “feeling”. Sure enough when I came back, we lost. Two million bucks down the drain. There is no doubt in my mind that closers are “home grown” and need to come up through the farm system. It is extremely demoralizing to the team and fans to see this crap game after game this season when this loser, oops closer comes in. I know it’s only May but it won’t get better,
  • jessep May 12, 2012 at 9:41 am

    “There is no doubt in my mind that closers are “home grown” and need to come up through the farm system.”

    I 100% agree. Problem is they don’t have that luxury right now. I bet Rauch gets a chance soon.
• jessep May 12, 2012 at 9:40 am

  Off topic, but did anybody see what Bryce did?

  Basically he said “yeah Cole is right, I have an attitude problem”

  The dude flipped out in the dugout, and swung the bat against the wall in the tunnel… it bounced back and bashed him right in the face.

  http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=320511117
  • Des May 12, 2012 at 10:09 am

    Wow. Thanks jessep. Sort of reminds me of the emotionally terminal teenager, Bayonne. Tries to pick fights but is frequently undone by the facts. So Bryce and Bayonne are buddies in stupidity.
  • XtreemIcon May 12, 2012 at 10:28 am

    Eh, that’s no big deal. He was frustrated and went about it the right way. Went into the tunnel, away from the public and did harm to equipment, not himself. Or at least intended to. It was a freak accident the bat bounced back. Not like he punched or kicked something. Like a fire extinguisher case. It happens all the time.
• jdon May 12, 2012 at 9:59 am

  The best a met fan can expect is average from Francisco/Benitez. Ill-advised low fastball to Stanton, who cannot handle heat up because he has slider bat speed. You make him look like BB when you throw hard and low and all he has to do is drop the bat head. What ridiculous power he has—a grounder to the left center gap wall! Anyway, FF for 2 mill is ok if he is average. If he is below average then you wasted your money. I am fully confident the Collins will not hang with him forever if this continues. But if he blows one once every two weeks he will remain the closer. The only other guy with good enough stuff is Parnell, and I would leave him alone now while he seems to be finding a way to get people out.
  • Bayonne Mets Fan May 12, 2012 at 10:32 am

    it’s also a big problem if your closer can’t hold runners on which is perplexing to me because isn’t part of a reliever’s job is to be prepared to pitch with men on base so if holding them on is a weakness……that just doesn’t make any sense. They’re going to have to work with him on that because if you’re closer is coming in with runners on and he can’t keep them close to the bad then he shouldn’t be closing.
    • XtreemIcon May 12, 2012 at 10:37 am

      That doesn’t fly with closers. With middle relievers, you have a point, but closers very often start clean innings and have no experience with runners on. That’s why this specialized roles nonsense in bullpens is stupid. Closers can’t pitch with runners on base, they can’t pitch in non-save situations. It kills me to watch that garbage.
• Russell Zanca May 12, 2012 at 11:23 am

  Of course, another FF performance that made me want to barf. At least with KRod, he’d usually reward us for the nausea. In other words, KRod, like Wagner, basically could load the bases with no one out, and then work some ridiculous magic.

  With FF, once a guy’s on base, I lose all hope. His pitches do nothing. Last night it looked like glorified batting practice.

  We come back for the fourth time in a row, but the BP–looking as if it had made a turn–kills us.

  I’ll say this, too, the defense basically sucked last night, including Torres, Cedeno, and Davis. You won’t win most of the time when D makes those kinds of blunders.

  Ugh! We really had that game. Shameful.
• Metsie May 12, 2012 at 11:35 am

  If this is what we are going to get when your focus is to fix the pen two years straight either it’s time to stop focusing on it OR time to get someone else to do the focusing!

  I would say focus on something else but that might just mean something else gets screwed up instead.

  I don’t know what method was used to decide these guys were it. Not sure any method other than price was even used!
  But whatever method is being used needs to be changed because two years running it has failed miserably!