At least your suffering was unearned
With the New York Mets leading 3-0 in the top of the 4th Atlanta Braves 1B Derrek Lee singled off Mets starter Jonathon Niese (9-9). 1 out later Matt Diaz hit a ground ball to Mets 3B David Wright who threw low and wide of 2nd baseman Ruben Tejada in an attempt to start a double play and the throwing error put runners on 1st and 2nd. 1 out later Melky Cabrera singled to drive in Lee. Niese then walked his opposite number Tommy Hanson (10-11) and would regret it. Omar Infante doubled to drive in Lee and Diaz to tie the game at 3 runs apiece. The most awesome rookie ever Jason Heyward then launched a 3-run homer deep into the Flushing night to give the Braves a 6-3 lead. All 6 runs were unearned due to the error. The Mets less awesome rookie Lucas Duda hit a long solo home run himself in the bottom of the 4th but that was as close as the Mets would get. Ex-Met Billy Wagner finished up for his 34th save. Final score Atlanta Braves 6, New York Mets 4.
"Yo la tengo"
The game had started better for the Mets. With 1 out in the bottom of the 2nd inning Ike Davis walked on a borderline pitch called a ball by homeplate umpire Bill Hohn. Braves manager Bobby Cox objected strongly to the call and was ejected by Hohn. Hanson may have been rattled by the ejection. He allowed a single to Josh Thole then an RBI-single to Duda. 1 out later Niese singled to drive in Thole, then Jose Reyes capped the scoring with a single of his own to plate Duda and the Mets had a 3-0 lead after 2 innings. It wouldn’t last long.
5 comments
metsfan4decades
9/17/2010-10:03pm at 10:03 pm (UTC -4)
Bah…
6 unearned runs, ugly. But Niese has got to make some pitches there, get out of the inning.
Bobby O all over the kids Niese and Thole. Said it was poorly executed by Niese and poorly called by Thole. Said you cannot live on the inside of the plate constantly as Niese was doing tonight. If you don’t think you’ve got your best stuff or the curve, you have to throw it anyway. Batters don’t much know you don’t have that pitch that night
Bobby said they’ll learn.
Only good thing about this loss is not helping the Phillies.
stickguy
9/17/2010-10:10pm at 10:10 pm (UTC -4)
well, that is the one benefit to an off year, and being out of it early. The younger guys get a chance to learn on the job.
metsfan4decades
9/17/2010-10:04pm at 10:04 pm (UTC -4)
Whatever went down with Pagan being late Jerry wouldn’t discuss it other than it was very emotional for him. Said he’ll let Pagan explain it.
So I guess Pagan will be up soon in the post game show.
metsfan4decades
9/17/2010-10:17pm at 10:17 pm (UTC -4)
O.K….Bobby Cox is classy.
His interview about that first game back after 9/11:
‘It bothered me that we lost but after it was over, it was O.K. That game belonged to NY that night’.
stickguy
9/17/2010-10:53pm at 10:53 pm (UTC -4)
Really glad to see Duda starting to show why he was the organizational player of the year.
I was getting tired of trying to point out to folks on that other sight that even starting out 1-32 did not mean that he was worthless trash, and completely unready to ever be near the majors!