IGT - 6/23 - Mets at Phillies - Rubber Match

[Guest Rotblatt]

No, you're totally right, Frayed. He kept them on a short leash tonight, and he probably should have. My post was a knee-jerk reaction, based partially on visions of Hernandez letting the tying run score and then going into extra innings . . .

Which actually would've been okay, as we'd still have had Graves, Loopy, Koo & Heilman available. Heilman sucked yesterday, but it was only 22 pitches, Koo 12 & Graves threw only 8.

It just felt like a lot of pitchers in a short span . . .

[metirish]

This must have been a sight..
AP

]With the Mets' defense overshifted to the right side, Hernandez made a rare catch for a pitcher, chasing Thome's foul pop into the third-base coach's box in the eighth.

[Guest Spacemans Bong]

Big series win for the Mets, away from home and against a team above them in the standings.

[Guest KC]

OE: answering metsirish

It was. Chalk up another I can't remember the last time I saw that in a
game play. The funny thing was for me, I was re-entering the room where
the tv was and here's Hernandez fielding the high foul fly and Wright just
getting there and I'm like, "what the hell is wrong with Wright's head?" It
was on the heels of Wright ripping one down the line and then running to
first like he had a double only to find the ball beat him to first and was in-
deed picked. That was crazy enough. Of course, the Mets had that crazy
shift thing on which I didn't realize and great heads up by pitch.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Gary was impressed by that play. Sounds like Wright sort of fucked up on it a bit, and Hernandez saved his ass.

Since the shift was on, it wouldn't have been an easy play for Wright, though.