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2012
Duda And Hairston Homer, But Not Enough As Mets Lose 5-4 To Cards
An article by Former Writers
Dillon Gee with another great start tonight. Having to follow Santana, Dickey and Niese’s great starts, Gee keeps the saying, “Good starting pitching is contagious” true. With seven strong innings tonight, only allowing three runs (two earned) on six hits, two walks and he struck out eight batters. Despite his great start, and several great starts in a row, he walks away with a no decision and an a 4.48 ERA.
Jon Rauch was great the first few weeks of the season, but lately has become shaky and unreliable. He let up two runs on two hits in his two out appearance. Luckily, Byrdak appears again to finish the inning with a strikeout. Collins let Byrdak stay in, but he walked the first batter and was replaced by Parnell who had a 1-2-3 inning.
Mets were able to score four scattered runs thanks to two bombs from Scott Hairston and Lucas Duda.
Duda homered in the fourth, his ninth of season to lead the Mets, and Hairston with a pinch-hit, two-run shot in the seventh. It was his seventh homer of the season and he is a pinch-hitting master. The last run came thanks to Andres Torres who hit a sac-fly in the eighth.
Six hits were scattered by six different guys. Duda and Hairston with the big two-out homeruns. Nieuwenhuis and Quintanilla with doubles. A pinch-hit single from Thole, who later scored on the Torres sac fly. Wright with a base hit, who scored on the Hairston bomb.
Daniel Murphy 0-4 with a strikeout is now hitting .301.
Ike Davis was 0-2 before being taken out for a pinch-hitter and replaced at first by Rottino. Ike is now hitting .164. He’ll be back in Buffalo soon if this keeps up any longer.
Notes
Johan Santana has won NL Player of the Week. Back-to-back Mets winners as Dickey won it last week.
Mets kept Beltran off base again, going 0-5 with two strikeouts.
Up Next
Chris Young is scheduled to make his 2012 debut as he gets the nod to start tomorrow’s series opener against the Nationals against Jordan Zimmermann. Game time is 7:05 PM.
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NL East Standings
| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braves | 42 | 28 | .600 | - |
| Nationals | 34 | 35 | .493 | 7.5 |
| Phillies | 34 | 37 | .479 | 8.5 |
| Mets | 25 | 40 | .385 | 14.5 |
| Marlins | 22 | 47 | .319 | 19.5 |
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Gee pitched well even though he hurt his own cause with that bouncer he threw to 2nd in his last inning. Rauch on the other hand just stunk it up AGAIN.
Very inconsistent over Rauch’s last 15 appearances. He will give you 2 good appearances and 1 bad one. The 1 thing that has been consistent is hitters have hit well against him. Over the last month coming into today he has posted a .353/BAA. Yes the walks are down but .353/BAA is not gonna cut it for your 8th inning guy.
As far as the game goes we fought back. Hairston who pinch hit for a struggling Davis with a huge HR and continues to fill in nicely in Jason Bay’s absence. Lucas Duda with another HR as well. Atta boy.
Positives for me is Gee continuing the streak of good pitching by Met starters.
LGM!
I don’t know about some of you, but when is enough enough when it comes to Ike? Just when he starts to hit, he quickly goes cold. We need production from this guy and we’re not getting enough of it from him. Shame we couldn’t sweep the Redbirds today, but embarrassing the defending World Champs for 26 innings during the series? Priceless.
This team is resilient, that’s for sure. I’ll take 3-1 w/no-hitter versus Cards in wrap-around 4-game series.
Hairston is coming up big in key spots – his homerun today wasn’t his first clutch contribution. Duda, Kirk & Co. kept it going. Ike is simply lost. His 2nd at-bat wasn’t bad, but when you ground out to 2nd and get compliments, you know your demotion is a matter of time.
Rauch cannot be trusted in crucial situations at this time. His stuff cannot withstand good hitters. I called Craig’s homerun – right after he took that hanging curveball for strike one. He stepped out of the batter’s box, looked at his bat and probably murmured, “I can’t wait for the next pitch…I got this one…” And he stepped right up and blasted the next pitch for a homerun. I told my son that Rauch wasn’t going to make it out of the inning and that its going to get really ugly really quick. He asked, who’s gonna take him deep? I answered, “Anyone with ‘Cardinals’ written on their uniform.” And then…BOOM.
Yet – not at all in despair. We just need to weed out the guys that are underperforming and place them into situations (Rauch) and locations (Ike) where they can get their act together without hurting the parent club.
Would be nice to see Josh Edgin get a look-see.
Chris Young looks as if he could use a meal. Let’s hope he pitches well.
LGM!!!
Attended game today and it was a tough loss.Ike needs to be replaced.He simply cannot hit and it is hurting the team.Too bad Hairston can’t play first base.I heard Jason K got a boo boo and called in sick in Florida.I am sick of this clown.Please get rid of him and do not take at bats away from Kirk N. to play this bum
Sad to see Egbert go. He got his only two batters out. Now he faces the waver wire. When a guy gets people out, let him pitch!
The bullpen blows another one………what a surprise.
Could you imagine how good the Mets record would be if they just even had an average bullpen?
Once again the bullpen blows yet another game, i thought by sandy having a good day the bullpen was gonna magically improved? No… Ohh, and of course, lost in the shuffle of this bad recap of the game was the fact that the mets had a chance to TIE THE GAME in the 8th inning, when the man you all are clamoring to be extended step up to the plate and don’t you know, once again FAILED to come trough in a big situation… I don’t care if he’s hitting 700 in the season, he’s the last person i wanna see with the game on the line with the bat in his hand… I was praying for a walk so we could’ve seen duda in that spot. he’s just not a guy who will come trough when the team need him the most.. The bullpen gets the blame, but we could’ve tied the game AGAIN had the “best” player on the mets roster come trough..
shhhh, don’t mention that! It was only the biggest AB of the game, bottom of the 8th tying run on 3B and he makes an out. I mean why mention it in the game recap?
Shhhhhh………..