IGT: 5/30, Dodgers at Mets

[DocTee]

How far away is Valentin???

[metirish]

A few thousand miles away in St . Lucie.

[DocTee]

Mets leave them loaded again, but score the go-ahead run.

[Theoldmole]

Do we have faith in Heilman? Yes we do.

[DocTee]

With the bases loaded, why did Park not try for the out at home?

[DocTee]

Ugh.

5-5 after a deep double from Kemp plates Pierre

[Theoldmole]

Maybe we don't.

[DocTee]

All those men LOB will come back to haunt us, I think.

[DocTee]

Motherfather. 6-5

[DocTee]

Jesus Christ get this guy off the mound

[metirish]

Heilman is?

[Guest KC]

Not to quibble, but Pierre was safe as confirmed by several replays.

Give any major league team an extra out and oft times shit happens.

[DocTee]

"YOU CALL THAT RELIEF PITCHING?"

[Guest mario25]

Heilman should NEVER PITCH in a tight spot ever!!!! Trade him ASAP...he is awful

[Fman99]

Heilman isn't.

[Guest KC]

At this point, I think just about everyone is in agreement that Heilman could
bring something in a trade (when he has a few good outings in a row) and that
a change of scenery slant could be sold to the right GM.

That ain't happening in early June.

Pierre was freakin' OUT.

[Guest KC]

I feel like a thread killer.

Bottom of the ninth!

[Fman99]

Down to their last 3 outs.

LET'S GO METS.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Yikes. Just checking in after a night out, Ugh. So much for Heilman being back.

[Fman99]

That's that.

The wheels really came off on the groundout that started the 8th. Awful call by the first base ump.

[Guest KC]

Lotta men left on base tonight, blue was squeazin' Maine early on giving that
young kid a much different strike zone.

Hate Heilman all ya want ... did I mention Pierre was OUT?

[Fman99]

Yeah, the Evans K to end of the 7th with the bases loaded and the Mets up 5-4 was big. I felt it might be.

[DocTee]

LOB kill. The Mets have to capitalize on situations when they have someone on the ropes and tonight they just didn't do that.

Maine was effective after the first...

After rallying from 3-0 against this hotshot, I thought this had the makings of a Big Game ™ but it fell apart pretty quickly there in the latter third of the contest. Had the Mets pulled it out and been riding a four-game winning streak, it would have set a whole different tone heading into June.

Any word on Castillo?

[Frayed Knot]

]Any word on Castillo?

Strained hip flexor



We could have survived a shaky Maine OR a messy Heilman tonight but not both.
Heilman continued his pattern of either being perfect or perfectly awful.

Hoping for a CH Park appearence backfired.

[Gwreck]

Problems tonight:

1. Nick Evans cannot hit major league pitching. Sorry. We need an outfielder, NOW!!! Kenny Lofton? Reggie Sanders? Sammy Sosa?

2. Fernando Tatis was exposed tonight for being unable to play the outfield. Yes, the double, but also the sliding catch in the game where he made it look hard but really he just had gotten a poor jump; also the ground-rule double in the first when he loafed it over towards the ball. Yes, he wouldn't have caught it, but he should've run harder. If it doesn't bounce over, it would've been a triple.

3. In the 8th, when we had a runner on 1st with no out, righties coming up and we *really* needed the ground ball, where was Smith? He didn't throw in the 'pen all night.

4. Another crappy start from Maine.