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2012
Mets Lose Eighth Straight Home Game In 4-2 Loss To Fish
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The Mets (53-57) lost to the Marlins (50-60) by the score of 4-2 tonight at Citi Field.
It feels like this team is just without energy. I can not explain how or why but it just feels like a different team. The fight was once a fight for the wild-card … and now it is a fight to hit .500 again.
I feel like every loss I write a recap for ends up feeling like a tough loss to me. Maybe it is just my outlook on things, but every loss brings us closer to something I do not want to come to terms with.
Jon Niese started tonight and went six innings, only running into a blip in the fourth inning where he allowed four runs. Three consecutive singles, a sac fly, another single, and a 2-run double with 2 outs put a 4-spot on the board for the Marlins in the fourth and that was all the scoring they would muster on the evening. He allowed eight hits, a walk, and struck out four over the six innings. Parnell, Acosta, and Rauch finished the last three innings scoreless, allowing only a hit and striking out three.
The Mets would pick up two runs in the fifth to back up Niese, off a Murphy lead-off solo shot and a two-out RBI single by Andres Torres. Terry Collins did not call for a pinch-hitter with Niese up and the bases loaded/2-out in the bottom of the fifth – and Niese struck out. He went on to pitch the sixth scoreless. There was little to write home about after that. Ruben Tejada singled in the third and ended up on third, but Hairston struck out and stranded him.
Not much else to say about tonight.
Notes
On the day the Mets announced that left fielder Jason Bay will become a platoon player, general manager Sandy Alderson said the Mets have no plans to swallow the final guaranteed season of his four-year, $66 million contract.
“Certainly, there are times when it is appropriate to eat a contract,” Alderson told ESPN New York. “There are other times when it is not. Jason Bay is not going anywhere, nor is his contract.”
Bay went 1 – 4 and his average rose to .157. Woo-hoo. Murphy was the only starter with two hits, one of them being a HR. Tejada extended his hitting streak to 12 with the third inning single.
The Mets lost their eighth straight game at Citi Field, the club’s longest home losing streak since September 14-September 28, 2007 when they also dropped eight consecutive games. The Mets struck out 11 times tonight and have struck out 76 times during the losing streak, including double-digits in six of the games.
The Mets made room for left-hander Garrett Olson’s promotion by demoting Elvin Ramirez to Triple-A Buffalo. The team also transferred Dillon Gee to the 60-day DL to clear a 40-man roster spot.
Up Next
The series continues tomorrow evening with Chris Young (3-5, 4.22) versus Nathan Eovaldi (1-1, 8.59 with the Marlins). 7:10 PM.
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Just a painful, putrid loss to a really crappy team. Two crappy teams fight for third place again tomorrow.
Wow! Thought we were going to come out guns blazing tonight. WTH!
If we don’t win this series, bleakness really will begin setting in.
The rest of the SA quotes on Bay’s contract via ESPN:
Like he does with all decisions, Alderson left open the possibility that he could change his mind about keeping Bay for next season.
“That is our position now, nothing is 100 percent certainty in baseball,” Alderson said. “You know that.”
As much trouble as this team has scoring runs lately – need like 3 hits per run – not sure letting Niese hit in the bottom of the 5th with bases loaded and 2 outs was the right move. Pen for the most part is rested so using another arm for the 1 more inning Niese pitched might have been the way to go there.
When Wright or Hairston aren’t hitting, especially when Wright and Hairston aren’t hitting, the Mets become a station to station team. Not enough speed from most of the other guys to manufacture runs or take an extra base. Ike is a homer hitter who strikes out a lot, so he’s not going to be part of a team’s speedy offense with any consistency. He’s slow on the basepaths anyway.
Heart of the order (Wright, Hairston & Bay) go 2 for 12. The Mets are not able to muster a hit after the 5th inning. Wright is in the midst of a slump. Niese has 1 bad inning and the team is unable to overcome it and fall back to 4 games below .500.
Really don’t want to fall any further below .500 with the Braves, Reds and Nationals due next.
Just win 1.
LGM!
Why all the hand wringing about our Mets. This is EXACTLY what the team was supposed to be from the first day of the season. Sports pundits said it, knowledgeable Met fans know it. There is a simple reason. Before the all star break batters rule, after the all star break pitchers rule. The unknow factor for each team are injuries (Mo Rivera comes to mind and the Yankees are starting to flounder without him and look like an ordinary team). If you see a different team with this ownership in the next three years I would like to hear why.
Well, the mets just lost a series to the padres, a team that was also crappy… Since the ASB, the mets have been very, very crappy…
Can someone explain to me why the Mets management feels it is OK to punish loyal Mets fans by parading Jason Bay, hitting in the .150′s , in nearly every game? What have we done to deserve this treatment?