postGame: Nats 9 Mets 8
The Mets (83–67) lost to the Nationals (68–83) by the score of 9 to 8 in Washington DC tonight.
For a recap and boxscore, go to Yahoo! Sports.
…this team just isn’t going to make it easy on us, are they…
…okay, so, they had their team meeting, and Willie Randolph addressed his players in private…now what sould they do…
…look, although they stranded eight men on base tonight, the offense also put up seven runs…seven…i mean, what else can they do…and so, here’s the thing, all the team meetings, all the managerial tirades, all the hyperbole and talk about emotion and passion and ‘wanting it,’ etc, is only as good as the meatball being thrown over the plate from John Maine, or Scott Schoeneweis…
…sure, the previous two days the Mets made several mental mistakes…but, in addition to that, the pitching has just been awful…and it continued tonight…
…it’s a shame, too, because the rest of the team looked good…they actually played a good game, offensively and defensively…the pitching was just awful…
…it was exhilarating how pressure-packed this game was, for a team in first place, playing a last place team, in September, with 12 games left in the year…i mean, it felt like a playoff game, because that’s how bad we all wanted to win it…you…me…the team…Gary Cohen…every one…i mean, David Newhan was spotted in the dugout on his knees praying…
…yet, they lost…
…i will not lament, though…they played well, looked alive, made a strong push in the ninth, but fell short…the pitching, though, the pitching is the problem…and no number of team meetings or flipped buffet tables will help that right now…they just need to execute and find their groove…
