10
2012
Yankees Complete Sweep Of The Not So Amazin’ Mets
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Ike Davis is tagged out at third in the ninth by an ecstatic Alex Rodriguez.
Well, that was a sobering series, wasn’t it?
For only the second time in Subway Series history, the Mets were swept by the the Yankees in Yankee Stadium in the Bronx after a brutal 5-4 loss that came after the Mets squandered a three-run lead.
Jon Niese started today and delivered a solid outing that was worthy of a win. Niese tossed seven solid innings and allowed no earned runs while notching six strikeouts. For the most part he kept the Yankees on their toes and off balance, and was able to pitch his way out of trouble a couple of times in the game. The Mets lefty had racked up 13 straight shutout innings over his last two starts going into the seventh inning.
Things looked good for the Amazins when they jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the second, the big hit was a two-run double down the right field line by Jordany Valdespin who started at second base in place of Daniel Murphy.
The Mets were cruising along until the seventh, when after Andruw Jones reached on a throwing error by David Wright, Russell Martin smashed a two-run rocket just over the right field fence.
So, out comes Niese, in comes the bullpen, and I think you all know what happens next…
Bobby Parnell, our new setup man in name only, was victimized by some balls that were hit where they ain’t, but the bottom line was that the Yankees not only tied the game, but went ahead 4-3, and trust me when I say the damage could have been much worse.
Hope for a Mets win abounded in the top of the ninth when Lucas Duda led off with a booming double to get into scoring position. And wouldn’t you know it, Ike Davis drove him home with a clutch RBI double to right-center field to tie the game at 4-4. But things quickly soured when Omar Quintanilla grounded to short and Ike Davis was called out at third base. Ouch!!!
With the score still tied in the bottom of ninth, Russell Martin ended the game with a walk-off home run against Jon Rauch who remained in the game after cleaning up after Parnell in the eighth. The Yankees clinched the victory and the three-game sweep of the Mets. For Martin it was his second bomb of the game.
What a killer… The Yankees outscored the Mets, 17-7 in the series, and were out-slugged 8-2 in the home run department.
Oh God, how this bullpen is killing us… The Mets have now lost six of their last seven games… Things certainly look a lot more murky than it did a week ago. Some shoddy defense for sure, but also some terrible calls by Terry Collins… He’s beginning to really freak me out…
The Mets are off tomorrow so they can lick their wounds, and then head to Tampa Bay to open a three game series against the Rays on Tuesday night with Chris Young opposing Alex Cobb. The Mets better get their act together soon.
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If you are going to bunt the go ahead runner over, which we all know TC is in love with the bunt, then you should have pinch run for Ike.
TC is a horrible in game manager!
There is a reason he was out of baseball for 10 years.
I was out today with my wife so I missed the 9th inning. She was getting angry with all the time I’m doing my baseball thing, so I had to give her an obligatory hour or so. Was it really a bunt or just a lightly hit grounder to the left side of the infield? More importantly, was the ball hit between Ike and 3rd base, or was it hit behind Ike, between him and 2nd base? In the first case he shouldn’t have run, but in the last case he likely should have run. Ike is slow, deadly slow, so the distinction I’m making about where the ball was fielded is hypercritical.
Some shoddy defense for sure, but also some terrible calls by Terry Collins… He’s beginning to really freak me out…
IT SURE AS HELL TOOK YOU LONG ENOUGH TO FIGURE THAT OUT!!! COLLINS SUCKS!!!
I wonder why Jason Bay batted second? He went 0-4 and I think he left runners on base a few times. Torres also went 0-2 before he came out of the game. How are you going to score runs if the guys in the top two spots dont get on base? Our 3-4-5 hitters had 5 hits but no RBIs. I dont understand why Collins made such a bad lineup. Even Thole, Quintanilla or Murphy would be better batting first and second than Torres and Bay.
Bays kills Petite, that’s why. Of course, the New Bay sucks so bad…
What difference does it make if in the end the Bullpen is just going to give them those runs back anyway?
Sandy’s “Good Day” = Terry’s “Bad Nightmare”
I’m sure all Mets fans feels the same after watching the Yanks beat us pretty thorough for 3 games.
Niese gave the Mets a good outing got 3 double plays and had 1 bad inning. Problem was Petite pitched well also.
Sigh, for whatever good Rauch did early in the season he has been just as bad since. His last 16 games coming into today his line is 0-5, 1/sv, 2/bs, 2/hld with a 7.90/ERA and a BAA of .361. Again sigh.
Happy to see Ike get a hit. All I can do is continue to hope he can put together a stretch of games offensively of the type we have been waiting for all season.
As far as waiting goes I’m tired of waiting for Jason Bay to have a solid stretch of games. If he gets a hit great. I’ll think I’ll just treat as I do when a pitcher gets a hit, happily surprised.
After this series with the Rays I don’t know what the Mets will do with the lineup. You have until proven otherwise basically 3 automatic outs in the lineup with Bay, Davis and the pitchers spot. Say what you will about Torres but he did hit .333 during our last home stand and he hit .333 his 1st 10 games back from the dl as well. I’d take Torres over Bay at this point based on this seasons production alone.
On to Tampa and trying to salvage something from the road trip by possibly ending it on a strong note.
LGM!
I like your comment. I forgot to mention Ike Davis in mine. I really believe he is starting to come aroundm, and being we waited this long I dont want to see him go down to the minors right now. Poor Niese, he did so good today and so did Gee yesterday! I really like our rotation now that Chris Young is here.
I still love this team despite getting swept by the Yankees. Please keep in mind that this is a team with more than twice the payroll and every position is manned by a current or former all star including Russell Martin who was the straw that broke the Mets back today.
Our team has been very resilient in the past and this is a bad stretch, but not the time to panic. All great teams go through stretches like this and all of us knew we had a tough schedule in June.
So dont give up the ship, keep rooting for our boys and don’t stop believing.
Lets Go Mets!
The thing is that the bullpen is so putrid, it’s getting to the point that if we don’t have a four-run lead, there’s just no confidence whatsoever that relievers can hold any opponent.
TC should be thinking of 8 inns for starters, but it’s not a very feasible plan for a modern rotation. Sure, give every SP 120 PC.
Niese clearly pitched well enough to win.
To somehow grab two of three from the Rays would keep many of us from getting on the ledge.
Definitely adversity time. Got to put this behind us and get some wins fast.
Horrible weekend.
Bay not going to minors and getting some at bats in and trying to work on his swing in games that matter puzzles me, who made that decision?
It’s bad enough he isn’t hitting but then he returns to lineup, batting 2nd no less, w/o any real live pitching at bats so TC tries to get Bay at bats while killing the top of lineup.
Swing and a miss at an outside breaking pitch, same old Bay.
TC got out manages by Girardi in that 8th inning with the fake wheel and he having Q swing instead of just having him bunt Ike over who decided that he was Reyes, misread ball and made 1st out at 3B, at no no!
Wow. what a BP!
Always reliable, how many blown saves now?
I know David made that error but why can’t we hold a 1 run lead anymore plus Rauch is another Manny Acosta, he just laid that little curve in there for Martin to hit.
These games hurt and how many times can the resilient card be played by this team when your pitchers, starter I mean, do their job and between mostly the BP and errors their toiling is for naught.
TC needs a day off, oh that’s right he has Monday off.
The Tampa Bay team reminds me of the Mets early in season, good pitching, clutch hitting and good BP but they don’t hit a lot so maybe Mets can match up with pitching wise since their best power threat is hitting under. 200, like Ike.
I don’t understand TC’s love affair with Parnel. This guy has been hurting this team for years now.He is so very inconsistent.
Don’t understand using Parnell? Is there a pitcher he can bring in that you trust? They all suck. Maybe you should ask Sandy Alderson why Collins only has 7 bad choices in his pen!
Yes the Mets were spanked. Yes they were fielding like they had an infield of Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Andrea Bocelli, and Jose Feliciano. Yes Terry Collins made head scratching moves and attempted to squeeze every possible drop of baseball from Ike and Bay and Torres and failed. But guess what? Your team, my team, our team that the “experts” have said should right now be in last place right along side teams like the Pirates and the Royals, has a record of 32-29. The machine that is the Yankees has a record of 34-25 and some of their fans are acting as if they just swept the Rays or the Rangers or better yet the Dodgers. Let them enjoy it as they all seem to have come out of witness protection this weekend. The oldest team in the majors is at the end of their cycle and your team is slowly on it’s way up. Have faith Mets fans.
Have faith in who?The Wilponzis?I’m a baseball fan and i hate the Yankees.Who am i going to root for?I’m not a big Collins guy but if he had a bullpen that would do what they get paid for, everybody would agree that he is a much better manager.I hope we don’t get swept in Tampa too.I hate interleague baseball.Though, i would probably like it a lot more if we played the Royals six times every year.I can live with only meeting the Yankees in the post season.Sick of these six games every year as the poor cousin.
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Bayonne, long time. I thought you were never interested in anything I had to say, ever. Must have been an oversight on your part. Where you say I’m on Kool Aid, I say I’m cautiously optimistic without becoming a constant complainer with no point or goal in sight. Or one that is more interested in who the damn GM is instead of having a BIT of patience and just see what unfolds with the players coming up. I don’t care who discovered the players, as long as they’re talented…WHO THE HELL CARES IF “OUR” TEAM WINS?! That’s kinda the point of the game isn’t it?
Where you say my head is in the sand, I say Rome wasn’t built in a day. Players need to be discovered, signed, and properly developed. Hopefully the crop of kids in the minors will get the proper development to make it. As someone who if I remember coaches the game, that in itself should sit with you. A diamond before it’s cut looks as plain as any other rock.
Look you have you’re set views. Nobody is going to change them and I’m not going to waste my time to try. But we are on the same side here believe it or not. We both bleed orange and blue. Instead of rehashing the same old arguments, take a breath. Yeah this week sucked and we’ll probably have more. But we’ll probably have much, much better one’s as well. This group is overachieving. Again as a coach isn’t that THE attitude you want from your players? Of course it is.
Nobody said it was easy to be a Met fan Bayonne. If you want easy then the team that smacked us today is your team. LGM.
Really,like the mets played like they back in little league, the error’s, not hitting again, ,pitching like where am i out of the pen, once again location was a problem, when players where put on a mets uniform forget it. It makes me sick how the mets allow the yankees to control them. This has to stop, i’m mean where was bay at the plate when the bases were loaded, oh i forgot he had a load in his pants so i will go for the bad pitch why not, wright the same thing, come on guys really for the money you guys ar making of us and all u can do is mess up. This is what i mean sandy you need to do something at the trade deadline to prove to us mets fans you do give a damn about us, i;m just sick of it. Your not if your a mets fan.
A few notes after this dreadful, diabolical series:
-Doesn’t it feel like that STL series was an eternity ago after this series? What the hell happened to this team? Swept in the Bronx for the first time in almost a decade? Facepalm.
-I hate new Yankee Stadium. They gave up 8 HRs in this series, but tell me, how many of them were the cheapest HRs you’ve ever seen? The main ones was the one Hairston barely missed today and the Teixeira HR yesterday. Ridiculous.
-Get Parnell out of here. Look, if David Wright is a “choker”, Parnell is the Wright of our pen. Second straight game he ****ed it up for us.
-I hate new Yankee Stadium.
-Bad throw by Wright to Rottino and Rottino, if you’re gonna play 1st, PLEASE learn how to pick it there.
-I hate new Yankee Stadium.
-For a team that was lauded by Gary Cohen for doing so well with RISP & 2 outs, I’m greatly disappointed in the way they stranded runners on bases throughout this entire series.
-I hate new Yankee Stadium.
-Can someone please tell Jordany Valdespin to sllllllllllloooooooooooowwwwwww down his swing & get his timing just right? It’s long and he’s too eager to make his cuts. He’s swinging so fast before the ball comes and he’s not spraying the ball like he should. I have a world of confidence in him and believe he can be our 2nd baseman sooner than later (sorry, Murph.)
-I hate new Yankee Stadium.
-Please get Jason Bay out of here. I’m sick of seeing his face.
-Did I mention that I HATE NEW YANKEE STADIUM???
Hitman — The new Yankee Stadium is just an improved Little League field. It’s horrendous. Having said that, why can’t our lefty swingers shoot some balls out to right field?
“With the score still tied in the bottom of ninth, Russell Martin ended the game with a walk-off home run against Jon Rauch…”
Rauch said after the game: “I’ve been pretty horseshit this year.” Yes, Jon. You have been but recognition is the first step to improvement.
I’ve got an idea for Jon Rauch. Mort Cooper of days gone past had a career record of 128–75, a 2.97 ERA, 913 strikeouts, and 33 shutouts in 1840⅔ innings. He was selected to the NL All-Star team four times (1942, 1943, 1945, 1946). Yes he played a lot during the war years but he and his brother, catcher Walker Cooper, were studs in any era.
Mort Cooper pitched almost 2000 innings with pain in his arm, particularly in his elbow. So he occasionally chewed aspirin on the mound for relief from an aching pitching arm. It worked for Mort Cooper, so maybe Jon Rauch should try it too. I know Jon has some loose chips in his elbow, but he should man up like Mort Cooper did. LOL.
It beats having to say you’re horseshit.
They said nhe has debris but that usually means bone fragments and the only way to fix that is to scope him.
I suggest they do it now and get it over with. Sure isn’t helping us up here.
Here’s a better idea for Rauch………DFA
Parnell=Heilman. Loser’s face and demeanor. Don’t care if he throws 108 MPH, he’s not gonna make it. I used to think he could be our closer. No way.
My TO GO list: Bay, Parnell, Rauch, Valdespin, and the BP, save for Byrdak. I was willing to give BP time a week or so ago. No longer.
Russell — You’re a hard man my friend. I think you’re double banging on Parnell and Rauch. LOL.
Maybe so, maybe I need patience, maybe I am coming unglued b/c of the way we lose games we should win. ???
Russell — I’m not a drinker. I haven’t touched the stuff in eons. What worked though is Jagermeister with beer. It’s yucky but dynamite in a glass. When the going gets tough, the tough get Jagermeister. Highly recommended if you want an angry head tomorrow morning. You’ll have bigger problems than the Mets. LOL>
I’ll keep that in mind.
Here is a question for some folks here….
Which Bullpen arm leads the pen with the lowest ERA?
When you figure it out you will have the answer to why he has been getting put into games!
I see a lot of people want to hang this all on Collins but when your given a choice of:
Dog Turd Pie
Elephant turd Pie
Chicken Poop Pie
and Runny Turd Tartie…
There is no good decision you can make, you just make one and hope today is the day they didn’t take their ExLax and dump all over us!
Collins is the victim of a failed Winter by the GM. Blaming him for bringing in bad relievers is denying facts. 7 bad relievers. What a choice he has indeed!
Well, this is pathetic, we get a chance to salvage a game and boom.. Once again we’re victimize by unclutch at bats, errors, bad pitchign and the worst bullpen (arguably the worst) in baseball…
Second inning we could’ve blown the game open, bases loaded and 1 out, and jason (i’m 10x better than ike davis) bay strikes out, well, that’s not a shocker, the man sucks in all possible way it’s not even funny.. then comes the All Star, the MVP candidate David wright came up and of course, struck out, to me, inning was over once jason bay struck out, but it would’ve been nice for our AS to come trough, he usually does early in games… Moving on..
Niese was just cruising,2 out in the 7th inning, then a ground ball to third, and once again our 3B (who did not have ike davis at 1B to save him) made a HORRIBLE throw to first to extend the inning, and little do you know, BOOM, 3-2 game after a HR, then in comes the HORRENDOUS bullpen sandy provided the mets fans with and this time, it was parnell (who was victimize by that guy at SS only sandy knows) who let the floorgates open, 4-3 game going into the ninth, and once the game, the team somehow despite being sabotage finds a way to tie the game, this time it was ike davis with a game tying double that after that was just victimize by bad baseball running and was thrown out at 3rd with a ground ball to SS.. It happens, but we are not that good of a team to give other teams outs or make stupid plays, in comes the ninth and this time there was not too much drama, 2 outs, noone on base and john (Thank you sandy for that contract i did not deserve but you being stupid gave me anyways) Rauch gave up a GW HR to end the game… Sweep complete, good night…
This team one week shows a lot of promise, next week they fall apart, so far 1-5 on that tough stretch week, in comes The Tampa Bay Rays, it’s not gonna get any easier. guess if we keep playing this way sandy won’t have to worry about being buyer come july.. SMH
“Moving on….” You really never do Alex; rather you run down Wright any and every time.
Only a hater would describe the error he was charged with as “HORRIBLE.” How silly.
As I see it, he made an excellent defensive play to get the hop, pivoted and threw short to the inexperienced Rottino; Rottino was incapable of handling a standard short-hop throw to 1st. Officially, it’s an error on 3B–understandable. A 1st B-man with marginal MLB competency makes that pick nearly every time.
Russell — Guess who (it’s really not you) should have the Jagermeister? It’s the perpetual whiner.
Russell, with all due respect, you call it what you will and want, i call it how it is.. If you wanna call me a hater for calling his throw horrible then so be it…
You see, I appreciate your attitude: we agree to disagree like civilized men.
After this series, can we officially stop talking about Parnell like he’s blossom into the next Heath Bell like other Met fans hoped he’ll be? It’s not happening, people.
Even Flow — When Heath Bell was Parnell’s age and in the Big Apple, Mets fans and management showed him no love. These numbers may show why the Mets didn’t want Heath:
Year 2005
Age 27
WHIP 1.479
H/9 10.8
Year 2006
Age 28
WHIP 1.676
H/9 12.4
On November 15, 2006, Bell was traded to San Diego, along with pitcher Royce Ring, for outfielder Ben Johnson and relief pitcher Jon Adkins.
Here’s my question. Why are we to even assume that Heath Bell could have ever handled the pressure in NY and become a great closer? It’s not like he has been lights out now that he is playing for a team that needs to win games. Some players are cut out for NY and some are not.
Some players are cut out for NY and some are not.Some players are cut out for NY and some are not.”
Lol, agree… Danny tartabul for some reason ALWAYS come to mind… I don’t know why..
LOL, yeah right now I am thinking Jason Bay
With Bay it’s the distance he stands from home plate, not the distance of the outfield walls that is the problem.I would say he is on pace to be the Mets worst ever FA signing.Even the worst prior to Bay (Perez, Castillo, Sabergahen, Bonilla) had at least ine decent year as a Met.This clown has been invisible since Day one.
I hate Bay’s demeanor, too. I don’t see aggression, drive, or energy.