Archive for August, 2006
Game 132: Loss
Rockies 8 Mets 4 OK, so the cork came off of the bottle holding the lightning of Oliver Perez. So we won’t have a flamethrowing lefty in the postseason. No biggie. Although Perez looked awful, and he had no command whatsoever, it did appear that he was throwing more pitches close to the mid-90s; he [...]
Game 131: Win
Mets 11 Rockies 3 This is just getting silly. The Mets have won 11 of their last 12, scored in double digits for the fourth time in the last week, Steve Trachsel has become a legitimate Cy Young candidate, and late-season retreads Dave Williams, Guillermo Mota, and Oliver Perez are making a strong case to [...]
Game 130: Win
Mets 10 Rockies 5 Steve Trachsel pitched six solid innings for maybe the third time this year, truly earning (for a change) his NL-leading 14th win. The Mets’ lineup, meanwhile, were limited to only ten runs; a fact directly attributed to the soggy baseballs coming out of the Colorado humidor. Once again Carlos Beltran supplied [...]
Game 129: Win
Mets 8 Phillies 3 John Maine looked great — again — and the Phillies rolled over and played dead on a dreary, wet afternoon that makes even professionals not want to play baseball. Luckily, Maine and the Mets showed up, and spanked the Phillies all over Shea. Jose Reyes, Paul LoDuca, Carlos Delgado, and Endy [...]
Game 128: Win
Mets 11 Phillies 5 After the first four innings, it looked like Omar Minaya might have caught lightning in a bottle with the Xavier Nady trade, as “throw-in” Oliver Perez resembled the 2004 form that made him more highly coveted than, say, Dontrelle Willis. Perez didn’t just breeze … he ripped through the Phillies batters [...]
Game 127: Loss
Phillies 4 Beltran 3 Brian Bannister looked pretty good in his first game back since obliterating his hamstring, but had some trouble with the top half of the Philadelphia lineup. Batters one through four had six of the Phils’ seven hits, with Chase Utley going 2-4 with a run and an RBI, and man-child Ryan [...]
Game 126: Win
Mets 6 Cardinals 2 The Metropolitans completed their sweep of St. Louis, in the process cementing their reputation as king of the National League. Once again Jose Reyes and Carlos Delgado led the brigade, with some help from Paul LoDuca, David Wright, and newcomer Shawn Green. In his Mets debut, Green was showered with both [...]
Game 125: Win
Mets 10 Cardinals 8 Steve Trachsel did all that he could to blow the game, but the Mets scored too many runs and Willie Randolph removed him before he could complete the quest. Trachsel, the NL’s leader in wins (!) now with 13, gave up six hits, three walks, and six runs in five innings [...]
Heyman: Sour Grapes?
Just hours before the Shawn Green deal was announced, SI.com columnist Jon Heyman “broke” the story that the Mets were on the heels of a deal to bring Moises Alou to New York. The story to acquire the leftfielder came out of left field, as Heyman was the only legitimate news writer to broach the [...]
Postseason Pitching Plans
So we found out Tom Glavine does not need surgery. How does this affect the Mets’ postseason pitching plans, if at all? It probably doesn’t affect the postseason pitching at all, but his absence from a few starts might actually be a benefit to the postseason roster … if the Mets choose to put him [...]
