PITCHER
Boy, Ill tell ya what, John Maine is coming along pretty well. After a horrible start to his season, John Maine has put together two quality starts in a row for the Mets. Unfortunately for Maine, his good outing could not result in a win but he definitely deserved it. Maine went 6 innings with 6 punch outs over 102 pitches. What I liked about Maine was his location of his pitches and as Mr North Jersey pointed out in the dugout, Maine was hitting 90 mph quite consistently over his start. We can only hope that Maine was just not prepared to go coming out of spring training and has now amassed enough work to be consistent going forward.
HITTER
THE CHAMP IS HERE! Rod “swing hard” Barajas hit a home run off Francisco Cordero in the 9th inning to salvage a game that seemed to be heading in the same direction as last nights affair. The inning just before Rods super clutch homer, Fernando “everyday” Nieve gave up two runs to tie the game, which set the Reds up for another walk off win. That was until Barajas hit his Mets home run leading shot to give them the lead that K-Rod sealed for the win. Rod hit his 7th home run of the season and get this, Barajas has homered 5 times in the last 9 games. Needless to say, Rod’s performance have Met fans saying “Brian who…..”.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Jose Reyes had a good day at the plate, going 2-4 with an RBI
David Wright hit a 455 foot blast for his 6th home run of the game
Pedro Feliciano for his one pitch win tonight
8 comments
stickguy
5/4/2010-11:26pm at 11:26 pm (UTC -4)
always nice to get a win.
stickguy
5/4/2010-11:42pm at 11:42 pm (UTC -4)
amazing though, how much better 15-12 looks instead of 14-13.
15-12 looks like a real team, building a winning season. projects to 90 wins.
14-13 looks like a team 1 win from being .500 again. projects to 84 wins.
I know, early yet, small sample size, yada yada, yada.
but all these wins count, and really, the difference at year end between a 90 win and 84 win team is pretty slim (no need for the snide comments about the answer being 6!) I mean in terms of talent, and which teams end up where.
so don’t get me started on how many games jerry at the helm might mean out of that 6!
trs86
5/5/2010-7:32am at 7:32 am (UTC -4)
Completely agree. That is why I have said all along that this team is an 82-90 win team. It really could go either way.
stickguy
5/4/2010-11:46pm at 11:46 pm (UTC -4)
Ha. lead story on the local philly news is all about the Tazing. Even better, there was another moron fan in a philly shirt running on the field tonight (no tazing though).
even had interviews with the governor and police chief.
Dumb kid was only 17, so at least he won’t get too much of a record as a minor.
metsfan4decades
5/4/2010-11:56pm at 11:56 pm (UTC -4)
Maine making progress. Good to see. He said after the game, he’s still working on getting his secondary pitches where he needs them to be. But his fast balls have been getting him by so far. He’s got late movement on them, which is why even though he’s throwing just about all fastballs, and the hitters probably know it, they still can’t hit it.
Gotta love the long ball!
ceetar
5/5/2010-12:30am at 12:30 am (UTC -4)
still, he was having some success with the breaking stuff, and all fastballs won’t cut it. He’s gotta mix in a couple more I think, overall.
but whatever works really. I was never expecting him to be a consistent well above 500 pitchre.
trs86
5/5/2010-7:33am at 7:33 am (UTC -4)
If healthy I expect him to be about 14-10 with a high 3, low 4 ERA.
Mr North Jersey
5/5/2010-10:22am at 10:22 am (UTC -4)
Hey, I got an Honorable mention!
