The Mets failed to regain their manhood tonight
The New York Mets offensive impotence continued as the team slid into beautiful Chavez Ravine. Beginning a 4-game series at the Los Angeles Dodgers brought no release for pent-up Mets hitters. LA starter Hiroki Kuroda (8-8) held the Mets scoreless on 5 hits and 1 walk over 8 innings. The Mets countered with their own Japanese hurler and Hisanori Takahashi (7-5) held most of the Dodgers hitters in check but Matt Kemp destroyed Takahashi’s young girl dreams of Vassar with an RBI double in the 1st inning and a solo home run in the 7th that gave the Dodgers more than enough offense, despite their measly total of 4 hits as a team, to defeat the flaccid Mets. Hong-Chih Kuo pitched a scoreless 9th for his 3rd save. Los Angeles 2, New York 0.
Update: Nieve DFA’d most likely for Acosta. More tomorrow when all the sensible people are actually awake.
11 comments
metsfan4decades
7/23/2010-1:05am at 1:05 am (UTC -4)
Running out of words….
At least Taka looked good tonight. Here’s hoping that’s b/c he was sharp and not just b/c the Dodgers offense has struggled only slightly less than ours their past 10 games or so…
whataputz
7/23/2010-1:23am at 1:23 am (UTC -4)
it’s gotten to the point where when i’m watching the game and someone strikes out in a big spot or so I don’t even have it in me to yell at the tv. Instead of “cmon! hit the feaking ball!” it’s just “oooo whyyyyy! they’re sooo baddd!!”
metsfan4decades
7/23/2010-1:23am at 1:23 am (UTC -4)
Announced on Post game show that the Mets DFA’d Nieve. No roster replacement named at this time.
Strange….
metsfan4decades
7/23/2010-1:26am at 1:26 am (UTC -4)
According to FWICG.com, Acosta on his way.
And LOL….MC is working on a new format for his blog – again.
njstuckintx
7/23/2010-7:43am at 7:43 am (UTC -4)
Not that I think Nieve is amazing or anything, but you take a guy, blow out his arm in 1 months time, then never use him, then start to use him every other day it seems so he starts sucking and then you kick him to the curb. Sounds like a bad teen movie without the feel good ending.
stickguy
7/23/2010-1:40am at 1:40 am (UTC -4)
just saw wiggington go absolutely nuts after the ump blew a call at 1B. Thought his head was going to explode.
now that is some serious grustle. something the mets dont have much of at the moment.
steveo
7/23/2010-2:00am at 2:00 am (UTC -4)
All I can say is wow. This is as bad as I have seen this team in years, at this point just cut um all.
I know that it will turn around sometime but were talkin a major turn around and Im starting to believe that this current group of players dont have anything left in the tank .I would be surprised to see them win another game on this trip.
when this team gets back to NY there might not be any fans to greet them at citifield.And leave it to omar the genius to make a retarded comment like Jerrys job is safe .I think it would be funny when they come back home if Omar was fired and jerry was sparred for a day or two.
Mr North Jersey
7/23/2010-2:19am at 2:19 am (UTC -4)
Did you not hear? Minaya said Jerry is doing a good job.
gategem
7/23/2010-2:41am at 2:41 am (UTC -4)
I don’t know if anybody mentioned this since I have not read all the posts today so I apologize if I’m repeating what has already been discussed but the Phillies fired their hitting coach. From the News Journal:
“The Phillies tonight fired hitting coach Milt Thompson and replaced him with another former Phils player and the man he succeeded in the position, Greg Gross.
Gross, who played on the 1980 and ’83 World Series teams, has been a coach for Triple-A Lehigh Valley the past three seasons. He was the Phillies’ major league hitting coach from 2002-04 before being reassigned to the player development system in 2005.
Of the 16 National League teams, the Phillies rank 12th in batting average (.254). They rank sixth in runs scored, seventh in total bases and sixth in slugging percentage. They rank 10th in walks, but only one other NL team, the Astros, has struck out fewer times.
Before today’s 2-0 win in St. Louis , the Phils had lost six out of seven and been outscored 48-25 over that stretch.
The Phillies have finished first or second in the National League in runs scored for five straight seasons, but have scored two runs or less in 32 of their 94 games this season.
Thompson joined the Phils staff as first base coach in 2003. He became hitting coach the next season.
gipperpdx
7/23/2010-3:33am at 3:33 am (UTC -4)
WTF?????
FIRE
JERRY
NOW!
njstuckintx
7/23/2010-7:49am at 7:49 am (UTC -4)
Just do something, right? Well, Nieve is gone, so there is your reactionary move. uff da…