Having never seen the movies or read the books I can't take this theme anywhere, but I couldn't resist the title
The New York Mets won the 2nd game of a twi-night doubleheader 10-5 over the Los Angeles Dodgers to take the sweep and to assure themselves of their 3rd consecutive series win after beginning the season by losing each of their 1st 4 series. This was the Mets 1st doubleheader sweep in 3 years, and their 1st doubleheader sweep over the Dodgers since 1971.
Dodger dust bunnies
The Mets took the early lead. Dodgers starter Charlie Haeger (0-3) walked Angel Pagan leading off the bottom of the 1st inning. After a Luis Castillo sacrifice bunt moved Pagan to 2nd base, Jose Reyes singled to center driving him in. Jason Bay followed with a triple to deep center scoring Reyes. It was Bay’s 3rd triple of the season, he had 3 total in all of 2009. David Wright walked for the 21st time this season then Ike Davis hit a sacrifice fly to plate Bay and give the Mets a 3-0 lead after 1 inning.
Human figure represents Oliver Perez, heart represents the Mets lead
Then Mets starter Oliver Perez threw it all away. He walked Andre Ethier leading off the 4th inning, then gave up a single to Rihanna’s boyfriend center fielder Matt Kemp. Perez then uncorked a wild pitch sending the runners to 2nd and 3rd. Then Ronnie Belliard hit a grounder to the shortstop Reyes. Kemp, perhaps thinking of what he might be doing later with Rihanna, foolishly attempted to advance to 3rd and was thrown out by Reyes for a fielder’s choice as Ethier scored and Belliard was safe at 1st. After Blake DeWitt popped out to shallow center Jamey Carroll walked. Dodgers back up catcher A.J. Ellis then singled to drive in Belliard, cutting the Mets lead to 1 run and bringing the pitcher Haeger to the plate. Perez walked Haeger to load the bases and Mets manager Jerry Manuel had seen enough. He summoned reliever Hisanori Takahashi (2-1) from the bullpen, removing Perez after he’d thrown only 75 pitches, with 2 outs in the 4th inning with a 3-2 lead and the bases loaded. Takahashi promptly walked Reed Johnson to force in the tying run, then got James Loney looking at a borderline pitch that was called strike 3 to end the inning. Loney objected to the call vociferously and was ejected from the game.
Now you know the answer to "who's on the $1,000 bill?"
The Mets got the lead back for good in the 5th and David Wright reached a career milestone in the process. Pagan led off with a walk. Castillo also walked and that was the end of the night for Haeger. Ramon Troncoso came on in relief. Reyes grounded into a fielder’s choice with Castillo forced out at 2nd while Pagan advanced to 3rd. After Bay lined out, Wright hit an RBI single driving in Pagan. It was the 1,000th hit of Wright’s career. Then Davis doubled in Reyes and Pagan giving the Mets a 6-3 lead.
Kaboom!
The Mets blew it open in the 6th. Reliever Jon Link entered and Henry Blanco led off with a single and 1 out later Pagan singled moving Blanco to 3rd. Pagan stole 2nd and Castillo walked to load the bases. George Sherrill then relieved Link. Reyes reached on shortstop Carroll’s error as Blanco scored. One out later, Wright got his 1,001st career hit, a bases clearing triple which gave the Mets a 10-3 lead. The Dodgers tacked on a pair of stat building runs to make the final score 10-5.
indeed
Also worthy of mention the Mets bullpen, especially Takahashi, once again shined. He had 3 1/3 innings of 1 run, 5 strikeout relief. Jenrry Mejia threw a scoreless 8th and Raul Valdes allowed 1 run in the 9th to finish the game.
UPDATE 12:50am – With the Phillies loss to the Giants, the Mets are now in 1st place in the NL East.
7 comments
stickguy
4/27/2010-11:32pm at 11:32 pm (UTC -4)
grave working a double today too. Grab a brew man, you earned it.
Funny moment in the phils game (just saw highlights on the local news). howard hit a double (at least he thought so), and just slowed up to coast into 2nd. Well, the OF whipped the ball in to the 2B man, who slapped a tag on as he literally walked up to the bag. Oops. bet the fans that weren’t too thrilled about the big contract aren’t going to react to that play too well, if the phils lose.
But, they also turned an incredible 6-4-3 DP. Valdes at short never touched the ball with his hand, and Utley never used his glove. I expect that it will be the #1 web gem, if you happen to still watch sports center.
metsfan4decades
4/27/2010-11:33pm at 11:33 pm (UTC -4)
Oh, this is so much fun. Seems like it’s been a year. Oh wait, it HAS been about a year….
Hats off to Omar for the Taka pickup. How many times has he come in and saved the day now?
Was hoping for better things from Ollie tonight. Sigh…
Congrats to DWright. His post game interview tonight – anyone see that? His demeanor completely different than the past three weeks.
Bring out the brooms tomorrow, guys!
Oh…just caught a story coming up on Sports Night where Bernazard speaks out saying ‘It was so unfair’. This ought to be interesting….
ceetar
4/27/2010-11:37pm at 11:37 pm (UTC -4)
I mentioned this earlier in the dugout actually. Bernazard comes off basically as an egotistical, angry guy, but there are some interesting pieces in there. Didn’t reflect well on Rubin either in my opinion.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/Rosenthal-interview-with-Tony-Bernazard-042710
metsfan4decades
4/27/2010-11:44pm at 11:44 pm (UTC -4)
Thanks. Intersting…
Took a month and a half after the firing to relax and tour Europe?
I just can’t relate….
ceetar
4/27/2010-11:34pm at 11:34 pm (UTC -4)
Slightly inaccurate. They’ll either be a half game up or a half game down when they wake up.
But for now, tied.
I have a teensy inkling of hope for Maine tomorrow. It’s not much, but it’s there. I said earlier today that Takahashi may be being groomed for Maine’s replacement, and Manuel all but said so in his post game conference.
GravediggerHebner
4/27/2010-11:43pm at 11:43 pm (UTC -4)
You are correct, thanks for the heads up.
I thought Carlin said what I then wrote, I suppose I misheard him.
That sentence has been edited out of the post. This is for the best since I’d rather not be scoreboard watching in April anyway. Plenty of time later for that.
stickguy
4/27/2010-11:43pm at 11:43 pm (UTC -4)
like MF said about Wright (totally different demeanor after a big game), maybe the same can happen with Maine. Finally have a good solid game, and it will be like the weight of the world off his shoulders.
Of course, if he blows up again, expect a DL stint before his next start!\
Man, this could be a really, really big start for him (mets too).