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The Mets (35–36) defeated the Angels (43–30) by the score of 5 to 4 in 10 innings tonight in Anaheim.
Congratulations Jerry Manuel, on your first win as manager of the Mets.
For a recap, boxscore, stats, etc., go to SNY.tv.
- The Mets (specifically Jose Reyes) got out to a three-run lead, but back-to-back hits by Vladimir Guerrero and Torri Hunter in the fifth inning gave the Angels a lead that Francisco Rodriguez would eventually blow in the top of the ninth, as David Wright ripped a two-out single to drive in Reyes to tie the game.
- In the 10th, the calm and cool Damion Easley hit a solo home run to left field for the game’s deciding run.
- The Mets bench was alive as Easley returned to the dugout following his home run…giddy, would be another word that comes to mind.
- A Lets Go Mets chant broke out in Anaheim, amid the silent and stunned home crowd.
- The Mets had a base runner in every inning.
- Carlos Delgado hit his 10th home run of the year.
- Hunter’s RBI single in the fifth skipped just below the glove of a diving Reyes.
- Wright made a routine, yet exceptional play in the 10th to throw out the first batter of the inning.
- Jerry Manuel spends a lot of time looking in his binder, studying the field and talking one on one with his players, which is interesting to watch.
- Joe Smith, Scott Schoeneweis, Duaner Sanchez and Billy Wagner pitched four scoreless innings in relief.
- Lastly, Reyes played a sensational game tonight, which was nice to see following the previous game’s debacle.
The Mets are off tomorrow, but return to action on Friday against the Rockies in Colorado where John Maine will face Aaron Cook.
.500 here we come!
I am waiting.
.500 here we come!!
Absolutely the biggest win of the year, and this team is looking up taking two series in a row from some hard hitting AL teams. A day off tomorrow to help clear their heads and they head to Wright’s second home.
Feeling a lot better about this team right now.
A lot of people judge the team based on last night’s score.
Seems like it. Doom and gloom after every loss. Hope after every win. Reality is . . . .500.
Pretty much, but it would be nice if we be above .500 for a few games.
Hahaha…Check out the pregame thread starting around 00:40:00…Thats the top of the ninth inning….The complete change of tone from total negativity “This team is already on the plane to Colorado” to “Whooooo! Thats my team!” is classic.
exactly. it’s the bipolar blog. high highs and low lows. either everyone sucks or everyone is awesome. what can you do – it’s ny
Its not NY…Its Met fans, lol
Its not NY…Its Met fans lol
Uhhh… Wright’s play in the 10th was FAR from routine. GREAT FIGHT! GOOD FIGHT, GOOD NIGHT! LETS GO METS! JERRY THE OG!
I agree — that Wright play was absolutely tremendous. If you watch the replay, right as he was ready to barehand it it skipped to his right off the last hop, so he had to lunge to his right to make the barehand and then the throw (BTW, for all the stuff that’s gone wrong recently, I haven’t seen David airmail a throw in a while…just saying…).
If the ball glances off his hand, there’s a decent chance Kendrick winds up on second depending on how far it rolls. Totally different inning after the first out.
Nice to see Billy set ‘em down in order, though my heart skipped a bit on the Vlad fly ball, which was hit much shallower than I initially thought.
Didnt you give up on the team around the 7th and said the game was over???
Good thing we didn’t bench Reyes tonight, huh?
Some of the preachy overreactors on this site crack me up.
HAYOOJ win tonight!
Jerry will cut you with his blade, punk.
You were one of them, but you are pardoned for your funny retort!
I know, I did want to bench Reyes. Obviously it’s a good thing we did not as we would have lose and wins are most important here, however it makes me wonder if he truly learned his lesson or whether we’ll see something similar out of the kid in the future…
Learned his lesson how, if he says his body is fine, I don’t want him just taking orders to go sit.
Looked fine last night.
So awesome, I’m so giddy about this team right now after this win. I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but I really feel as giddy as I felt the first day of ST, with all the buzz around the team given the Johan trade was supposed to rejuvinate this team. I hope we can build off this. Again, don’t want to spam, just trying to gauge the interest and get some Metsbloggers together at a game.
I know this is a little off-topic, but I bought a huge lot of 100 tix to the Mets Rockies Sunday night game on July 13th- the last game before the All-Star Break. Game will be on ESPN Sunday Night- this should be more reason to go as you will not have to listen to Morgan and Miller announcing the game if you’re there live.
Anyways, I got the seats in the bleachers, the bleacher tickets run for 42 bucks face value (can you believe that?!?!). I want to sell them at face, I’m not trying to make a profit, I just wanna see a game in the bleachers at Shea with some like-minded Mets fans, so I figured I’d extend an open invite to any Metsbloggers to grab a ticket or four at face value for this game. I figure I’ll get there real early, tailgate all afternoon, then go in at around 4-5 for BP, catch a few homers in the stands before the game, then see a Sunday night game in the bleachers at Shea. If you’d be interested, e-mail me at
drello @ syr . edu
where are all those who were freaking out last night about the one loss under the new Manuel regime? I will not make the mistake many of my fellow met fans did last night in overreacting after one game, but this game showed us that this team is capable of coming from behind late in the game. This was a great game to watch and it was worth the sleepy feeling i will have to endure tomorrow.
Nice work David, and great job by Easley….quick question, is it me or does Chone Figgins look like a younger willie? Erie that picture on the mets home page with Jose and Figgins in the background…
It’s not you — Chone Figgins looks like a young Willie.
what an awesome win. dwright hit a ball that was nowhere NEAR a strike. On K-rod not to mention. what a comeback… LETS GO METS! LETS’ GO METS!
did i mention we just took a series from one of the 4 best teams in MLB in their park?
and using American League rules
Wow, I gave up on this game in the 7th. Has this team finally turned a corner, or are they teasing me again?
goes to show that the people in here are crazy….
Gangsters believe in this team…Ladies Whine on this Blog.
LETS GO METS!
HUGE win! just what we need to boost the confidence of this team and get them going. congrats jerry. keep the momentum going. rest up tomorrow gangstas and go out and cut some rockies! LETS GO METS!!!!!
i will be convinced if they can take 5 out of the next 6. they have to start beating the teams they should.
Huge win clearly biggest win of the year and yes congrats to Jerry Manuel and all of the new coaching staff
that will be clear when they do not lose on Friday night, I have heard that biggest win of the year thing about 3 dozens times since last August, the Braves series, this game, that game, big game, followed by a lose or a crappy series.
The Mets better take 2 out of 3 in Colorado, and they have a tall order on Friday.
Surely you mean Jerold M. after that win?
:-)
anyone know when fernando is due back?
A small contingent from My LA Mets fan group was at the game.
We were the ones who started the “spontaneous” Lets Go Mets chants you can hear in the 9th and 10th inning. We also started a “Jose Jose Jose” chant, but I havent confirmed yet if was heard on the broadcast
You can see pics here:
mets.meetup.com/17/photos
nice..
I was there, too — thanks to StubHub and a tax refund, I had seats 5 rows behind the Mets’ dugout with my wife and our kids. And, we were making some noise of our own..all in all, it was a great night for baseball, if you were wearing Blue & Orange!
Thank you, Mike Pelfrey — you made my son’s night complete by giving him a ball in the middle of the 9th inning.
Thank you, Endy Chavez — it was great that you took an extra minute after stretching to autograph my daughter’s orange Mets cap.
Under Willie, the Mets lose this game. He’d have taken OP out in the fifth and used four or five pitchers to finish, any one or all of them who could’ve (and probably would’ve) blown up.
Instead, Jerry let OP work his way out of the jam and got another inning out of him. That’s a HUGE development, guys.
I should’ve said, “used four or five pitchers to pitch the fifth and sixth innings, etc.”
yes, you should have, because Manuel managed the game exactly as Randolph did, and Reyes, Wright and some good fortune saved the Mets ass.
Manuel managed exactly as Randolph did, except he was Jerry Manuel, not Willie Randolph. Randolph lost this team, especially Jose Reyes, who seemed more focused last night than I’ve seen in a while. X’s and O’s, maybe Manuel followed the book as Randolph would have, but Randolph being gone was addition by subtraction for this listless team that gave up after 7 innings every night. They have their fight back, next up, their swagger.
Are you saying Randolph would have left Perez in to finish the 5th?
I have been a Randolph defender, but NFW.
And the win was earned. The first couple of runs were scored on outs, delcrappo went deep, and they hit some hard balls all night. In fact, with a little luck they would have won going away.
A nice win with a still depleted roster over a good team. For me, this next series will be very telling. They need to show some life against teams that are worse than they are. It will be frustrating if they lay down in Colorado.
Maybe all the talk will turn to baseball again, then church returns in NY.
he left him in the last two times in those spots until he hit the magic 100 mark, just like when Jerry took him out
He pretty much cruised last outing, I can’t recall the one before that, you may be correct I would have to check.
I always felt Randolph gave him the hook too early in those situations. Not so much to the detriment of the team, but to OP himself. Not a knock on Willie, he was trying to win games. We’ve seen this before from OP, a good 4 innings and unable to finish the 5th. It could have gone real bad there, but I felt Manuel was going to leave him out there no matter what for a change. This guy is going to ask for 10 mil+ next year, he has to learn to survive past the 5th even when he coughs up the lead.
no disagreement that Randolph had gotten in a pattern of quick hooks and frankly no disagreement that Willie is gone, I am just very skeptical that Manuel was a successful choice, often times teams do this and the result is temporary euphoria that can be followed by the folly of granting a long term position…
In 1990 that is the mistake the Mets made with Bud Harrelson.
And lets just say be some miracle the Mets turn it on and get to the playoffs, chances are they do not win it all, and you are stuck with the strange notion of either canning Manuel who did exactly what the Mets were craving get to the playoffs, or sticking with a guy who is likely to follow the same exact path as Randolph.
The more I have considered it, I guess I would have been fine with Manuel ascending as long as he was last man standing, ie get rid of DoDo and Alomar too, so at least Manuel can lean on the new coaches to change the tenor of the conversation long term.
History says this is a window dressing move, that can create more problems than answers.
Would love to be wrong.
Anyone who thinks Randolph woulda let OP pitch out of that mess in the 5th is on drugs. You watch: this new regime will have a much slower hook with the SPs.
Regarding Jerry looking through that notebook throughout the game: It’s also nice to see a manager consulting something other than “his gut.” Knowledge is power, something Willie didn’t seem to understand.
well of course they will, Jerry knows he’s not getting fired
Willie always managed to win the game
Jerry gets to manage 2 ways: to win the game, and with nothing to lose
having nothing to lose is always great, its how the Giants won the superbowl…
If you are going to give Jerry this credit for his notebook of things, do you also say its nice to see Delgado doing the same, as he always does…no you’ll bash Delgado for it.
also didnt Ollie give up 3 in the 6th? maybe he shoulda puleld him….just saying.
no, he gave up the three runs in the fifth and had a clean 6th
Should “Gangsta’s Paradise” be their theme song? Is Coolio gonna be pissed at Weird Al AND the Mets for it?
Reyes will be 1000x’s better with Willie gone. No way Reyes busts his butt to 2nd on a pop up to short with Willie still around.
or was it just as much Peterson’s advice as well
Thank you Jose Reyes for playing with some passion, you probably will fall back into a funk once you think the manager has forgotten about how you pissed him off….but…hopefully theres a winning streak in there while you are still trying
DWright…first clutch hit in months, welcome back
Everyone else, they played exactly as they have all year, the pen (save Heilman) has been stellar all year, its just when they are not “on” they are reall really really really off. Ollie had his typical start, great for most of the game and a really bag inning
and of course need to mention…only 40 comments so far? it wouldve been 400 if the mets lost.
Jerry Manuel has impressed me with the way he is handling himself and the team in the early going of his interim manager status. Jerry is a winner and he is going to take this team to that championship. He may be laid back similar to willie, but unlike willie he will tolerate no crap. It seems like he has the respect of the players young and old and it is exciting again to be a fan of this team. Lets go to Colorado and sweep the rockies. Go mets……
Nice, I went to bed after the 7th. Nice to see them pull it out. I’m sure if I had stayed up they would have lost.
It’s great that the mets got the win last night, because it shows that they might be able to win with Jerry Manuel. Reyes, Easley, and Delgado had great nights.
This game was a big one for the mets. They needed to get on the right foot before they head off to Colorado to face the rockies. Reyes, Easley, and Delgado had a great night, and getting runners on in every inning is something. That means that this team wants to win.
Big, Big WIN for the Mets. I love how there are so many fewer comments on the site after a great win as opposed to the idiot fans that give up on their team on a weekly basis. Have some pride that your a Mets fan and support the boys no matter what.
LETS GO METS! Plenty of time….philly better check themselves
Matt, you forgot to mention the 5-2-4-6-5 double play
It’s funny, I remember the Colorado series last year as the exact point that I knew something was very wrong with this team. They had been swept by Philly and the Dodgers earlier in the season, but I chalked that up to some bad breaks and a temporary funk. Right before the series in Colorado, they had won 8 of 10 or something like that, including 3 of 4 in Philly. Then they got hammered by the Rockies, who I believe were nearly in last place at the time. I mean lit up the whole series and they looked lifeless. I’m hoping this weekend marks the official end of the one year funk they have been in, that these guys come to play against the defending champs, depleted as they might be, with a chip on their collective shoulders. If there is a time to get some momentum and get this thing turned around, the opportunity is this weekend.