The New York Mets had a super breakout in all phases of the game. The offense scored the most runs it has in any one game this season, 11 on 16 hits, the defense played an error free game, and four pitchers threw a combined shutout giving up only 4 hits to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 11-0.
With one out in the 1st inning, Luis Castillo singled. David Wright then doubled him to 3rd base, and Ryan Church batting clean up singled in Castillo to give the Mets a 1-0 lead. In the bottom of the 4th a Fernando Tatis RBI ground out and a 2-run homer by Nick Evans made it 4-0.
Met hitters made it look easy
In the 6th inning the Mets broke it open. Tatis singled in Wright, then Brian Schneider doubled in 2 runs to make it 7-0. The following inning the Mets put it away. Church doubled in Castillo, Tatis singled in Wright, a Fernando Martinez fielders choice grounder plated Church and Daniel Murphy’s pinch hit sacrifice fly scored Tatis for the 11th run.
Wookie of the Year
Everyone the Mets put on the mound looked like Chewbacca to the Cardinals. Fernando Nieve (3-0) started and allowed only 3 hits over 6 innings. He did walk 4, but 2 of those went to Albert Pujols. Brian Stokes, Pat Misch and Bobby Parnell each threw a scoreless inning to finish the game. Stokes was the only one to allow a baserunner, giving up a harmless single to Brendan Ryan.
Charitable wife
During the SNY telecast Kevin Burkhardt spoke with the wife of Brian Schneider about a charitable endeavor. Jordan Schneider told Burkhardt how earlier in the week a number of the players’ wives had gathered together baseballs autographed by their husbands. They then placed each ball in an unmarked bag and solicited $50 charitable donations in exchange for the bag. Whose signature was on the ball was only revealed after the donation was given. “We bagged about 300 balls,” said Jordan. Thank you to the players’ wives for raising money for charity and to Jordan Schneider for this particular quote that tickled my immature funny bone.
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21 comments
dentulous
6/24/2009-10:55pm at 10:55 pm (UTC -4)
Man, as soon as I write this team off, they come back with a great win. Pls get some run support for The johan tomorrow
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Nieve is da MAN!!
metsfan4decades
6/24/2009-11:04pm at 11:04 pm (UTC -4)
Wow. I’m duly impressed by Nieve. Thankfully, we’ve had some really good starting pitching these past weeks to keep us close with the state of the rest of the team.
Love these type games. Everyone contributed. Highly entertaining – LOL.
And welcome back, Nick Evans.
Please continue the run support tomorrow for Johan.
smooth
6/24/2009-11:06pm at 11:06 pm (UTC -4)
Question, Does Nieve qualify for Rookie of the Year??
GravediggerHebner
6/24/2009-11:12pm at 11:12 pm (UTC -4)
No. For hitters, the cut off is 130 at bats (last year Daniel Murphy had 131). For pitchers, the cut off is 50 innings. Nieve had 96 innings pitched for Houston in 2006. Sorry if my “Wookie of the Year” made you think he might qualify.
rustyjr
6/24/2009-11:14pm at 11:14 pm (UTC -4)
wookie of the year didnt turk wendell and rauch win that the last couple of years?
gategem
6/25/2009-3:17am at 3:17 am (UTC -4)
I write this at 3:00AM and when I first read your wrap-up the W looked like an N and I wondered what the heck this site is coming too.
Anyway Dan Warthen is doing an outstanding job with all these castoffs and young pitchers (except for Ollie but Walter Johnson couldn’t help him but Sigmund Freud possibly could).
metsfan4decades
6/24/2009-11:11pm at 11:11 pm (UTC -4)
For those of you that didn’t see it on Sports Night – or don’t get SNY…
They interviewed Wainwright and his thoughts on that Beltran at bat in game 7. Said it was nerve racking, made himself calm down and focus and got the K.
Uh….like I needed to hear about that again following a very enjoyable night……
rustyjr
6/24/2009-11:13pm at 11:13 pm (UTC -4)
well u know sportsnite – they are impartial lol
gategem
6/25/2009-3:35am at 3:35 am (UTC -4)
I’m surprised when the Braves come to town they don’t ask Terry Pendleton about that HR.
rustyjr
6/24/2009-11:11pm at 11:11 pm (UTC -4)
i was at tonites game 3 points
1 great game
2 i met my daddy – nice guy – didnt want to bother him by asking for INTERVIEW ILL TRY TO CONTACT HIM LATER
3 i too got a baseball from charity – Bobby Parnells hot wife took my money and all I got was one of Angel Pagan’s balls lol ( the kid before me got a k-rod – cruel fate) lol btw Parnells wife is hoy and Randy Neimans wife is a MILF LOL
GravediggerHebner
6/24/2009-11:14pm at 11:14 pm (UTC -4)
Click on Jordan Schneider’s name for a slightly better pic. Someday Angel’s ball may get you into heaven. Oh yeah, you’re an atheist. Nevermind.
rustyjr
6/24/2009-11:15pm at 11:15 pm (UTC -4)
hey if it got me into the walls of jordan schnider – oh nevermind lol
rustyjr
6/24/2009-11:16pm at 11:16 pm (UTC -4)
damn heb is that u in the picture with them ?? if so u win wookie of the year lol
GravediggerHebner
6/24/2009-11:19pm at 11:19 pm (UTC -4)
Nope. I believe it might be Chris Young the pitcher for the Padres who played basketball at Princeton (and I saw him play hoops against Harvard in the 90′s – no I didn’t go to Harvard, just lived near it).
rustyjr
6/24/2009-11:21pm at 11:21 pm (UTC -4)
lol ok u like in orange county – near ellenville?
metsfan4decades
6/24/2009-11:15pm at 11:15 pm (UTC -4)
Great game to be at.
And LOL…..I had to comment in the Dugout when they were showing the Met wives and that charity drive that all the Mets wives seemed to be blond. The guys seemed duly impressed with Brian Schneider’s wife.
Too bad about missing out on the KRod ball. I would have paid $50 for a chance at a Johan or DWright autographed ball.
rustyjr
6/24/2009-11:18pm at 11:18 pm (UTC -4)
hey i helped with a good cause so i have no worries I met my dad and i won a ron darling autographed ball on mets blog – I found out last week from that contest they had 2 months ago – i go to matts blog everynow and then but I will never comment on there ever again !! hey stickguy what r u doin on there lol btw xavier is still there if we want to abduct him lol
metsfan4decades
6/24/2009-11:34pm at 11:34 pm (UTC -4)
Cool meeting Rusty!
And hey, I think I entered that contest too. Congrats on the win.
Yeah, I’ll never be bothered auditioning just to comment on that blog. Besides, all BS aside, I feel the quality of the posts here are far superior. Just a completely different flavor I enjoy so much better.
And BTW, how good does Nieve look anyway? Woo-Hoo!
gategem
6/25/2009-3:22am at 3:22 am (UTC -4)
They’re all blond? Sounds like they work for Fox News Channel.
gategem
6/25/2009-3:25am at 3:25 am (UTC -4)
Rusty make sure he cooks for you.
baseballmercenaries
6/25/2009-1:37am at 1:37 am (UTC -4)
Nieve really changes the dynamic of this pitchin rotation