Comerica Meets the Mets, 6/8/2007: Sosa @ Durbin

[Guest OlerudOwned]

RAMONES
J Reyes SS
C Gomez RF
C Beltran CF
C Delgado 1B
D Wright 3B
P Lo Duca DH
J Valentin 2B
R Castro C
R Ledee LF

=orange]KISS
C Granderson
P Polanco 2B
G Sheffield DH
M Ordonez RF
C Guillen SS
I Rodriguez
S Casey 1B
C Monroe LF
B Inge 3B


Mets down 1-2-3 in the first.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Reyes has Sosa's back.

[TransMonk]

Rickey Ledee? Ughh.

Reyes makes a nice play diving in the hole. No score after 1.

[TransMonk]

The HP ump seems to be all over tonight. The Tigers are a bit upset over some strike calls.

[TransMonk]

David Wright

1-0 Good Guys. Top of 4.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Wright hitting homers to the opposite field is just a beautiful thing to watch. It's art.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Sweet! I'm at work and was walking past the sports department -- which has the game on -- just in time to see Wright's blast.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Pudge has an isolated OBP of...drumroll...

.007

That's astounding.

[TransMonk]

Gomez is playing some D tonight!

[TransMonk]

I really, really, really like our starting pitching right now. I had my doubts about Sosa at the beginning of the year, but he has been convincing.

Time to score some runs.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Willie seems determined to use almost anyone, other than LoDuca, in the second spot of the order.

It seems that all of the Mets Kabooms of late are solo shots. What I wouldn't give for a good old 3-run shot.

[TransMonk]

Hit the ball on the ground, Jose!

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Sosa is pitching a great game. Locked in a pitching duel with Durbin.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Delgado just made me so happy!

[TransMonk]

Delgado continues the solo HR trend.

2-0 Good Guys, Top 7.

[TransMonk]

Delgado's got the dugout hitting book back out. I think that's a good thing.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Great start to the inning, but it went down the tubes real quickly after Delgado's home run.

[TransMonk]

Does Hojo share any blame in Wright's baserunning gaffe? I couldn't tell if he was yelling out that the ball had been popped up.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Did Sosa come to us on a plane from New Orleans or a beam of golden light from the heavens?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

He doesn't make any sense to me at all. He's our best pitcher.

[TransMonk]

OlerudOwned wrote: Did Sosa come to us on a plane from New Orleans or a beam of golden light from the heavens?

I'm starting to believe that may be exactly the case.

He's at 103 pitches after 7. I'm queasy about the bullpen.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Sosa has been everything that I hope Pelfrey will one day become.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

The Mets really made Durbin work that inning. 4 pitches and he gets 3 outs.

[TransMonk]

From the Tiger's board:

]Smith, Feliciano, Wagner and Heilman are gonna be tough to score off of. Hopefully Sosa comes back out

I'd hoped the same thing for completely different reasons...Sosa is back out for the 8th.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

[TransMonk]

Hilarious!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Horrifying.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Big insurance run there. Let's get some more.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Gameday says thee is a delay on the field. What's happening?

[metsmarathon]

leyland got his angry on, arguing that gomez left early.