"I'm heading to South Beach to join LeBron, Bosh & Wade!"
New York Mets third baseman David Wright has an uncanny ability to get 1 All-Star game hit every year, will that trend continue tonight?
July 11, 2006 – At PNC Park; Wright’s 1st All-Star game; started at 3B for the NL, batting 6th; 1 for 3, solo home run off Kenny Rogers in the bottom of the 2nd inning to tie the game at 1-1.
July 10, 2007 - At AT&T Park; started at 3B for the NL, batting 5th; 1 for 3, single off Justin Verlander in the bottom of the 6th.
July 15, 2008 - At Yankee Stadium; reserve for the NL, entered the game in the 8th inning as a pinch-hitter for DH Albert Pujols, struck out looking against Jonathan Papelbon; finished 1 for 3 with a single off George Sherrill in the top of the 13th inning.
July 14, 2009 - At Busch Stadium; started at 3B for the NL, batting 6th; 1 for 2, single off Roy Halladay in the bottom of the 2nd inning.
Other than Wright getting exactly 1 hit in each of his All-Star game appearances the common thread is that his team, the National League All-Stars, lost each of these games. Here’s hoping Wright helps the NL turn that trend around tonight.
(Note to Charlie Manuel:Â as soon as you take Wright out of the game, I’m changing the channel.)
19 comments
ceetar
7/13/2010-4:53pm at 4:53 pm (UTC -4)
Here is David Wright scoring on that home run in 2006.
http://picasaweb.google.com/ceetar/AllStarGAme#5492292667961633074
ceetar
7/13/2010-4:57pm at 4:57 pm (UTC -4)
CaseStreet
7/13/2010-5:11pm at 5:11 pm (UTC -4)
We’re going to need home field advantage.
I’m calling it now, a Subway World Series – A decade later!
youngvalerawest
7/13/2010-6:11pm at 6:11 pm (UTC -4)
Do you mean it will be sponsored by a bacon and steak melt sandwich or that Jared will claim to have lost weight by eating sandwiches with olives on them?
ceetar
7/13/2010-6:16pm at 6:16 pm (UTC -4)
eh, Yankees aren’t making it.
CaseStreet
7/13/2010-6:27pm at 6:27 pm (UTC -4)
I hope you’re right. I’d rather face the Red Sox than the Yankees.
I see us facing the Cards, then the Phils and finally the Yanks.
Mets win in 6. Lock it up.
ceetar
7/13/2010-6:32pm at 6:32 pm (UTC -4)
Yankees have a shot, the Phillies do not.
I’m still thinking Rays in the AL though.
Mr North Jersey
7/13/2010-6:47pm at 6:47 pm (UTC -4)
How are the Nats chances? LoL
ceetar
7/13/2010-6:54pm at 6:54 pm (UTC -4)
Nats? What league are they in? Atlantic?
Mr North Jersey
7/13/2010-7:05pm at 7:05 pm (UTC -4)
LOL
CaseStreet
7/13/2010-6:43pm at 6:43 pm (UTC -4)
the way the Yankees have been playing because of their pitching + lineup + small ass stadium almost guarantees they’ll be there at the end.
I’m not discounting the Phils until they’re 10 out. I know they have injuries and pitching issues, but it seems there replacements are stepping up. Like WTF are Schneider and Valdez doing hitting walk offs?
ceetar
7/13/2010-6:53pm at 6:53 pm (UTC -4)
I don’t know, but don’t expect it to continue.
Besides, the Mets are due for a killer west coast road trip and own the Diamondbacks at that place. (hmm, where have I heard that before?)
metsfan4decades
7/13/2010-8:04pm at 8:04 pm (UTC -4)
I don’t care what anyone else thinks….I think the Phillies have been very lucky thus far this season.
Schneider? Valdez? Exactly….
metsfan4decades
7/13/2010-8:06pm at 8:06 pm (UTC -4)
Love the Note to Charlie.
It’s only been 2 days and I’m going through baseball withdrawal already. I’ll be watching the whole game.
Annoying was Loud Mouths this evening discussing how interesting it will be to see who Gerardi picks to bring in as his closer. Say what? They’ve already got the AL as having won this game? Bah….
Hazmet
7/13/2010-8:53pm at 8:53 pm (UTC -4)
Speaking like Yoda ur?
re – last para.;)
This 3 days off seems like an eternity already. I’m actually watching a forensic analysis of King Henry the VIII health degradation on Nat Geo. Man I’m boring….
GravediggerHebner
7/13/2010-11:57pm at 11:57 pm (UTC -4)
If it makes you feel any better when the NL took David Wright out of the game I turned to a Biography Channel documentary about “Family Ties.”
Woooooo! NL! Wooooo!
njstuckintx
7/13/2010-9:50pm at 9:50 pm (UTC -4)
David, 2-2. Take that Placebo!
trs86
7/13/2010-11:56pm at 11:56 pm (UTC -4)
LOL< I am so glam my nickname has stuck.
njstuckintx
7/14/2010-12:14am at 12:14 am (UTC -4)
It’s easier to say than “sugar pill”, unless that’s what his old lady call him…