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During the fourth inning, Pedro Martinez limped off 
the field, gripping what appeared to be the top part of his left hamstring, as well as his inner thigh, which he injured on a pitch to Matt Treanor.
…good luck, Jorge Sosa…
For what it’s worth, Orlando Hernandez will likely make his first rehab start Thursday. He can not be activated until April 13.
…Update…9 pm…
According to 
, Martinez has a strained left hamstring.
The team has not announced if he will go on the disabled list.
…however, in my opinion, he will…i mean, how could he not…
…Update…10 pm…
Martinez told Kevin Burkhardt that he felt a pop in his hamstring, and that he will leave to have an MRI in the next day or so.
We’ll be OK.
Yea, I’m surprisingly not too worked up about this. Santana helps alot doesn’t he?
At least its not a shoulder rotator cuff type thingy.
Not upset. He didn’t even pitch 4 innings before hitting the DL. That sucks.
I didn’t say not upset. I said not too worked up. I’m confident we’ll be ok without him, cause they were for most of last year, and now we have Johan.
ok Pedro has at the best a pulled hammy. He’s over 35 and he’s injury prone and the Mets aren’t going to rush him so i’d be shocked to see him pitching in April.
Thank goodness we have Johan! If we had not made the trade, I would be jumping of the brooklyn bridge right about now. Johan, O.P., Maine……not a bad at all/
Tough break!
Here we go again. We just don’t seem to be able to catch a break.
Ughh…does this mean Sosa starts the last Opener at Shea?
Would they push Johan back a day? I feel like no..
move him up a day*
I hope they pitch Sosa on Sunday and then Santana on Tuesday.
Why would they do that??
It’s a lot more important to beat the Braves (especially since they’re off to a rough start and maybe we can hurt them) than it is to have symbolism for Opening Day at Shea. Whether it is the last Opening Day at Shea or not.
You are going to have Maine and Perez in games 2 & 3 against the Phils. Let Sosa pitch game one.
Otherwise you end up with Sosa and Pelfrey pitching in Atlanta.
isn’t it most important to get the ball in the hands of your best pitchers as often as possible? there is no reason to ever push a santana start back in order to appease the fans. he will pitch at home when it’s his turn.
my feeling is they’ll push maine up a day, it’ll be his regular rest anyway with 2 off days in btw
As another poster said, I’m not too concerned. We’ve got 3 other studs in the rotation, and Jorge Sosa looks excellent.
I am shocked that I’m not freaking out right now. For some reason, I think we’ll be ok. I really do.
Me too, SNY just said strained left hamstring which usually results in DL stints. Probably out for a few weeks. We should get Pedro back around the same time Alou comes back.
Preliminary -Strained Left Hamstring – Day to Day
but all three announcers are saying almost no chance he doesn’t go DL
According the the FSN broadcast, word from the clubhouse is it’s a strain, not a pull.
Is that worse than a pull?
Strained left hammy…. not as bad as it could be…just reported it on sunsports aka the worst tv station ever.
………………………………………………. speechless i am soooo sick of this
This enables Willie to move Maine up to the 2 spot where I believe he belongs, Perez 3rd, Pelfrey 4th, and I’d pitch Sosa in the 5th spot until El Duque returns. Then they would have to call up Nelson Figueroa to be the long man, OR the 5th starter even.
who cares about these arbitrary numbers people like to put on the starting pitchers? If you have a 5 man rotation and don’t skip pitcher’s turns, what does it matter? Call Johan your #4, Maine your Ace, Duque your 2… it’s just stupid. who cares? everybody gets the ball every 5 days.
They won’t mess with the rotation now. It’s fine how it is, the “2 spot” is all relative anyway. Once the season starts it doesn’t really matter where you’re pitching in order of starters anyway.
It’s only a strain. Still sucks, but all you need to do is look at last year to be reminded how well we’ll do with or without him.
I’m pretty sure this team is more used to him not being around. Now, ADD Santana, and we’ll definitely be a-ok. The media will cry rivers over this, though.
My concern is that we’re already thin with Big Pelf as the 5th starter and El Duque on the DL. Who takes over? Figueroa? Armas? Niese? And do you really want these guys pitching the Home Opener?
I guess we can watch Ollie Perez in the H.O.
yes, they can skip the #5 starter until April 12th. Pelfrey gets a regular turn instead of some Pedro and some Pelfrey, so in that respect its not all bad…
terrible timing with Duque though. They just had to pitch him in the grapefruit game on March 28th instead of a simulated game… now they need him on the 12th and he isnt available until the 13th. Oops!!
Who knows, maybe there will be a rain out in the Phillies series and they still wont need someone else.
…four man rotation anyone? ;)
Here’s a scary thought. Imagine a season w/o Santana and our ace Pedro goes down after four starts. Then our ace is Maine with Perez as #2. Pelf or Duque 3rd and 4th, and whatever overpriced FA (Silva/Hernandez) we got to be the #5.
At least we still have Santana.
Actually with the off days Ollie can pitch the opener on normal rest, followed by Maine, Pelf, and Santana all on normal rest. Meaning the Mets don’t need another starter until April 12th
no ollie would be on 3 days rest for the opener. expect sosa or figaroua.
scratch that
fingers and toes, fingers and toes…
lol. today’s definately not wednesday.
which means we only need to one start before duque comes off the DL assuming hes ready to come off on the 13th which i think he will be.
After the 12th they dont need a fifth starter until the 19th because there is an off day on the 14th. The 19th however is a nationally televised game in Philly so that might not be the best spot for his debut.
The off day gives them freedom to settle in Duque wherever they want. They play the Nationals from the 15th to the 17th, and the Phillies from the 18th to the 20th.
Wasn’t very clear here. Just trying to say thank Omar for the trade, otherwise we’d have Maine and Perez leading the rotation.
Kyle Lohse for $4 million would have been a pretty nice safety net for an injury like this. I mean it took all of a game and a half to happen.
And no one say that Pelfrey is just as good as Lohse, because he’s not.
We’ll be fine I’m sure…..but it upsets me for a variety of reasons. I was so pumped because I’m going to my first Home Opener next week, the last at Shea…so excited to see Pedro pitching amid all the fanfare.
Not to say I’m not still pumped obviously, but Perez seemed to get toasted by the Phillies every time he pitched against them…not what you want to see at the last Home Opener at Shea.
truly, i appreciate all this optimism, but if any of you really think the mets are okay without pedro at his absolute best, you are seeing through santana-colored glasses. this rotation is not very deep (beyond the first four) and now, after 13 innings, we are without one of those four.
santana
maine
perez
pelfrey
sosa
all of a sudden, not that good.
more than anything, i am so effing sick of this crap.
Agreed. Especially since you never know which Ollie Perez you are going to get.
The good feelings lasted about 25 hours, isn’t a great to be a Mets fan?
I also share your frustration. I was hoping to see Santana or Pedro
dude, chill the eff out, Charles. look at what you just said “the rotation isn’t very deep after the first four. THERE’S ONE OTHER SPOT IN A ROTATION, INCASE YOU DIDN’T REALIZE. I’m confident *fingers crossed* we won’t need a replacement for our top 3, we have Duque waiting in the wings along with Armas who I think is a fine spot starter, Sosa looks great and Pelf is a question mark. So basically, we have a handful of capable replacements, much deeper than say ATLANTA or PHILADELPHIA, who are our main competitors. More than anything, I’m sick of fans like you who are throwing the towel in after 16 innings of baseball in a 162 game season.
Just get out of here you troll.
wow! dude, i don’t think you understood what i said. what i meant when i said not deep beyond the first four was that the fifth spot was going to be a crap shoot all year, therefore the rotation was not deep. so, i didn’t count the fifth spot. get it?
your lack of comprehension aside, who are you calling troll? i’ve never seen you here before. i’ve been here everyday for three seasons – EVERY DAY.
and, i wasn’t throwing in the towel. i just said our rotation looks not so good without pedro in it.
oh, and if you think armas, duque, pelfrey, and sosa represent depth, you may not be in a great position to criticize me.
Armas, Duque, Pelfrey, and Sosa will be sufficient enough as our 5th starter. Sosa was brilliant last year until he got hurt his leg, Pelfrey was great at the end of the year, Duque is Duque- he’ll be sufficient when healthy- you just don’t know how long that will be (probably not that long), and Armas I think will be good for a few spot starts now and then.
I still think Claudio Vargas is the best pick for us if this Pedro thing is going to be a long DL-trip, but I still think we will be fine with what we have.
the problem is when that group you named is the 4th and 5th starters at the same time…
okay, well you are entitled to your opinion and i hope you are right and i respect what you have to say. perhaps, next time you will respect what i have to say without calling me a troll.
W/E Pedro will not be on the DL schneider also has a strained hamstring as well and hes playing… Its not that big a deal.
Ollie pitches tommorrow, then Maine, Pelf, Santana on F-S-Sun. . Ollie would be on 6 days rest. The orignal plan was for him to follow Pedro next wed.
Yea it seems like it should be Ollie on Opening Day.
Except that pitchers need their legs. That’s where they generate their power. Plus, Schneider strained his hammy a few weeks ago.
It’s a shame given Pedro had that great 12-pitch at bat. How did THAT happen?
schneider basically missed all of ST (three weeks or so) due to the hammy that wasn’t “that big a deal.”
he didn’t miss 3 weeks of ST… he missed 3 weeks of ST games. He was still in the cage and catching bullpens which may have actually been better for him/the team in the long run because it allowed him to become more familiar with all of the pitchers.
but he wasn’t running! pedro will need that hammy to push off. it’s sort of like needing a hammy to run.
hey, only time will tell, right? let’s hope your optimism is well founded.
okay, well, no pedro says he heard a pop! yikes.
this is pelfrey’s moment to shine because if he somehow finds himself, he could be up with the club even after el duque returns. come on big pelf…
by the way, we all knew that it would take a minor miracle for pedro to stay healthy all year, but i don’t think anyone thought it would take 3 1/3 innings for him to get hurt. so silly.
By the way, haven’t we had enough of Beltran bunting?!
what are you talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!?????????? clean up hitters ALWAYS bunt!
Claudio Vargas, anyone?
WTF!
I just got in and turned on the game. Someone should have told Pedro, Omar, Willie and the Jacket that ST is for getting shape, not flying back to the DR to visit friends and family.
Also, can someone please tell me why the Mets are tied in the sixth inning with the Florida Marlins? This team is AAA all the way with a team payroll less than what we’ll be paying Santana this year.
Looks as if Beltran and Church could have practiced playing the outfield in ST. Someone, i.e., Willie, better remind them this is MLB and we’re paying 20% more to watch these sorry excuses for ballplayers.
Better shape up, and quick! I’m not in the mood for any more 2007 BS from these MF’s!
settle down man. ST is for getting in shape, however by all accounts pedro was in the best shape he has been in for several years. sometimes, the more muscular your body is, the easier it is to pull muscles. I find it hard to believe that a trip to the DR was the cause of this injury.
The mets are tied in the 6th inning against the marlins because this is baseball… that’s how the sport works, back off the ledge buddy, there will be plenty more tie games with inferior teams.
I hope that 20% increase in ticket prices prevents you from ever stepping foot inside shea or citi again. mets fans are good people and if people confuse us for people like you, it makes us all look like idiots.
go away.
should you name be some form of “mr. met or mr. met41″ with all the crazy complaints?
Claim Claudio Vargas right now im not paniking but i think if they clame him that gives them the ability for when pedro comes back to give pelf one more year in AAA and el duque can go to the bullpen and save him for the post season
Yep. The Mets will be signing Vargas. Bank on it.
Maybe it’s an April Fool’s joke
Speaking of April Fool’s jokes, my friend who works for a sports website did this to me today:
Friend (5:01:19 PM): just got a story into **** here man about johan
Friend (5:01:28 PM): apparently woke up with sore arm today
Me (5:01:33 PM): what
Friend (5:01:35 PM): going for an MRI on the elbow
Me (5:01:42 PM): what!?
Friend (5:01:43 PM): doesn’t sound good
Me (5:01:56 PM): dude people are going to sh*t large bricks
Friend (5:02:22 PM): said he pitched through some pain in the 7th yesterday
Me (5:02:25 PM): even Mets fans can only take so much
Friend (5:02:28 PM): but didn’t think it was anything
Friend (5:02:33 PM): iced it
Friend (5:02:38 PM): went to bed and woke up in throbbing pain
Me (5:02:44 PM): throbbing
Me (5:02:49 PM): it f*ckin says throbbing?
Friend (5:02:53 PM): he said it
Friend (5:03:02 PM): all the signs of tommy john right there bro
Friend (5:03:03 PM): F*CK
Me (5:03:27 PM): you have got to be f*ckin kidding me
Friend (5:03:42 PM): mark this day down as one of the dark days in mets history
Friend (5:03:47 PM): what’s the date?
Me (5:03:57 PM): oh you d*ck!
Me (5:03:59 PM): you got me
Friend (5:04:03 PM): HAHAHAHAHA!
Me (5:04:04 PM): 100 percent
Me (5:04:06 PM): well done
Me (5:04:08 PM): well f*ckin done
Friend (5:04:10 PM): APRIL F*CKING FOOL MUTTHHAA F*CKA!
Me (5:04:17 PM): i was on the tommy john wikipedia page
Friend (5:04:18 PM): hahahahAHAHAHA
Me (5:04:19 PM): wow
Me (5:04:21 PM): well done
burkhardt: pedro said he felt a pop
I strained my groin a few years back and definitely felt a pop. I was back on the field a few days later. I am under the impression that with any strain or pull a pop is heard/felt.
I realize that I was competing at a far lesser level, but I don’t believe the “pop” to be any indication of severity.
please let me be right.
fingers crossed.
i hope so too, but keith and ron both said a pop is very bad.
Yeah, it sure can be (piazza’s groinn… endy’s hamy last year) but it’s just not automatically devestating.
Some of this might also be attributed to pedro never having a hammy problem before. It’s definitely a unique feeling and he is probably a little dissapointed and scared by the whole thing.
let’s just hope that he’ll be fine, mowing down phillies on april 8th.
Pedro heard a pop, so I expect at least a month’s time missed.
Yikes! A “pop” doesn’t sound good for us.
I really wanted to see Santana and Pedro together for most of this year. When is this injury bug going to stop! I not overreacting but, I am down about this. We will be lucky to see Pedro 20 starts this season now. I don’t like moving Sosa out of the BP.I rather the bring in Claudio Vargas. I know he not very good at all but, he dose eat innings and is still under 30. with two spots with big ?, I don’t want to see the BP get abused like last year.
For all the love and adulation that everyone gives Pedro, really, how often has he come through for the Mets? He sh_t the bed against the Phillies in ‘05 when they really needed him. Sat out an extra game late last season so Humber could go in and automatically lose. Yes, I know he can’t help getting injured, but my point is everyone seems to consider him a top of the rotation guy, but he hasn’t been that now for over two seasons. I NEVER went into this season depending on him. This is definately a setback, but the Mets can recover.
Ya know, it’s funny ,but I was just thinking today that while I want to love Pedro, I really do see him more as a bottom of the rotation lind of guy…if not for anything more than it wouldn’t kill us if he went down with an injury.
what it really shows is that it is very hard to rely on age in the rotation. if it’s not one thing, it’s another.
I totally agree. Fact of the matter is he’s like a 5′9 36 year old pitcher coming off arm issues. Everyone (including me) wants to root for him because he’s basically the reason why we got all of our other pickups. He was a huge signing that I think brought and entirely new fanbase and winning culture to this team that has really allowed us to be more active in the FA market, etc. but the fact of the matter is, I realize that he’s really the 4th best pitcher on this team, and wasn’t expecting much out of him. We are really going to need Ollie to step up now though.
At a boy, 48
Louis Castillo…slappymcslapster
So…I’d love to see the Mets knock one out here…
Damn!
Seriously, can we ever have any joy?
It seems like the Mets get ahead of every damn count and they still can’t get on base
how close was it?
Great, here comes Delgado
Edge of the track
Gonzo can hit homers, but we can’t. Just bad luck, I guess. Different parts of the park.
steroid residue
I say Delgado jacks a pop up
that would be a new one
you know the Marlins are scoring next inning so it’s now or never
Could this be Church’s moment?
apparently not…
No
Come on Ryno!!!!!
crap.
Church better do better than that if he wants people to forget Milledge
Especially if we are reminded of it every time he fails to get a hit. :)
I’ll work on it, it still sticks in my craw
Believe me, I hear you. I can’t help but Milledge watch too. It’s a tough pill to swallow.
Yes, defense baby…defense!
Good D, but I think that was more of a boneheaded play on Uggla’s part.
Heh heh, you may be right, but I’ll take it. :)
We could have just as easily made a boneheaded mistake by lolly gagging, so chalk one up for the D.
Hahahahahahaha @ Uggla and then at the following reaction by the Marlins announcers.
Heilman looking sharp.
I thought the keys going into this season were Pedro and Delgado.
Pedro is now hurt and will be gone for months and Delgado has yet to contribute with a big hit. In fact, he looks just like he did last year….swining at garbage, and having zero power.
Outside of Santana every 5th day, I don’t see why I should feel great about this club. Hopefully Alou gets back soon so pitchers stop working around Beltran to get to Delgado.
so don’t watch
you’re a fair weather fan…just suck it up
no, actually im a diehard fan who is sick of seeing this club go down with key injuries again and again and again and again and again.
2 days into the regular season and our 1a ace is gone.
you don’t find that infuriating?
i mean….seriously. 48 hours in…and Pedro, who felt soooo good in ST, is gone. And Alou is still out for a month. The Mets have to get healthy and stay healthy to be great.
Shhh…
Delgado hasn’t gotten a big hit this season?? It is the SECOND GAME… relax dude, i think you belong in the bronx
Because of other guys like Jose Reyes, David Wright, Carlos Beltran, Oliver Perez, John Maine, etc.
Everyone knew Pedro was going to have some time off this year, most didn’t expect it this soon, but it was going to happen. Pedro probably isn’t going to be out for “months” either with this injury. I’m just glad its a leg injury and not an arm injury, I still think he can give us a little over 100 innings this year.
I don’t expect much from Delgado this year either, but its the second game of the season and you’re already chastising him for not getting a big hit.
We’re starting to get a preview of how this bottom of the order will kill us. At least the bullpen looks solid
pagan and schneider both have hits and rbi’s
ill take that (non) production any day
oh…look at that…3-4 for scheider with an rbi
That’s great, but even you can’t argue that there’s a huge power gap 5-9 in this order
Couldn’t Pedro have at least waited a game? Guy is a walking cliche these days.
to everyone that is saying that we’ll be fine because we were last year: last year we had glavine who won games and ate innings. in order for this to be nothing big, it really must be nothing big. either pedro can’t spend too long on the DL, or Maine has to maintain his spring training performance, Ollie’s got to get his command consistently, and Sosa has to at least eat innings.
if nothign else from this game, we get a glimpse at the potential of the bullpen. so far at least (top 10th)
To me, the key to winning games is the bottom of the order. The top and middle will do their averages, but can the guys with lower averages make their occasional hits count?????
All I know is….the Mets shouldn’t be in extra innings with the Marlins who have terrible pitching.
Where is the power? Can someone just knock one out and ice this thing? Because the clutch hitting with RISP trend seems to have carried over from last season. Eventually the Mets will have to get hits with runners on, and unfortunately the opposition is going to get harder than this.
Sorry for beining negative, but this Pedro thing has me really bitter. I felt great yesterday….and not so great today.
yeah wheelhouse, this is the first time i have ever seen a baseball team go to extra innings against an inferior opponent.
settle down fella, its a long season.
a 35+ year old, injury prone pitcher pulls a muscle. Hopefully we see him (healthy) before memorial day.
Should only be a matter of time before Delgado and Castillo follow suit. What happened to Omar’s promise of youth on this team? We are now the oldest team in baseball. Well maybe not now that Pedro is hurt.
These Marlins announcers are killing me. “That would be a fly ball and that would be out number three.”
Yeah, they are the absolute worst.
Please keep it up, bullpen. Come on Wise.
Matt Wise must weigh 100 pounds
O course this guy would do that after Gary talking about him so much.
He’s gonna weigh less with all the tears he sheds for giving up that long ball.
Prediction for this game:
We take the lead next inning, Wagner then precedes to blow the save in the bottom half of the inning.
Well, never mind, then.
As long as he gets his men out…..I don’t care if he weights 50lbs.
one nice takeaway: bullpen loo————————-damn
Game over.
nothin like the Mets letting up HR’s to players who have never hit one. Wise stinks.
Great game Mets. No offense and Pedro gone. Goodnight
Games played this season:
2
I dunno. Wise made the previous two batters look stupid. I have to wonder if Schneider made a bad call to have Wise throw that changeup again. Hernandez and Darling called it a few seconds before the HR.
I hate this game sometimes
So much for the bullpen. Night.
hopefully our starters can pitch well cause we have no depth in the rotation or in the bullpen.
Santana doesnt like to pitch more than 7 innings. Maine doesnt get past 7. Perez will make early exists at least once a month. Pedro is out for at least a month and our 4th/5th starters are not impressive.
our bullpen is going to need to come up huge…
Pen was excellent tonight other than that final blip. Offense came up short a bunch.
Its only the second game so I’m not going to go nuts.
That sucks
The loss of Pedro wouldn’t have been soooooo bad if w could have gotten this win. Now it hurts even more. Oh well, as Keith just said, we weren’t going to win them all.
win or lose pedro is out for a while.
Doesn’t mean you had to lose the 2nd. Sweeping the Marlins wasn’t impossible…they are the Marlins.
Whats more alarming is that the Mets had the opportunity the last 2 innings to score plenty of times and no one could get the hit. 2007 all over again
i’d trade a few games for Pedro’s health anyday of the weak…
The Marlins have hit 4 absolute bombs in the past 2 days including that walk off.
Would it kill a Met to hit a HR off this lousy pitching staff?
Seriously…..hit the weightroom boys.
Xavier Nady where are you.
Having flashbacks. Not good ones
“The 2008 New York Mets….It’s Never Easy, Is It?”
o god, well the seasons over. that was fun, though, wasn’t it?
Maybe next year…
we lost Pedro not Santana
The highs and lows of sports is just killer.
It’ll be alright. It’s just one game. Just think about the Giants beating the Pats to soothe the pain. If you’re a Giants fan that is
Ha ha! That’s funny too, cause I just told my father in law yesterday that the G-Men honestly made me forget about the “collapse” for a while. Tonight, reminded me a little bit, though.
eh….tough to be positive after this one. I was 6 hours ago though.
I’m more worried about the offense. I know the pitching will get back on track. But the Marlins pitching is really bad and no one really has got it going tonight….including any HR’s.
I’m really a fan of small ball, but the HRs have to happen too a bit. We sure could have used one or two tonight. I’m a little nervous about when we face a big-name pitchers. But then again, it is still early April.
Small ball is nice sometimes, but heres the problem….the Mets don’t get big hits with runners in scoring position. Its a known fact.
So in games like tonight…you need a guy to knock one over the fence, and I just don’t see the power.
Delgado turned into a punching judy.
Meanwhile the Marlins are hitting 450 lasers all over the park.
The 2008 Mets: Over 3 Million Stranded Baserunners
I hope they get going again. I can’t take another year of these types of losses, especially to the sh*t Marlins.
I guess I’ll go back to my mantra of old, which is “win every series, win every series…”
good mantra except for when your playing AAA teams…its “sweep every series” sweep every series”
I hear ya.
Well, goodnight Mets family. Until tomorrow.
I have an idea…… let Fernando Martinez pitch!!!!!! lol
No, really, Pedro will recover. Like many said before this, we’ve been without him for much of the last 2 seasons and we can do great things without him.
We all know how emotional Pedro is, and we also know how incredibly hard he worked after his surgery to come back and be a part of this team again.
If this is indeed just a strained hamstring, then let him rest. Who cares if he’s not back until May?!? We can hold down the fort for that long. We may even be in first place for most of it like we were for most of the past 2 years without him.
He’ll come back whenever he comes back and we will once again hope and pray for his health.
….and as long as he’s healthy he will win, and we will win.