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 allow the Marlins to win — going as far as choosing Ricky Ledee as a … Read more
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 the stage for Carlos Delgado. How Girardi allowed Tankersley to take the mound in the … Read more
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 line went like this: three innings, 11 hits, two walks, nine earned runs, two HRs. … Read more
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 next three starts, because it should more or less guarantee that he won’t get a … Read more
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. He outlasted Greg Maddux, who also pitched well but was bounced early in the sixth, … Read more
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 Maine gave up two quick runs in the first inning, the rest of the Mets … Read more
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 five hits, no walks, and striking out five on 101 pitches (62 strikes). On at … Read more
While basking in the afterglow of yesterday’s double-dip sweep of the despised Braves, an issue seems to have developed: what to do about Dave Williams and Oliver Perez? Sure, it’s easy to get unrealistically excited about the shutout thrown by Oliver Perez. However, the Mets’ brass must be licking their chops and wondering if Perez … Read more
