Monday, June 16, 2008
Mets v. Rangers 8-7 (L) 2-4 (W)
All you can say is that today was not really the bullpen's day, but they framed it on it John Maine in the first game and Pedro Martinez gave them a pep talk and made them pitch well for him. It seems that every time the Mets call up someone new they have a good game so we might as well call up Mike Carp and/or Danny Murphy. There are reports that Rick Peterson is fired and Willie Randolph is going to Anaheim, but is not guaranteed anything, but we will see what happens.
Mets v. Rangers Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |  | R | H | E |
Texas | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 1 | |
NY Mets | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 0 |
HR » TEX: M. Bradley (15), R. Vazquez (4), I. Kinsler (10) - NYM: C. Delgado (9), C. Beltran (8)
Mets v. Rangers Game 2
W: Martinez (2-0) L: Gabbard (1-3) S: Wagner (14)
Mets v. Rangers Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | | R | H | E |
Texas | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | |
NY Mets | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | X | 4 | 13 | 1 |
In game one Kevin Millwood continued to be a thorn in the Met's side. If he pitches like this until the deadline he should fetch Texas a decent haul at the trade deadline. John Maine's line looks a lot worse than it was. Left the game with only three runs on the board, but then Pedro Feliciano a two-run single that caused both runs to be charged to Maine.
The Mets kept giving you a sense of hope, but a bonehead move by Brian Schneider and Carlos Delgado's double play really killed them. When they scored 3 runs in the 8th and 2 in the 9th they showed glimpses of the 2006 team, but back then the throw would have been up the line allowing Schneider to score instead of right on target and Damion Easley wuld have hit a game inning home run, but what could you do besides accepting defeat. Firing Willie
is one option, but we won't talk about that again.The second game was much much better. Pedro Martinez was getting hit pretty hard early on, but settled down and pitched a very respectable game to earn the win and help one or two coaches keep their job.
David Wright found his antidote and it was a left handed pitcher. He ended up going 3-4 in the game with a RBI. He became the first Met to reach the half century mark in RBI's this season.
The real story in this game was hitting with 2 outs. A very shocking statistic is that all 4 runs were scored with 2 outs. The first two were driven in by Wright and Carlos Beltran in the 3rd and then the last two by a Robinson Cancel single in the 6th.
The bullpen rebounded with 3 shutout innings lead by Pedro Feliciano, Duaner Sanchez, and Billy Wagner.
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