Pitchers are my favorite baseball players, but I came late to Johan Santana. I’m New York oriented, so I barely pay attention to the pitchers who are not playing here – I’m not checking all the baseball results every day in the Daily News. I remember Seaver, Ryan, McGraw from the early Mets and all the others who came after them – and I have favorites. Ron Darling leads...
Read MoreLeave it to the Phillies to temper our expectations. Admittedly, I’m an avid fan of the Mets and Giants, so my hatred of the Phillies and Eagles and Philadelphia fans in general is bordering on unhealthy. But one thing is for sure….the Phillies are damn good, and they kind of woke up the Mets and us fans in a big way this past weekend. Riding an eight game winning streak, including...
Read MoreMy hunch is that few to no Mets fans now miss Brian Schneider, last year’s non-entity of a backstop. Yeah, and the non-entity the year before that. After Fernando Nieve blew Maine’s 4-2 lead in the eighth inning (Mainey threw six above average innings in one of his best performances thus far) in Cincy by giving up blasts to Votto and Rolen, it looked as if the Mets might let another...
Read MoreJohn Maine came out and pitched a great game, and Rod Barajas came through in the 9th inning with his seventh homerun of the season for a 5-4 win against the Cincinnati Reds Game Notes: John Maine went to the mound and put up another solid performance over six innings. Maine gave up two runs, one unearned and the other one on a solo home run in the 1st inning. Maine also struck out six, walked...
Read MoreAAA International League: Buffalo 5/10/2, Louisville 4/9/2 cf Jason Pridie 1 for 3, run, 2b, BB, .295 2b Russ Adams 2 for 3, 2 runs, 3b, RBI, .288 1b Mike Jacobs 1 for 3, 2 RBI, K, .316 3b Mike Hessman 0 for 4, .284 rf, 1b Chris Carter 1 for 4, .344 lf Fernando Martinez 2 for 4, run, .253 c Josh Thole 0 for 4, .169 ss Ruben Tejada 2 for 4, K, .256 RA Dickey 8 IP, 6 H, 2 ER, 7 Ks, 2.31 era,...
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