IGT Mets vs. Dodgers 6/5/06 Round 3 for Soler!

[nymr83]

FUCK. i wanted the shutout

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow, perfect throw with no extra movement by the catcher and Beltran steals it anyhow.

[Guest Edgy DC]

This lefty throws pretty hard for somebody who has had two TJ surgeries.

At that point, I 'd think he'd be running out of connecting tissue to donate to his arm.

[Zvon]

="Edgy DC"]Wow, perfect throw with no extra movement by the catcher and Beltran steals it anyhow.

And he looks to steal third too, but thinks better of it.
Beltran does that alot.
Whats the point of takin 3rd in that situation?

A shutout would have been nice for Soler, but Ill settle for a win for the guy.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Scully hasn't been well-briefed.

He thinks Cliff's low batting average is from a deep current slump.

He thinks Julio is still in the Met pen.

[Zvon]

Nice play by Reyes and Soler has 7 Ks in 7 innings.

[nymr83]

i swear if anyone blows Soler's win this time i'll make them my new Designated Bullpen Scapegoattm, i haven't had one since Julio left.

[Zvon]

Edgy DC wrote: Scully hasn't been well-briefed. He thinks Cliff's low batting average is from a deep current slump. He thinks Julio is still in the Met pen.

...he could be getting senile.

[Guest Edgy DC]

He does tv work alone. That's still way impressive.

Scapegoating is pointless and ugly. Please don't.

[Zvon]

Great job by Soler.

7 innings
1 run
7 strikeouts.

Feliciano will take over.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Felicity fans Nomar.

Excellent.

[Guest Edgy DC]

David almost yips, but Mets out of trouble.

[nymr83]

game over. Willie saves the bullpen as Bradford gets the save.

[Zvon]

Great job by Bradford too. He bails out Feliciano and pitches a perfect 9th for the save.
Im really surprised Wags wasnt used.

Mets start the road t rip on a good note.
Soler gets the win!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Good move to stay with him. He got out of the eighth on (I think) one pitch, and the Dodgers had no lefthanded hitters left on the bench.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

="Johnny Dickshot"]Tomorrow's Headline Tonite:: ALAY TAKES LA

Post: ALAY-ING FEARS

Snooze:SOLER POWERED

boo.

[Elster88]

That's big.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Winning the first game of a west coast swing after getting no day off for travel is pretty cool. The Dodgers just finished up with the Phillies at home and were sittting tight and waiting for the Mets.

Big day for the Dodgers. For the present, they've lost three in a row and four out of five to NL East contenders, and are trying to hang in there in the race with a team that's hard to identify. For the future, they've got picks number 7, 26, and 31 after having no first-rounders last year and failing to sign their second-rounder.

[MFS62]

="Edgy DC"]Dodger 16s Ducky Medwick Van Lingle Mungo Billy Hermann Ron Perranoski Rick Monday Hideo Nomo Paul Lo Duca Andre Eithier

I have a different POV, Edgy.
The true Dodger 16s were Medwick, Mungo and Hermann.
The rest played in LA.

Later

[Elster88]

I still think that the Met offense has been poor recently.

[Elster88]

="Johnny Dickshot"] ="Johnny Dickshot"]Tomorrow's Headline Tonite:: ALAY TAKES LA Post: ALAY-ING FEARS Snooze:SOLER POWERED boo.

Neither one is really unexpected.

[Guest Edgy DC]

"Hey! Just a number on the uniform? Which one of them is Eithier?"

"Don't look at me. I haven't thlept with them."

[apmorris]

watching the game last night (here in LA), vin scully got on LM for the home run high five parade - they even showed it.
he sounded pretty annoyed
but he did frame it from the view point of a Dodger fan.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Half of you loves Willie for his sound independence and his independent soundness, half of you hates his inability to articulate why reporters are barking up the wrong tree.

In fairness, it's not like Bobby Valentine was ever able to talk a reporter straight.

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Randolph catching heat
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
LOS ANGELES -- The Mets won here Monday night, 4-1, with Chad Bradford -- and not Billy Wagner -- getting the game's final four outs. And, for the life of him, Willie Randolph couldn't understand why he was still being asked about it yesterday afternoon.

"That was (Monday)," the Mets manager said. "We won the game. We won the game. The game is over. Isn't everything else irrelevant, unless it's about a story?"

Of course, it's about a story, it was explained to Randolph by reporters. The Mets went out and spent $43 million over the winter on Wagner to close games like Monday night's.

After a touch-and-go eighth inning when Bradford worked out of a two-on, two-out jam created by Pedro Felciano, Wagner was warmed and ready in the bullpen as Bradford mowed down the Dodgers in the ninth. Afterward, the lefty wasn't too happy about being asked to warm up and not used.

"When your mentality is winning, you do what it takes to win the game," Randolph said. "It's not about personal goals for anyone. He's my closer and I want him to get as many saves as he can get. That's fine, just like you want guys to get home runs, base hits, whatever, OK. I'm not thinking about one inning, one play. ...

"I'm not trying to follow any shape or form. I'm not trying to be like anybody. I'm just trying to go by what I know about baseball and my team. I never believe in conforming to any type of tradition or standard of doing things. ... I understand what a save means. I understand that players like saves, closers like saves. But I like wins.

"What's unconventional about it? Unconventional in that you buy into the whole theory that if a save situation comes up (Wagner) has to have that? I don't come from that. I come from winning. Winning the game. That's all I come from. I let my guys have their stats and everything but that means nothing to me."