Quote: An Ugly Trend
After last night’s win against the Nationals, Willie Randolph had this to say about their recent performance…
“We’re continuing an ugly trend this year, with leaving guys on base. You know, I mean, we’re getting a lot of opportunities and when you get all those hits and you look at the scoreboard and you don’t have as many runs as you should have.
“But, we still have to do a better job of picking up those early runs…We have to do a better of job of getting guys in scoring position and just managing yourself in that situation where you do something where you scratch a couple of runs. Now, we have a situation where we have bases loaded and only got one run. I thought we had them on the ropes there.”
“I’m just trying to get my guys to understand that we need to make these guys work even harder when we have them on the ropes. We let too many pitchers off the hook when we have them in a real tough spot. For him to get out of that with only one run, that’s a total victory for him, but he walked like two or three guys in the inning and you can’t let him get away with that.”
The Mets left nine men on base last night.
…i’m glad that despite the win, willie still sees how ineffective the team has been with men on…
…for the most part, Jose Reyes looked lost at the plate last night, and certainly did his part to contribute to this problem…if it hasn’t already, it will surely come back to haunt them…
