Mets 5 Cubs 4 If you were a Major League manager, would you ever load the bases intentionally in the bottom of the ninth inning of a tie ballgame in order to face Carlos Delgado? Lou Piniella did just that, ordering pitcher Mike Wuertz to walk Carlos Beltran and load the bases with two out. … Read more
Mets 9 Brewers 1 As poorly as the Mets played on Saturday, they were the inverse on Sunday. Saturday’s poor pitching, weak hitting, and sloppy fielding was replaced by excellent pitching, strong hitting, and solid fielding in this 9-1 rubber game victory. So … for everyone looking at this series as some kind of test … Read more
Brewers 12 Mets 3 Apparently, the Devil hasn’t paid attention to Major League Baseball in the last ten years, otherwise he wouldn’t have placed Joe Hardy on the Brewers. Hardy is supposed to be ripping up the Yankees, and Beelzebub probably thought Milwaukee was still in the American League. An honest mistake, when you think … Read more
Mets 5 Brewers 4 This was a big win for two reasons. One, the monkey named Jeff Suppan is off the Mets’ back. Two, the Mets are one win away from winning the series. The Suppan thing was especially irritating, considering that he is the epitome of “average”. A lineup like the Mets is not … Read more
Mets 5 Giants 3 The sabermetricians and naysayers were right: John Maine is not really as good as he’d been pitching before this game. In this latest outing, the Giants bombarded him for 3 runs in six innings, shooting his ERA all the way up to 1.85. And here we thought we had the righthanded … Read more
Mets 4 Giants 1 The Few. The Proud. The Mets. The United States Marine Corps would have been proud to see the Mets — 21 of them, anyway — shave their heads in an expression of their dedication to each other as a single unit, a team. (Jose Reyes, Tom Glavine, Aaron Sele, and Aaron … Read more
Giants 9 Mets 4 Oliver Perez didn’t deserve this. Ollie pitched very well through the first four innings, cruising like the ace he seemed to be evolving into. Then came frame five. The fifth inning began as a comedy of errors, and ended a nightmare. It began with a walk to Ray Durham, and got … Read more
Diamondbacks 3 Mets 1 It had to happen eventually — the Mets couldn’t win EVERY game in Arizona. Mike Pelfrey pitched another mixed bag game. On the one hand, he kept the Mets in the game by allowing just two runs in 5 and one-third innings. On the other hand, the bookends of his start … Read more
