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2012
Davis Provides The Pop, Dickey Brings The Sizzle, Mets Hook The Marlins 3-0
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R.A. Dickey took a giant step forward on his quest for that coveted NL Cy Young Award tonight as the Mets defeated the Miami Marlins by the score of 3-0.
The Mets knuckleballer spun a complete game shutout to earn his seventeenth victory of the season, tying him with Cincinnati’s Johnny Cueto for the most wins in the Majors.
Dickey allowed just five hits, walked three and struck out seven batters in what would be his third shutout of the season. He kept the Marlins off balance most of the night and they only had one baserunner reach as far as third base. With the win, Dickey lowers his ERA to 2.63 for the season. It’s been an amazing ride for the Mets ace this year and he is showing no signs of slowing down. He’s been absolutely remarkable and incidentally, four of his seventeen wins have come against the Marlins.
In a word the Mets offense was flat, mustering just four hits all night against the Marlins pitchers. However, Ike Davis did all the damage beginning with a sac fly to score Ruben Tejada in the fourth, and then the big blow – a two run bomb in the seventh inning to put the Mets up 3-0 and seal the victory for Dickey. Ike Davis has put his season-long slump in the rear view mirror and is looking more like the player we saw to start the 2011 season before he injured his ankle. It was the 25th homer of the season for Davis, and his 17th dinger on the road.
Notes:
Thanks to Ike Davis’ two-run jack, the Mets have now homered in seven straight games.
I kind of smirked when Jose Reyes got picked off first base by R. A. Dickey in sixth. 
Before the game, Terry Collins said he regretted the decision to have Josh Thole pull the ball this season and make him a power hitter. (Make him a power hitter?) Their goal is to try and resurrect the 2011 version of Josh Thole from now through the end of the season.
Dont expect a horde of September Call-ups tomorrow. Collins said nobody will be called up from Double-A and only two hitters would be coming from Triple-A; Mike Nickeas and possibly Zach Lutz. That’s odd…
On Deck:
The Mets will send Jeremy Hefner to the mound Saturday night against the Marlins’ Josh Johnson at 7:10 pm.
All together now… Lets Go Mets!
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NL East Standings
| Team | W | L | Pct. | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braves | 23 | 18 | .561 | - |
| Nationals | 23 | 19 | .548 | 0.5 |
| Phillies | 20 | 23 | .465 | 4.0 |
| Mets | 16 | 24 | .400 | 6.5 |
| Marlins | 11 | 31 | .262 | 12.5 |
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Congrats to Dickey on his 17th win. I missed Ike Davis’s HR live as it happened but saw the replay and Wow just crushed it.
Rubin is reporting Nickeas and Lutz will join the Mets tomorrow and McHugh will be added for Monday’s start. The remainder of call ups Mejia, Familia, Elvin Ramirez and Valdespin Rubin figures will come Tuesday after Bisons season ends.
http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/56004/mets-promote-nickeas-lutz
Thanks for that, MNJ. I’m looking forward to an encore from McHugh on Monday.
You welcome Joe D.
Last start for Wheeler tommorow if you have MILB.TV.
Don’t worry North, Ike’s homer hasn’t landed yet you can catch the rest of it tommorow.
To me! Dickey not getting the cy would be a bigger robbing than the allstar game. A knuckle ball pitcher with these stats?seriously?
Going to be a race to the finish with Cueto, I’m assuming. How great would it be if RA won the CY?
Laughed right out loud when seeing this after the game last night from Ozzie:
“Make sure when he gives the speech in the Cy Young Award that he mentions the Marlins, please.”
Looking forward to seeing Mejia and Familia. Familia has really improved his control recently. I hope he doesn’t get a case of the yips. Lutz or Satin probably should’ve been given a shot to be a RH bat off the bench earlier in the year and both can play 1B.
No Satin? But I love his swing.
They’d like to, but his eyebrows take up another roster spot.
R.A.diculous all over again! What a treasure we have in that guy!!!
It’s kind of amazing what Davis is accomplishing after sucking for so long; I have to wonder what a fully productive season from this kid would look like.
I was often a detractor of his for most of the season, but I’m beginning to think he could be a pretty special player with improvement.
Congratulations to Dickey, the 2012 NL Cy Young winner, at least according to Metsblog. I hope they didn’t jinx him. But seriously, I hope an extension is the first order of business for the Mets after this season. Can you believe he only got paid $4.25 million this season? He musy have put ten times that much in Fred’s coffers just on merchandising and ticket sales alone.
Two great defensive plays for Dickey by Murphy in the game. Murphy is getting better at 2nd base every day. Terry says he is due a hot spot with the bat & should hit .305 for yr.