Sep
5
2012

Dickey To 18 Wins! Mets Win 6-2

An article by Sean Kenny

R.A. Dickey had a great outing, notching his 18th win of the season, and the Mets offense showed up today in their 6-2 win.

R.A. Dickey took the hill today in the rubber game, and was strong through six and two-third innings. Dickey allowed eight hits and two runs, while walking one and striking out five. R.A. gave up three of his eight hits in his final inning of work so the line looks a bit skewed. The only major blemish was the HR he allowed to opposing pitcher and “Mr. Curveball” Adam Wainwright

The bullpen continued its strong play, with Josh Edgin, Jon Rauch and Frank Francisco combining for two and one-third scoreless innings, allowing one hit and striking out two batters. It is a shame that the bullpen came together late and for the most part struggled in the middle of the season

The offense struck early, with a Josh Thole RBI single in the second inning. Lucas Duda would walk with the bases loaded for the second RBI, in the third inning. Ike Davis would continue his hot play since the ASB, hitting a three-run homer in the fifth inning. Andres Torres added an insurance run in the eighth inning on an RBI single.

The Mets offense was aggressive today, striking out 13 times over the course of the game, but the aggressive approach did pay dividends early, knocking out Wainwright by the fifth inning.

Game Notes:

Ike Davis hit his 26th homer of the season, and is at a solid pace to hit 30 home runs this season, and has an outside shot at 90-100 RBI. If that happens, the only remembrance of a horrible first two months would be his batting average

Josh Thole was 2 for 4, and while any hitting is good at the moment, he is in a position he has never been in before. At this point, all of his value is tied into his rapport catching R.A. Dickey.

Justin Turner was 2 for 4 on the day, spelling David Wright and raising his season average to .289.

Player Of The Game: Who else? R.A. Dickey. Not his finest outing, but he has raised his own standard so high that allowing two runs in less than seven innings is just “good”

On Deck: The Mets will have Thursday off, but travel home Friday to begin a series against the Atlanta Braves at 7:10 P.M. Jonathon Niese (10-8, 3.55) will take the mound against Paul Maholm (11-9, 3.79)

About the Author: Sean Kenny

Sean Kenny is a student/writer currently attending school at the City College of New York. For more Mets news, notes and thoughts follow him on twitter @TheSeanKenny

11 Comments + Add Comment

Original Mets Fan September 5, 2012 at 6:28 pm

It feels so good to see Ike Davis raking again. There were times this season where I doubted that he was the first baseman of the future because he looked so bad. I take it all back. As for Dickey, if the Mets don’t sign him to an extension the front office should all be fired on the spot. I just realized that everything good that has happened for the Mets this season, has had absolutely nothing to do with this front office. Nothing.
- Met Maniac September 5, 2012 at 6:42 pm
  
  This!
  - Metsie September 5, 2012 at 7:21 pm
    
    THIS and THAT! LOL
Tommy2cat September 5, 2012 at 7:22 pm

The last play of the game was just tooooo ironic – a Cardinal called out on an appeal play. While it doesn’t fully compensate for Tuesday’s blown call (AND Torres shouldn’t have made it that close), it does place a nice cherry on the top of Dickey’s 18th win.

LGM!!!
- Metfan Lou September 5, 2012 at 8:03 pm
  
  I know what you mean. Sports are like life-it all evens out in the end. Ike could be leading the MLs in home runs if he didn’t have that miserable two months. I am thinking it may have something to do with getting his stroke back after coming back from his injury.
Mr North Jersey September 5, 2012 at 8:14 pm

Wow! 18 wins for R.A. Dickey on what has been just one great season and Ike with another HR to boot. Nice!
- hotstreak September 6, 2012 at 8:35 am
  
  Please don’t say Ike and boot in the same sentence.
gorgeguy September 5, 2012 at 11:26 pm

Yeah! Hate the Cruds! Hate the Phools. Triple Hate the Stanks!

Keep it up Mets and give me something to hope for next year!
Joey D. September 6, 2012 at 12:28 am

Heard that last play on the radio and Howie Rose had me cracking up, not knowing if the game had ended, then not knowing why it had ended and concluding with this being the strangest “put in the books” call he’s ever made.

From what he said, the players were asking each other the same question.
Alex68 September 6, 2012 at 7:37 am

Congrats to DICKEY who might win the Cy Young, too bad it was for a losing team. Can’t fault him i guess..
srt September 6, 2012 at 10:53 am

DPLennon: Don’t have a Cy vote this year, but if I did, he’d be leading now RT @mikefichera: do you think dickey is now in the lead for the cy young?
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Dang, too bad he doesn’t have a vote.

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