Buffalo Bisons 7 – Leigh Valley IronPigs 5 A couple of pitchers who pitched over 50 innings each for the Mets in 2009 squared off against each other tonight. Ahh, good times. It was Pat Misch who outdueled Tim Redding for the win, although neither pitched an exceptional game. Misch had the strikeout pitch working early on, but the IronPigs had the longball going for them later on. Misch...
Read MoreGame Summary True NL vs AL fashion here tonight. Sixteen runs scored for the Mets on twenty hits…and no homeruns. Tigers smashed in five over the fence. Totally different styles of scoring. Cap gets hit hard to end his good start streak. Bullpen is embarrassing, but offense can win ball games alone it seems like. Mets win 16-9. Game Notes Chris Capuano seems to love giving up the long...
Read MoreJose Reyes, made his 1,000th career game last night against the Detroit Tigers a memorable one. The game’s most dynamic player, went 4-for-4 at the plate with a walk and three runs scored. He was just a home run shy of hitting for the cycle; being the last Met to perform the feat. There is nothing Jose Reyes can’t do right now and even ESPN agreed last night when they called him the...
Read MoreBuffalo Bisons 3 – Leigh Valley IronPigs 6 I expect Jack Egbert to be this ineffective, but what I don’t expect him to be is this wild. Egbert lasted for only 81 pitches tonight and only 45 of those were strikes (55%). He only gave up two walks, but with his stuff he needs to throw a considerable amount of more strikes. It is no shock or coincidence that both walks came back to bite...
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Jason Bay & Carlos Beltran had grand slams in consecutive innings, and R.A. Dickey had another quality outing in the 14-3 blowout of the Detroit Tigers Game Notes R.A. Dickey came out today and seems had the luck on his side and was blessed with run support. Outside of that, R.A. went seven innings, allowing three runs on ten hits, including two home runs while walking three and striking out...
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