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The Mets (40–41) defeated the Yankees (44–38) by the score of 3 to 1 in Shea Stadium.
The Mets won four of the six games played between the two teams this season.
For a recap, boxscore, stats, etc., go to SNY.tv.
…i just got in from the game…oooh, boy, talk about traffic…
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The Mets will begin a four-game series against the Cardinals tomorrow at 7 pm, with John Maine (8-5, 3.73 ERA) taking on Kyle Lohse (9-2, 3.94 ERA).
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Ollie is so strange in the way he approaches games. He’ll be lights out in the biggest games of the year (Braves, Yanks, playoffs, etc) but completely unravels against lesser teams.
Can we hire this guy a personal headshrink to help him understand that he needs to get up and concentrate EVERY time he pitches?
Great Game.
Is Carlos “Eddie Murray” Delgado ducking the media again? He hits a monster HR and I didn’t see him interviewed after the game. Just saw the same cast – Wright, Beltran, Wagner, pitcher and catcher.
You would think with the HR and the win in the subway series people might like to hear what he has to say.
He said-The pitch was in the strike zone so I hit it as far as I could,
He then said-I need to hit better
The team needs to play better
Reyes Made the error but Delgado could have caught that ball.
Great game.
Perez is the most enigmatic thing I’ve seen in an orange and blue uniform.
Delgado can still destroy the ball but cant hit an inside pitch (eg- bottom 9th last night)
So we played a great game with timely hiting and good pitching..
Blowout loss tomorrow? Just kidding…
But not really.
Oliver Perez: Just let me get out of this inning.
Oliver Perez’ Focus: No. I’m going to do the funny dance on your forehead.
Oliver Perez: Whatever ‘Focus,’ I am not scared.
Oliver Perez’ Focus: Go ahead, don’t walk six guys in a row during the playoffs.
Ron: And once again he has lost his composure and the Mets are blown out.
Captain Hook: Argh! They only hired me for marketing purposes and the cool way ‘hook,’ is part of my name. Nevertheless, Oliver you get the hook.
Keith: And it appears that Captain Hook–now filling in for Warthon on Perez days–has taken him out…. I am huge Captain Hook fan. He really has aged well.
Gary: He does look good.
Funny…?
I don’t think I’m the only one when i say this but…
huh?
people have to get off reyes’ case. i heard some people on the fan saying reyes was not fulfilling his talent.
fulfilling his talent? we have a shortstop who is on pace to bat .300, and get 40 doubles, 15 triples, 18 homers, 70 rbis, 60 steals, and 122 runs. is jose the most mature player in the world? no, but neither were strawberry and hernandez when they went out and got smashed the night before day games. ill live with 5-7 temper tantrums per year if he puts up those numbers.
I’m seldom on his case, and I’ll take those numbers any day, but he does have the ability to be even better. He is a superstar with a bit more focus in key spots.
Seconded
No, we should NOT get off Reyes’ case.
He’s a pouty, tempermental idiot.
Just because he’s talented doesn’t give him a pass. And don’t wave his stats in my face, I still remember very bitterly the 2nd half last season during the choke when he basically gave up. Who’s to say he won’t do it again this season if Manuel looks at him crosswise and hurts his widdle feelings?
Get a life. If he doesn’t get upset he’s “not fired up”. If he does he’s “temperamental”. REALITY CHECK: the Mets are inconsistent / crappy because their 5-9 hitters can’t hit their way out of a paper bag.
need a tissue bro?
or perhaps a nice hankee?
I had to miss most of the game but I’m hearing a lot of upset people on the radio regarding something Reyes did. Can someone please fill me in on what happened?
he threw a ball high to first and slammed his glove onto the ground.
Maybe Delgado should have made half an effort and actually caught the ball…..Jose should have thrown the glove at Delgado
So Wright should’ve thrown his bat at Reyes for stupidly getting caught off 2nd in the saturday game?
I love how if David Wright does this, he is only showing emotion. Since he is our golden boy who can do no wrong. If god forbid, Jose ever goes through a slump like David went through from oh… the second week or april up until.. 4 days ago, he would be burned alive. Or if Jose made the error on Bloomquist to let Felix hit a grandslam, the media would have been all over it. The fact is, Beltran and Reyes have been our best players for most of the year, while Wright has honestly been horrible at the plate for the majority of the year, looking more like the back side of a platoon then the all star he is, yet Beltran and Reyes take all the heat and not one ounce of blame or criticism is thrown Wrights way. I love the kid, but how come when Reyes chases a slider in the dirt or pops up, he is some immature baby who doesnt play the game right. But when Wright waves at that slider and K’s for the 100th time, he is just slumping, he is sure to bust out. They both are great players, and they both certainly have their flaws, but this year Reyes has been easily the better player. and he is the one being bashed. Wright is great, but these guys both have flaws in their game and we hold them to different standards. The real joke of it is, so does the media in NY. Wright can do no wrong while Jose is a whiney baby who acts like a brat. But when he is cool and calm, he has no heart. Some kind of hypocritical fan base I would say.
Are people really serious getting on Reyes case. The guy made an error and was ticked off. what he cant show some emotion. Reyes just needs to keep on tearing it up.
Seriously, people were on him for not caring before, now he shows that fire and he’s immature? No wonder so many young stars have fizzled in the lights of Shea, you really can’t win.
Nice game though, Ollie had his big game form on.. maybe he should only be allowed to pitch against the yanks, braves, and phillies? Nice to see Delgado breaking scoreboards, but he’s sort of all or nothing right now.
this was a nice game but easily could have been a 6-1 or 7-1 win if there was some timely hitting. But perez was awesome, and it’s nice to see that they are letting him pitch from where he wants to instead of pitching from where they tell him to. If he feels more comfortable from there, then it’s best for him.
Honestly, I’d rather de;gado go 2-4 that with a couple doubles 1-4 with a homer. But, at this point you’ll take what you get from him.
Hopefully the pitching will remain good besides a poor pedro start, going into the cards and phillies series. Both teams can hit, and the cardinals have some decent pitching, but can be shaken up. The phillies have hamels, and that’s about it. So this is where we find out where this team will be, either out of it or in it til the end.
huh? you’d rather have a guy hit doubles than home runs? you do realize that a home run automatically scores a run for the team with one swing of the bat, and a double doesn’t, right?
Ihis point was that it is better for delgado to hit more consistantly with a few less homeruns than 230 with alot of homeruns
Hitting the homers will make pitchers fear him a little, which can only help the lineup.
that ‘fear’ works for the Sultan of Shot. No reason it can’t work for Delgado.
what i’m trying to say is, that a higher aveage would help the lineup more than being and ultimate power threat around .200. Yes, the fear of a guy hitting one over the wall is emense, but, you can put the fear into the pitcher that, if he even leaves a pitch barely off the corner I can be in some trouble.
This team has a hard time sustaining rallies, and a higher average would include more hits which would also get the pitcher to throw out of the stretch, some pitchers have no confidence in the stretch. For example, perez was wild when first going into the stretch today, it can really change the way a pitcher pitches.
Ollie to the Sox or Rays. They need to beat the Yankees and we have just the guy.
Maybe the Mets can re-acquire Kazmir. LOL! But before reading your post, I thought the same exact thing. He is obviously a Yankee killer. Why not trade him, while he has the Yankees number? The Mets can receive some good prospects. Both the Rays and the Red Sox have strong farm systems. Why not?
Because you don’t just trade your number 4 starter with absolutely no replacement for him. Especially when you are trying to compete. Especially when the guy has very low value. Especially when he will net us a draft pick(s) during the winter. Not worth it unless youg get really blown away, which they wont.
Yeah, only the Rays and Sox both dont “have” to beat the Yankees. The Yankees arent as good as either one of those teams… and they are pretty much an afterthought.
Delgado can’t go out on this roadtrip and go 3 for 35
He will.
how bout ollie and castillo and feliciano for cano. The yankees need a ptcher and a lefty out of the balloen. we get to unload cano. its perfect
Aren’t the Yankees concerned about “youth” now?
Really and replace the rotation and pen with what
Showingwise (unsure about the spelling) and niese, vargas or whatever. our 5th starter couldn’t be worse tehn perez was so far
Good God, are you serious…
cmon dude showingwise….have you watched one game this season? they show his name every time he pitches
Yeah, I think it’s hyphenated, “showing-wise.”
Schoeneweis….is that it? hell I don’t know either.
I do know Saltalamacchia.
Great job Mets! This is what the fans want to see, strong effort and
great results. GO METS!!!
The problem is I’ve had the same reaction only to see them loose 2 out of 3 the next series
Fortunately, that wont happen. It’s a four game series! :)
Hey i saw the game, but didnt see Reyes get pissed about the error, but was he staring down Delgado after it happened? Thats what theyre saying on the radio
I saw the play. After they called the error on Reyes, which was on the heels of the solo HR Perez gave up and should have been the 3rd out, Manual (or was it pitching coach?) went out to the mound probably to tell Perez just get this last out. At that point, after the error was scored to Reyes, he either threw his mitt and glasses to the ground or just dropped them, standing there with his hands on his hips, clearly annoyed.
Then, went Ollie did get the 3rd out, he walked (not jogged like the rest of the team) off the field. Hard to tell if he was pissed at himself or Delgado for not getting his high throw but he was clearly pissed. One of his little temper tantrums we see from him occasionally……
Correct me if I’m wrong but all Delgado does is hit mistakes out of the ballpark. That pitch today by Rasner was right down broadway. If it’s not right down the middle he might get lucky n snag a hit but he’ll most likely make an out.
Absolutely. He can take a bad pitcher deep, but any pitcher with any kind of stuff at all and he’s an automatic out.
You’re right, but are you not describing just about every ballplayer?
No cause good players can take a good pitch and hit it out. Delgado can only hit mistakes and that’s it.
If those mistakes are resulting in runs then keep it up!
At 25, Reyes is now roughly at the average age for a rookie. I pulled that statistic out of nowhere, but it sounds right, give or take a year.
He definitely needs to mature. But he still has time to do that. I just like seeing him play well, which he certainly has been doing.
Years in the game mean something. He’s not a rookie anymore.
I don’t think they make as much difference as people would think. If he were a rookie now, he’d have spent the past five or six years in the minors / college / high school / leagues outside the US.
In other words, he’d still be playing baseball. So a rookie at 25 has about the same amount of season experience as Reyes. Not quite, obviously, and the majors are unique.
But while Jose should be more mature by now, he gets more leniency in my book than a 30 year old who was a rookie at 24, or whatever the equivalent would be for a guy who came up 4 or 5 years older.
it’s better than a pitcher going after the GM. well, maybe not. maybe Omar needs a little shaking up. this stuff happens. it’s no big deal. delgado is a veteran. he will not let this blow up.
no game at this point is a must win, but I think tomorrow is a very important game. starting a 8 game road trip against 2 good teams and armas jr. pitching tuesday, it would be nice to start off with a win.
It was a great performance all around. I live for days like this.
philthies are down 5-1 in the 8th… if philly cant pull off the unlikely comeback, were only 3 games out!
Philies losing 5-1 in the 9th
3 games out now. philly lost. lets have a good road trip and come back in 1st
I’m gonna love to see where this team is at after the Cardinals & Phillies series.
this week could make or break the season. A 5-2 against these two teams and we’ll be in a good spot starting the break. 2-5 could keep us at arm’s length for a while.
You know who would be great for 1st base and probalbly available abrey huff.
He has a great slugging percentage and is underrated
I don’t know if this team will go out and get stickly a first baseman. They’re too scared of Delgado because you know Delgado wants no part of a platoon.
*strictly
Who cares what Delgado “wants” ? It’s not his call. He’s not the manager or GM.
Nice game today.
First off, ollie. What a performance, that strikeout of Arod was a thing of beauty. Its only one start under warthen, (i won’t count the first one as warthen wasn’t here that long), but i can see a difference in ollie already. Warthen is letting perez go out there and throw, not holding him back. Remember perez did have that one good year with pitt throwing this way, however his delivery was a mess. Maybe warthen can find the right combination and keep ollie on track.
Time will tell how this will all work out, but so far so good. If ollie can stay consistently in the 92-94 mph range as he was today he has a chance to be very good in games because he has that nasty slider as well.
As for the offense, would have liked to get more runs. However the 12 hits was encouraging. Good game for church again,I’d still prefer church in front of delgado or in the 2 hole. He needs to be somewhere in the first 5 hitters. But itll be intresting to watch this lineup now, remember before church got hurt, reyes, beltran, and wright were struggling somewhat, now with all 3 seemingly back on track, and delgado and castillo somewhat contributing we’ll see what we can do.
Phils lost again, 3 games out. Make or break road trip, we’ll find out alot about this team coming up. Good test tommarow night against loshe.
That one year (2004) wasn’t just good, it was “ace” material.
Yes, absolutely dominant. Then the Pirates messed all around with his mechanics, fearing he would be injured. Oddly enough, he was injured after they tweaked his delivery. I think that Oliver might get a little crazy sometimes, but you are probably just better off giving him a bit of a gameplan and then letting him do his thing out there. He had an extra 2-3 mph on his heat today, and nice location. He did look different on the mound, rocking back and getting all his momentum going forward, as opposed to going side to side. I am sure thats where the extra velocity came from. Good for Ollie, I am sticking by my story, he will be fine and play a big role in our run to the world series. Atleast I dont have to hear every idiot in NY talk about how we should trade Oliver for anything they can get, which is about as stupid an idea as there is, though who said NY’ers were smart. On a whole, sadly, we arent so smart. It is amazing how NY fans get some kind of credit for being the “best fans in the world” (I am sure this idea came from a new yorker), but as a whole we are just a bunch of stupid whiny babies who feel like we are owed something that we arent, and want to release all our players at one point in a season on some knee jerk reaction.
Yeah, his slider was nasssssty today.
who was a bigger baby, Gregg Jefferies or Jose Reyes?
Please don’t ever compare Reyes to Jefferies, ever.
Jeffries: Don’t compare me to you.
Reyes: Why would I do that?
Jeffries: Don’t compare me to you.
Reyes: I do say …. this is pure bloody rubbish.
Jeffries: why are you talking British-like?
Reyes: I’m confusing you right back.
Dude, I don’t know what you’re on, but I want some.
We can smoke any time Tina.
Reyes is no Jefferies.
The difference? At least this year, Jose is able to forget about a tantrum a few minutes later.
Gregg would get upset about one call / swing / play and be done for the day.
who is a better first baseman, Carlos Delgado or my mother-in-law? I can understand what Reyes was thinking. There is no other first baseman so inept as to not make that miniscule stretch and get that out. Agreed, Reyes should internalize his disgust a little. But a point I’ve been making from time to time is that it can’t bejust the fans who know that Delgado is hurting the Mets. The players have to know it too and it has got to be killing them.
I didn’t see the play but, from what I heard, Reyes showed up Delgado on the field. That’s a no-no. I heard Howie Rose was really upset at Reyes for his immaturity. I respect Howie and Reyes has shown in the past to be immature to the team’s detriment.
Give it a rest with the mother-in-law jokes. How about Reyes not air mailing a routine throw. Also, how about all the bad DWright throws that Delgado has bailed him out of. That home run was useful today, too. There’s plenty to criticize. You don’t have to fabricate reasons.
Why are many people lowering their discourse to the WFAN disinformation machine? It’s bad enough with the two matinee clowns; it’s bad enough that “the Bull—” a sad little Cubbies fan from Brooklyn devoted his show to “praising” Reyes as he backstabbed him over and over again. Reyes is not perfect. But he’s damn fuggin’ good. Few remember, but as an old fart, a big chunk of the Mets fan base in another era demanded that Nolan Ryan be traded. They got their bloody wish.
Mike and The Mad Dog Live:
Russo: Next up we are live with obscure gangster and fertilizer referencing Jerry Emanuel.
Russo: … but first folks… did you know that Crocs(r) are out of style in favor of flip-flops this year? The new Mets 2008 official flip-flops highlight the type of year we are having. Buy them online or at Modells. … back in two …
Russo … welcome back…. Jerry… welcome to show.
Mike is back from “eh-hem … vacation.”
Mike: Jerry, you realize that I have a show on NBC and this is nonsense to me and I’m doing you a favor by being here right?
Jerry: I understand that.
Russo: Jerry what are you doing differently?
Jerry: You know I’ve cut down on shaving rules and decided to look up online the roles that our relief staff is supposed to have. I declared that most of them really should view themselves that way.
Mike: That’s all nonsense.
Jerry: Omar is giving “how to speak at a press conference lessons.” I am taking those to learn how to speak more confusingly and perhaps scare the team by being annoying and scary talking. I want to combine the gangster talk with some Omar press conference-like nonsensical material. I’m thinking … be more like Ozzie Guillen.
Mike: That is the trendy way to get through to a team.
Russo: I have to agree with you there.
Mike: SHUT THE F*** UP dog.
Russo: Fine. I won’t ask you how you’re doing on the air again tomorrow.
Mike: [Cries].
Tony Benazard: [Laughs with evil smirk from office].
What bugs me out about this team is the degree to which the moniker “even steven” would be appropriate.
They have won 40 games and lost 41. They have scored 378 runs, while allowing 379. They are 22-18 at home, and nearly the exact opposite on the road (18-23).
Hears to hoping for a better second half, though most of us probably should concede that we’ll probably go 41-40, to “even out” our first half record.
2-2 this weekend is a disappointment. They held the pitching edge in 3/4 games.
It very easily could have been worse. Who knew which Ollie would show up today. But that’s why you’re “NegativeFan.”
Johan will pitch better and we’ll get him some support his next start; I think Maine pitches tomorrow – I think he’ll have a good game. Delgado will hit 4 more HRs and drive in 16 before the All-Star break.
I’ll take 2-2 with the Cards so long as we take 3-4 from the Phills.
3/4 from Philly is a must. If they do what I expect them to do and choke as usual and lose 3/4 to the Phils, Omar needs to destroy this team at the deadline
So they’ll be even worse and you can complain more?
You’re piquing my curiosity. Tell me more.
I don’t understand how the mets could’t win 3 of 4 from both of these teams. Yes 3 of 4 from the cards will be hard, but you never know what armas might actually bring to the table.
And so far this season, the mets beat the phillies in philly in a 3 game series. Plus it’s not like the phillies pitching will shut the mets down especially if they throw Myers and Eaton at the mets, even though Eaton kills the mets.
That team in philly isn’t the best team in the NL East like so many others claim to be the best.
So, you are predicting 3-4 from St. Louis AND 3-4 from Philly?
Actually I think they can do it if delgado is still smacking the ball around and if pedro fixed whatever was wrong vs the yankees. Maine will be solid as usual and it on either pedro or armas. Pelfrey will also pitch well and I feel comfortable with him in the rotation now. Plus according to the mets website, the cards haven’t announced a starter for the third game vs pedro. I like their chances.
Going to the game on thursday in St. Louis. Really need to split this sereis, I just hope that this is one of (at least) two they can win.
I will be at all four games here in STL. Looking forward to it.
We’re going to kick Kyle Loshe’s scrawny little midwestern butt all over St. Louie. How dare he rebuke a multi-year contract from the Mets for a one year contract from the Cards? He needs to be taught a lessen in NL East humility.
I hope you’re right. The battle of the overrated/underperforming Met offense versus the underrated/overperforming Cardinal starters will be illuminating.
I thought the Mets offered Lohse a 1 year deal? Lohse sucks, we had better kick his ass tonight.
Big fan of Warthen changing things up already. switching up the pitching rotation for the Philly series. Phillies series will be Santana, Maine, Perez and Pedro Martinez. Perez is even coming out of the pen against st. louis. good stuff lets see how it works.
I got a feeling Pedro is gonna get lit up by Philly.
be optimistic.
I saw that too. To be honest though, I would have liked to see Pelfrey in there instead of Pedro, who doesn’t really have my faith right now. I think the way he is throwing, Pelfrey can be successful against an aggressive Phillies lineup. In addition, as presently constructed, we are throwing 4 fly ball pitchers at CBP, which we all know is not the recipe for success. Pelf is a ground ball pitcher, and would provide a different look.
I do like how Warthen has decided to split Perez up by putting Maine in between. Ollie is scheduled to pitch in a relief role on Thursday in order to get some work in, and be ready for his start on Sunday.
Good point , with that park its going to be rough. Pedro should be workin his stuff out against st. louis, but they might be thinking that they have part of his issues worked out. They still have some faith in him in a big spot. Pelfry is pitching well it is still smart to ease him in a little though and games against philly are as big as they get. Lets hope it works out. Its nice to see them trying different things. Lets Go Mets
The funniest part of the game for me …
when Perez fell like he got hit in the head by the pitch (at bat) and the catcher and umpire were looking at him like “dude,” it did not hit you.
Second funniest was the sarcastic look from A-rod after Bet-a-mint’s homerun. It was a look of, “sure, sure, riiiight.”
My biggest double-take of the day: Firstbase now starring Jorge Posada. I guess they weren’t impressed when his throw to second on Reyes bottomed out just past the mound yesterday.
Biggest disappointment of the day: the game of the week (espn) was the sox/cubs again. We were already subjected to them during the rain delay.
Best Maple bat of the day/week: Delgado.
Funniest thing all week: NYY calling up Kei Igawa–play him once in a blowout–just to spite/embarrass him and to say to the fans .. hey look sometimes we all mess up. Then they optioned him.
Evil stare 1: Tony Bernazard being interviewed.
Evil stare 2 (plus possible ominous laugh): I think Citifield is giving Shea a dirty look. “how does it feel to be coming down soon ah ha ha.”
Boy; some of you met fans sounding off on the team are never satisfied. I would guess the only thing that would appease the fans who are thirsty for blood, would be to sacrifice the players to the hungry lions. like in the roman coliseum, some fans are always pointing thumbs down, no matter what their favorite gladiators do. Maybe the Mets should win 162 games every year, 4 to 5 no hitters and 4 to 5 home runs every game. WOW! I still think there would be fans who would complain…