The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
As a Mets fan you’re likely already familiar with Willie Harris, Met-killer. You’re also probably familiar with the fact that no Mets pitcher has ever thrown a no-hitter in the history of, like, forever. You may not be familiar with tonight’s Mets starting pitcher Dillon Gee (1-0) who was making his first major league appearance. So of course Gee began the game by throwing 5 no-hit innings and of course Harris led off the bottom of the 6th with a long home run to right to break up the no-hitter and the shutout because that’s what happens to the Mets.
Don't Think Twice, It's Alright
There were things of greater importance than that pesky no-hitter the Mets just can’t seem to get. All but officially eliminated the Mets have little to play for but the development of their young players and hopefully winning some ballgames while conducting that development. Tonight they managed to successfully combine both goals. Young player Ike Davis continued his recent hot hitting blasting an epic 3-run homer off of Nationals rookie starter Yunesky Maya (0-1) in the bottom of the 1st. The homer was so grand television camera people failed to aim high enough and missed it as it landed in the second deck of Nationals Park. So before young Gee ever took the mound he had a 3-0 lead. He sent the Nationals down 1-2-3 on just 9 pitches in the 1st inning then for good measure he sliced an opposite field RBI single in the top of the 2nd to give himself a 4-0 lead. Another young player, Ruben Tejada, continued his recent hot hitting by pulling a double down the left field line in that 2nd inning and wound up scoring on Gee’s hit. Gee finished up his night with 7 innings of 1 run, 2 hit ball, walking 3 and striking out 4 on 86 pitches in his major league debut. Young Bobby Parnell threw 4 pitches to get the only batter he faced out. So overall it was a pretty good night for the kids. 35 year old Hisanori Takahashi was shaky in the 9th, allowing the Nationals 2 hits, but closed the game out recording his 4th save. Final score New York Mets 4, Washington Nationals 1.
8 comments
metsfan4decades
9/7/2010-9:55pm at 9:55 pm (UTC -4)
I was impressed. Nice ML career start, Gee.
Damn that Willie Harris…..don’t like to see anyone hurt but too bad he didn’t hit his body just a little harder yesterday at the wall so he had to sit out tonight.
Jerry’s post game comment on Gee: ‘He’s a pitcher’.
Brilliant.
Glad to see Ike going back to what was working for Ike when he first came up.
Some nice young talent we’re getting a look-see at this month.
stickguy
9/7/2010-10:07pm at 10:07 pm (UTC -4)
actually was a good comment by jerry.
the opposite of Ollie, who is a “chucker”
metsfan4decades
9/7/2010-9:58pm at 9:58 pm (UTC -4)
Jeeze, did Jerry really just say that Gee might not get another start this month? Said they’ll have to sit down and ‘map it out’, see if they can get him another start or two.
Since we know what Misch is all about, no need to see him so much anymore this month. He’s just really depth right now, IMO. If they continue to skip Johan or shut him down, it’s a no brainer then for Gee. If not, no reason they can’t skip Niese once, or go with a 6th man rotation a time or two.
stickguy
9/7/2010-10:09pm at 10:09 pm (UTC -4)
Gee has thrown a lot of innings, considering he came off an abbreviated year and a labrum tear rehab. he is up to at least 170 innings, actually more than Neise I think.
GravediggerHebner
9/7/2010-10:16pm at 10:16 pm (UTC -4)
So I was bored earlier today and the ubiquitous “Kars for Kids” commercial came on and I tweeted this:
http://twitter.com/GDHebner/status/23252515479
about 8 hours later I received this from the source:
http://twitter.com/kars4kids/status/23866911447
metsfan4decades
9/7/2010-10:38pm at 10:38 pm (UTC -4)
I laughed right out loud when I saw your tweet earlier today.
Nice response –
stickguy
9/7/2010-10:25pm at 10:25 pm (UTC -4)
there is really something wrong when kars 4 kids has a twitter account.
1-877-kars for kids. KARS kars for kids….
man, I hate that jingle.
metsfan4decades
9/7/2010-10:39pm at 10:39 pm (UTC -4)
I literally began muting the sound when that commercial came on. I couldn’t listen to that jingle one more time. Part of the problem when you only have about a half dozen sponsors.