Instant Destroyer and Killer is a 5-tool player
The Washington Nationals crushed, killed and destroyed the New York Mets at Nationals Park Saturday night, scoring 3 runs in the 1st inning and cruising to a 7-1 victory. At least it was a quick kill, the game lasted just 2 hours. Nats starting pitcher John Lannan (3-5) tossed a 4-hitter for the first complete game victory of his career.
Nick Johnson led the hit parade for Washington, with 2 doubles and a 3-run homer (5) in 4 at bats. Adam Dunn (17) and Elijah Dukes (5) also homered for the Nats.
Oh Cathy you always make me smile
It was a Saturday night of reckless abandon for the Mets. The first 5 Nationals’ batters all hit line drives off of Met starter John Maine in the bottom of the 1st inning. Christian Guzman lined out to Fernando Tatis leading off, then the next 4 batters reached base as Johnson doubled, Ryan Zimmerman singled him home, and Dunn followed with a 2-run homer off of the facing of the 2nd deck in the right field stands. Then Dukes singled to finish the consecutive line drive display.
He went thataway I tells ya
The Mets hit into 5 double plays in the game. Certainly the most memorable one occurred in the top of the 4th. Luis Castillo led off with a walk. Emil Brown then hit a fly ball to right-center field that Nats’ right fielder Dukes overran, slowed down and thrust his glove down and back the way he had come. Replays showed that Dukes caught the ball, but on the field umpires quickly and decisively ruled that the ball was trapped. Brown noticed this and rounded 1st base with what he thought was a single, but Castillo believed the ball had been caught and scrambled back toward 1st base. Brown yelled and pointed but Castillo passed him which by rule 7.088 meant that Brown was out, 3 unassisted if you were scoring at home (I was). At that point Castillo, bewildered and between 1st and 2nd, ran toward 2nd and was tagged out by shortstop Guzman for the unique double play.
Maine felt like giving
Maine started for the Mets and gave up all 7 Nats runs on 6 hits and 2 walks in 4 innings. The bullpen was again a bright spot as Ken Takahashi and newcomer Fernando Nieve threw 2 scoreless innings each. The Mets are now 1-4 on the road trip and look to Livan Hernandez to finish the trip with a win tomorrow afternoon before returning home to face the arch-nemesis Philadelphia Phillies.
After the game Jerry Manuel announced that Emil Brown had been sent down to make room for Ryan Church who is expected to be activated from the disabled list tomorrow.
Box score courtesy yahoo.com
| NY Mets | |||||||||||
| AB | R | H | RBI | HR | BB | K | SB | LOB | Season Avg | ||
| L. Castillo 2b | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .277 | |
| E. Brown rf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .200 | |
| C. Beltran cf | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .346 | |
| G. Sheffield lf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .259 | |
| D. Wright 3b | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .340 | |
| F. Tatis 1b | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .273 | |
| O. Santos c | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .261 | |
| W. Valdez ss | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .250 | |
| J. Maine p | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | |
| K. Takahashi p | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| F. Nieve p | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | |
| D. Murphy ph | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .240 | |
| Totals | 27 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 8 | ||
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| Washington | |||||||||||
| AB | R | H | RBI | HR | BB | K | SB | LOB | Season Avg | ||
| C. Guzman ss | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .328 | |
| N. Johnson 1b | 4 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .332 | |
| R. Zimmerman 3b | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .320 | |
| A. Dunn lf | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .258 | |
| A. Kearns rf | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .220 | |
| E. Dukes rf-lf | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .277 | |
| W. Harris cf | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .259 | |
| A. Hernandez 2b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | .270 | |
| W. Nieves c | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .264 | |
| J. Lannan p | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .130 | |
| Totals | 32 | 7 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 7 | ||
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| NY Mets | ||||||||||
| IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | WHIP | Season ERA | ||
| J. Maine (L, 5-4) | 4.0 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1.38 | 4.52 | |
| K. Takahashi | 2.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1.33 | 2.40 | |
| F. Nieve | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0.50 | 0.00 | |
| Washington | ||||||||||
| IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | WHIP | Season ERA | ||
| J. Lannan (W, 3-5) | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1.44 | 3.68 | |
| Pitches-strikes – J Maine 68-40; K Takahashi 34-19; F Nieve 22-16; J Lannan 96-61. |
| Ground balls-fly balls – J Maine 7-4; K Takahashi 2-2; F Nieve 1-3; J Lannan 19-5. |
| Batters faced – J Maine 20; K Takahashi 9; F Nieve 7; J Lannan 30. |
| Game Details |
| Umpires: HP–Brian Runge. 1B–Derryl Cousins. 2B–D.J. Reyburn. 3B–Jim Joyce. Time: 2:00. Attendance: 31,456. Weather: 78 degrees, partly cloudy. Wind: 1 mph, out to center. |
11 comments
gategem
6/6/2009-10:12pm at 10:12 pm (UTC -4)
Another great job Heb!
BTW Here is a tribute to the old Washington team that applies to the present team and right now the Mets. It is also a tribute to those misguided souls at Metsblog that said the team was lacking in this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06103o2dv5c
GravediggerHebner
6/6/2009-10:35pm at 10:35 pm (UTC -4)
Thank you Gate, for the words and the link.
In addition to clicking on the link provided here by Gategem, I would encourage anyone reading this to click on the words “crushed, killed and destroyed” in the post above for another entertaining short video.
CaseStreet
6/7/2009-12:08am at 12:08 am (UTC -4)
that’s just creepy
metsfan4decades
6/7/2009-12:27am at 12:27 am (UTC -4)
Great post. Horrible game. Just sucked.
And the graphics and links….you guys are just too clever.
CaseStreet
6/7/2009-12:07am at 12:07 am (UTC -4)
wonderful,
“We’ve got heart!” should be the new team motto.
trs86
6/6/2009-10:38pm at 10:38 pm (UTC -4)
Get Nick Johnson
fongy2
6/6/2009-11:05pm at 11:05 pm (UTC -4)
I thought heart,guts etc was overrated?
dirtysanchez
6/7/2009-12:17am at 12:17 am (UTC -4)
awesome job again grave!
tkfj
6/7/2009-12:33am at 12:33 am (UTC -4)
I think this tells us that we need desperately need a bat. I wasnt home to watch the game but 4 runs in 2 games against the Nationals speaks for itself.
Get a bat, we need one.
Kingman 26
6/7/2009-1:13am at 1:13 am (UTC -4)
Horrible, abominable, vile, and thoroughly disgusting game. They did not even seem to really be trying for the most part. How many pitches did Lannan even throw?
Not sure where to start, so I won’t even start.
I was out, saw more than enough of it, and the only slight comic relief was that driving home just now I put on WFAN to gauge the idiocy, and a caller was suggesting we send Feliciano—our 3rd best reliever—to the Yanks even up for Shelley Duncan. Yes, really. The host (not Steve Somers) could not hang up on the guy fast enough.
Holy crap, we better win tomorrow. Or later today.
rustyjr
6/7/2009-7:25am at 7:25 am (UTC -4)
Agreed kong and u know the lunatic fringe is coming out in full force let’s just be glad the phils lost