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2012
Mets Shutout By Brew Crew, Lose 3-0
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In just the third start of Wily Peralta’s young career, the Mets were completely baffled and continued to struggle offensively as they dropped this one to the Brewers 3-0.
Chris Young got the nod for Amazin’s and put together a solid effort, despite allowing home runs to both Ryan Braun and Aramis Ramirez in the fourth and a second bomb to the reigning NL MVP in the sixth. Young finished with a final line of 6 2/3 innings pitched, allowing three runs on eight hits while walking nobody and punching out two, taking the loss while lowering his ERA to 4.37.
As for the Mets bats, there was not much to write home about. They had two hits and a pair of walks, they had a runner in scoring position twice in the ballgame and failed to get a runner to third. Josh Thole and Andres Torres accounted for the only hits while the 3-4-5 in the order combined for a 0-for-11 with five strikeouts.
The lineup continues to be the most glaring issue with this 2012 Mets ballclub. What adds to the frustration to the second half collapse is the fact that the Amazin’s have gotten solid starting pitching, yet waste it with an anemic offense. For me I can’t help but wonder what this team would be like if they somehow retained Jose Reyes. Would he have made enough of an impact to carry this team through the second half?
Regardless, another disappointing loss, and all I can say is thank God for football when it comes to September as a Mets fan.
Notes:
-Chris Young completed 100 innings pitched for the first time since 2008 today.
-David Wright’s strikeouts continue to mount as he has six in his past three games, now at 104 of them on the year.
-Ryan Braun hit his 39th and 40th homers of the year off of Chris Young, the first time in his career that he has reached the 40-jack plateau.
Up Next:
The Mets head home for their final homestand of the season, hoping to play spoiler with R.A. Dickey on the hill against the resurgent Phillies starting at 7:10pm.
About the Author: Clayton Collier
Clayton, a Long Island native and die-hard Mets fan, started writing online about three years ago. He is currently a Journalism major with a minor in Broadcasting at Seton Hall University. Although very disappointed with the current state of the team, Clayton remains hopeful that the young prospects in the farm system will bring the Mets back to a respected franchise in baseball once again. Besides writing for MMO, Clayton is also a staff member at 89.5 WSOU, Seton Hall's modern active rock radio station. You can contact Clayton by following him on Twitter: @Clayton_Collier or E-mailing him at MaybeNextYearMets@yahoo.com
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I’m not so mad that the Mets got shutout today. All teams get shutout.
But I’m mad that they got shutout by a scrub like Wily Peralta!!!
This guy is terrible!!! In146 innings pitched in AAA and he gave up 76 runs on 158 hits and 78 walks!!
Don’t pick on Wily Peralta. ANY pitcher can shut out the Mets! The Good the Bad and the Ugly all have had a shot at the METS and the METS have rose to the occassion.
You’re a Mets fan, correct? Why get mad? You should be used to watching scrubs beating the Mets over and over and over again.
4 base runners in the entire game. Deep sigh
After scoring 6 runs yesterday and 7 runs Friday they were bound to return back to form offensively but it would of been nice if they had been shutout yesterday and the 6 runs then be today so at least we could take 2 out of 3.
Well the Mets JUST need to go 15-1 the rest of the way to finish .500. I can only imagine what the odds are in Vegas on that happening.
At least the Pats & Cowboys lost. (Sorry Joe D) Though so did the Jets and I am right back to the return of a pain from a loss. sigh
But, the Giants won, which is what really counts!
Yes they did. 500 plus yards passing for Eli and they needed all of it to win. Huge call reversal on that out of bounds catch by the Bucs. The Giants D may just had let them tie it again if not for that call.
Quite possibly the most boring Mets game I’ve watched the entire season – and I’ve seen them all save one.
Only silver lining in my book is by the Brewers winning, we’re running the clock down on Phillies WC chances.
I gotta be honest, i didn’t even watch the game. I saw the scoreboard, saw they lost and kept watching football games… Nothing to add here other than the fact that we’re fighting for positioning on the draft picks next year. as sad as it sounds, there’s nothing else to watch here.. don’t give me that BS excuse about “ohh, we’re watching to see who makes the team next year”, that’s crap, because we all know this team is most likely to stink next year too thanks to SA..