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Last night in a win against the Yankees, Oliver Perez let up two runs and three hits in 7.2 innings.
Ryan Church, on Perez, talking after the game, said:
“He’s a bulldog, man. He went out there and didn’t use our bullpen. What can you say? They stretched him out a bit, let him throw 100 pitches and he was able to go deep in the ball game.”
Willie Randolph, on Perez, said:
“He was outstanding…He got a nice little ovation when he walked off the mound, and I thought he deserved that.”
Perez, on Perez, talking to reporters, said:
“I want to do anything I can to help my teammates…I want to put us in good positions to win, and that is what I felt I was able to do.”
…the Mets picked up a few runs, extended their lead, and then perez came out and immediately surrendered two runs…and i was worried…but, he kept it together…outside of that, he never allowed more than one runner on base in an inning…
Nice break out game for the Mets and for Ollie. Everybody contributed against one of the best pitchers in the game. Keep it going now, and beat the Braves!
Part of it was Perez taking advantage of the situation, but mostly the Yankees offense played dead after that rally came up short in the 4th.
Perez needed just 72 pitches to get through the 3rd to end after scuffling through the first two innings and needing 37 pitches. Its great to see him be so effecient with his pitches for once.
Do you guys notice that there is a fewer number of comments on this blog when the mets win than when the mets lose?
That’s because as this site increased in popularity it became a venting post for irrational fans. They will be back when we lose. Then they will label every fan who is on here today a koolaid drinking sunshining appologist. Get used to it. I have found ways to still have intelligent discussions even around much ignorance.
Also, this fan base EXPECTS to win. You don’t come on a blog and vent after the team does what they are supposed to do, which, in all reality should be winning 2 out of 3, or 66% of your games. However, if you look in the in-game thread theres something like 800 comments, a lot of positive things were said in that thread. After a loss, where numerous mental errors and baserunning blunders were made, the fans will talk about that for a prolonged period of time, ala sports radio shows for the next week.
I understand that we all expect to win, well almost all of us. Then you have the posters on here who were hoping for the Yankees and the Braves to sweep us just so they could get revenge on Willie.
Expecting to win 2 out of every 3 games is foolhardy. The Mets have potential but only historically great teams win 2 out of every 3 (which pro rates out to 108 wins against 54 losses). I don’t have the numbers but its probably been a decade since a 100+ win team has won the World Series.
I also noticed–reading after the game the comments posted during the game–the incredible amount of pessimism and gloom/doom expressed by posters. It’s kind of fun and interesting to follow the trail of messages as the game (any game) progressed last night. I thought the Yanks were dead after their rally fizzled and Delgado came through even after his home run was denied (how amazing was that?! Delgado coming through in the clutch not once but twice in one at bat!!). Yet the posters quickly fell into an amazing funk, seeing the home run denial as part of the cosmic conspiracy against the Mets. As a long time loyal fan I do admit of my own pessimism at times. But what was great about 2006 and about other similar years, is the feeling that we’d come back and emerge victorious whatever came the team’s way (like last night). I think this blog has more than its share of debbie downers, but maybe this will change as the team gets an aggressive identity. However pitiful the Yanks are right now, they still had their ace on the mound last night, and we made mincemeat of him!!
Of course there’s lots of negativity. How can you expect anything else after The Collapse and then this years highly mediocre, inconsistent play?
Let’s hope this is the start of some consistency.
I’m waiting for the screen name DebbieDowner.
It’s like voting, less people vote when they’re happy.
Plus…it was a Sunday night game…many of us had to go to bed right after the game because we have to work the next day…
You could be right though…
Yes and it will be interesting to see how many fans talk about Ollie’s “break out game” or how great of a pitcher Ollie is and his potential and we should resign him next year, etc etc etc, after all the comments following his previous starts this year of “mental case, let him walk, he’s our number 4, etc etc etc)
I wouldn’t call it Ollie’s break-out game. He pitched an effective game against the Yankees ace. Now we need to seem him pitch consistently every fifth day. Hopefully, he will get it together. It not only was a great win, it was a great TEAM win. They played like a cohesive unit. Let’s carry this momentum to ATL.
LET’S GO METS!
We should try to resign Ollie, but it shouldn’t be a total blank check.
I haven’t really seen anyone say ‘let him walk’, just a lot of people resigned to the possibility that the price will be too high.
This is what you get with OIlie though. More and more he reminds me of El Sid (minus 40 lbs) than anything else. Throws a ton of pitches, hardly gives up any hits, struggles with command, but when he’s ON, he’s virtually unhittable.
NOW< let’s see what this team does with the Braves. Here we are once again, just like two weeks ago, win a big series (D-backs), then lose 2 tough games to the Dodgers.
I want to see this team play with consistency before I start saying that they’ve turned a corner. People are frustrated with this team not because of where they are in the standings, but because loyal fans know what they could be capable of. Too many guys on this team take games off and a lot fo times, the fight and fire just isn’t there.
I am holding out hope that the LONG OVERDUE team meeting Willie had on Friday helped shake the cobwebs out of these guys heads.
Yes, it has been frustrating. But there is very little patience with this fan base now.
They may continue to play a few games over .500 for a little while. No one has been hitting, that will change (hopefully it has started). And its difficult to get on a good roll when you are throwing out a journeyman (figgy/vargas/etc.) in addition to your inconsistent 4 and 5 starters (Ollie and Pelf) every 5th day.
Granted they wasted 2 very good starts from these guys against the Nats, but when you keep rolling out quality starts you will win more of those than you lose. I am putting alot on Pedro (maybe too much) but if he returns and is healthy, they will be throwing alot of quality starts at opponents and can get on the type of roll that everyone is waiting for.
Unfortunately, that may still be several weeks away and with an up and down ollie/pelf/journeyman it could be a frustrating ride.
There is a guy over on MLBtraderumors that is suggesting a Sexson for Delgado trade. What in the world would be the point of that?
I think I know that guy. He tried to sell me the Brooklyn Bridge once.
The money would be a wash,they would hit around the same,sexson is better defensively.
Sexson’s OBP is even lower than Delgado’s.
As the saying goes, rather the underachieving, formerly slugging first baseman you know than the underachieving formerly slugging first baseman you don’t… or something like that.
Exactly, why break in a new guy who may do even worse with the boos and pressure in NY?
I would take my chances this year with Delgado.
There will be a bigger gaping hole their next year as I think Texiera is a long shot. They will need to fill 1b, LF and add a starter (possibly 2) next year. And a closer if wags retires.
If Wags keeps pitching like this all year, there’s no way he retires.
Because we are not getting enough strikeouts out of our first baseman. duh.
Did anyone see any comments from Wagner about Perez’s performance last night? If he’s going to call out someone for a poor performance, he should also encourage and praise them when they do their job.
Good for Ollie and good for the Mets. I may never be comfortable with how many pitches (specifically balls) he throws, but I can certainly get comfortable with starters going into the eighth and only allowing 2 runs.
Last nights performance by Ollie is a perfect example that his problems are all mental. He knew he was on the national spotlight and a good performance would enchance his chances for a big payday. I thing Boras stuck a bug in his ear stating the Hankees are hunrgy for pitching and they might be big bidders for his services.
I wasn’t able to watch the first half of the game, was just following it somewhat on Gameday.
When I saw the two runs go up in the bottom of the 4th I thought “not again”, but then when I saw it was a two-run shot I wasn’t quite as concerned, and OP really rolled after that.
If OP can pitch like that every start, or even close to it, he’ll be a rich man next year, and we’ll have a good shot at being world champions.
By the start of the first game tomorrow, we’re surely gonna have the best-rested bullpen in the majors: going back to Thursday and including today’s rest day, that’ll be 4 relievers pitching 4 innings over 5 days.
That’s a beautiful thing going into a double-header :)
Great weekend Mets!! players only meeting seemed to have woken the boys up. Good for Ollie and Reyes, lets keep rolling.
I hope we can embarrass Atlanta too
Ollie had a different delivery yesterday, going straight back before coming home instead of to the 3rd base side. seemed he was more under control, balanced
he also kept his arm slot up for most of the game, there were maybe 2 pitches all game that he dropped down on, one was immediately following the HR, and you could see Schneider hold up the ball and his arm with his arm over his head. I hate when Ollie does that kind of stuff. Luckily, he didn’t revert to crazy Ollie there, and went back to dominating Ollie, but sometimes its that easy with him. Just throw over hand, don’t throw side arm like you think you’re able to, you can’t invent pitches.
Over all though, Perez had a good game because he dominates lefties, and the Yankees are incredibly lefty dominant. I”d like to see him do this against a more balanced line up before we gush all over him.
In the words of Plaxico, “Can somebody give “Church” some credit? He played a great game.”
Lots of people are giving Church credit. Just check out all the posts saying he’s this team’s MVP so far. Which he is.
There’s plenty of well-deserved man-love for Church around here. Thank God for Church!