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During last night’s 9 to 6 loss to the Cubs, the Mets wasted numerous opportunities to score, including in the bottom of the ninth when David Wright struck out with a runner on third and no outs.
Wright, on his last at-bat, speaking to reporters after the game:
“I got the pitches I wanted to hit. I put the swings I wanted to put on. I fouled some pitches off that I should have put in play. He made a good 3-2 pitch, but I went up there with a good plan and a good mindset. I put some good swings on, but just didn’t get the results I wanted to get.”
Wright, on the missed opportunity to gain ground on the Phillies:
“Obviously, it’s a situation where we wanted to win, but despite what Philadelphia does or Milwaukee does, we still want to win. It doesn’t make it any easier when they lose. We had an opportunity to win and we didn’t do it.”
In 69 opportunities this season with a runner on third and less than two outs, Wright has brought home the runner 52% of the time.
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Get ‘em next time…I guess.
LETS GO METS!
I was so f***in infuriated with the Mets last night that I actually rooted for the Cubs the last inning. After failing to bring in that runner from 3rd with no outs the Mets needed to feel the sting of this game. Maybe they’ll play better ball tonight, but I never cursed my TV so much in my life and got so pissed where I just said “F**k em, I want to see them get shutdown 123 in the last inning, just so they can feel this loss 10 times more”
Seriously, he made a good 3-2 pitch? Good grief.
Oh Captain my Captain.
Turd Burglar.
He was trying to pull everything and going for an HR instead of just hitting a fly ball the other way. His approach was awful.
I love DW but he should havehad at least 10 more RBI in clutch situations this year
he did make a good 3-2 pitch ..b/c DW swung at it…
it was ball 4 and wright went chasing…cant blame the pitcher.
good approach by wright however, that can be questioned
hahaha “a good 3-2 pitch” . I heard that last night on SNY and my jaw hit the floor.
The fact that he is getting the runner home a just little over half the time with less than two outs is disturbing considering he’s supposed to be a better hitter than that. A hitter like him should have something like 70% success rate in those situations.
yea because a good hitter in baseball gets a hit 3 out of 10 times….
But, in you’re defense, you don’t need a hit to get an RBI with less than 2 outs.
your*…its early
I never implied that he had to get a hit. Like I said, I am not a stat head, but it appears that number should be higher for a hitter of his calibur.
I hear ya…its just that he gets so many opportunities, his success ratio just wont be that high…its unrealistic..
we can hope he comes through everytime, but he just can’t…
I’m not saying I dont want him to..its just that I feel like alot of people (not you specifically) bash him due to very high expectations…and the expectations should be expected, but along with that you have to understand the side-effects and not get chicken-little all over him.
Nah, I understand where you are coming from. Like I said yesterday, we are spoiled by his 2006 and 2007 so the expectations are always going to be high. It just seems like he is a different hitter this year than those years, he needs to get it out of his head to stop trying to hit homers and go back to being a doubles machine. There’s too much pull in his swing and not enough going with the pitch. It’s frustrating. I’m not trying to bash the kid every chance I get, but his approach this year with runners on has left a lot to be desired.
he does have the uppercut pull swing going…he had that for parts of last year but then he got it figured out and hit great in Sept…not sure whats going on now
obviously with the way he’s swinging now, it just not consistent success. He’ll have that big HR or big game and then go 0-4 the next two games.
We meet again cyclone. I’ll give you his swing and he does seem like something is off, but he still is a doubles machine. He has as many doubles as he had last year and 2 more than ‘06. I wonder if someone can find a chart with where his hits have been over the last few seasons, because it does seem like he isn’t going to right-center like he used to…
You’re right. I don’t see him going to the opposite field gaps like he used to back in the day…
but then again, you will tell me that I am imagining that because I have already set in my mind that he’s pulling the ball too much… :-) lol
Heh, that’s why I asked for someone to find data to back the feelings up… I feel that way too, but I’m not sure if I’m actually right or not
I looked at his hitting chart for the last 2 seasons and this one. While I agree it feels like he isn’t going to right-center as much, his hits (at Shea at least) this season are pretty proportional to where his hits went in ‘06 and ‘07. This is why using your eye (and memory) isn’t a very good way to track/measure progress…
When a 22 YEAR OLD from AA BASEBALL has a better approach then the Mets franchise player … there is a REAL PROBLEM.
I like Wright, but I can not say his at bat last night in the 9th surprised me.
I think we all like Wright … but when he keeps coming up small when the moment is biggest … what can you really say?
go get em next time?
Don’t overgeneralize this though. This is happening to him this season. If the trend continues over the years then you can say he comes up small.
We say “Let Daniel Murphy give you some batting tips, David.” lol
haha
It is more disturbing that he thought that 3-2 pitch was a good pitch.
2 feet off the plate outside. No excuse … but he’s making one. I lost some respect for David last night.
He’s not making an excuse. Obviously he thinks he made a good swing. He’s just wrong. Lose respect for Manual for not yanking Ayala after the Lee double.
why? Lee poked a hit to LF…it wasn’t like it was hard liner…plus Ayala actually pitched good last night, its just that he had to back out for a 2nd inning, and couldn’t get that 3rd out.
Napes … stop it with Manual. Murphy TRIPLED with NO OUTS in the NINTH INNING.
They did NOT SCORE to win the most important game this year.
That is when the game was over … NOT when the bullpen had to go BACK out there after 5 innings of pretty good work.
Blame Manual all you want. This offense is filled with guys who can’t deal with pressure.
Mikey, I never said that he was fully to blame. And I’m not sure where the stop it with Manual comes from, since I’ve never brought him up to blame before. I was saying you can’t only blame Wright. Ollie was horrendous, Duaner couldn’t get an out, and the whole 9th inning debacle are all problems from last night.
If anything I blame the team as a whole for losing last night. Every player was equally as bad. Murphy’s error really hurt the team, Church has 7 hits from coming back from his ordeal. The whole team deserved to lose after their performance.
Sorry … didn’t mean to come off that way. It’s just that after that game last night, the last thing I want to hear about is the bullpen or how Manual managed it.
Bottom line, they were in position to in easily in the 9th. At that point nothing else that happened before or after matters.
D-Rod is horrible. Take him out of the lineup!
lmao
From home, I thought he looked to be pulling off the ball - which is why he jerked the 3-0 pitch foul and couldn’t get his bat on the 3-2 pitch away.
Also, Mike, you point out an interesting stat:
>>>In 69 opportunities this season with a runner on third and less than two outs, Wright has brought home the runner 52% of the time.
Do we know what the league average is this year? (I’ve heard the 65% figure tossed around in the past but in the new post-steroids era, I’m not sure that still applies)
It has and will always apply. Just shorten-up, put bat on
ball and try to lift it. Thats all.
This team makes me sick.
fans like you make real fans sick
I care too much. Its called being a die hard jack@ss.
right…never seen you on here before…. i call fans like you fake
I agree with mrose. If we were a .500 or below team you wouldn’t be found on these boards.
Get out of high school.
Kevin McReynolds
I am so sick of David Arod Light, or The Big Fraud, or Captain Unclutch or whatever you wanna call him. Wright is not a clutch player plain and simple. Wright was awful in the 06 playoffs, he made huge errors last September, and this season he has killed us time after time in clutch RBI situations.
Put Wright on a team without Reyes and he is an 80 RBI guy. Put Manny in the 3 spot on this team and he has 160 RBI’s. That is how good Reyes is.
Amen.
“David Wright is not a clutch hitter”
So his career avg with RISP and what he did the last 2 years with RISP get thrown out the window beecause of this year??
As for last September… WTF are you talking about?? He f-cking carried that team, and anyone who doesn’t realize that is thick (.352 in September, .397 in final 17 days)
The ‘06 playoffs? Who, besides Beltran and Delgado, actually hit during that postseason (Wright hit .333 in NLDS)
Regardless, Wright, you swung at a terrible pitch, and there’s no denying that.
Are you serious? He was the only reason we scored runs in September last year (.352/.432/.602). Just because he is having a bad season in the clutch doesn’t mean he is a terrible player. Look at some stats over the last two years and then try to make the same comment.
Last year he batted .310 with RISP, in 2006 it was .365 with a 1.060 OPS.
You’re probably the same fan that was complaining that Santana wasn’t a big game pitcher earlier this year.
Santana is a joke…he can’t get past the 6th inning…waste of money
(sarcasm)
I really don’t care about captains, the nicknames and any previous at-bat or lack thereof…
That he thinks that 3-2 pitch was good is just either a sign of how far from reality he was during that at bat, or just total denial on his part.