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The Game:
The first place Mets (69-57) continue their three game against the Braves (56-70) tonight at Shea Stadium, starting at 7:10 pm.
The Lineup:
- SS Jose Reyes
- 2B Argenis Reyes
- 3B David Wright
- 1B Carlos Delgado
- CF Carlos Beltran
- LF Daniel Murphy
- RF Fernando Tatis
- C Brian Schneider
- P Mike Pelfrey
The Pitchers:
RHP Mike Pelfrey (11-8, 3.91 ERA) starts for the Mets.
RHP Jair Jurrjens (11-8, 3.15 ERA) starts for the Braves.
How To Catch It:
Tonight’s game can be seen locally on SNY and heard on WFAN.
The Bleachers:
For a live chat, head over to The Hot Foot Bleachers.
…enjoy, and as always, Let’s Go Mets…
As Harold just said – ‘This is an exciting ball club right now’.
Let’s Go Mets – keep it going, Pelf!
Bring ‘em on! I ain’t afraid of no Jrrr Jrrrjrns!
I would consider this our A lineup right now. Gotta keep the bats going. Hopefully Pelf can got out of the funk he’s been in lately.
he was good his last time out…
pelf was almost lights out last time
love this line up
anyone wanna take bets whos closing tonite?? i got feliciano
You can’t “close” with a ten run lead! ;)
But, if we do find ourselves in a save situation, you can bet it’s going to be situational. If there are lefties, it will be Feliciano. Righties or switch hitters = Heilman.
Oh wait — it’s Jurrjens. You definitely CAN close when the score is 2-1. Asking a lot of Pelfrey, but, you know — gotta believe, and such.
I got 20 on Heilman. lol
i was looking at the ticket brokers for the last game and i nearly crappedself 114 dollars for upper deck i was like “are these guys on crack???
*myself
Jerry is killing me with these lineups. Argenis Reyes in the 2-hole? Dude can barely keep his OBP above .300. Not the kind of hitter you want getting the 2nd most ABs. Let’s see Beltran or Murphy in that important lineup spot, not Castillo, Jr.
tpac what have u been smoking – a-rey has been getting the clutch hits that gets reyes in scoring position- there has been more hits and runs plays called since he’s been in the 2 hole
.306 OBP. bad, bad bad. a nice 8 hole hitter, maybe.
maybe we can pay jr gotti some cash to “deal with our castillio problem” ;)
larry jones is a lot easier to take when the braves are 12 games out…still hate him though
I’ve been thinking a lot about the Mets’ bullpen problems lately and I think the best solution might be to go out and get one of the bats that has cleared waivers, either Aubrey Huff or possibly Melvin Mora of the Orioles (have always liked Mora since his early Mets days). I love what the Mets have been getting from Murphy and Evans but I’m a bit worried they may be exposed once the scouting report gets out on them. Another quality bat can help take some stress off the pitching staff. Like the Al Reyes signing today, low risk high reward type of move……
Let’s go Mets!! Go Big Pelf!
Very nice, Pelfrey.
SI’DOWN LARRY!!!!
Nice work Pelfrey!
terrible in the 2 hole…i hate him
Sarcasm?
maybe a little
Sarcasm on a Metsblog? No way!
LoL.
You have to give A. Reyes credit here in the first. He’s trying to follow in J. Reyes’ footsteps with a Reyes run…..
How much do you think A. Reyes is praying Luis Castillo goes back to Florida? lol
i’m wondering how much jerry is praying luis goes to florida
Jerry and everyone here on Metsblog. lol
Come on Delgado!
Wow close hit by Muphy
DANNY BOY!!!!
WOOOOO BABY!! MURPPHHYYY!!!
Yes – Daniel !!!!!!!
LARRY! LARRY! LARRY!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHA – The Karma is ours tonight !!
Wow I’m so used to seeing the Mets do these mistakes the Braves are doing.
i got to look it up but i think the mets lead the MLB in 1st inning runs if not it seems they score everytime in the 1st!!
they lead the majors by a landslide
According to Gary, the only other team to beat them at that stat is the ‘85 Yankees.
Man, Murphy has some eye
LAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYY
C’mon Schnied, clear the pitcher!
HAHAHAHAHA!!! Fall apart Braves, Fall apart!
Ahhh, I love this Braves team. It makes me smile to see them playing great fundamental defense.
Even Pelfrey gets in on the act.
This just doesn’t get any better…..
wow
Oh man……
It’s our day when the pitcher gets an RBI single!!!
Is there anything better than watching the Braves implode.
anyone remember that sweep in atlanta back in may? me neither.
Sweep? What sweep? lol
i think the braves have a concussion.
how about the posters last night that had already pencilled in this series as another Brave’s sweep in about the 6th ot 7th inning?
you mean the posters that don’t show up unless the mets are losing, then berate everybody on the site who says anything good about the mets?
I guess that BP for Pelf Matt was talking about ealier payed off
all with 2 outs
And before you can blink, 5-0 Mets in the first.
Great job Mets, keep the pressure on!
cerrone did mention earlier how he thought pelf had a nice swing…
nice catch kid….
Murphy looking like a natural left fielder tonight. Nice catch.
nice catch wright!
there was an interesting stat on SNY last night.
Mets lead by a huge margin in run differentail in innings 1-3 (+107ish before yesterday).
But,. they are dead last in innings 7-9 (-57?)
Somehow, I don’t think a lot of Metsbloggers are going to be too surprised…
Oh, I think they were about average in the middle.
But, while having a solid BP is nice, at this point just outscore the other team and get the W, even if it means taking a 10-0 lead and holding on for a 10-9 win!
Mets flashing the leather
And no one does it better…
‘Flashing that leather’…..
1-2-3 – sit down, Atlanta.
I wanted to mention how natural Pelfrey looked at the plate, and how natural Murphy looks in left field.
Really great job by the Mets.
minaya bad luck as usual
hahaha – Omar in the booth on that third out:
‘Oh God, let’s get that’……
3 ex mets playing for the nats tonight
ANDERSON HERNANDEZ is batting .500 on the season guys. y did we trade him
FIRE OMAR! TRADING HIM WAS A DISGRACE!!! NOBODY HAS ANY HEART!
THIS TEAM HAS NO HEART AND NO FIRE!! FIRE WILLIE
LMFAO
The spirit of Willie lives on.
Who’s Willie? Name sounds vaguely familiar, but I can’t really place it….
Keep your foot on the Braves throats, Mets don’t let them up for air!
Binghamonton Lineup… F MART, Castillo Church. F MART is 2for 2 2 rbi
it is so comforting that omar isn’t as dumb as fans/ned yost when it comes to pitch count
Nice error LARRY!!!
Larry isn’t looking real good out in that field tonight, is he?
it’s karma from the david wright gold glove comments last year
No joke. Then again, I’m also not surprised.
Oh oh. looks like the old “get some quick runs, then try to get to our dinner reservations ASAP” Mets are coming back!
44 pitches for Jurjjens in inning 1, and he still may go 7 at this pace!
Disgusting but this is how teams get back into the game when the Mets stop scoring and the other team just keeps pecking away at the score and thus giving us heartattacks from the bullpen. lol
Omar Minaya’s an average GM. He’s done enough to keep his job, but he’ll get fired down the road. He’s had bright spots. Look at John Maine, Endy Chavez, Duaner Sanchez and other’s. You got to look at the bad ones too though. If they make the playoffs though, we won’t be questioning him as much.
As an Atlantan I can tell you no one down here cares anymore…they are comparing this team to a team from the late 80’s, Hope they go into a nice long slumber for say 20 years…Here’s to Mets fans taking down Turner in a couple weeks to fix the wrongs of that horrible may series
nice play kid
Very nice, Argenis.
Yup. Let’s get some revenge on the Astros who swept us too. The Mets should go out in style and win at Shea if more than anything else. Just look – nice play by Argenis.
Hmm. MLB . com has a piece on teh notes page about CHurch, that he may come back as a reserve with Tatis remaining the starter.
Maybe they will end up with a double platoon? If nothing else, it will make for some good bats on the bench, especially when the lefties don’t start in the field!
Got to send this umpire a thank you card after this game with his strikezone. It’s a breath of fresh air from the other airtight strikezones.
Man, how good is Pelfrey this second half? Give him a lot of credit for persevering when he probably thought, for the past year/18 months, he couldn’t buy a win up here in the big leagues.
I’ll also give the Mets offense some credit for scoring more than 2 runs in the 1st. lol
test
Yup. Jurrjens threw 30 pitches in the next 3 innings
I guess this TopDot is the new guiseppe franco. I do not approve.
no kidding…i am getting tired of the ron darling total package commercial too
Can’t even root for the Nationals, they are just awful. Not even a small favor of getting at least one win against the Phillies.
They are equal-opportunity suckers.
WRIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
David Wright is WRIGHT ON!
Goodbye – Da-Vid Wright!
I don’t trust those people at Sovereign Bank, they look evil.
Why bunt? Just roll over for the Mets.
cmon pelf
Wow, Chipper Jones talked to Kevin Burkhardt about meeting that dude in the clothing store who mentioned his encounter with Chipper in the Al Reyes thread.
Wow, dude. Wow.
that is pretty weird
Someone should tell Pelfrey he has a 6 – 1 lead, let’s not bring the Braves back into this ballgame.
come on Pelf, just get an out here
nice
Nice. Kid thinks on his feet out there.
There we go. Good play. How slow is McCann?
He actually stumbled a bit out of the box, but yea, he still is pretty darn slow.
Castillo doesn’t make that play
Nice play by Argenis Reyes and that was a pretty good sinker by Pelf to get that doubleplay.
Damn.
Damn it.
It wouldn’t be Mets baseball if we didn’t need to rely on the bullpen for the W.
What’s a Mets win without a few ulcers and a heartattack along the way?
Ah well…lets get some more runs.
Shoot
Ok Mets time to get those runs back.
Well, even Schneider makes mistakes. Kind of Pelfrey’s fault though. That run though can come back to bite us.
still up by 3…lets tack on some insurance
Even though he hasn’t pitched in that many games, Al Reyes numbers look like they’d actually be decent for the Mets bullpen. They’ll probably wait until Sept 1st, but calling up and optioning Stokes is an idea after the next time they use him for multiple innings and he’s not able to be used for a few days.
Pelfrey’s not throwing a bad game. See how much different all of us think of a pitcher’s peformance when the Mets offense is on? A lot of people on here were getting pissed at Oliver last night even though he threw a decent game. Hopefully he gets through another inning. They will probably actually pinch hit for him this inning though.
The Braves may suck, but their lineup still scares me
So let me get this straight….that guy is not actually wearing his cap, but he’s carrying it just in case two hotties happen to run up asking for directions so he can hide his hairline?
That’s just silly. I don’t blame Giuseppe for being disappointed in him.
how about the 85 year old man that’s trying to regrow his hair…at some point you just have to let it go…
No. Never. Not with Giuseppe on the job.
when you’re right…you’re right
Phils are up 4-0. Makes this win even more important if we can get it because we all know once Washington is losing, it’s over.
They lose once they get on the field.
I think we pretty much all know that once Washington is on the schedule, it’s over.
Did that guy have a Rockies hat? lol
No Keith, we don’t want to know what Brett Myers is doing, everyone looks like Cy Young against that team.
I see a great opportunity for cross-branding here….why does;nt that annoying chick keep redecorating her living room, and then when she realizes something his still off, she sends her husband to Giuseppe Franco to restore his hairline…all on her citibak credit card!
It’s a natural…might need to be a 60-second spot though.
Maybe a seperate feed should be set up for the commercials?
one request…can you work the hawaiin tropics restaraunt into the commercial? other than that it’s beautiful
Absolutely.
And Derek Jeter can drive the husband to Giuseppe’s salon in his Ford. Actually he might want to talk to Giuseppe himself.
it’s a work of art mr scorsese
6 pitches…nice
Nice economizing there, Pelf.
Next time the Mets players struggle and start kicking the ball around, threaten to trade them to the Nationals, that will get them playing better.
With Omar in charge, I think the threat that he’s scouting the Nationals is ever-present….
Well one more inning from Big Pelf and then one inning from the bullpen, I can take that.
Recipe for success going down the stretch. The starters gotta go deep in the game. Limit the BP sightings, keep them all fresh.
Then roll the dice on the set up man and 9th inning guy and hold our breath…..
Maybe Delgado will hit a home run here.
That trade for Bartolo Colon has to be one of his worst moves.
I think you have to put it in the context of a franchise that had a reasonable chance of being contracted. Why hold on to prospects?
I just wish the Mets had had something to give them to steal Sizemore and Lee at the time.
Well, yeah. Even at the time I doubted that would happen because that’s rare in the major sports in America/Canada. Plus, it would have screwed up the schedules. You still have to approach things as if it weren’t going to happen, but that is a weird position to be put in. I guess he went with the win now mode. Colon used to be awesome.
They all can’t be good.
Just throwing this out there but Anderson hernandez is 2-3
good for him, hope he can beat up some other teams to help the Mets.
I always liked Anderson, but how many 2nd basemen do we need? Since 2nd base isn’t the problem right now, and the BP/closer is, it was a decent trade – I think.
Yeah. It was a small one. I think picking up Al Reyes will be even better. Ayala’s thrown a lot this year, but he can contribute. Look at Mota in 06′. He had a 6.21 ERA in 38 appearances for the Indians. Than when he came to the Mets in like 18 appearances, he had a 1.00 ERA. Steroids do help though. I used to think that the Mets were in on knowing he used it, but if that were the case than Omar wouldn’t have been enough to give him 5 million over 2 year’s.
I here a lot of people talk about Omar loving Latin players. People don’t actually realize that he’s lived most of his life in America. He moved to Queens as a kid before most Dominican immigrants have. He’s acquired lots of Latin and non-Latin players and has had mixed results of success on both sides.
In my opinion though, I wouldn’t say so much that he has a preference towards Latin player’s. I believe he favors Dominican players. Not so much in terms of actually acquiring them, but giving them ridiculous contracts. Look at Pedro. 4 yr/53 MM. It looked good for a year and a half, but he knew he was old. Luis gets 4 years? How? Gullermo Mota. He’s even from the same city as Luis. Is Omar a dual citizen of both America and the D.R? Something tells me he likes making his countrymen rich. If the Mets weren’t getting screwed I wouldn’t have minded, but if the Mets don’t re-sign Oliver it has to make you think.
He also made an error that cost the Nats two runs…
That’s why we made the trade. Let him make some nice plays against the Phillies. He deserves a chance to play. When he was with the Mets, the question was always when he’d go back now. He’s not even a second basemen though. He’s a shortstop. He had pre-injury Rey Ordonez potential, but even he couldn’t hold up with the bat.
Pelf is cruising. Leave him in if he gets through this inning. (I have him on my fantasy team)
GO 9!!!!!!
LEAVE PELF IN GOD DAMN IT!!!
Love this umpire. lol With the way he calls strikes, he will help Pelf get an easy 9th.
Yea BIG PELF!!!!
Wow – 97 pitches to complete 8 innings. And he was barely the 5th starter on paper when they were coming out of spring training….
who woulda thought huh?…i can’t believe i’m actually thinking about getting a pelfrey jersey
BIG PELF !!
pelfrey starts the 9th with pedro warming up
great inning pelf….
Has anyone ever seen Giuseppe Franco and David Schwimmer in the same place at the same time?
nope…but i’ve also never seen him with ben stiller
The Mets sign Giuseppe Franco tomorrow….Rank ‘em:
_ John
_ Julio
_ Giuseppe
_ Matt
big pelf for the complete game??
Toyota text poll – Yes, please.
Do we want to see Pelfrey start the 9th? What kind of question is that. lol If there isn’t over 95 percent something is wrong. lol
nice call dude
if he can get Larry out, let him finish
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
YES !! Sit down, Larry.
LAAAAARRRRREEEEEEEE
LETS GO PELF!!!!!!!!!!!!
1 more out
Two outs!!!
one more boys…one more
Why does a guy cruise through 8 innings, and then when he hits the 9th everyone treats him like he’s got dynamite strapped to him?
Let him pitch!
See!
I take back my pelf to the pen idea. He is a dominant ace
Pelfry chasing Johan.
Come on Mike, you can do this.
Brilliant, just brilliant , Pelfrey !! Congrats !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woo – Hoo.
DONE AND DONE!!!!!!!!! NICE JOB BIG PELF!!!
book it!
Nice job Pelfrey and nice job Mets. Good game!
Just a tremendous outing…give him a lead, see you tomorrow Braves.
BIG PELF DA MAN
BIGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGPELFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Pelfrey’s awesome.
YES! Great game Pelf.
This was big for the pen. Made us breath easier too.
METS WIN great Job Big Pelf
BIG PELF!!!!!!!!!!!
we need to win these games because the nats are terrible
Two hours and eight minutes wow that’s a fast baseball game.
This is the kinda performance I like to see from the bullpen
LOL !!!
Great job Pelf!!! Damn I would kill to be at a 2 Hours 8 Minute game lol.
Especially one featuring a 10-batter, 5-run first! Those don’t usually go together!
Yea, that really was a crazy game.
seriously, I was half expecting this to turn into that Red Sox-Rangers game from last week. Glad it didn’t…
Let’s finish off the sweep by pummeling our old friend Mike Hampton!
8 out of 9. Let’s sweep them tomorrow.
They should rock Hampton tomorrow. They’ll have bigger worries seeing him hit.
Myers threw a cg sho too. Great Night BIG PELFFFFFFF
Yea lets pummel the crap out of Hampton aka Mr. School Systems tomorrow.
PELF is awesome!!! I’m looking like a genius for picking him up for my fantasy team when the season started.
if you were really a genius, you would have waited till June to pick him up ;)
I’m tired of hearing about Atlanta’s aura. They haven’t had an aura since 1999 (they’ve won exactly one playoff series since then, btw, none since 2001).
their aura never had anything to do with the postseason, it was all about how they owned us in the regular season, and that lasted until 2005. But I agree, the aura is long since gone. Now, it’s lose to them early in the season, beat them late. I’m fine with that.
I didn’t believe in pelfrey early in the season, and minus two outing against the marlins, this guy has been a second ace for this team and possibly the most important player on this team this year, because you knew what you were going to get from Santana, Pedro has been hurt, Maine and Perez have been above average (as expected).
But the emergence of Pelfrey has been huge!
The only the thing that scares me with him is that he already has one more inning pitched this year than at any time in his career.
Atlanta is missed the postseason 2 in the last 15 years so they do have a alot of aura
what?
Phils, Mets and Skanks all played just over 2 hr.
The Mets have to win tomorrow (I know they really don’t) but the Braves swept us 4 at their park and we need to return the favor. And I would love for them to blow them away this last game.
Let’s Go Mets
Mike Hampton will probably injure himself getting dressed before the game so don’t lose any sleep over it.
i’d rather have the mets beat his brains in and then have him take a tour of nyc public schools
BIG PELF!!!!!!!!
All of you Wille Randolph haters can thank him for the way Mike Pelfrey has turned into the type of pitcher the Mets hoped for when he was drafted. Big Pelf is going to be a staple in this rotation for many years to come and I, for one, can’t wait to see him mature.
It hink the Jacket had more to do with his development
i think*
come again?
SantanaCYY0ung means Rick Peterson. I completely acknowledge the type of impact Peterson had to have had on Pelfrey, but it was Randolph who certainly threw him into the fire and said ‘go get em kid.’
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and now al reyes is on the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why in the world are we talking about Willie or Peterson?? They’ve been gone for over 2 months now and we’re better off without them. Get over it.
Exactly. Willie and Rick are gone and that’s the way it should be. They should have gotten rid of the bullpen coach while they were at it. That was everything that’s wrong with this team.
The most simple and best thing I heard the Mets beat writer say all year was winning solves all the problems. Only two things matter at the end: Wins and Losses.
Willie – 34-35.
The Mets were .500 in June, July, August and September of last year. They were just about the same thing in the 69 games Willie and Rick coached this team this year. And with Willie and Rick, that record is the exact kind of team they looked like. Mediocrity.
Jerry Manuel and Dan Warthen on the other hand? 37-23. I’m pretty damn happy with that record. Especially considering how out we were at one point. We picked up like 5 games in 5 days in that 10 game win streak and than picked up 5 in 6 games in the previous six game win streak. Not just are they winning, but they’re winning when the Phillies are losing and they’re beating the Phillies. Aren’t we like 9-4 this year against them? Weren’t we like 3-15 against them last year? It’s amazing if you think about. All it would have taken is 5-13 against your rival. Pretty sad.
Screw Willie. Screw Dan. Let’s just all get it off our chest. Willie’s a dumb baseball coach. New York’s a rough city. You don’t get as much as heat as a 3rd base coach. He has thick skin. I give him that. He took it like a man. You always here how he’s a stand up guy and I believe he is. However, he couldn’t make us win. It’s one thing if you don’t got that much baseball intelligence, but when you can’t motivate your players that makes it twice as bad. Jerry’s getting thrown out of games and getting his players fired up. I just don’t want to see Omar Minaya pull a James Dolan by giving Jerry Manuel a Isiah Thomas type contract extension in the middle of the hunt to get into the playoffs. In made him lay off a bit getting that pressure of his shoulders.
I meant screw Rick* … Not Dan lol He’s done a good job. Rick was too egocentric. Wanted everything to be his project. He was here since 03′ with Art Howe who may have been the worse Mets manager in history. He said he could fix Victor Zambrano in 10 minutes. How stupid can you be?
I do think they could have handled the situation with Willie better. He didn’t deserve to be disrespected a person. He was a gentlement with this team. Sure, he made that one borderline comment – but good for him. Screw the New York media. Who the hell likes them?
Firing him at 3:11 or what ever time it was in the morning? I’m up at this time and I’d tell you it’s too late to be doing anything damn thing that’s important. Firing him during the middle of a road trip? Why fly him out there if you know you’re getting rid of him? Not too much later they fly Church out on a plane after getting his second bad concussion too. Bonehead moves. So they didn’t want to fire him on Father’s Day? Okay, I understand that. They said they made the decision to get rid of him on that Friday. He won 3 out of 4 before they got rid of him. The Mets didn’t handle that situation the right way and in my opinion they do owe Willie an apology. Willie’s as much of a good guy as he is a dumb coach. It was Omar’s fault to hire him and bring him back period in 08′.
Pelfrey’s at where he is because of himself. His success actually started coming around when Warthen came here, so it may be possible he’s the guy who did something. Honestly though, I don’t think it was anything coach. I think it was just Mike’s time. He’s matured. He’s taken the bumps and the bruises. When he wasn’t optioned and they chose him over Claudio when Pedro came back, his confidence was boosted because the Mets had more in him. Oliver’s consistency started developing with Jerry and Warthen too. It seems like everyone gets it together – except for the bullpen of course when this team is rolling. Even they’re starting to come around though. I won’t let that comment go to far though until I see some more solid outings.