Mike Pelfrey took the mound tonight to try to even up the Subway Series and he had his work cut out for him for the opposing pitcher was 5 game winner Phil Hughes. Both pitchers had trouble in the first inning. Pelfrey gave up a walk to Teixeira and gave up a base hit to A-Rod but managed to get out of it with a Cano pop up. Hughes, however, would get tagged for a couple of runs and it would begin with  a double from Jason Bay. Hughes would then walk Ike Davis and David Wright would single up the middle and score Bay. Angel Pagan would single too and score Davis and the inning would end with Wright getting tagged out going to third.
Both pitchers seem to settle in as they both threw a scoreless Second inning.  The top of the third saw a great leaping catch  by Ike Davis to snag a base hit away from Derek Jeter.  Hughes was cruising through the third and had two outs until Bay singled and Davis drew a walk, Wright would again single up the middle and score Bay from second. Angel Pagan would fly out. Pelfrey would give up only a single in the top of the fourth and Hughes would match him with a zero in the bottom of the frame.
 A little action in the fifth when Randy Winn led off with a single and was sacrificed over by Hughes, but  Derek Jeter would ground out and  Bret Gardner would strike out to end the threat. The Mets also threatened in the bottom of the fifth after Reyes would pop up for the third time, however, Castillo would draw a walk and Bay would single again to push Castillo over to third.  But both Davis and Wright would strike out on fast balls to end the inning.
Mike Pelfrey got in trouble in the sixth when, after striking out Teixeira and A-Rod, gave up a  hit to Cano and a double to  Swisher.  A single from Cervelli would score the first run for the Yankees.  Pelfrey was done for the night- His line: 6 innings, 6 hits, 1 run, 5 strike outs….WOW
The Mets would get that run back when Pagan would lead off the bottom of the sixth with a double when Randy Winn botched a fly ball in the corner of Right Field. Rod Barajas would hit a ground ball to first that would move Pagan over to third base. Frenchy would strike out and Alex Cora, who was hitting for Pelfrey, would hit a base hit and score Pagan. The Yankees would go to their bull pen with Chan Ho Park who gave up a hit to Jose Reyes. Castillo would end the threat with a ground ball to Teixeira.
Jenrry Mejia would come in the top of the 7th and give up a lead off hit to Russo and a walk to Jeter but  Bret Gardner would ground out and Teixeira would come to bat with runners on second and third and strike out. Jenrry Mejia was throwing 97 mph fastballs at A-Rod to get him to ground out to David Wright. Chan Ho Park would come out for the bottom of the seventh and immediately give up an infield hit to Jason Bay, who would steal second later in the inning for his 6th stolen base of the season.  After an Ike Davis pop up, Wright would fly out and Angel Pagan, would stay hot, would single him in to increase the Met lead to 5-1.Â
Feliciano would not retire a batter and load the bases to boot in the bottom of the 8th. Manuel would give him the hook for Nieve who would strike out Juan Miranda but walk  Kevin Russo thus cutting the Met lead to 3. Nieve would get the hook too for K-Rod for a 5 out save. Jeter would hit into a fielders choice, scoring a run and Bret Gardner would ground out to Wright.Â
The real test for K-Rod would be in the top of the ninth when he would have to face Teixeira, A-Rod and Cano. K-Rod would strike out Teixeira, give up a base hit to A-Rod, get Cano ground out and give up a hit to Nick Swisher. Cervelli would end the game by striking out.
The Mets will try a take the rubber game tomorrow with Johan Santana on the hill.
8 comments
CaseStreet
5/22/2010-11:18pm at 11:18 pm (UTC -4)
Good game by Big Pelf. That splitter is working wonders. Found this good article on Pelf’s splitter.
http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/04/30/split-gives-mike-pelfrey-ace-personality/
metsfan4decades
5/22/2010-11:24pm at 11:24 pm (UTC -4)
Big Pelf got it done!
Nice to see some hits and RBIs for Bay and Wright.
Someone needs to smack Reyes upside the head for his base running lately. My observation is he makes some bad base running decisions when he’s hitting poorly, like he is now. He starts hitting, hopefully he’ll stop doing that.
BP is starting to show wear and tear we knew it would. Kudos for KRod to finishing it out. Getting Iggy back tomorrow and when asked on the post game, Jerry said they know what the roster move would be but they haven’t announced it yet.
Jerry said as far as Maine, further tests early this week then come up with a plan for him.
Maine said is hoping he’ll be back in 15 days. He said Omar told him he would be going on the DL and he told Omar he didn’t want to go on DL. He also said there is still something going on ‘back there’ (I guess that means the shoulder). He said if tests all come back negative, he’ll go from there.
When asked, he also said it’s not dead arm and it’s not weakness.
So we shall see….
metsfan4decades
5/22/2010-11:27pm at 11:27 pm (UTC -4)
It’s Acosta going down for Iggy.
Not sure I like that move, but Ollie is putting them in a poor position taking up a spot in that BP.
njstuckintx
5/22/2010-11:30pm at 11:30 pm (UTC -4)
Acosta hasn’t shown me much. BUT! I’d rather Mejia down to stretch out. TRS mention in the dugout that he could be stretched out here, but i’m not sure how that happens. I’d rather had misch for a little while to get Mejia back to throw in the 5th spot.
stickguy
5/23/2010-12:19am at 12:19 am (UTC -4)
I am fully on board with mejia going down. he has also been worked pretty hard lately, and that does need to be factored in for him.
Acosta has actually been doing reasonably well lately, and no reason really not to work him like a mule!
And the serious shortage of SP depth right now (hey, did they sign maya yet?) really lends itself to sending mejia down. He certainly isn’t going to stretch out up here.
But, at least they will be able to hang onto Acosta, unlike last year when they seemed to lose guys all the time.
stickguy
5/23/2010-12:27am at 12:27 am (UTC -4)
Oh, they may end up needing another pitcher next week anyway, right? I guess it depends on if they plan to use valdez, or just take advantage of the day off monday, but I think they do need another long man in the pen without valdez and taka available.
So, wonder if the next move is Mejia down to get a SP/long man up (Misch?) otherwise the easy way out is dessens back down, but that still leaves the pen thin.
njstuckintx
5/22/2010-11:26pm at 11:26 pm (UTC -4)
w00t. That about sums it up.
DNDJohan aka kistics
5/23/2010-8:35am at 8:35 am (UTC -4)
Cerveli is one annoying little pesky thing. His helmet is annoying…