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2012
Mets Never Say Die In 9-5 Extra Inning Win Over The Phillies
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The Mets (59-69) defeated the Phillies (61-67) by the score of 9-5 tonight at Citizen’s Bank Park.
Shoppach was the man tonight in a great game against the Phillies where the Mets rallied to come back from defecits twice and put a four spot up in the tenth.
Chris Young started tonight and struggled over 4.1 IP, allowing all 5 of the Philadephia runs off four hits and three walks. He struck out two, but allowed two home runs: a Grand Slam to Ryan Howard in the first and a solo shot to Utley in the fifth. The Mets bullpen, surprisingly, came through in the clutch today for some seriously impressive pitching after not allowing a run against Houston recently.
Robert Carson and Ramon Ramirez pitched hitless innings with a strikeout. Josh Edgin allowed a hit and a walk, but struck out one and looked strong in his outing, which lasted four outs. Rauch came out for one out as well and picked it up successfully. Parnell came in to keep the game close in the ninth and did so, and he also dominated the tenth inning to shut the door. He was really throwing heat in the tenth, touching 100 and picking up two strikeouts.
The offense definitely did their job today by scoring nine runs. A Wright single in the first led off the scoring for the Mets. A two-run homer from Mike Baxter in the fourth and a Wright sacrifice fly in the fifth would bring the Mets back to a tie, before the Phillies took the lead again. Shoppach tied it up with an RBI double down the line in the eighth, but he would not be done there.
In the tenth, we saw the Mets get it started with a David Wright bloop single followed by an RBI 2B from Ike Davis. A well-hit Lucas Duda single scored Ike and then Shoppach blasted one into the back rows in left field for a two-run shot. The Mets took the lead 9 – 5 and finished up from there.
Any defeat of Philadelphia feels good.
Notes
Shoppach should be brought back next season.
This was the Mets fourth win this season when trailing after the seventh inning.
Tejada, Murphy, Wright, Duda, and Shoppach all had multiple hits. Murphy dispelled worries about his injury.
Parnell improves to 4 – 3. Murphy picked up error number 12.
McHugh, Valdespin, Meija, Ramirez, Familia, and Nickeas look to be the September call ups.
Random fact from a Satish recap: Ike Davis has 25 RBI from the 7th inning or later and 4 go-ahead RBI. Those both lead the team.
Up Next
Matt Harvey starts tomorrow. Over his past two starts, he has given up two runs in 13 2/3 innings, striking out 17 and walking three. His 43 whiffs are the most by any Mets pitcher over the first six starts of a career. He faces Cole Hamels at 7:05 PM.
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Nice job on your recap and a wonderful win for the Mets. Games like this are why I always watch and it was nice to this against the Phillies who we’ve done quite well against all season long. Kelly Shoppach is sure looking like a keeper to me!
Love the Shoppach acquisition and hope we bring him back too. He has a clue behind the plate and the little bit of pop in his bat is a bonus.
Well, compare to the mets catchers shoppach is babe ruth… All year mets C hit ZERO home run, he already has 2.
Hey come on, Thole has one, Little Nickey has one, LOL.
You’re right, Thole’s abismal Slug % made me go insane for a second.. He does have one… How the hell can a guy have a Slug % less than 300????? My goodness, to think my bold prediction was him hitting 300 this year… Pathetic…
He fooled me… slightly. I had him as the 2nd worse catcher in the NL East. I guess he showed me.
I agree that Shoppach should be brought back for at least a 1 year deal. The fact that Nickeas is one of the call-ups, despite some unreal AAA numbers recently, tells you that the Mets are desperate in this area.
If they get rolling again, and I know I’m putting the cart way ahead of the horse, you have to wonder what affect the average “Dude-a” has on this line-up. When he was doing fine, the Mets were doing fine. When he struggled, the Mets started struggling. When he went down to Buffalo, the Mets really went down.
You said it, the “Duda factor” ……. Duda’s back and the Mets have won 3 in a row!
It’s been a while since I commented on a game thread, but nice win for the good guys!
For once we got a tremendous effort from the bullpen and Rauch has been strong for a while now. He’s been simply outstanding and well worth the 3.5mil most were complaining about.
He’s been simply outstanding and well worth the 3.5mil most were complaining about”
LMAO!!! So now we’re supposed to forget the 7 losses he has and the 3 blown saves??? Yeah, no, he’s well worth the money we paid him…
Alex –
When you see a glass on the counter …. a glass that has water in it, but only about say 50% of the entire cup … how would describe that cup?
He actually describes it as a very small catch basin of the rain he dumps onthe parades of fellow Met fans looking for a reason to root for our team.
Question you should ask yourself is, why is it ok to BASH IKE DAVIS and throw articles about him having an awful season and even some idiot wanting to demote him but it’s not ok to bash rauch for his awful perfomance during those 7 losses??? Did you know that since june 12 Ike davis has hit 270 with 19 HR’s and 50 RBI? with an OPS of 914? but yet, the guy was awful during the first 2 months and what he does now it’s irrelevant. Rauch lost 7 games for the mets while posting an over 15 ERA. he was overpaid no matter what you say, despite of what most of you slurpers say, sandy DID NOT HAVE A GOOD DAY as it was said he did back in november.
Let me try this again, something is in moderation….
“See here is my question. Why is it that just because we have a disagreement on the effectiveness of a player the end result has to be middle school rhetoric and calling anyone who disagrees a slurrrrrrper or what ever the hell it is?
Personally, I think considering what middle relievers get paid, and the fact that he has exceeded expectations based on his overall stats that it was a good signing. It has nothing to do with Anti or Pro Sandy. Ramirez for some reason didn’t work. Frank was a bad signing. Look at things individually. Rauch for most of the season has been very reliable.
As for your point on Ike, not sure you can get on anyone about panicking a little when he was hitting below .200. Hell I had him ready to take the reigns as the NL East best 1B this year. I wasn’t ready to panic but I was close for sure and I am still not over the fact of how his holes in his swing have been so exposed. Hopefully the sophomore slump is over and we can move on with what he is now. Otherwise the Mets are in even more of a heap of trouble. If Duda and Davis aren’t going to provide the HR pop we need, it’s uh oh time.
Alex, I posted a response but it can’t get through moderation so… oh well.
Alex everything you just mentioned is true but your timing is brutal! The few fans left that want to get together and hope and maybe truly believe that we have a shot in the not so distant future can turn to their Skankee fan friends to get dumped on. It just appears that every time a group gets together and finds something positive or someone who maybe turned the corner, here come Tropical Storm Alex to squash it. And for someone who claims to hate the Sabermetrics so much you sure do have quite the stash of stats to back up what ever Met bashing point you’re trying to make. Your new one is getting rid of DWright (SHOCKER! Did you ever like him?) for as you put it, “The Next Miguel Cabrerra, Wilmer Flores.” I too like Flores but why do we need to weaken a position of strength to get him up here? Leave in the Minors for another year, teach him to play left, God knows that our entire outfield is just completely devoid of any talent and LF is probably the worst of all.
sloath, i responded to his comment of “rauch was worth the money”. No he wasn’t, he was overpaid from the get go and has 7 losses. SEVEN!!! while he has pitched well as of late one cannot ignore the fact that he has SEVEN LOSSES!! Am i rooting for him to fail? No! hell i am glad he turned the table, unfortunately, he did it after the bullpen of the mets was tagged as the worst in baseball and the mets started fading. it’s a shame because i would’ve traded for that rauch at the beginning of the season, not now when the season it’s over with. He’s basically pitching for a new contract if you ask me.
Stop slurping everything sandy does, because that “he was worth the money” comment was exactly a shot at most of the people who think he was overpay when we got him…
SEVEN LOSSES….
Alex, I am on record at the time of Rauch’s signing saying that I did not understand it completely and assumed one of he or FF would be traded. I too thought it was most likely an overpay based on his previous numbers. HOWEVER, IMO he exceeded those expectations and has been worth the money to my surprise. The end.
No “slurping” here! I will not appologize for allowing someone the time to evaluate the situation we are in. While Sandy did a terrible job with the bullpen I will not blame him for the overall disaster this team is, that title goes to Fast Freddie, Slick Saul, and Boy Jeffy. But there’s nothing we could do about that! Please do not give me the Dodgers example because our situation was very different.
I NEVER said you root for this team to fail! I do believe that you often find the negative in most situations regarding the Mets. I do believe you are a true fan of the Mets either that or you’re a masochist (aren’t all Met fans, myself included) with too much time on your hands. Judging by your comments, if a player goes through a slump or a momentary time of suckiness he could never recover. Yes Rauch helped us loose 7 games (Hardly ever is ONE player EVER solely responsible for a loss.) But he appears to haved turned the corner and I for one am rooting for him. We are a billion games back, I don’t need to reminded of how bad Rauch was for an extended period, I watched the games just like you did. I’m not against criticism, in fact I welcome it just be fair about it.
BTW, I love your play on my handle. Sloath as in maybe loath, or loathe, or Sloth. I get it. Good one!
Lol, sorry man, didn’t mean to misspellled your name, no pun intended. Again, i am not saying rauch sucks or anything like that, just at the time he was overpaid to be brought here, then to say he’s worth the money he wasn’t supposed to get from the get go is a bit stretching wouldn’t you say? my timing is perfect…
Hi Alex,
My feeling about Rauch is that his settling down came way too late and ff he was pitching like this all season long and we just took those seven losses and reversed five of them into wins (forgeting the other games that he contributed to losing by not holding the lead or giving up more runs just enough to short-circuit our comeback) our record – despite all that has happened since the all-star break – would be 65-64 instead of 60-69
Even though that would still mean at this point having no shot at the wild card, being 10-1/2 out with seven clubs ahead of us vying for two slots, 2012 could still have been a most satisfying season with the team expected to do nothing trying to finish above .500 (i.e. “competitive”) and in third place (which is more satisying than finishing third by default with maybe 76 wins since the Phillies and Marlins are playing even worse).
That’s why though Rauch should not be singled out as one of those who contributed to making this a losing season, he should also not be seen as a good acquisition either based on a second half that means nothing. He deserves credit for getting his act together and if he was a young pitcher his second half performance would definately be seen as a positive sign going ahead to 2013 but as one who will be 34 in another month his place on the roster was not worth the money.
June 12th is a magical date? OK.
since June 12th, Rauch has pitched 22.1 innings, giving up 9 hits and walking 6 (so a whip of about .666). A 1.19 ERA, and a .374 OPS against. 2 saves, and 9 holds.
so yes, in roughly the last 1/2 of a season, he has been very, very good.
and yes, he had a bad patch early in the year (which did coincide with having to get shut down with his knee problem).
but looking at the season as a whole, overall he has been more good than bad, and certainly worth the money paid. He has also been more than doing his job while the rest of the team fell apart.
Stick, fair enough… Give credit when it’s due, that’s all… there was an idiot in here who wrote an article about demoting ike, and how he was a bust etc.. Ever since Ike turned the corner that man has been MAD!!
he certainly did rebound from the depths, but objectively, as poor as he was doing at the beginning of June, it was a very reasonable question to ask (should he be sent down to figure it out). Both sides of the arguement had merit.
Stick, my point is, if ike turn the corner, and you’re a mets fan, or you call yourself one, should you be mad because you were WRONG in the stupid article you wrotE???
One person wrote an article about Ike being demoted but many agreed, and it was saturated in the Media, so this wasn’t one “idiots” crusade against Ike Davis. He was struggling, no one can denying, including Ike has said how bad he was.
Looking to send someone to the minors to improve means you have faith in them and want them improve it is not bashing them. HUGE difference. Many HOF players struggled and went back to the minors, temporarily, it is not a negative thing.
Keeping him here, worked, this time, as Mets fans we are lucky, as is Davis. He was awful the first half, so was Rauch, but lucky for us BOTH have improved a lot.
Rauch has actually been very good the 2nd half of this season, but probably gets lost because overall the team has stunk it up.
I am liking this Shoppach guy – I loved his play on Sunday too in the 9th, no way do I see Thole blocking the plate like that, been a long time since we’ve seen a bulldog behind the plate.
It is always good to beat the Philthies.
Amazing how a REAL catcher can influence a game. It’s not about how hard you throw but where you put the ball. Shopach has called good games since he came here. He should be catching Harvey games rest of season. Heck, he should be doing most of catching rest of season.
I couldn’t agree with you more!!! To me a catcher needs to be the absolute leader. Defense, hustle, and attitude first, offensive stats are way down the list. If you get a guy who plays stellar defense behind the dish, calls a good game, and will get in a players face (teammate and opponent alike) when they aren’t playing the game the right way to me he’s a keeper.
Please, please, let’s make it four in a row!!!
Don’t care where we are in the standings…..I always enjoy a good Phillies beat down.
Yes, we arguably had the worst BP in the MLs all season, but right now the Phillies BP outside of Paps looks worse.
I’d find a way to keep Shoppach at season’s end.
I’d also part ways with Young.
Shoppach showed us what a reasonable catcher can do at the plate and on defense blocking pitches and the plate.
Great work by Parnell, he showed what he was projected to be against a tough lineup.
Great to see opposite field hits by Ike and Duda, as stated here, when Duda was hitting the team was playing great.
Any win vs the Phils is always a nice win. Good to see the offense show up for a change. Hopefully they didn’t waste all their bullets last night. Nice job by the pen keeping the Phils off the board the remaining 5 2/3 innings.
Harvey on the hill tonight. Go Harvey.