5
2012
Mets Take A Walk On The Wild Side In 6-2 Win Over The Padres
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The Mets drew ten walks and beat the Padres by the score of 6-2, Saturday night at Petco Park.
Jeremy Hefner started for the Mets and the kid was impressive to say the least allowing just one run on five hits in his six innings of work. Hefner was poised and in control throughout his outing and didn’t allow any walks while striking out two.
The Mets got on the board early scoring four runs in the second off Edinson Volquez, who walked four batters in the inning in addition to two hits, including an RBI double to Jordany Valdespin.
Daniel Murphy was on base five times going 4 for 4 with 2 runs scored in the game and a walk.
Mike Baxter walked in all five plate appearances setting a new Mets record for a nine inning game.
Josh Edgin continues to thrive and pitched two more scoreless innings to lower his ERA to 2.25 for the season.
Bobby Parnell came in for the save in the ninth but allowed a home run to Chase Headly and it wasn’t a cheapie either, the ball was cruched. Another hit later, Terry Collins pulled him and brought in Frank Francisco who picked up the final two outs to earn the save. Welcome back, Frank…
Notes:
Terry Collins said that Jeremy Hefner would be reassigned to the bullpen when Johan Santana rejoins the rotation next Saturday against the Braves at Citi Field. It will be good to have Hefner as a long man and spot starter in the bullpen.
The Mets got the win, but they still sucked and had a lot of missed opportunities in this game. They were 3-for-15 with runners in scoring position and left 13 runners on base.
The Mets head into Sunday’s finale at 4:05 PM when Matt Harvey (1-1, 1.59 ERA) takes on Staten Island native Jason Marquis (4-6, 4.08).
Lets Go Mets!
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I think we sholud trade a good and productive player who is helping the team win like Murphy for any one
hope that was dripping with Sarcasm….
Yep Padres pitchers throwing the ball all over the place kind of helped the Mets “draw” all those walks. Amazing.
And another outstanding pre-game analysis by Bobby Ojeda…but hey – walks = World Series these days.
Maybe Baxter should be batting number two instead of number seven at least against righthanders. Josh Edgin reminds me of Randy Myers right down to his snarl.
What else does Parnell have to do to prove to management that he does not belong in the major leagues. My god why do they keep throwing him out there to make an ass of himself. Another thing I want Collins to know is that Torres is not a switch hitter, he ‘s a right handed batter and not a good one at that.Can’t you tell?
The Mets with last night’s win are assured of a winning road trip but they still need to work on getting back to .500. Nice job by Hefner & Edgin again and with the exception of Parnell the pitching overall did a good job yesterday.
How about that wasted night by Torres along with 3 swinging punchouts, wow, we don’t have another option in CF except for Spin who has speed but is not a CF and don’t have the arm.
Wow what a waste land between Bay, Thole and Torres.
But, heard last night that Thole had less than 600 at bats before this season and his totals so far, 830 AB, with 47 XBH, INC 7 HR and 82 RBI, 62 R.
Not bad fora converted to catcher still in training. If he is not part of Mets going forward I say let him play out season to see if he improves cause having only 279 GM under your belt means he might, I say might improve and provide solution long term for Mets.
How long till we find another option for LF? CF? Because Torres is good from the RH side but is terrible from LH side, I hope TC doesn’t continue to run him out there against LH.