postGame: Mets 13 Marlins 0
The Mets (2–1) defeated the Marlins (1–2) by the score of 13 to 0 in Miami tonight.
For a boxscore, and recap, go to Yahoo!.
…Oliver Perez looked outstanding…he pitched six scoreless innings, allowing five hits and one walk while striking out eight…his slider was terrific, changing speeds, and all around the zone…again, the bullpen stepped in, looked great and protected perez’s shutout…
…hey, Ryan Church, you have a nice arm…as shown in the first inning when he pegged Hanley Ramirez trying to stretch a single in to a double that he bounced off the wall in right…of course, had hanley initially been running hard he would have been safe, but he lollygagged a bit…and church gunned him down…which is good, because hanley would have scored on the ball that skipped by Carlos Beltran a few batters later with two outs…
….the Marlins can complain about payroll all they want, but until their best young players stop kicking the ball around and running the bases like a Little League team, it’s sort of hard to take that argument seriously…
…oh, and church hit a home run off a left-handed pitcher…i thought he couldn’t hit lefties, though…odd…
…speaking of beltran, he was robbed of a home run…the ball, which clearly bounced off the railing in center field, was initially called a home run…however, with beltran back on the bench, after having rounded the bases, all four umps gathered on the infield and reversed the call…look, even without instant replay, logic should dictate that any ball bouncing directly 20 feet up in the air had to have done so by ricocheting off metal, not the padded wall…unreal…come on, blue…
…early in the game, SNY’s Keith Hernandez said, “Every time we play the Marlins,” after which he corrected himself and said, “I mean, when the Mets play the Marlins.”…of course, later in the game, when asked by a caller if he would wear a Mets hat if accepted in to the Hall of Fame, he hesitated, gave pause while considering the Cardinals equal to the Mets, after which he said, ‘The Mets,’ because blue is his favorite color…dude, you’re calling Mets games, just say Mets…
…by the way, i am not sure how i feel about this in-game phone call idea…i want to like it, because it gets us, the fans, more involved in the game…but it just feels so awkward, even during a blow-out game like tonight…again, it’s going to work great during a rain delay…but during the game, something just seems off…i’m speculating here, but i sense a bit of displeasure in Gary Cohen’s voice while answering the calls as well, though i could be wrong…
…it was nice to see Carlos Delgado rip an opposite-field, RBI single off a left-handed pitcher, who was trying to bust him inside…he stayed in the box, steady, and went the other way…
…once again, Angel Pagan drove in a run…he has driven in a run in all three games this season…this time, driving in Carlos Beltran from third with a double down the left-field line…
…welcome to the Mets, Nelson Figueroa, who pitched a perfect eighth inning…nicely done…
….Jose Reyes essentially put the game away with a quick-hands, two-RBI double in the sixth, but David Wright really put it away with a bomb, and i mean bomb, of a home run later in the inning…willie even smiled as wright jogged around the bases…
…the name of the game is: win the series…that’s what counts…nice rebound, Mets…
