Tonight it was Them 6, Us 5
Nelson Figueroa (0-2) earned his recall from the minor leagues with some fine pitching performances for the AAA Buffalo Bisons. Tonight did not resemble those in any way. Figueroa lasted only 1 2/3 innings, giving up 6 runs, all earned, on 10 hits and 1 walk and that proved to be just too much for the Mets injury riddled offense to overcome.
"Holy frustrating games, Batman!"
The Arizona Diamondbacks held on to defeat the New York Mets 6-5 despite the Mets managing to get 5 runs off Arizona ace-by-default Dan Haren (11-6), and despite the Met bullpen picking up Figueroa with 7 1/3 scoreless innings. Tim Redding, Bobby Parnell, Pedro Feliciano and Brian Stokes combined to hold the Diamondbacks scoreless the rest of the way.
Nelson's burst bubble stuck to the bullpen's Mona Lisa
The Met offense tried valiantly to get the team back on top. Down 6-0 in the bottom of the 3rd, Angel Pagan tripled to drive in Omir Santos and it was 6-1. Then in the 5th the Mets got within striking distance on what may have been the play that ultimately caused them to come up short. Luis Castillo hit a 2-run single driving in Alex Cora and Santos. On the play, a bouncer to the left field gap, Pagan stopped at 2nd base causing Castillo to hold up with a single.
Someone lend Pagan this album
Later Castillo was seen having a heated discussion with Pagan and the announcers suggested Castillo felt Pagan should’ve advanced to 3rd on the play and that Castillo would’ve wound up with a double. Perhaps Pagan should’ve listened to Nelson Riddle’s album Hey…Let Yourself Go. As it was David Wright singled to drive in Pagan but Castillo never made it past 2nd base. The DBacks led 6-4.
Clearly the 2009 Mets pissed off a witch
The angry witch that has cast a dark spell which has cursed the 2009 Mets season teased us by allowing Daniel Murphy to hit a solo home run, his 7th, into the Pepsi Porch to cut the lead to 6-5, but that was as close as the Mets would get.
Please visit yahoo.com for the box score.
(for those who don’t get it, Nelson Riddle arranged a song called “Mona Lisa” and arranged much of the music for the television series “Batman” in addition to that of the albums shown here and many, many more)
7 comments
gipperpdx
8/3/2009-11:16pm at 11:16 pm (UTC -4)
The only good thing about the being a Mets fan right now is the fact we can always look forward to these great post-game wraps.
And, nothing personal Hebs, but that sucks.
dirtysanchez
8/3/2009-11:34pm at 11:34 pm (UTC -4)
Great wrapup as usual herb…as an old man at the new age of 24..i can confidently say that most of this is before my time lol…
gategem
8/4/2009-1:56am at 1:56 am (UTC -4)
lol Although it may cause culture shock and cause you to find yourself in an episode of the Twilight Zone you might want to give a listen to some Nat King Cole (Heb flagged one in Mona Lisa) and Frank Sinatra recordings arranged by Nelson Riddle. He also did the arrangements for Linda Ronstadt on the two albums she recorded of what they used to call “standards.â€
prismo
8/4/2009-3:49am at 3:49 am (UTC -4)
Happy bday Dirty. I have to catch up now..
CaseStreet
8/3/2009-11:38pm at 11:38 pm (UTC -4)
Can’t believe they almost came back.
Let’s review:
Week b4 trade deadline: Mets take 2-3 from Astros and 3-4 from Rockies, possibly showing Mets F.O. that they’re not dead and are ready to battle.
Week after Mets F.O. do nothing: Mets lose 3-4 to Arizona, by 1 run twice and by 3 runs once.
Did the team lose steam after not getting help in the slugging department? Could an added bat have made enough of a difference to overcome these insurmountable scores?
After careful consideration, the answer is NO. A bat would not have helped. Unfortunately, Mets pitching has sucked in the Arizona series. The powerful bats of the D’backs have scored 3, 6, 5 and 6 runs the past four days. That’s no formula for winning games.
Hopefully, staff aces Santana and Livan (self proclaimed “Hombres”) can steer this ship back on course.
gategem
8/4/2009-2:19am at 2:19 am (UTC -4)
The Mets performance against the Astros, Rockies and D’backs is emblematic of a bad team. Even bad teams have hot streaks. The injuries have reduced this squad to a bad team and as Mets fans we have seen our share of bad teams. Every so often even bad teams rise up and slay the dragon and then fall to an 85 year old grandmother.
Right now I’m just hoping this team finishes far enough down the ladder that they do not have to surrender a number 1 draft pick when signing a type A free agent in the off-season.
CaseStreet
8/4/2009-10:37am at 10:37 am (UTC -4)
I think we might be there now!