Game Time: 7:05pm
Mr Cool's Record: 5-1 Era: 3.88 K: 40 BB: 20 WHIP: 1.40
Mets Notes:
- Hernandez was ill while pitching seven shutout innings in a 7-0 victory against the Nationals in Washington on Sunday. It hardly showed except in stamina. He worked the corners of the strike zone, allowing four hits and four walks and striking out four. He asked manager Jerry Manuel to exit after 116 pitches, a tell-tale sign of energy loss, according to Manuel. Hernandez hasn’t lost and the Mets have won five times in his eight most recent starts. He will be quite wary of Alex Rodriguez, who has three home runs, four doubles and a .625 batting average in 16 career at-bats against him.
- Last year, the New York Yankees lost all three home games to the New York Mets in the final season at their historic park. The Yankees dropped all three meetings with the Mets for the first time at old Yankee Stadium last season after winning 22 of the previous 32 contests, including two victories in the 2000 World Series. The Yankees lost four of six to the Mets last year, marking only the second time they lost the season series since the advent of interleague play in 1997. New York’s AL representative holds a 37-29 advantage in the all-time Subway Series during the regular season.
- Their 37 homers rank among the fewest in baseball after they connected for 172 to rank seventh in the league a year ago. Part of that dropoff is due to their new stadium – $800 million Citi Field – which is more favorable for pitchers.
- Mets third baseman David Wright, who is 17 for 26 with one homer and five RBIs over his last seven games, has seen a significant downturn in his home run production. He has four homers after hitting 12 at this point last year. He was a major part of the Mets winning all three games in the Bronx last year, going 9 for 15 with a homer and five RBIs.
- Hernandez is 4-0 with a 2.81 ERA in his last eight starts after allowing four hits in seven innings of a 7-0 win at Washington on Sunday. The right-hander is 0-3 with a 6.37 ERA in five starts against the Yankees.
LINEUP
Cora, SS
Martinez, LF
Beltran, CF
Wright, 3B
Church, RF
Sheffield, DH
Murphy, 1B
Schneider, C
Castillo, 2B
- Mr Fist Pump Record: 3-1 Era: 3.79 K: 55 BB: 28 WHIP: 1.40
Yankees Notes:
- Chamberlain followed a fantastic outing in Cleveland with a solid start against the Rays on Sunday. He surrendered three runs in six innings, ultimately picking up a no-decision in a Yankees win. After allowing just one run through the first five frames, Chamberlain gave up a two-out, two-run hit to Gabe Gross, marring an otherwise strong performance.
- There have been a major league-high 105 homers hit in the Bronx, while Rangers Ballpark is a distant second with 83. At this pace, there would be 293 homers hit at Yankee Stadium, just shy of the record 303 hit in the thin air at Coors Field in 1999 but well above the 160 totaled last year at the original Yankee Stadium. The Yankees lead the majors with 57 homers at home, compared to 38 on the road.
- The Yankees, though, hit only .230 with three homers in the three losses to AL East-leading Boston, capped by Thursday’s 4-3 defeat that dropped them to 0-8 in the season series.
- The right-hander is 0-1 with a 5.48 ERA in five home starts after failing to get a decision Sunday despite allowing three runs in six innings of a 4-3 win over Tampa Bay. Chamberlain, making his first start against the Mets, is 2-0 with a 3.82 ERA over his last six outings overall.
LINEUP
Jeter, SS
Swisher, RF
Teixeira, 1B
Rodriguez, 3B
Cano, 2B
Posada, C
Matsui, DH
Cabrera, LF
Gardner, CF
- Quick….someone get Jobu his rum!!!
- PLAY BALL!!!
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24 comments
metsfan4decades
6/12/2009-7:07pm at 7:07 pm (UTC -4)
LET’S GO METS !!
Let’s Go Boston!
GravediggerHebner
6/12/2009-7:09pm at 7:09 pm (UTC -4)
3 games w/Philly then 3 games w/Yanks, I think my hatred meter broke. LGM!
Kingman 26
6/12/2009-8:06pm at 8:06 pm (UTC -4)
After careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that I really, really do hate the Yankees.
Even more than the Knicks.
metsfan4decades
6/12/2009-10:59pm at 10:59 pm (UTC -4)
You have F’ing got to me kidding me….
Poor Krod.
saltygary
6/12/2009-11:00pm at 11:00 pm (UTC -4)
Ummm yea…
oleosmirf
6/12/2009-11:03pm at 11:03 pm (UTC -4)
this is why this group of Mets will never win. The Mets are the Dallas Cowboys of the MLB…
they might be the most talented team in the NL but when you play the game with such stupidity game in and game out you cant win. We can trade for Halladay and Holliday and they will still find a way to lose.
Joe R
6/12/2009-11:04pm at 11:04 pm (UTC -4)
washed away castillo 2 hands a disgrace!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!
Joe R
6/12/2009-11:08pm at 11:08 pm (UTC -4)
You know what…I really hate to say it…and I will prob regret this…but this is why we are known as a team with no heart and chock artist!
Kingman 26
6/12/2009-11:12pm at 11:12 pm (UTC -4)
Joe, after that, I am not sure there is ANYTHING that is inappropriate to say.
gategem
6/12/2009-11:08pm at 11:08 pm (UTC -4)
Very rarely does a game leave me speechless. But there are no words to describe this loss.
Kingman 26
6/12/2009-11:09pm at 11:09 pm (UTC -4)
Unreal. Absolutely unreal.
Not sure I can rememeber ever seeing defeat snatched from the jaws of victory in such a brutal manner.
Three nights in a row of horrid losses.
This is really, really becoming too much.
I envy the people who did not see the end of this game.
gategem
6/12/2009-11:18pm at 11:18 pm (UTC -4)
If Tex or A-Rod would have hit one out I could accept that. But this……….
oleosmirf
6/12/2009-11:11pm at 11:11 pm (UTC -4)
the culture surrounding this team needs to change ASAP.
Kingman 26
6/12/2009-11:13pm at 11:13 pm (UTC -4)
This is NUTS!
How can we have seen so many baserunning and fielding errors and miscues the last few weeks?
We did not see this the last two years even.
Joe R
6/12/2009-11:19pm at 11:19 pm (UTC -4)
Its a shame i mean its like these players are so cocky or entitles or they have been told they are so good. not even with the game on the line, a huge game does he use two hands!!! i mean even out of fear of being the one to blow the game u would think 2 hands…nope clear headed arrogant ..Jerry not insisting on 2 hands etc etc etc etc etc etc
Kingman 26
6/12/2009-11:28pm at 11:28 pm (UTC -4)
It’s unreal. I have been watching the Mets since I was a little kid in 1973 and I am not sure I have ever seen a more absolutely mystifying loss than this.
How many more damn baserunning and fielding miscues are we going to see?
If I was capable of being speechless, I would be right now.
trs86
6/12/2009-11:31pm at 11:31 pm (UTC -4)
Agreed Kingman, I am going to take the weekend off and just not give a damn.
Kingman 26
6/12/2009-11:34pm at 11:34 pm (UTC -4)
TRS, this is about the most depressing and unacceptable loss I think I can remember off the top of my head in the last twenty years. And in Yankee Stadium. And the Phils lost.
Unreal.
trs86
6/12/2009-11:37pm at 11:37 pm (UTC -4)
Agreed, I was listening to it in my car here in NC and it reminded me so much of my youth. Granted nothing like this, but how many times I had listened through the static all of those years, only to hear the part that Castillo dropped the ball and the Mets lose.
Joe R
6/12/2009-11:41pm at 11:41 pm (UTC -4)
whats bad is now its time for wright and beltran to slump and pitching will be good
Kingman 26
6/12/2009-11:43pm at 11:43 pm (UTC -4)
I know this game is not of the same magnitude (hopefully) but all that comes to mind–and maybe you were a bit young–are Terry Pendleton’s HR off McDowell which basically ended hope in 1987, and Scioscia’s HR off Gooden in the 88 playoffs.
But at least the other team EARNED those wins. This one is beyind description.
TRS buddy, have as good a night as possible; I have to get my mind off of this.
This damn team.
Joe R
6/12/2009-11:14pm at 11:14 pm (UTC -4)
what a chance to forget the series with phils they lost back to 3 games….no…castillo a joke u would think…well im done goodnight
jonnyballgame
6/12/2009-11:19pm at 11:19 pm (UTC -4)
Its quite obvious that the Mets are cursed. I’ve actually never seen anything like that before. Even the buckner error came when the game was tied.
jonnyballgame
6/12/2009-11:21pm at 11:21 pm (UTC -4)
Wow Dirty,, As if you knew the gods were going to take this one away. The picture of Jobu’s rum,, Maybe tomorrow they’ll start sacrificing live chickens.