Sunday, May 18, 2008
Mets v. Yankees (Mets Win 11-2)
Oliver Perez was in complete control tonight. He held the Yankees to 3 hits and 2 runs over 7.2 innings. He kept his focus throughout the whole game and it paid off. Chien-Ming Wang had his first real bad game of the season. He had the complete opposite line than Perez giving up 7 runs, 6 hits, and 3 walks over 7.2 innings. He looked okay for most of the game, but fell apart in the 8th. He gave up 6 runs himself with one given up by Ross Ohlendorf.
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| NYM | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 9 | 0 |
| NYY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
The first 3 innings were extremely quiet with only a couple of walks, but both teams made it exciting come the 4th. Jose Reyes led the 4th off with a double, but made a terrible running mistake on a ground ball by Marlon Anderson and found himself out at 3rd base. The inning looked bad until a David Wright single and Carlos Beltran walk loaded the bases. Ryan Church found a way to get the run in with a ground ball to 1st base, however, there were now two outs. Moises Alou was Moises Alou getting a single and two RBI's to make it a 3-0 lead. Next came the strange part. Carlos Delgado hit a slicing fly ball to left field that appeared to hit off the top of the wall/bottom of the foul pole and was killed a home run, the correct call, by the 3rd base ump. Once the umps began talks they were over with the decision of no home run. Willie came out arguing, the umps just stood there, and Jerry Manuel continued to go berserk and got himself thrown out of the game. Delgado shook it off, hit a single, and got an RBI.
Jose Reyes celebrates home run.
After getting out of the inning Derek Jeter lead the bottom of the inning off with a walk. As the saying goes lead of walks come back to haunt you and this one did. Hideki Matsui came up right after and hit a home run to right field. Nothing else happened until the 8th, expect for a Ryan Church home run in the 6th.
The Mets chipped away at the Yankees for three runs until Jose Reyes came up and hit a 3-run bomb to right-center field his second home run in as many days. Joe Smith, Scott Schoeneweis, and Jose Veras all pitched shutout ball to close out the game.
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