I think I used this pic last year but hey last year sucked too
The Mets head to Pittsburgh to begin their 18th road series against a National League opponent. Thanks to losing to the Houston Astros 3-2 tonight the Mets split their 4-game series with the Astros at 2 games apiece keeping their road futility intact. In 17 road series so far against NL teams the Mets are 0-13-4. They failed to win tonight because their offense is not major league caliber. Against such luminaries as Houston starter Bud Norris (lifetime 11-10, 5.10) and relievers Wilton Lopez (lifetime 2-4, 4.42) and Brandon Lyon (lifetime 33-39, 4.14) the Mets managed 3 total hits, all singles. Given that offensive output Mets starter Pat Misch (0-2 in 2010) would have had to have been perfect. He was merely “quality” as in he threw a so-called quality start by going at least 6 innings and giving up 3 runs or less. In fact he went precisely 6 innings (plus) and gave up precisely 3 runs which came in a bunch in the top of the 7th when he gave up singles to the 1st 2 batters then a 3-run homer into the Crawford Boxes by Carlos Lee put the game out of reach for the lowly Mets despite their somehow scoring 2 runs of their own which they did in the 4th inning on a walk, a hit-by-pitch, an RBI ground out by Jeff Francoeur and an RBI single by Chris Carter. Watch out Pirates here come the New York Mets!
31 comments
Mr North Jersey
8/19/2010-11:04pm at 11:04 pm (UTC -4)
I know I said this already but welcome back Grave.
Sorry your 1st post since returning couldn’t be of a win.
The Mets make being mediocre look hard.
This Norris guy coming in had given up at least 4 or more runs in 7 of his last 10 starts but we manage only 3 hits and 1 of them from Misch?
kingman 26
8/19/2010-11:05pm at 11:05 pm (UTC -4)
“The Mets make being mediocre look hard.”
Boy oh boy does this sum up this year absolutely PERFECTLY.
metsfan4decades
8/19/2010-11:17pm at 11:17 pm (UTC -4)
Even Jerry knows it. He’s at his wits end. Join the party, Jerry.
‘That’s poor. That’s a very poor effort on our part offensively. We have to do better. Period. It’s just pathetic. We have to do better’.
Sports Night debating – again – why HoJo is still here.
Boy…if they don’t clean house, it’s going to be one long winter as we just keep repeating ourselves.
Mr North Jersey
8/19/2010-11:21pm at 11:21 pm (UTC -4)
Great News!!!
Clemens being indicted may take the media toward talking about someone more pathetic than us.
kingman 26
8/19/2010-11:25pm at 11:25 pm (UTC -4)
+ 10
metsfan4decades
8/19/2010-11:06pm at 11:06 pm (UTC -4)
‘Last year sucked too’.
Well said.
I’ve got nothing.
Tired of seeing our SPs pitch well enough, sometimes better than ‘well’ enough, have quality outings – only to lose the game. The offense still has not read the memo.
All you can do is watch night after night. I guess if it’s good enough for the FO, it should be good enough for us….
Mr North Jersey
8/19/2010-11:07pm at 11:07 pm (UTC -4)
+1
Mr North Jersey
8/19/2010-11:08pm at 11:08 pm (UTC -4)
Jerry on anybody’s approach he liked tonight? “Misch”. Ouch. 4 minutes ago via UberTwitter Retweeted by 1 person
KBurkhardtSNY
http://twitter.com/KBurkhardtSNY/statuses/21631090916
kingman 26
8/19/2010-11:08pm at 11:08 pm (UTC -4)
Every day that we continue to watch the walking dead in Castillo, Francoeur, etc., simply is yet another piece of evidence that this team is completely rudderless and adrift.
A manager who has ZERO answers, a GM who sends down FMart so Frenchy and Carter can play, and ownership who absolutely refuse to show that they care at all about this disaster.
We WILL lose at least 2 of 3 in PIttsburgh to set a new low.
oleosmirf
8/19/2010-11:11pm at 11:11 pm (UTC -4)
to Jerry’s defense, he did ask to bring Rick Down back. He was shot down…
kingman 26
8/19/2010-11:18pm at 11:18 pm (UTC -4)
Oleo, Jerry is filling in names like Castillo and Francoeur and Carter and catchers other than Thole in the lineup card.
This team is just getting worse.
I agree we should have changed hitting coaches as the Phils and Astros did.
But Jerry is NOT coming back, and should be insightful enough to think that playing and perhaps developing the kids might help him in the future.
Writing Francoeur, Castillo, Carter, Barajas, etc on the lineup card to watch them continue to suck is going to do absolutely nothing for anyone.
oleosmirf
8/19/2010-11:29pm at 11:29 pm (UTC -4)
i know you have this hate for Carter, but he probably is the most likely to get hits out there…
rustyjr
8/19/2010-11:16pm at 11:16 pm (UTC -4)
Blame willie !
kingman 26
8/19/2010-11:20pm at 11:20 pm (UTC -4)
Is it inappropriate to blame M. Donald Grant?
Mr North Jersey
8/19/2010-11:22pm at 11:22 pm (UTC -4)
well if you believe in the butterfly effect than Grant deserves blame also.
kingman 26
8/19/2010-11:25pm at 11:25 pm (UTC -4)
Nice….
metsfan4decades
8/19/2010-11:23pm at 11:23 pm (UTC -4)
Maybe not but I’d go for another Midnight Massacre right about now that included the Gm and and all coaches…..
oleosmirf
8/19/2010-11:27pm at 11:27 pm (UTC -4)
the Mets are 1-46 when trailing after 7 innings. i mean all you can do is laugh its that pathetic…
Mr North Jersey
8/19/2010-11:29pm at 11:29 pm (UTC -4)
well we have 1 win. I wonder what the phillies or braves record is? They prob have 0 wins.
asod75
8/20/2010-12:14am at 12:14 am (UTC -4)
I don’t know about that Jers. Seems like the Braves pick up walkoff wins every other night. And it’s not like they even have a great offense. It’s adequate, but they seem to string some hits together when they need it. This is one of the worst offensive stretches I’ve seen from any team in a long time. Absolutely impotent offense since the All-Star break and really a week or two before that. The Mets left their season in Puerto Rico, as everything has gone downhill since that point.
Mr North Jersey
8/20/2010-12:57am at 12:57 am (UTC -4)
You are right. I was trying to be sarcastic I apologize for misleading you.
.In any case I dug up the stats over at B.R. and here is how the NL East stacks up.
When trailing after 7 innings.
Fla – 0 – 48
Was – 1 – 57
NYM – 1 – 46
Atl – 4 – 40
Phi – 6 – 40
The Yankees are 7 – 40
http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/inning_summary.cgi?year_game=2010&team_id=ATL
http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/inning_summary.cgi?year_game=2010&team_id=PHI
http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/inning_summary.cgi?year_game=2010&team_id=NYM
http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/inning_summary.cgi?year_game=2010&team_id=FLA
http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/inning_summary.cgi?year_game=2010&team_id=WSN
http://www.baseball-reference.com/play-index/inning_summary.cgi?year_game=2010&team_id=NYY
GravediggerHebner
8/19/2010-11:30pm at 11:30 pm (UTC -4)
In case I didn’t realize how frustrated watching the Mets makes me I just re-read this post and realized my next-to-last “sentence” is like 100 words long. Sorry folks.
metsfan4decades
8/19/2010-11:38pm at 11:38 pm (UTC -4)
Watching the strugglin’ Mets night after night is apt to destroy one’s brain cells…..
gategem
8/19/2010-11:46pm at 11:46 pm (UTC -4)
It probably took more time to write that than a typical Mets half inning.
gategem
8/19/2010-11:45pm at 11:45 pm (UTC -4)
When I think of the Mets now I think of the quote from the original (1968) version of The Producers:
“Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to discover that he had been transformed into a giant cockroach.” Nah, it’s too good.
stickguy
8/20/2010-1:01am at 1:01 am (UTC -4)
Well, I am glad that after I left in the middle of the 3rd or so, that I ended up reading a book instead of coming back to the game.
Frankly, the only thing that even surprised me is they managed to get 2 runs (of course, enither scored on a hit).
ANd I guess that I was too generous when I set the over/under on hits at 5.5!
Now, Pittsburg. One of the (other) worst teams in the league. Then an off day monday before the next homestand.
If they play like crap and lose in Pitt also, can the entire staff possibly survive until Tuesday? Could even the mets have the gall to try that, and not expect a massive boo fest Tuesday (although all the fans disguised as empty seats probably will be quiet).
Misch seems to have done OK. Maybe ran out of gas a bit in the 7th? But again, no SP ever has a cushion to work with, so 3 runs is certain doom.
Ceetar
8/20/2010-8:47am at 8:47 am (UTC -4)
No one’s getting fired.
Misch did do pretty good. The bomb was an absolute bomb, to a good hitter. It was a mistake, but still gotta leave Misch in there with 70 pitches. not that it mattered.
njstuckintx
8/20/2010-9:14am at 9:14 am (UTC -4)
Yeah, Misch was rolling. 16 in a row before that inning happened. Guy I was sitting with was having this debate with me. I said leave him in, his pitch count was low and this guy was saying no, take him out, something bad is going to happen. The guy is an absolute meatball, but he was unfortunately right. hindsight and all that.
stickguy
8/20/2010-9:26am at 9:26 am (UTC -4)
keep in mind the alternative was the mets pen. So yeah, he was staying in!
And ceetar, I expect you are correct about the firings at tis point. Still, a boy can dream.
only about 7 weeks left in the season. and if jerry and hojo aren’t gone the day after, there will be no fans left for next year.
Ceetar
8/20/2010-9:47am at 9:47 am (UTC -4)
If they had a parade. I’d go.
rustyjr
8/20/2010-10:21am at 10:21 am (UTC -4)
great picture of roadkill lol