Game Time: 7:10pm
The Don's Record: 13-8 Era: 3.10 K: 144 BB: 46 WHIP: 1.21
Mets Notes:
Santana opened Saturday’s start on cruise control, retiring 10 of his first 11 batters and not allowing a hit until the fourth inning. But a 25-pitch sixth inning in which Santana yielded three runs ultimately proved to be his demise. He exited under heated terms, having thrown a brushback pitch to Pablo Sandoval and plunked Bengie Molina in retaliation for a Matt Cain fastball that struck David Wright in the head. Santana allowed four runs on nine hits over 6 2/3 innings in the no-decision. He is 1-1 in two starts against the Braves this season and hasn’t allowed an earned run in 13 1/3 innings.
- Record: 5-9 Era: 4.13 K: 85 BB: 49 WHIP: 1.35
Braves Notes:
Kawakami shouldn’t be too bothered by this matchup against Mets ace Johan Santana. Two of the right-hander’s finest starts this season came amid the pressure of facing Roy Halladay and Daisuke Matsuzaka. Kawakami limited a potent Phillies offense to just three runs in 6 1/3 innings on Saturday and showed no ill effects of the 125-pitch effort he provided on Aug. 8, keeping the Dodgers scoreless for seven innings. In losing his only two previous starts against the Mets this season, the Japanese righty has worked 11 1/3 innings and allowed four earned runs.
30 comments
metsfan4decades
8/20/2009-7:04pm at 7:04 pm (UTC -4)
Go Johan.
Sigh….
CaseStreet
8/20/2009-7:42pm at 7:42 pm (UTC -4)
This lineup is amazing
fightins
8/20/2009-8:36pm at 8:36 pm (UTC -4)
There goes ur # 1 oops I mean 2 or was it #3 santana. Coles going to show you how a real #2 pitches.Yeah Cliff Lee aint no santana thank god for that.
metsfan4decades
8/20/2009-9:20pm at 9:20 pm (UTC -4)
Hey, maybe Lidge could take notes from Billy’s performance tonight. LOL.
trs86
8/20/2009-10:11pm at 10:11 pm (UTC -4)
Man, we even have a blog on our network for you and you come over here. LOL. You guys are better than us and we are already in next year mode and you want to come over and gloat. LOL. You have NO life. You are leading the division after winning a WS and this is the only theing you have to do. Be comment #3 on the Real Dirty METS Blog. Pathetic.
fightins
8/20/2009-10:10pm at 10:10 pm (UTC -4)
On what?how to play for the phillies?We wouldn’t take his sorry mut but back.Sad santana couldnt keep the putrid brave offence from scoring 3 runs.
metsfan4decades
8/20/2009-10:10pm at 10:10 pm (UTC -4)
On what? That’s a joke, right?
trs86
8/20/2009-10:13pm at 10:13 pm (UTC -4)
Sad that Cole Hamels has an ERA of 4.69. I like Cliff Lee, he’s not a Philly yet. Has not been there long enough to get the dirt, slime and grit that it takes to win it the Philly way.
fightins
8/20/2009-10:18pm at 10:18 pm (UTC -4)
Its dirty but we win 3 years straight sorry mut fans
prismo
8/20/2009-10:23pm at 10:23 pm (UTC -4)
Congrats!
trs86
8/20/2009-10:26pm at 10:26 pm (UTC -4)
Again how sad is it that at the top of your franchise history that at 10:20 instead of celebrating with your fans you are on TRDMB? LOL I guess you are actually paying us the highest compliment that anyone can pay. Thank you for your business. You could be out supporting your Phillies blog, getting them the views they need to survive and instead you are here pushing our views up. Thanks again.
But also as a Mets fan, let me caution you on claiming the NL East in late August. Baseball is a crazy game. One that has produced 2 WS championships for you guys in 126 years of existence. I would not be so sure about 2 in a row.
Mr North Jersey
8/20/2009-10:41pm at 10:41 pm (UTC -4)
Fightins let me 1st say welcome to TRDMB as I don’t recall seeing you post here b4.
I want you to know that I am happy for you that your Phillies are playing Great baseball right now and I will not lie when I tell you I wish my Mets were the team in 1st place and not where we are.
I want you to know fightin that I been a Mets fan for 24 years so I seen the highs and lows and these are the lows.
Now… I want to understand how pathetic of a child you must be to come here on 8/20/2009 on a Mets blog one that is probably the only one in the country that is part of a network that supports not just the Mets but yes the Phillies along with the rest of the NL East because we respect the right that all fans should have a place to express themselves.
Now here you are a so-called Phillie fan gloating in a Mets blog when you haven’t even clinched a playoff spot.
Are you Freakin kiddin me?
I know a few Philly fans and all you just did is insult them by calling yourself one also you pathetic excuse of whatever it is you are.
So feel free to go over to nleastchatter.com/philliesphandom as I am sure it will be a fun ride.
But I know this in the end all you are is a shallow thing that crawled out from under a rock and called yourself a philly fan to mask the hole you have where once a soul stood.
fightins
8/20/2009-10:56pm at 10:56 pm (UTC -4)
Yeah ur right I just became a philly fan nothing better to do when you live here all your life than to bash met and yankee fans with all the new york money on loosers let me ask you guys this who do go for in w\s the stankees or the philthies as u call them
prismo
8/20/2009-10:58pm at 10:58 pm (UTC -4)
Grammar police! Paging the grammar police! We have an unidentified run-on sentence in the vicinity! Requesting 3rd grade English!
metsgirl31
8/20/2009-11:00pm at 11:00 pm (UTC -4)
Damn…u beat me to it! That’s just pathetic, isn’t it?
trs86
8/20/2009-11:28pm at 11:28 pm (UTC -4)
LOL, I have no clue what you said but keep posting and we will keep taking the views and stats.
JoeR
8/20/2009-11:20pm at 11:20 pm (UTC -4)
What a boost wagner would have been if we were in this race. with castillo, sheff, pagan playing good combined with our core producing like they do, this could have been one hell of a year….aah man.
Mr North Jersey
8/20/2009-11:22pm at 11:22 pm (UTC -4)
Why did you have to remind me of what could of been
just kiddin but really why did you have to remind me
JoeR
8/20/2009-11:40pm at 11:40 pm (UTC -4)
im sorry…its just so amazing how we never catch a break.
trs86
8/20/2009-11:43pm at 11:43 pm (UTC -4)
Hey, we have caught plenty of BREAKS this year and pulls, strains, and ….
trs86
8/20/2009-11:26pm at 11:26 pm (UTC -4)
Hey did you peek at my post for tomorrow 12:00? Free plug….
JoeR
8/20/2009-11:36pm at 11:36 pm (UTC -4)
haha
JoeR
8/20/2009-11:24pm at 11:24 pm (UTC -4)
Too bad Wagner wouldnt be open to the 8th next year lol…maybe he should have the 9th and Krod the 8th the way he has pitched the second half…
trs86
8/20/2009-11:27pm at 11:27 pm (UTC -4)
Nothing wrong with going back to the ole McDowell Ojeda days.
trs86
8/20/2009-11:31pm at 11:31 pm (UTC -4)
In fact that is a great idea, way to go JoeR.
JoeR
8/20/2009-11:39pm at 11:39 pm (UTC -4)
i know its easy to say Billy is great from one inning but, and kill me if you want, did krod have one inning like that all year!! Just sayin lol not saying i would rather have wags closing but….i like his fight and stuff
trs86
8/20/2009-11:42pm at 11:42 pm (UTC -4)
Yeah, it’s not like Billy was not heart attack Billy in the past. The guy did have 7 blown saves last year through August 7th right? But if you went with the 2 headed closer in theory their numbers would only get better.
JoeR
8/20/2009-11:49pm at 11:49 pm (UTC -4)
i know…it was one hell of an inning though lol
JoeR
8/20/2009-11:52pm at 11:52 pm (UTC -4)
maybe billy has the right to talk like he does. maybe he talks like he does because he knows how mentally weak some of these prissy players are nowadays. sorry im caught in the billy hype lol
udontmesswthejohan
8/21/2009-9:32am at 9:32 am (UTC -4)
Joe, spare me. Please. Two words – Seo Taguchi.