I don’t know what to say? Really, I’m speechless after last night loss to the lowly Seattle Pilots. What? They’re not the Pilots? So I’m off base trying to figure out why Joe Shultz didn’t bring in Diego Segui to close out the game. I digress.
What can you say? D-Wright suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome as per Warlord J-Man and will take a seat tonight, booted a routine groundball that would have ended the inning. But you figure that Felix Hernandez goes from a King to a serf when it comes to batting so you brush off D-Wright miscue right? Ahhhhhhhh NO. The first pitch to the King, a fastball up and away no where near the strike zone had Hernandez “bail and whale†as Arthur Lee Rhodes told Kevin Burkhardt on the post game show on SNY and the ball goes over the wall in the right/center gap. An opposite field Grand Slam the first Grand Slam by an AL pitcher since the legendary Steve Dunning did it on May 11th 1971 (I was 13 in the 7th grade in 1971 spending my afternoons trying to figure out how I could unhook Andrea Davis, the girl you sat in front of me in school’s bra strap) against those Swingin’ Oakland A’s.
If not for that pitch this would have been an unbelievable pitching duel as both pitchers were dealing but King Felix dealt much better until he got drilled in the ankle by Carlos Beltran on a heads up dash to home plate.
What annoys you more about the game is once Hernandez got knocked out of the game you figure the Mets could get to the Mariners bullpen well you, me and the Mets figured wrong. As J-Mann said in his post game stand up, the Mets offense does not lend itself to the three run homer so small ball is what will have to do. Not just the use of bunts or the wonderful return of the hit and run (my favorite play) but by calling out the Mets lack of “strike zone recognition†J-Man has put HOJO on notice to find a way to get the hitters to work deeper counts to get either walks or better pitches to hit. J-Man is on target there.
Can some one in the Mets hierarchy just step up and tell the media that the reason Willie Randolph was fired was because he did a bad job and he made the Mets clubhouse a tension convention. It’s admirable that Freddy Skill Sets is staying classy and tip toeing over the fact that
Record detailing a looser more together Mets team.
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This post was written by kranepool on June 24, 2008
The key to last night was not the D Wright error or the granny (that pitch was out of the zone and if Santana throws it to him 99 more times, I guarantee King does not get a hit). The key was, as Steve points out, the inability to hit off a pathetic M’s bullpen. Rhodes, the Yankees bitch for so many years, makes Delgado look bad, and to add insult to injury, stays in for Easley with a righty warm in the pen. Wow! Then he gets Easley window shoppin, 4 hits for the Mets, and game over. I loved Jerry’s comments on working counts and showing more discipline, it’s about time.
“I don’t know what to say? Really, I’m speechless after last night loss to the lowly Seattle Pilots”
ROFL, you must be speechless and brain damaged after yesterday’s 11-0 shilacking by the worst team in baseball. Teams are just mocking us now. If I was a Met, I would just quit baseball altogether then suffer the embarrassment of losing to teams like the Pilots 11-0 or letting their pitcher hit a grand slam against your 20+ mil a year ace or only scoring 4 runs in last 2 games at coors or losing to a 1-7 pitcher at coors – and all that in less than a week! I think this team can make a run for the playoffs!!!!!!
/sarcasm off
That column by Klapisch was flat-out stupid. Karaoke? Yeah, its always been the key to winning. Willie’s gloomy personality bringing the team down? Puhhhleease!!! People will believe anything that writers write about ‘the clubhouse atmosphere’, ‘team morale’ blah blah blah blah blah blah.