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Mets top Pirates in eleven!
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Mets to battle Braves at Shea!
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Santana loses in Shea debut
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The
New York Mets lost this afternoon 5-3 to the Milwakee Brewers. This was
Johan Santana’s Shea Stadium debut and sadly it didn’t go as expected.
While Johan was not bad, he was not great either.
Two errors by David Wright and an error in judgment by Santana
didn’t help. In the second inning with Brewer Corey Hart (by the
way…wasn’t he a rock star in the eighties??) on third, a sacrifice
bunt was fielded by the Mets new ace and he didn’t bother to look at
Hart who scored easily on the play.
The bright spot for the Mets is the continued good hitting of Carlos
Delgado..(by the way, doesn’t he like like Serrano from the movie major
league??).
The teams hook up again tomorrow as Oliver Perez goes for the Mets against Jeff Suppan for the beer makers.
Rumor is, Serrano lent this to Delgado for good luck….we don’t make it up folks, we just report it:
Figueroa impresses in Mets debut!
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Coney Island native Nelson Figueroa was very impressive in his New
York Mets debut. He had a no hitter through five innings and
ended up with a solid six inning performance yielding just
two runs on two hits.
It was a very emotional evening for Figueroa as he had over 100
friends and family in attendance. “I thought I was going to lose
it,” he said. “I really did. It was just
the culmination of everything — the intensity of the game. This
journey has been so incredible, and to go out there and put forth that
kind of a performance … it’s storybook-like.”
He got the win as the Mets topped the Milwakee Brewers 4-2.
Billy Wagner pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to notch the save….the
bull pen has been lights out the past two games, lets hope
it continues.
The Mets and Brewers go at it again today at 1:05 in a marquee
pitching match up; Ben Sheets goes for Milwakee and Johan Santana makes
his long awaited Shea Stadium debut. There will be plenty of excitement
today.
Quick hits:
- the first 25,000 fans will receive a city field cap today
- Duaner Sanchez may join the Mets as early as Tuesday
- Carlos Beltran had seven doubles in the Mets first six games
Inept bullpen, lack of hitting, Phils drop Mets in Opener
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The New York Mets were beaten by the Philadelphia Phillies in the
final season opener at Shea Stadium. The theme was the same as it has
been early in the Mets 2008 season; effective outing by the
starting pitcher, bullpen comes in and gets abused by the
opposition, and the Mets can’t do anything on offense!
Starter Oliver Perez was wild but effective, he went five and two
thirds scoreless innings. Not bad. Then came the bullpen; Scott
Schoenweiss, Jorge Sosa and Aaaron Heilman teamed up to allow five runs
over two innings. This is becoming a very bad trend so far.
The offense, despite a monster home run by Carlos Delgado, was
basically limp…although, in fairness, they did hit several balls deep
to Center that failed to carry thus turning possible home runs into
outs.
As I have stated in previous posts, it is a long season
(and just look at the Super Bowl Champion New Giants to know you can’t
count a talented team out early), but still, on the heels of last years
collapse I expected a bit more fire out of the Mets.
The Mets try to get it back on track Wednesday night as Mike Pelfrey takes the mound.
Quick Hits:
- The New York Mets are now 30-17 in home openers
- this includes 11-3 since 1995
- the Mets are 7-1 in openers vs the Philadelphia Phillies
- today was Oliver Perez’s second start in a season opener
Turnpike series to resume tomorrow!
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After a long off season for New York Met fans, we finally get a
crack at the team we gave a gift to last season…the
Philadelphia Phillies. Christmas won’t come early again this
year Philly fans. The New York Mets will set out on Tuesday
afternoon to make things right!
I am well aware, painfully well aware, that the Mets blew a 7 game
lead with only 17 left to play in the 2007 regular season.
I am also well aware that the Philadelphia Phillies played very well down the stretch run last September .
However, write it down, starting tomorrow, April 8th, 2008,
the New York Mets will defeat the Philadelphia Phillies. This
will mark the beginning of Willie Randolph and his players paying back
the Shea Stadium faithful for the nightmare that was last season.
I for one cannot wait to resume the Turnpike series….lets go Mets!
(The starting pitchers will be Oliver Perez vs some very old dude for Philly).
Johan Santana’s effort not enough for Mets in loss
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Today’s game between the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves put front
and center the big challenge New York faces this season…how to score
runs. Johan Santana was not the reason for the 3-1 loss. Seven innings
and one run allowed means you did your job. When the bull pen gives up
two runs in two innings and the offense can only muster one pathetic
run over nine innings (despite a double by the pitcher!), your team let
you down.
It was however a great pitching match up between John Smoltz and
Johan Santana. John Smoltz threw five shut out innings. The classic
pitchers duel provided little consolation though as the loss dropped
the Mets to 2-3 on the season. I don’t want to make too much out of
only five games, but we all remember how last season ended. We
heard reports from Florida about renewed focus, attention to
detail and a strong desire by Mets players to make up for last
years monumental collapse….so far, not looking like much has changed.
I sincerely hope I am making too much of this…I just expected more
early on.
Anyhow, on a brighter note the home opener is upon us! On Tuesday,
April 8th…yes folks this Tuesday, the Mets play their final opener at
Shea Stadium. The Philadelphia Phillies…also losers today (sorry had
to say it)…come to pay a visit. The starters will be Jamie Moyer for
Philly against the Mets Oliver Perez.
Lets go Mets!
John Maine struggling through three
Through three innings John Maine doesn’t appear to have his best
stuff, to put it mildly. He is already up over sixty pitches and has
given up three runs on six hits while struggling with his control. The
New York Mets trail the hated Atlanta Braves 3-1. The only positive is
his velocity as he hit the mid nineties numerous times on his
fastball.
Lets get it together Johnny.
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