Gay dame IGT 4/23 Mets @ St Louis

[Guest Edgy DC]

And a Parnell induced DP keeps that number from reaching nine.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Bleeping Ankiel is just killing us today.

So. With the rotation sucking rocks, do we give Pedro a call? Or give Garcia, Redding and all a shot?

[Centerfield]

Gamecast says all four balls to Ryan Church were in the strike zone.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Tying run on double deck. LtsgMts!

[metirish]

LaRussa never quits....

[metirish]

WTF was Church doing there...lucky with the balk

[Frayed Knot]

Only LaRussa could turn this game into a 6-pitcher outing.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Hey, LaRussa, using three guys in the ninth to protect a four-run lead? Have mercy.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, that was fun. What else is on?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Can we please play a bad team soon? Are the Nationals busy?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Add St. Louis to the list of teams I wouldn't dream of trading our guys for straight-up but who nevertheless made us look like shit.

[metirish]

We've not won since Santana last pitched.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Looking for the bright side...

They scored a lot of runs.

They scored a log of runs late.

The pen has been really good so far, and this is their suck game.

[HahnSolo]

Bright side...?
The Nationals suck worse than us, and they are coming in for 3 games?

[TransMonk]

That was the most runs we've scored in a loss, so this one is clearly on the pitching. To be fair, I'm not ready to start panicing and asking the Pedro/Garcia/Redding questions yet. This was our 5th starter going up against one of the (if not THE) most potent offenses in the NL.

The one thing I can take from this game is that at least the offense came to life somewhat. Only 3 LOB with 2 out and RISP (2 by DWright).

I'd like to return the sweep favor to WASH over the weekend starting with a win tomorrow. It's way too early to panic, but a loss tomorrow would be far more devastating than a win would be helpful. In other words, tomorrow is a must win IMO. Our ace against the worst team in the league provides no excuses. The Mets haven't been 4 games under .500 since late 2005. We need the W tomorrow or else we're there.

[metirish]

Yeah they score a lot of runs , after they were down a lot of runs though I guess it's still a positive.

[metirish]

Bob Ojeda is going on about how the Mets need to get back to what he saw in Spring Training , namely stealing bases....

[Benjamin Grimm]

Stealing bases???

I think the starting pitchers should try to get guys out.

Perez: 13 ER in 15 IP
Maine: 13 ER in 15.2 IP
Pelfrey: 9 ER in 10 IP
Hernandez: 13 ER in 16 IP

That adds up to 47 ER in 56.2 innings. Three times through the rotation, all regular starters not named Santana have a combined ERA of 7.46.

Yeah, blame the base stealers.

[metirish]

To be fair to Bob he has now just talked about the crap starting pitching...and he's seeing cracks in the pen.

[metirish]

Jerry talking about maybe needing to carry an extra pitcher , due to the poor starting pitching.

[metirish]

Jerry is pissed , one more turn through the rotation but beyond that.....

[apmorris]

I blame me. I signed up for MLB Audio today (fockin $14.95).

[Benjamin Grimm]

metirish wrote: Jerry is pissed , one more turn through the rotation but beyond that.....

What does he mean?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Pretty awesome

[metirish]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: ="metirish"]Jerry is pissed , one more turn through the rotation but beyond that..... What does he mean?

to me it sounds like Manuel wants new starting pitchers , at least one anyway.

[Fman99]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Oh, and Poo Hole just jacked a 2-run homer. Getting a little sweepy here.

This was when I turned off the radio.