IGT--Mets @ Nationals, 09/30/09

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Mets (courtesy David Lennon):
Pagan -- LF
Hernandez -- 2B
Wright -- 3B
Beltran -- CF
Francoeur -- RF
Tatis -- 1B
Santos -- C
Valdez -- SS
Redding -- SP

Nationals (courtesy Chico Harlan):
Harris - 8
Dukes - 9
Zimmerman - 5
Dunn - 3
Willingham - 7
Bard - 2
Desmond - 6
Gonzalez - 4
Lannan - 1

The Mets used deserve capitalization, bolding and underlining. Not any more.
I would like to say something positive about a current Met: Valdez can stay. This is a big upset as I once railed against him having a cool number like 4--I think I said he should be wearing 84--but he can field and hit a little. I don't want him as a starter but he can back up Jose next year (that's Jose Reyes, in case you've forgotten).
Fantastic! Mariano Rivera on the cover of the new [u:38by7j6b]SI[/u:38by7j6b]! http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/cover/featured/11291/index.htm?eref=sircrc&eref=sisf
That means I keep it face down.

Edited September 30, 2009 by Guest

[G-Fafif]

Good to see Tatis in there getting a chance to show what he can do. We haven't gotten a real good look at him yet.

I'm impressed that Chico Harlan opts for numbers as his position shorthand, even when not scoring, just when blogging. He's a good baseball man.

[ashie62]

And in other news per Newsday Reyes felt "discomfort" yesterday doing hard running and is heading to the hospital for special surgery to be reevaluated

Please remove the tendon BEFORE spring training

Geez, I blew my shoulder out and it took all of an hour to read the MRI and schedule me.

I don't do any hard running however

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Is Anderson Hernandez new to baseball?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Keith really ripped him, didn't he? "I've been holding my tongue for six weeks, but that was abysmal!"

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No SNY for us in the DC area so I didn't hear it... thank you.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Bases loaded vs. Frankie, Zimmerman up.

[metirish]

Another sloppy play at short by Valdez and Gary remarks that this has been one of the worst games he has ever watched. Keith wants to forget all three games , K-rod looking to blow this one

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Keith really ripped him, didn't he? "I've been holding my tongue for six weeks, but that was abysmal!"[/quote:q7s5ytio]

Musta missed that one... can't wait to hear.

Grand Slam holy fuck

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Bill says: You guys suck.

[metirish]

It seemed inevitable , I thought Dunn might do it though.....

[Guest Kong76]

There are no words.

Bring on the 'stros.

[ashie62]

Fugly from opening day to the end...And to think most of these Mets will return

[ashie62]

So much for Manuel's goal of playing crisp baseball.

I really, really, really hope the Mets have a different manager next season

[dgwphotography]

So much for Manuel's goal of playing crisp baseball.

I really, really, really hope the Mets have a different manager next season[/quote:2nwjybl5]

So do I - they had better take note of the alarming lack of fundamental baseball played all season long.

[metirish]

Ojeda in the post game said that since the " vote of confidence" the Mets have been playing worse...." does that come into the equation for who's coming back next season" he asked....stay tuned

[Guest Kong76]

SNY really needs to stop showing 1969 Mets crap after being swept
in 2009 by the Nationals.

I'd rather watch and endless loop of Shamwow and SlapChop commercials.

This should probably go in the SNY thread but I'm too lazy to look for it.

[G-Fafif]

Ojeda in the post game said that since the " vote of confidence" the Mets have been playing worse...." does that come into the equation for who's coming back next season" he asked....stay tuned[/quote:bj47ed57]

If the Mets played in the British Parliament league, they'd be subject to a vote of no confidence. And it would be unanimous.

[ashie62]

Ojeda in the post game said that since the " vote of confidence" the Mets have been playing worse...." does that come into the equation for who's coming back next season" he asked....stay tuned[/quote:3eylayzw]

Bob Ojeda-Welcome to the cause

[Guest Kong76]

Bob Ojeda-Captain Obvious du jour

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Ojeda in the post game said that since the " vote of confidence" the Mets have been playing worse...." does that come into the equation for who's coming back next season" he asked....stay tuned[/quote:2gn2kcwe]

If the Mets played in the British Parliament league, they'd be subject to a vote of no confidence. And it would be unanimous.[/quote:2gn2kcwe]

Followed by a parliamentary dissolution and a landslide election loss.

[Frayed Knot]

It's impossible to put into words how much this team is sucking ... so I'm going to try anyway.

7th inning:
- Parnell walks the first batter he faces ... never a good sign
- Then comes a come-backer which is turned into a force play when it at least could have been a GiDP
- next comes a weak grounder where they got no outs. They at least got out of that inning with a grounder & IF pop-up.

8th inning:
- a leadoff groundout is followed by a solo HR. OK, Zimmerman's a good hitter, shit happens.
- In comes Feliciano to get his guy on an IF pop-up, but then comes Green.
- You ever notice how weird shit just seems to happen when Green is on the mound? Some of it's his fault, some seems to just follow him.
- First guy = error by Wright and the next guy walks. He gets out of the inning with another weak grounder but the inning should have been over two batters earlier

9th inning:
- Infield single which could have (should have IMO) been an error ... seeing-eye single up the middle ... sac bunt (hey, at least they got him out) -- 2nd & 3rd, 1 out.
- so now what else do you need but another walk in front of the 3 & 4 hitters? -- Bases loaded
- he then Ks the toughest guy, but then walks the next one bringing in a run
- now up comes the defensive replacement getting his first AB of the game and the 99th of his ML career (spread out since 2007) but of course the previous shit has left no margin for error, and going 3 & 2 on HIM makes things even worse. And while I can't say I foresaw THAT happening, I had totally given up on coming out on the winning end of the game by then. I knew something was going to happen.

So, from the 7th inning on the Nats sent 18 batters to the plate. THREE!!! of those batters hit the ball out of the infield (a weak grounder plus the two HRs) and yet they still scored 6 runs.
Seven infield grounders were hit which the Mets managed to turn into a whopping 4 outs even though four of those seven were hit w/less than two outs and a force play in order.
Two of the three leadoff hitters in those innings reached, as did two of the three second hitters.
Four walks were issued



Mets bats, meanwhile, managed to squeeze one run from those same innings after starting one with a leadoff double and another with three straight hits.




I missed Keith's comments too. Was there something specific he was bitching about?

[Guest The Second Spitter]

9th inning:
- Infield single which could have (should have IMO) been an error ... [/quote:1xtjvi9r]

Who?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Keith's comment was prompted by Anderson Hernandez's flip to second on the grounder, where he failed to get the force out and opted not to get the easy out at first.

I'm not sure, though, if Keith was blasting Anderson Hernandez, or the entire team. I suspect it was the latter.

[Frayed Knot]

9th inning:
- Infield single which could have (should have IMO) been an error ... [/quote:25siyjnc]

Who?[/quote:25siyjnc]


Valdez. He fumbled a high hopper -- never dropping it, but by the time he re-grabbed and threw it was too late.
The batter, Gonzalez, was given a hit although I would have scored it an 'E'

[Guest holychicken]

I caught the last inning of this game on my way home from work and, not sure if it was Hagin or Rose, but one of them said (something to the effect of), while the Nats mobbed Maxwell, "And that sound you hear is the Mets hitting rock bottom. And they still have three games left." So true.

I don't know why it should bother me, but last night and the loss the night before really did bothered me. They were just both so pathetic.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Next time the Mets lose the last week of the season, and people try and tell you that it would have been better if they had fallen out of contention months before, remind them of this.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'm with Edgy. The tension of the last two Septembers, despite the unhappy endings, was much more enthralling than the apathy of this September. And August, for that matter.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Needless to say, but the agony of October 2006 was even more enthralling.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I saw October 2006 as pure fun. I loved every minute of it, except for that last moment when it rather suddenly ended.