12
2012
Matt Harvey K’s 10 In Mets 2-0 Loss To Nats
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Matt Harvey had a dominant but short outing and the Mets offense apparently didn’t show up to the park in their 2-0 loss to the Nationals
Matt Harvey had his good stuff tonight, but based on his high strikeout total, had himself out by the fifth inning. Harvey went five, allowing five hits and one run while walking five and striking out 10. Harvey had the Nationals hitters consistently confused, and didnt truly become unraveled until the fifth. The sad state of affairs means even allowing one run, Harvey wasn’t eligible for the win and took the loss.
The bullpen had some heavy lifting today, with Robert Carson pitching a clean sixth. Bobby Parnell pitched one-third of an inning, giving up a hit and walking two. Justin Hampson came out and finished off the other two-thirds. Jon Rauch gave up a solo home runj in the eighth, but struck out one. Frank Francisco pitched the ninth and was clean in his inning.
The pitching can’t be asked to do much more. This burden is falling on one side of the team at the moment, and its a shame.
Offensively – the Mets didn’t muster much. David Wright went 2 for 4, with two stolen bases. Mets hitters only struck out three times, but only walked once. When the offense cannot make consistent enough contact, it will always be a downhill battle for futility.
Game Notes
Daniel Murphy pinch-hit in the ninth inning and was the final out. While not expected to be a savior, solid contact outside of pull-shots to the right side of the infield would be great.
Jason Bay. 0 for 2. 2013 release candidate? Why yes, that seems appropriate.
Kelly Shoppach – 1 for 3, two strikeouts. Still miles ahead of Josh Thole in terms of being an offensive threat.
On Deck
The Mets have off Thursday, but travel to Miluawakee Friday to face off against the Brewers. Game time is 8:10 P.M. and will see Jonathon Niese face off against Mike Fiers.
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Symbol didn’t work, but it’s the hair pulling out guy.
Jason Bay is an albatross and when he’s starting, is probably associated with more losses than any other player.
Poor Harvey. Poor, poor Harvey. He has the terrible misfortune of being a part of this awful, awful team.
absolutely. I mean, the guy is 2-3 years out of college, is now a SP on a MLB BB club, playing in NY with tons of attention (and I am quite sure chicks!), making almost 1/2mill a year.
Yup, I bet he hates his life.
Newsflash: The Mets flat out suck decrepit oyster shells!
Was heartened to see that the 2013 schedule is out. Can hardly wait for the next 162-game thrill ride.
Pathetic….no other phrase or word can describe this offense…We can all whip on Bay, but it’s not just him…Everyone deserves the blame, From ownership with their financial wrongdoing, (and make no mistake, you don’t just settle out of court for 150+ million when you did nothing wrong) to the FO assembling a team of journeymen, to the Manager, and the coaching staff…I can’t blame the players as much because journeymen are what they are…Poor RA, Poor Harvey, Poor DW, poor FANS, for having to deal with this shennanigans….I can hear Marlon Brando…The HORROR…The HORROR…
I like to refer this teams FO tactics as dumpster diving.
At this point, what else can i say that i haven’t said? this team is just pathetic!!! But hey, according to a lot of people,
“we’re going in the right direction”
“SA has done a good job with what’s being presented to him”
“he’s a genius”
“he had a good day”
“losing reyes is ok because we haven’t won anything with him”
“blame the wilpons”
“i will give this FO up until 2012, wait no, now it’s 2014″
“we’re not punting 2012, we’re trying to field a competitive team out there”
“we’re not trading hairston unless it’s for an A type prospect”
“Remember back in july when sandy alderson said harvey’s not ready and gave a spot start to batista??
A city of 800K out voted a city of 8 million”
“We don’t have a comp draft pick next year, so we decided to save it for next year draft”
Yeah, Those are some of the most memorable quotes from articles and comments we’ve heard this year in defend of the team and what’s going on with it. Sorry direction that we’re heading in…
Maybe if they looked for “players that can win” instead of “Players we can get away with”, They wouldn’t be the team they have been.
Cause all we are doing is “Getting Away With” these guys…
Getting away from the teams that matter in the MLB.
You almost have to wonder what they saw that said Harvey wasn’t ready but said Schwinden was?
Yeah, Metsie, that’s when they use the BLame the wilpons excuse..
Funny how the Wilpons can be so awful at running this team with the same folks who appluad the guy they hired to run the franchise isn’t it?
The knock on the WIlpons in the past has always been they hired guys they could control, and then would knock the WIlpons for letting them get out of control (Harazin, Phillips and Omar).
They blame the WIlpons for the budget one minute and in the next minute claim that you should be able to win with a 90 Mil budget and don’t take the GM to task for not getting rid of the actual dead weight they feel is weighing down the ability to spend.
This is really all about the last remaining bloodlust from the 2007,08 collapses, they got everyone else fired BUT the Wilpons and all this angst aimed at the Wilpons is just a way to excuse the new guy and hold onto thier past hatreds.
The only thing the Wilpons can actually do here is fire Sandy…
Is that what these folks want them to do?
Or will they just blame the Wilpons for making the only move they can actually make and get rid of the guy they claim they like?
It’s like the late 70′s all over again Alex…The only answer is the same as in ’79…the owners need to, as Ralph Bellamy says in Trading Places… “Get back in there and Sell! Sell!” “Turn those machines back on…turn those machines back on”….
And Saul like Don Ameche keeps yelling at Fred…”You idiot…I told you we shouldn’t have committed everything…Bellamy:”Where the hell is Biggs” (Madoff)…
For Alderson and company…the bloom is off the rose…you better show me something soon cause you haven’t shown me anything yet…his 1 good day was dealing a player who’ll draw a 3 yr. 20 mil contract on the FA market this year and is playing pretty good ball for a journeyman CF who’ll be lucky to get a minor league deal and a right handed reliever who may get the same…and signing one guy who is just a mess mentally and we’re stuck with for 6 mil again next year, and another who has been impressive since June 8th, but was throwing gasoline on fires before that date…I’m not impressed…I really wanted to give the guy a chance…but I’m sorry…I just don’t see it…I give him credit for the Beltran/Wheeler deal though, the kid’s really good…but afterall he’s just that…a kid.
Mike, that’s exactly what we’ve been saying from the get go, the guy was annoited in here as the savior of this franchise, a guy who will find good undervalue players, a guy who will fix the financial mess of the team, instead he’s done nothing but to make this team worst, lose good players and trade an All Star for a kid who, as good as he may be, it is not a guarantee he’ll be that. THREE Gm’s and none of this guys have come up with a trade idea to improve the roster. it’s very sad and pathetic what’s going on.. Blame the wilpons if you want now, but at the time, everyone knew the mets had no money and were fine with that, now that SA has failed at what he does best, they’re blaming the wilpons because their lord can’t spend money.
I went to the doctor to find out why I was in so much pain. He took one look at me and said “Lou, remove your MET cap.” It was a miracle, the pain disappeared instantly. I said thanks doc how did you know. “Oh, you’re about the hundred MET fan I’ve seen this week, now remember don’t put that cap on again.” Thanks Doc I’ll give the cap to an Obama voter. “that’s a good idea,”
Lmao..
LOL the following definition is buried somewhere in the Medical textbooks…
Stress = The disease caused by a Doctor’s inability to diagnose a problem in a meaningful way but still wants to charge you for the Office Visit!
That’s real cute!
What to you mean on Murphy? Is out was a fly ball to center field. If he has hit it a liitle better it could have been a HR
Another 0-6 sweep of a home stand. Sigh…
Mets bats this home stand have continued to disappoint. While the pitching during the home stand wound up giving up an average of 4.8 runs per game the offense could only muster an average of 1.5 runs per game. Only 3 Mets had more than 1 rbi during the home stand and none had 3 or more.
Maybe the Mets should wear their road uniforms at home the rest of the way and see if that helps. At this point it can’t make it any worse.
Disappoint is putting it mildly.
The lack of offense is pathetic, awful and mind boggling. More like lack of talent, apparently.
No speed and no power equals a huge number of LOB, if we can even get them on base.