Monthly Archives: September 2006

Mets 7 Marlins 4 With just 17 games left to play, the Mets are back to their old late-inning, come-from-behind tricks that established their dominance in the first few months of the season. Mr. Willie did what he could to … Continue reading →

Mets 6 Marlins 4 Thank you, Joe Girardi, for leaving Taylor Tankersley in the game. Tankersley got out of the seventh by the skin of his teeth, then gave up two hits in the top of the 8th to set … Continue reading →

Marlins 16 Mets 5 Gee, we thought Sunday’s loss to the Dodgers was bad … Dart-throwing Dave finally fell to Earth, exhibiting the kind of performance that made two of the most pitching-hungry teams in MLB toss him away. His … Continue reading →

Dodgers 9 Mets 1 Yuck. Steve Trachsel was godawful in his two and two-thirds innings of work, but I’m going to look at it as a good thing. In fact, I’ll be OK with him pitching this poorly in his … Continue reading →

Mets 3 Dodgers 2 El Duque needed to be good … and he was. Orlando Hernandez put forth a postseason-like performance, allowing only five baserunners and one earned run in seven innings — and did it in only 91 pitches. … Continue reading →

Dodgers 5 Mets 0 John Maine finally pitched a poor game … but his outing still wan’t anywhere near some of the atrocious outings put forth by, say, Jose Lima, Jeremi Gonzalez, Steve Trachsel, El Duque, or Tommy Glavine. After … Continue reading →

Mets 7 Dodgers 0 When was the last time the Mets pitching staff threw consecutive shutouts? Surely Elias knows, I’m guessing it was back in the Seaver – Koosman days. Tommy Glavine threw six and one-third marvelous innings, giving up … Continue reading →