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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.
Everyone always likes to say hes our Jeter.
Well, atleast hes got the soundbites and cliches
down right. its unbelievable that Tatis and Easley
had bigger hits/rbis than wright this year while
cohen and others keep talkin MVP w/this guy.
short memory you have.
Wright had alot of big hits this year… def more than tatis and easley….its just that those two have been successfull in a small sample size while Wright has been effective but not always effective in a very large sample…
He hit his first walk HR this year…I’ve seen him come through many times eslewhere…
just stop with the flavor of the day crap.
Hey, I love wright and wouldnt trade him for any 3B
in the game BUT he has been very AROD,Mcreynolds like.
Well, if you throw out the fact that, for Wright’s career, September has been his best month, while being the worst month for ARod, then yes, you may be right…
fair enough
I’m not really bashing you, more so its frustration over alot of people here.
OR I may be (W)right????
Watching Wright swing at ball four was painful. What a joke this guy is.
You’re a joke for making that comment.
Sit Church and start Evans. Please. The guy is struggling. Evans will get just as hot as Murphy.
I say start Endy…
Really? Did you see how awful Evans looked at the plate yesterday. Come on man. Church has stunk it up but Evans isn’t that good either.
I really am starting to be bothered by HoJo. I don’t get what his actual job description is. Yes he helped Delgado but this team’s situational hitting is abysmal. Wright and Church are clearly pulling off the ball thus creating terrible AB’s in big spots
Church is 7 for his last 50 AB’s.
wow…those are def MVP numbers.
Santana cant pitch every day… Neither can CC… We still have a chance. Keep the faith.
neither can CC….haha amen.
Worst part is the Brewers scored 4 runs last night and won 4-2…on TWO hits….They had TWO hits and still won….Uggghh.
Call me crazy, but methinks Wright is going to redeem himself with a big hit in one of these next 4 games that had he not gotten, would’ve put us out of the playoffs.
Mark my words.
Hope you’re (w)right..
I’m hoping. There was no excuse in losing that game last night. So many opportunities were wasted…They were lucky to even tie it at 6. The Phils got crushed, and the Mets had a golden opportunity to pull even in the division with wins last n ight and tonite. They can’t really afford anymore losses if they want the NL East.
Why am I talking about the division and not the WIld Card? The Mets have shown that they just cannot beat the Cubs. Now I agree that things can be different in a short series, particularly when the pitching matchups are correct, but the Cubs over 162 games have been better than the Mets in all phases of the game.
What scares me is this:
The Mets play the final three with the Marlins, who hate the Mets and will try extremely hard to beat us.
Meanwhile, the Cubs play the Brewers, but you know the Cubs are going to rest all of their playoff pitchers, including most of their kep bullpen guys, so Milwaukee will be facing all of the scrub pitchers for the Cubs (yes, the same scrub releivers the Mets couldn’t score on last night).
I want to remain positive, but I’m really struggling here…
and the marlins announced yesterday that they will pitch their normal rotation this weekend “to preserve the integrity of the game” –actual quote
IOW…”fcuk the mets”
Actually here is the likely scenario.
He gets a 2 run homer in a 7-2 loss.
Then on Friday 2 games out of first and a game behind in the Wild Card does nothing offensively in a gut wrenching barf-o-matic Met win.
The Mets gain no ground as the Phils win and the Brewers win.
Then on Saturday the Mets lose with the three headed beast that is Knight, Figueroa and Niese.
Phils win the division and the Brewers clinch the wild card with wins.
Then on Sunday Wright gets a game winning single in the bottom of the 9th against the Marlins, and a lot of insanely out of touch with reality fans talk about David Wright closing Shea Stadium in style and how he holds the Mets record for RBI in a season.
We need Santana, Pelfrey and Ollie to go in the next series. Wartham and Manual need to keep a tight leash on Niese/Knight/Figeroa if they are to start.
I really need a freggin pep talk today…
so does the team. Unfortunately I do not think they will be getting it.
You and me both. If the Mets feel the way I do this morning, then we are in trouble.
I really don’t want to spend the another winter licking my wounds.
david is still my guy. i am sure he is suffering 10x more than even the most zelous fan about his failure last night.
i have to admit though, i wanted to vomit. i knew that when he struck out, we weren’t going to score, and i knew that the game would be lost, because there was no way our bullpen would throw up another scoreless inning.
depressing, but what can you do?
I agree with you. David is suffering x10 worse. he is an excellent player, but my goodness did we ever need him to come through. I feel feel like crap, and what makes this bearable is that he feels like crap too(as well he should).
I don’t know who I am more annoyed with Omar Minaya or Wright. The biggest reason the Mets collapsed last year was the bullpen. So you would think a GM would want to improve on a fatal weakness. Then all season we have been piecing together the corner outfield spots…. yes the corner outfield spots. So you would think that Omar would go after a big bat….. nope. If I recall correctly I think one of the best right handed bats in baseball history was available and I think he is working out in LA.
Great post . However, we win last night and the entire
picture is diff. Tied w/philly,a gm up on mil and lots of
mo. When this ends on sunday and omars new pact is
official maybe he can get to work filling the 3 biggest holes
on this team,corner OF rbi bat, 2B and relief pitching.
Hmmm, strange sounds just like oct.’07.
I want to see Murphy at 2B. If that is the case all they need is a LF with some pop…The problem is I get the feeling they are simply trying to get people to keep the spot warm for F-Mart who continues to show that he can’t stay healthy. I am imagine we have some injury-prone journeymen type in LF next year
maybe omar will give alou some more money.
SEASON. OVER.
That had to be the wrost performance of not making productive outs in a long, long time…
The Mets let the electricity that was in Shea last nght go when they choked the lead away… Ollie Perez? You want that big Scott Bora$$ contract, good luck buddy… You aren’t getting it here…
They Mets took a great crowd out of it by their lack of fundies… With 1st and 3rd, 0 out in the 7th, Reyes should have been trying to move, force the defense to stay on their toes… Instead he did not run, forcing Lee to hold him on and guess what, Murphy lines a bullet right to him…
Team Disaster is what this club is…
Eh, I’m not so sure I agree with having Reyes take second in that situation. What if he gets thrown out? Then instead of having two opportunities to get a sac fly, we’d only have one. No one is expecting a solid liner to then get hit directly to the first basemen for a double play.
I sure wasn’t
Reyes should have been out on the bunt anyway… The only reason Reyes made it to 1st is because of a bad play by the catcher… Reyes was playing with house money essentially…
You HAVe to send him there… Big deal if he’s thrown out… Runner on 3rd and 1 out which is EXACTLY what it would have been if Reyes was out on the bunt…
Wright favorite quote every time the team loses because of him: “We didn’t do it”.
When will he begin to take responsibility? Last night’s loss is 100% on him and he won’t admit it.
And some people still have the nerve to say he deserves to be this year’s mvp. PLEASE!!!
Wright deserves most of the blame for last night…
but Perez, Ayala, Church, and Castro get no blame??
Castro no, Ayala not really…Perez, Wright and Church abso-freakin-lutely
I am bothered by the fact that Church had 2 opportunities to drive in runs with the bases loaded and less then 2 outs and didn’t do it.
A question for everyone. What happens if Murphy stays at 2nd instead of going to third on his triple? It is weird how a lead-off triple potentially hurt the team more then a double may have helped
Yes…Perez did a poor job.
Yes…Church blows right now.
No, I am absolutely not going to blame Ramon Castro for anything, he is the freaking back up catcher for god sakes.
David Wright had the game and the Mets season in his hands last night and HE CHOKED.
No way I am dropping last night on the bullpen, any of them.
Aaron Heilman could have pitched the 10th and let up sixty billion homeruns and it still should not have mattered.
Ayala actually pitched pretty well…its just that he had to get 6 outs and only could get the first 5 easily.
He did pitch pretty well, until that floater to Ramirez. Any other hitter besides Lee and Ramirez wouldn’t have even gotten up.
I would love to know what his RBI totals would have been if he hit well with RISP this year…probably pretty gaudy.
Oh yeah … and the crowd was great last night. The fans were there with plenty of energy.
WHO WANTS TO BLAME THE METS FANS TODAY?
Anyone want to write a column??
Yeah, its us. omar should give some of new contract
money to tatis,easley and ayala because w/o these
backup,scrapheap types we’d be long done already.
It’s all our fault because we forgot to bring our bats to the ballpark.
On second thought,Its not my fault.
I blame YOU!
I’m so sorry….I’m so unclutch…
look in the Newsday. Jim Baumbach’s column
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.
Easy for me to say from the comfort of my living room, but that seems pretty bad. You would hope that a guy like Wright would have a number more like 75% in that situation. The Mets really need to get last night’s game out of their head, dust themselves off and somehow pull through today for what could be Pedro’s last start ever.
I wish the old adage was, “You’re only good as your next day’s opposing starter”. Hopefully they pull this guy after 80 pitches today
BTW – I asked for a pep talk earlier. “SEASON OVER”….. didn’t help
Lets Go Pedro…time to step it up…pleeeease
if he can get out of the 1rst with minimal damage, then maybe he can get in a groove…unfortunately thats the only way he’ll be successful.
Agreed – it’s amazing how long it takes him to get into his groove now. His first inning ERA is like 7.00
Perez is a huge goat but he is only goat #3 or #4. I have never been a huge fan of Perez because I can never trust the guy but last night just showed why we can bring this guy back under any circumstances.
I think/hope you meant cant. He cant be trusted.you simply
never know what youre gonna get not just start to start
but inning to inning.
Absolutely horrendous jobs by Wright and Church. And just not tonight but in the clutch all year. Wright needs to be moved to bat 5th next year. I guarantee you if Beltran is hitting 3rd all year by Beltran followed by wright, we are up 3 to 5 games.
The bottom line and lee mazzili said it, is David Wright tries to be the frickin hero every single time. Hit the stupid ball to Center Field, real simple DW. But no he is trying to hit a grand slam, is he kidding me. His post game interview was a joke.
You are right on one point and wrong on the other. He was trying to be the hero. I don’t think he was trying to his a HR but he was swinging at terrible pitches trying to drive the run in when there was no outs. Take the damn walk.
You know, I was thinking that he wasn’t going to get anything to hit in that 3-2 offereing. 3-2 on a weak hitter, you go right after him. 3-2 on a dangerous hitter, you try not to groove anything in the strike zone.
D-Wright was over anxious and swung. It was a solid pitch because it was just close enough to entice him to swing. Worst case scenario (for the cubs)he walks.
Wright, you did not get the pitch you wanted to hit. You got all garbage pitches. They were trying to pitch around you. Take the walk and stop trying to be a hero!
“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.”
I remember years ago, Ralph Kiner use to talk about the fact that a good hitter gets the runner home 70% of the time in these type of situations because you don’t need to get a hit in order to do it and in many situations the opposition is playing back to concede the run. 52% is weak for a #3 hitter.
I would be that it’s right at league average?
Great! He’s average in the clutch.
What makes Wright’s 52 % even more damning is that usually that guy on third with less than two out will be a guy with speed such as Reyes who can score on a medium fly ball or on most grounders. It’s not like Ramon Castro is on third all the time and it requires a flyball to the warning track to score him or a grounder in the hole.
I hate when Lee’s right!!!! BTW – worst broadcaster ever?
D-Rod
“I put some good swings on, but just didn’t get the results I wanted to get.”
Then you didn’t put good swings on them.
Well, I think the team has finally done it to me. I’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid for the past 3 weeks. But to come up as small as they did last night, with the Phillies opening the door wide and the Cubs handing the Mets a housewarming gift over and over, I think it might have been the last straw.
I’m a big D-Wright fan, and I honestly laugh at people on here who want to compare him to A-Rod. Two days ago he came up with a huge 2-out, game-tying single, which everyone has conveniently forgotten. But David, your AB in the 9th last night was a joke. 3-0, if you’re going to hack, you better hit the ball in the air to the OF. And then to turn a 3-0 count into a strikeout? You don’t need the HR to win the game, buddy. Do me a favor, I liked you better when you were willing to hit the ball the other way for a single or a double, when you became a MORE dangerous hitter once the pitcher got two strikes on you. Can we get back to that please???
But now that I got that one out of the way, let’s please give the choke-artist award to the guy who deserves it the most. Ryan Church. Because the only thing more farcical than a guy who fails to hit a sac fly once is a guy who does it twice.
Honorable mention to Ramon Castro.
The exhaustion of being there every night this week must have finally caught up with me, because I actually fell asleep right away last night when I finally made it home. After five hours of sleep, I woke up semi-delusional again. They are still positioned to get into the postseason. The Cubs will beat the Brewers, possibly twice. Philly will lose at least one game to Washington. The Mets will get their hits off of Harden tonight (weather-permitting). But will Pedro give them ANYTHING???
Nobody is mentioning that he swung at a 3-0 pitch in a crucially strategic situation. That’s called trying to be a hero when the smart thing to do is take a walk in that ab because the Cubs mindset was to walk Wright, Delgado and face Beltran. Wright gave the game away, pure and simple.
Yup, I am actually surprised they did not intentionally walk Wright at 3-0. The fact that he swung at 2 straight ball 4’s shows that he is trying too hard.
Go get ‘em next year, D-Rod.
I love David Wright, but you know, just once I’d love to hear him say something like, “I messed up. It was inexcusable.” I’d like to see him get MAD when he screws up in the clutch like that.
Too often what we get from him is the sort of canned, “everything’s okay, tomorrow’s another day” response that everyone hated when it was Willie Randolph trying to sell it.
Because the truth is, there’s no good explanation for the way Wright failed to come through last night. Man on third, no one out, and a whole GAME in the standings on the line, and he can’t even put the ball in play.
I’d have settled for him NOT swinging at ball 4, there is no crime in taking a walk if they refuse to throw you a strike.