24
2012
Wright Blasts 200th Career Home Run In Mets 3-1 Loss To Astros
An article by Former Writers
Mets extended their losing streak to six straight after falling 3-1 to the Houston Astros tonight, despite a strong start by Jon Niese and career home run number 200 for David Wright.
Niese has been consistent in his last couple of starts and has kept up the recent string of good pitching from Mets starters. Seven strong innings for Niese where he gave up only three runs. He gave up two runs in the second on back-to-back doubles that gave the Astros the early lead. He threw blanks until the seventh were he gave up a solo homer to shortstop, Tyler Greene.
Niese had trouble getting out of the inning, but a great diving play and strong throw from Ruben Tejada finally got the job done. Hakuna Tejada. Niese would get pulled after that with his team down by two. He walked two, and struck out five in his 108 pitch start. Despite his strong start, the offense continues to fall flat.
Rob Carson got one out in the eighth and then Frank Francisco took over to finish the inning with two strikeouts. Manny Acosta got the bid for the ninth and got two outs before Josh Edgin came in to finish the inning
Mets offense has been non-existent tonight was no different. Just one run on four hits and ten men left on base, including a runner on first and third with no one out situation. Terrible.
David Wright had a huge and memorable night at the plate. He had two hits, including his 200th career home run, and a single that he tried stretching into a double and got nailed. He’s now batting .319 on the season.
Justin Turner got the start at second, giving Daniel Murphy the day off. He had one hit and a HBP. Call him, maybe?
Ruben Tejada, Mike Baxter, Ike Davis, Jordany Valdespin, and Josh Thole all had 0-fers tonight. Ike walked twice while Thole is hitless in last 16 at-bats.
Game Ball
David Wright of course who continues to rewrite the Mets record books.
Notes
The Mets haven’t scored more than two runs in seven games now. Wow.
The Mets have fallen behind the Phillies and are fourth in the league, just ahead of the Marlins.
John Maine, who is with the Yankees’ triple-A team, pitched against Buffalo tonight. He allowed two unearned runs on five hits, two walks, three wild pitches, a hits batsman, and struck out three in six innings of work against our Bisons. He threw 101 pitches as well.
Joe D’s Mets Limerick
The Mets have a catcher named Thole.
Whose at-bats are rather unholy.
He plays with such grit, but can’t buy a hit,
And the worst part’s his defense is lowly.
(Sorry, Joe D. doesn’t do haiku’s.)
Up Next
The Mets continue their series against the Astros tomorrow in Citi Field when RA Dickey (15-4, 2.82 ERA) takes on Fernando Abad (0-0, 3.86 ERA) at 1:10 pm ET. Former Met, Fernando Martinez is likely to be in the starting lineup for the Astros .
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Lousy loss again.At least Murphy got to rest tonite.Poor guy was tired.Where are all the Murphy “hit machine” guys?I guess being a hit machine with 3 home runs can be very tiring.Looks ike Jason Bay needs days off because he is tired from striking out..Looks like all the fans who come to the games nowadays disguised as empty seats are getting too tired to show up anymore also
Sorry Gary but I still think Murphy is a keeper at least when you compare him to the rest of this sory team.
There are at least 3-4 guys ahead of him on the WTF is wrong with you list…
Torres
Bay
Thole
Ramirez
Francisco
As for Murphy being tired well he has never played this much in a season yet!
His fullest season was 2009 and that was two knee operations and shortened seasons as a result ago!
He is still our third best RBI guy behind Wright and Ike
And he doesn’t hit a lot of HRs or as many as Ike but then again he doesn’t currently have a .219 BA either.
The worst you can say about him is he is a Luis Castillo in range but he hits .286.
Is he going to be the best 2B in the league? No!
But he sure won’t be the worst either!
Murphy is the least of our worries.
Hi Metsie,
Still don’t understand why Murphy has become the whipping boy for so many and why they would even think of trading him and creating another hole. Second base, as you point out, is one of the positions we don’t have to worry about, just like center field was last year until a hole was created there.
He is not an all-star but can field second and has learned how to play it (if I remember on a recent play which was botched he was the only infielder in the proper position). He is a solid hitter and the gripes about his lack of power would be nill had Duda and Davis hit like we thought they would.
“why they would even think of trading him ….”
Thats easy to answer…
He’s a good player, they know he is good he just isn’t superstar so they know they can get something for him in trade where the rest they think they get nothing…
Called the easy way out and why there was such support for trading Beltran and K-Rod…
If the folks around here started looking for multiples that are NOT all that good to trade for one guy that was instead of constantly looking for who is doing good and can get something (seemingly what Sandy is doing from previous trades made) then maybe we would actually be rebuilding this team instead of tearing it down!
We got rid of our best CF for Torres and Ramirez…Anyone really think we came out ahead on that deal?
Everyone liked it why? because they thought the value they gave away was going to be less than what they got back…Didn’t happen!
They are just looking for guys to make trades because they are tired of the inaction of the FO.
And since the guys who are good enough to keep have an OBVIOUS trade value those are the guys they want to trade as opposed to the crap guys we should send off in quantity for one Murphy!
I sometimes express my frustrations through Photoshop. Here is where I am at right now.
http://realdirtymets.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/The-Playing-Dead-862×812.png
Awesome Job! Hey, is it October 14th yet?
Thx Yea looking forward to season 3. Heck right now I am looking forward to the Fall lineup. There is next to nothing right now for me as far as series goes and the Mets are just killing me right now.
Nice pic MNJ. I love the color scheme and everything. The sadness of its truthfulness remains painful.
Thx Hank.
That’s pretty sick. Wish I could do stuff like that.
Thx MetsJets13. Right now it’s either Photoshop or a finishing off a bottle of Don Q and I don’t think my kidneys would like that.
I hear ya!
You should send that to MetsBlog they always post stuff like that.
Love that show..Great picture.perfect metaphor.Good job MNJ..
Thx Gary
Poor Joe, he cant do a Mets Haiku like I can
Hey, you must be lost… lol
I cant watch these games anymore!!! Niese deserved a win! ERGHHH!
Sandy is playing chess in his mind. He has on white knight, Wright. The one bishop he has is Dickey. Rumors has it he will trade two pawns for a Queen and two more pawns for a castle. Our king savior Sandy is about to castle to avoid a check. But wait we have no castles except those in the sky. Oh well we have been check mated.
We dont have the speed to play small ball, and this station to station baseball is killing us. Too many one dimensional players and not enough power and speed. Our last five starters pitched good enough to win. Something’s gotta give.
Time to start considering not bringing Terry Collins back next season.
We need a scapegoat but TC has earned consideration for a reassignment within the organization. But if you don’t have the tools it is tought to do your job. You can motivate so long before your not listened to any more. TC in game strategy was always poor. But his motivation was superb. The team may not have quit but ownshership did. The bubble burst and the ugly warts are showing. No spped, no power, players out of position, poor defense caused by that, mental errors on base path. A too lefty lineup. No major league outfielders. I almost forget the BP. Not one guy you can count on. We are witnessing the exception to the rule that SP is ninety percent of the game. The Wilpons and SA are going nowhere. TC is a good candidate because Wally will be; one way or another, a major league manger next year.
Notice how the SNY announcers kept on focusing on how bad the Astros are?