IGT 9-3-06 Last game in Houston for 06 Mets

[stevejrogers]

Mets
Reyes SS
Chavez CF
Floyd LF
Delgado 1B
Green RF
Valentin 2B
Woodward 3B
DiFelice C
OHernandez SP

Astros
Taveras CF
Biggio 2B
Lamb 3B
Berkman 1B
Huff RF
Scott LF
Everett SS
Ausmus C
Oswalt SP

Knotted at 0 after 1

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Argh. Umpire doesn't tell DiFelice the call on a 3-2 pitch, and Mike winds up making an unneccisary throw down to second.

Air-mailed!

Runners on corners, 0 out.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Wow, Wright finally gets a day off.

The line up looks much less impressive with Beltran, Wright, and LoDuca all getting a well earned day off.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Beautiful movement on the strike three pitch, El Duque out of the jam.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

OlerudOwned wrote: Beautiful movement on the strike three pitch, El Duque out of the jam.

That pitch was so awesome, El Duque was walking off the mound confidently before it hit the glove. He also seemed to know the guy wouldn't swing!

[TransMonk]

Quite the pitchers duel through 4 innings.

No score.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Mets are getting perfected here. Who will break it up?

[TransMonk]

David Wright pinch hitting in the 8th.

[Guest SwitchHitter]

Goddammit, Dave Raymond......stop telling me the Mets have the best bullpen.

[stevejrogers]

Bases Loaded, walk, walk, HBP!

Uh-oh!

[stevejrogers]

Here comes Bert

Bottom of 6th BTW, 1 out

[stevejrogers]

Come on, DP, DP right here!

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Dammit! Nice bunt by Everett.

1-0 Houston

[stevejrogers]

Sac bunt, run scores

[stevejrogers]

Inning over.

1-0 Stros

[dinosaur jesus]

You've got the best base stealer in baseball. Why in the world do you give up an out to get him to second?

Was that a legitimate hit, by the way?

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Damn.

[Guest SwitchHitter]

Dunno, I have it on radio. I did hear Milo Hamilton say that you wanted it to be a clean hit but they scored it correctly.

[TransMonk]

Reyes would have made it even if it was handled cleanly.

[Guest SwitchHitter]

Go Willy!

[stevejrogers]

Come on Bert, no more runs!

[Guest SwitchHitter]

Mets have outhit the Astros 2-1, Astros lead 2-0.

[TransMonk]

Why is Chris Worthless still in this game?

[stevejrogers]

TransMonk wrote: Why is Chris Worthless still in this game?

Giving David Wright the day off.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Hot damn, a double for Tucker!

2 on, 2 out, and Oswalt gets the hook. Wow.

[TransMonk]

SteveJRogers wrote: ="TransMonk"]Why is Chris Worthless still in this game? Giving David Wright the day off.

I doubt coming out of a six week slump David needs a day off. Even if you start Woodward (like Willie has in a third of all Mets games this year), at least put a bat in there that can make a difference late in the game. Wright should have been pinch hitting in that spot.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, but Woodward is going to be part of the post-season bench (most likely) and getting him some ABs doesn't hurt - esp when the game isn't exactly do-or-die. He hasn't been good this year but was very useful last season and we could use some semblence of that player going forward.

Meanwhile, Mota also auditioning for a post-season slot.

[stevejrogers]

I can feel a big inning in the Top of 9th!

Chavez, Floyd and Delgado

[Frayed Knot]

Maybe, but Reyes's GO prolly ruined the best chance we were going to have.

[Guest SwitchHitter]

Does DeFelice ever throw out runners? Just wondering.