IGT, Game Seven, Catch the Rising Stars

[Frayed Knot]

Pelfrey's getting grounders ... just not any luck.

[Zvon]

Reyes with an awful flub there. Just awful.
You could see he didn't have control of the ball and tried to push it to second for the force. Routine DP ball, and it could not have been an easier play.
Phils tie it.

It could have been way worse tho.
1-1, Mets

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Mets get my hopes up with the blue caps in press photos, only to let me down with the road caps at home.

[Zvon]

Kendrick is not gonna last long. Already up to 41 pitches.

has walked 4.

Add: 5

[Zvon]

Umps are not giving Kendrick the borderline pitches.
Gotta like that.
And he walks Wright to load em.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Six. If we can't win this game I might cry.

[Zvon]

Two out, bases loaded,and the Mets have to come away with something this inning.

Beltran.....

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Blehhh, good thing the 2nd period is starting in Newark.

[Zvon]

Ugh, CarlosB grounds out weakly to 2nd.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Way to break through, Easley. Keep it up.

[Zvon]

Delgado doubles, Church singles him to 3rd, and Easley drives CarlosD in with his 1st hit of the year.

2-1 Mets

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

More more more more

[Zvon]

Wow.
Pelfrey drops a 2 strike bunt and Phils catcher Ruiz goes for Church at 3rd and makes a bad throw. All safe.

One replay it looks like the ball hit Pelfrey after it bounced, the other 2 it does not look like it touched him at all.

Reyes hits a DP grounder and SS Bruntlett flubs it. No play, run scores.

And Pagan drives in 2 with a double down the 3rd baseline.

And Kendrick is dun.

[metirish]

Hey the sky is not falling after all....

[Zvon]

metirish wrote: Hey the sky is not falling after all....

Its falling on the Phils,lol.
How big is Rollins being out now?
Bruntlett with another error off a grounder in the hole off Mr. Wright.
Easy slow hit grounder just bounces under his glove.

6-1 Mets

[Zvon]

A wild pitch plates another.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Phillies are playing like the Mets play when they play the Phillies.

I like this Bruntlett guy. I hope he plays tomorrow.

[Zvon]

Delgado RIIIIPPED one to right.
Jenkins makes a lunging catch for the out.

Church Ks and its 7-1 Mets after 3.

4 errors by the Phils.

[stevejrogers]

Very late but, ehem,

THATS THE WAY
UH HUH UH HUH
I LIKE IT!
Ooooo oooooo ooooo ooooooo oooooooooooooo!

[metirish]

you know , ahh listen , you know we have very passionate fans you know...

[metirish]

It's at times like this when Minaya is in the booth I wish we had a lights out SO pitcher on the mound .

[stevejrogers]

MetIrish, channeling SalaIraBretDoc!

Pelf, showing why he is among Mets featured in the Citi Field diaorama on the Loge Level outside the Preview Center!

[nymr83]

Why only 5 for Pelfrey??

[stevejrogers]

Hit 100 on the pitch count.

[stevejrogers]

[Warner Wolf]COME ON! You gotta be kidding me! Thats the boo of the week. You mean after a month of spring training, these guys who are stronger than ever, bigger than ever, can't go the full nine and throw for 150+ pitches? Here is what Bob Gibson and Bob Feller told me at some function in 1985 when I asked them to give me a 20 second soundbyte...[/Warner Wolf]

I think Warner Wolf (1050 Saturday mornings 7am to 10am and "updates" from 7-10 weekdays) is the last NYC media guy left on the "pitch count, most OVERATED baseball stat" side and he annoyed me off this morning talking about Perez yesterday, despite Perez being in midst of a meltdown.

Wolf should have knocked the Mets for who they put in, not that they took Perez out!

Whats even more hilarious is when he uses soundbites from his interviews with Gibson and Feller as "proof" that pitch counts are meaningless, rather than actual research on the subject matter, which shouldn't be hard to find. I swear Wolf actually sounds worse than callers to his station!

[nymr83]

Perez should have been pulled yesterday because he walked two straight batters AND was over X pitches, neither alone should be a sufficient condition to end a starter's outing.

[stevejrogers]

Either the Mets are trying to get this game over with quick, or Durbin is that good.

[Zvon]

Phils talking heads also question Pelfrey's removal, but figure its his first outing and he's still stretching out after spring training, and think the Mets more than likely want to make sure he leaves the game on the up side.

The Manderson bats for Sosa, who
delivered a very nice relief stint.

[Valadius]

I'm late arriving to this thing. Looks like Pelfrey held the fort, huh?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Victorino is pretty awesome out there. That's about as well as Marlon Anderson is gonna hit somethiong to LCF: A double vs. almost any CF in the league I would think.

I'd be somewhat dissatisfied if we can't tack on a few just for show.