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2012
Dickey Loses Cock Fight As Fowl Yankees Take Series 6-5
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Think I could have crammed anymore chicken references into that title? Bottom line was this game was full of disappointments despite an amazin’ comeback by the Mets that was overshadowed by a night to be forgotten by R.A. Dickey, Miguel Batista and the entire ballclub.
R.A. Dickey took the hill as one of the most talked-about stories in all of sports the past few days. LeBron James and R.A. Dickey hogged most of the airtime of Sportcenter following the knuckleballer’s back-to-back one-hitters, deemed the Johnny Vander-Near by some. Today however, was a different story.
After a 1-2-3 first and squeezing out of a bases loaded jam, Dickey and his 44 2/3 earned run-less streak came to a screeching halt as the Yankees put up a four spot in the third capped off by a three run bomb by Nick Swisher, who made sure to get more than his fair share of celebrations on the field and in the dugout. Dickey ended the evening with six innings pitched, allowing five runs (all earned) on five hits while walking three and punching out three, happily taking a no-decision.
The Mets would tack on a run on a sac fly by Ruben Tejada, and the Yankees re-padded their lead on a Mark Texieira RBI groundout to make it a 5-1 ballgame. Come bottom five, with Dickey on second and Tejada on first, David Wright hit an RBI single to score Dickey, who roughly slid into home through the catcher Chris Stewart to cut the Yankee lead to three. THe next frame however, momentum appeared to be shifting in the the direction of Flushing’s Finest.
The Mets loaded up the bases off of C.C. Sabathia and managed two straight singles to score all three of those baserunners to tie the game. Cory Wade got Kirk Nieuwenhuis swinging to end the inning but not before the Amazin’s showed some fight in them by bringing it back to an even ballgame at five a piece. Maybe they have a chance in this one right?
Wrong. Enter Miguel Batista, who after pitching a 1-2-3 seventh, promptly surrenders a bomb to last night’s hero (or villain, depending on your perspective) Robinson Cano to return the lead to the New York Yankees by a score of 6-5.
From then on the Mets rallied, but could not on a first and third with two out opportunity in the eighth, or with a man on first with two down in the ninth, falling to the cross-town rivals 6-5.
Notes:
-In his first night back, Ruben Tejada cashed in a nice day, going 2-3 on the night with a pair of RBIs.
-Maybe the damp condition that were looming with the humidity contributed to Dickey’s poor performance. Either that or he just didn’t have it today, or both. Either way his ERA climbed to 2.31, allowing for the likes of Strasburg and Cain to re-enter the ASG starter talk.
-Lucas Duda, Ronny Cedeno, David Wright and Andres Torres also had two-hit games, acting as key factors in the rallies during the evening that ended up in vain.
-Nick Swisher is very obnoxious. Yes you hit a home run in the third inning, but it doesn’t give you the right to act like you just hit a World Series Game 7 walkoff. Man he irritated me this series.\
-The Mets had four more 2-out RBIs tonight, giving them 159 on the year, a figure leading all of baseball by a wide margin. Who says clutch doesn’t exist?
Up Next:
Mets look to shake off this tough series with a should-be easy three-game set with the Chicago Cubs starting tomorrow at 7pm.
About the Author: Clayton Collier
Clayton, a Long Island native and die-hard Mets fan, started writing online about three years ago. He is currently a Journalism major with a minor in Broadcasting at Seton Hall University. Although very disappointed with the current state of the team, Clayton remains hopeful that the young prospects in the farm system will bring the Mets back to a respected franchise in baseball once again. Besides writing for MMO, Clayton is also a staff member at 89.5 WSOU, Seton Hall's modern active rock radio station. You can contact Clayton by following him on Twitter: @Clayton_Collier or E-mailing him at MaybeNextYearMets@yahoo.com
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To many nice guys on Mets.Swisher should have been drilled after his no class act in the bronx.Nothing happened.Dickey knocks that piece of crap A-Roid down and tells him he is sorry.I thought Collins was a tough guy.I don’t see it in his players very often.Alderson has built a team of big slow guys with very little power.Gonna take more than bringing in walls to help this crew.Hate the Yankees, but they make Citifield look small.Not an easy thing to do.
Glad to have Tejada’s bat back in lineup.
RA was due for a bad game, too bad it was against Yanks but at least we chased CC.
We get a lot of 2 out RBI but we must have close to the worst avg w/RISP cause we had lots of runners and only 5 runs tonight.
How many games are the resilient Mets going to come back in only to have BP give it back?
Eventually this will catch up with team cause with bad RISP numbers the two out RBI will diminish unless the power bats pick it up cause right now we are a station to station hitting team and you are not going to score many runs that way.
3 SS really? Don’t we maybe need another reliable BP arm or another power RH bat in lineup?
We sure don’t have any up and coming RH bats in AAA so we have to rely on aging players like Rottino who are good for a game or two but with Bay’s return to lineup plus his return to hitting in doubt this lineup is exposed. I hope this time TC makes Bay go down for at bats in minors as he did with Tejada/Cedeno who came back with some extended at bats not cold like Bay did.
All of that left handed Yankee power and Tim Byrdak doesn’t pitch in the 8th inning? You bring out Batista again for the 8th… with Cano, Texaira, Swisher and Ibanez coming up? Disgraceful. If Collins was saving Byrdak for anything, that was the inning. AND if the Mets need another lefty reliever (which they do), Alderson should get off his butt and get one. Disgraceful.
I couldn’t agree more– I like terry Collins but he BLEW 2 games this weekend, he over uses his bench and puts trust in guys like Acosta and Batista..Batista is horrible , he should be in games we’re losing or when desperately need an arm, not as our 8th inning guy, im mean holy sht, shame on Collins, how could you not use Bydrk there.. Im pssed but cause iseriously like Collins alot as a person, the team responds to him I think he’s good for them overall but some of his moves have been really questionable, real disappointing ..
AND if the Mets need another lefty reliever (which they do), Alderson should get off his butt and get one”
He had oa whole offseason and got us nothing….. Good luck getting something out of that GM… He’s been the worst…
Lmao, Very good title clayton.. On to my review…
Pathetic Weekend for terry collins as a manager, but it comes as no surprise to me.. How in the world you leave miguel batista in to pitch to arguably the best hitter (imo) in the game? at least make it a tougher matchup for him by bringing in byrdak Jeez…
This was a tough game for dickey, after facing vanilla offenses for most the season he faced a really good yankee lineup that was amped up to face him, after hearing all weekend about dickey dickey dickey yankee hitters were ready and focus to face him, hence the 5 runs he allowed.
Bullpen, what can i say about this bullpen that hasnt been said before? 17 losses already, the 2nd worst in the majors, the 4th worst bullpen ERA in the majors.. I mean, how PATHETIC is this bullpen eh? and for the most part EVERYONE has been relative healthy, now the injury bug started to hit us, which, who knows, may be a blessing in disguised because the guys they may bring up can be better (certainly not worst) than the group of crap sandy alderson brought in this past offseason… I mean, Combined alone those 3 “he had a good day bullpen guys” have combined to lose 11 games and blown 6 more (mets have lost 3 of those) so far in the season.. It’s amazing how BAD this bullpen overall has been, i mean, there’s not one guy i can say i trust… Certainly not FFF or Rauch or Ramirez…
As much as I trust this team to bounce back, I fear last night’s loss is much bigger than just getting shellacked again by that other NY team.
We needed to show we could take two of three from a hot team like the Yanks. Ugh!
The positive is that we never surrender and keep coming back, the bad news is that we don’t win crucial games like last night’s. At some point this team needs to combine a little nastiness and meanness with the healthful “can-do” attitude.
Hoping we go into Wrigley bound and determined.
The last 6 games vs the Skankees proved how much easier it is to score runs with one swing of the bat versus needing 3 hits to score one run.SA needs to add more power to lineup or add some speed so we can pressure the defense and score from second on one of our many singles thru the infield.Still have to give the players a lot of credit for coming back so often.Having a few more guys who could hit a 3 run bomb now and than would help.I don’t expect much to change this year with the Wilponzis always crying poverty.Standing pat next year (no power, no speed, Batista pitching 8th) is unacceptable.
That’s an excellent point!
We all crowed that the Yanks would have a different time in Citi–away from their bandbox. Guys like Cano make that laughable. What did they hit, like seven or eight homers at Citi?
Yes, the Mets don’t have a problem getting hits; we’re a good hitting team, but there’s little in the way of constant deep-threat guys. Duda could be it, but he’s not quite there, and same for Ike. We need an Adam Dunn type. Having a Beltran and Delgado in the same lineup…now those were threats!
Morning after a loss to the Yankees and the world is still here Hallelujah.
Rough outing for Dickey who after a week of hyping up his next outing vs Sabathia turns out neither pitcher make it past 6 innings. In the end their pen was way better than ours. The Mets pen gave up 4 runs in this series and the Yankee pen gave up 1.
Mets still down 5-1 found a way to get back in the game vs Sabathia and tied it taking Dickey off the hook for the loss. Torres and Tejada with some big hits in doing so.
Collins admitted after the game that he should of went to Byrdak vs Cano so he acknowledged his mistake and the Mets having heard him say all weekend about holding back his “only” lefty in the pen for the right time finally called up a 2nd lefty for Collins in Hampson. Now all remains is for Hampson to pitch better than having to use Batista in that situation.
Hopefully a trip to Chicago will help with the extra base hits which were non existent last night for the Mets.
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