In what would probably be the best representation of the Mets night, the Mets were battling uphill against the Yankees from the 1st. John Niese struggled early, giving up 3 runs in the first but would settle down later on. John threw 101 pitches with 7 strikeouts. Unfortunately, the Mets left their bats in the motor city. Ivan Nova, who got crushed by the Mets last time around, pretty much owned them tonight. Mets were able to scratch out a run with a Ruben Tejada single up the middle but that was about it. Mets did have their chances, but just never cashed in as evidence by their 9 men left on base. Mets would lose this one 5-1. Reyes would also have yet another multi hit game. He now leads the majors with 43 multi hit games.
In today’s edition of “MLB ump’s cant get any worse…can they?”, Jose Reyes got a single to start the bottom of the 7th. Justin Turner flew out to center but was deep enough for Reyes to tag up and move to 2nd. During Reyes slide to 2nd, the Yankees shortstop Nunez half assed the catch from the center fielder and booted the ball, letting it roll away from him. Reyes noticed Nunez lack of hustle and tried to advance to third. Nunez sprinted to the ball and rocketed a throw to third and after a well sold shadow tag, Reyes was out. Chip Hale, who had the best view of anybody immediately came to Reyes’ defense which naturally gave way to Collins arguing…and of course getting tossed. Replay clearly shows Arod didnt tag Reyes. While some may argue that with Beltran coming up, Reyes should have just stayed put at 2nd but id argue the Mets NEEDED something to happen. If Reyes made it, it would have set things up nicely for at lest a sac fly in a 3-1 game. The strike zone was all over the place tonight as well and as any baseball fan knows, you cant win when your playing versus the Yankees AND the umpires.
6 comments
metsfan4decades
7/1/2011-10:30pm at 10:30 pm (UTC -4)
That was quick, Dirty. Probably just wanted to get this over with and move on, huh? LOL.
I had no problem with Jose going for 3rd there. And Balkin’ Bob was consistently awful all night behind the plate as well.
I knew we should have saved some of those runs in Detroit for this series.
Sigh…..
Mr North Jersey
7/1/2011-10:43pm at 10:43 pm (UTC -4)
Yea That Nova kid settled down and got the outs when he needed. After that 1st Niese settled down as well and it was nice to see him get the yankees out with that curve of his.
Come back 2morrow and win and at least have a chance to take the series.
gategem
7/1/2011-11:24pm at 11:24 pm (UTC -4)
Nova has been pitching very well of late. Having Martin behind the plate is a plus and the Yankees actually signed him for less than the Dodgers offered to retain him. The Yankees are well stocked with quality arms in their minors and with Chamberlain, Hughes, Soriano and Feliciano on the DL the Yankees have turned to some of those kids and pickups by Cashman and haven’t missed a beat. In fact I read today that the Yankees have something like 11 players on the DL but they just keep on beating up on other teams. I understand Hughes, Colon and Jeter are ready to come off of the DL and Colon will start in this series. The talent differential between the Mets and Yankees could fill the Grand Canyon so I’ll be happy if the Mets can steal a game in this series. Perhaps with Sandy as GM and (hopefully) with a new owner in a few years the Mets can ascend to the Yankees level and then the Subway Series might mean something.
metsfan4decades
7/2/2011-11:31am at 11:31 am (UTC -4)
I’m reading Gee battling a dead arm phase?
I hate that term. It’s a catch all used when either something is wrong with a pitcher’s arm that they haven’t identified yet or a pitcher is struggling in recent starts and they can’t put their finger on it.
Doesn’t sound good at all. The ASB can’t come quick enough for some like Gee and Turner. Turner appears to be hampered by that bad thumb still.
darknova306
7/2/2011-12:18pm at 12:18 pm (UTC -4)
That’s the beautiful and sometimes frustrating thing about baseball, you get to see what surprise story is for real or not over the course of a really long season. It’ll be interesting to see how this team holds up through July and August.
gategem
7/2/2011-12:06pm at 12:06 pm (UTC -4)
From MMO:
“Yesterday, on July 1st, the Bobby Bonilla received a check in the mail from the New York Mets. The 48 year old received $1,193,248. This is just the first of 25 checks that Bonilla will receive from the team every year on July 1st.
The story of why Bonilla is receiving checks from the Mets is fairly well known. With the 1999 season finished, Bonilla had just one year left on his deal. The Mets owed him $5.9 million.
GM Steve Phillips and owner Fred Wilpon determined that Bonilla was not worth $5.9 million. He definitely wasn’t as in 1999 he posted a horrendous -1.2 WAR.
To put that in perspective, his season was worse than Oliver Perez’s 2010 campaign when he went 0-5 with a 6.80 ERA. Perez posted a slightly better -1.1 WAR that year.
So instead of just buying out Bonilla for $5.9 million that year, the Mets got creative. The team worked out a deal with Bonilla where he would be paid the $5.9 million would be deferred and the Mets would begin to pay him in 2011. The Mets would pay him back over the course of five years.
The two sides agreed to a generous 8% interest rate at the time. As a result, the $5.9 million that the Mets owed to Bonilla will turn into $29,831,205. A 73-year-old Bonilla will receive his last check from the Mets organization in 2035.
Mets fans will unfortunately be reminded about this deal for years to come.”