Mets Game 52: Loss to Marlins
Marlins 5 Mets 1
Can you say “letdown” ?
Mets Game Notes
Shaun Marcum shut out the Fish for six innings, but the dam broke in the seventh — and he remains winless as a Met.
Meanwhile, Jacob Turner spun an auspicious 2013 debut, blanking the Mets through seven on five hits and a walk.
I didn’t see this game — listened to it on the radio while trekking down to LBI to help out at my sister’s store for the weekend. So please post your observations in the comments and get the conversation going. Thank you.
Next Mets Game
The Mets and Marlins do it again at 4:10 p.m. on Saturday afternoon. Collin McHugh faces Jose Fernandez.
Marcum was changing speeds and hitting spots and getting great movement. Got burned by some bloop hits and then one stupid pitch for a two-run double.
I say “stupid” rather than “bad” because it was a nice sinking change-up off the plate away. The only problem was that it was the third low-and-away change-up in a row. He struck out Coghlan in a big spot on 3 change-ups, but Jordan Brown was able to adjust and flick it into the left-center gap. (It wasn’t exactly crushed. A faster CF than Ankiel would have had it. Heck, Ankiel himself might have had it with an all-out dive.) Anyway, after succeeding all game by mixing things up, I wish Marcum had done that with Brown.
If Brown is retired and Byrd doesn’t get picked off before Ike’s double, this is a 2-2 game going into the 8th. Them’s the breaks, and tonight the Marlins got them, not the Mets. These two teams seem quite evenly matched to me; I expect a season series of close games, which might be fun if everyone else in baseball weren’t using the Fish for a doormat.
And Marlon Byrd doesn’t deserve a nickname. He deserves a seat on the bench so kids can be playing. He also needs to w rite a book on avoiding 50 game suspensions. Co-authored by Manny who gets 100 gamers reduced in half.
Joe after all these years I am starting to know you, and rightly so you will not give up Marlon Byrd’s contempable transgression. So how about shorhand. I propose– ala Bridman– Byrdjuice
DianaByrd … D-Byrd … AnaByrd … Marlonabol … maybe just “Arnold” …
Thanks for the inspiration!
Marcum’s nice first 6 innings were ruined by a bad 7th.
In hindsight, Collins should have yanked him after 6, to “let the guy feel good about himself”, ha ha.