Month: May 2012

A New Niese On Life, Mets Win 3-1 Against Pirates

Jonathon Niese had a great bounce back outing after his last start, and the Mets scattered three runs in the early innings to take todays game from the Pirates, 3-1 and the series as well Game Notes Jonathon Niese looked spectacular today, going seven and two-third innings, giving up one run on five hits, walking two and striking out five. Niese was generating groundballs galore, and today was...

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Kirk Nieuwenhuis Should Not Lose Playing Time For Anyone

There has been a lot of talk lately about the logjam in the outfield that will occur when Bay returns from his fractured rib. Ideas ranging from sending Ike down to creating a four man rotation in the outfield have been tossed around. Some ideas include Kirk platooning with either Torres or Bay, which should be completely out of the question. Kirk Nieuwenhuis has been one of the most consistent...

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Fear And Loathing In New Britain With Some RockCat Angst

B-Met Manager Pedro Lopez Throws BPWell at least Wheeler is pitching today, and I just saw him and boy does he have his game face on. After two rain-filled night games where the RockCats ate the B-Mets lunch, we got day baseball, we got sun, and we got Zack Wheeler on the hill today. This is Petey Pete coming to you live from the press-box, behind homeplate high atop beautiful New Britain...

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Around The League: This Week In Baseball

Hey all. Fresh from the land of random information that matters to somebody out there, here are some notes from across the MLB in the past week. You might find some of this interesting. Aroldis Chapman may have had the most intriguing last few days of any MLB player – as he was involved in two seperate incidents with the law. He was arrested after being clocked at 93 MPH – driving,...

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Mets Try To Make Pirates Walk The Plank And Take Series

Starting Lineup Mike Baxter – LF Kirk Nieuwenhuis – CF David Wright – 3B Lucas Duda – RF Daniel Murphy – 2B Ike Davis – 1B Ronny Cedeno – SS Rob Johnson – C Jonathon Niese – LHP The Mets and Pirates play the rubber game this afternoon at 12:35 in Pittsburgh, as the Mets look to get back to back wins. Yesterday was the first bad day at the...

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