Johan Santana is back on the mound and the mind for the first time since before I knew who Lucas Duda, Zack Wheeler, and Irving Picard were. He’s taking on the World Series champ Cardinals and ESPN’s bottom line has those of us who can’t (stand to) watch covered. Apparently, Johan has gone two scoreless, surrendering a harmless single and a lone walk. Unfortunately, no K’s just yet.
Looks like he just got pulled, so two innings it is for Johan. Let’s hope the next few days of recovery go smoothly and that he doesn’t come down with Valley Fever.
In the other Mets game…yes there are two of them going on simultaneously…Wandy Rodriguez is working us and getting some help from a couple early Mets errors. Would it shock you to learn Murph made a throwing error? No? Me neither. I certainly don’t care if we win either of these games but let’s hope the mistakes get ironed out.
It’s great to back after a bit of a hiatus but it should be an interesting year, if nothing else. Speaking of hiatus’, shout out to Joe Petruccio who’s back to his old tricks over at My Mets Journal. Check him out.
7 comments
Stick
3/6/2012-3:52pm at 3:52 pm (UTC -4)
well, living is certainly better than the alternative…
MetsFan4Decades
3/6/2012-4:01pm at 4:01 pm (UTC -4)
LOL….bad.
MetsFan4Decades
3/6/2012-4:01pm at 4:01 pm (UTC -4)
I was encouraged by what I saw. Long way to go yet.
Stick
3/6/2012-5:03pm at 5:03 pm (UTC -4)
I figure that as long as his arm didn’t fly off and hit the umpire, all is well.
Huge step if he is throwing free and easy, and not feeling pain. No clue how long the repair will hold, but at least it seems at this point that he has been “fixed”
MetsFan4Decades
3/6/2012-7:18pm at 7:18 pm (UTC -4)
Yup. So far, so good.
Meanwhile, Wright has been pushed back to at least early next week. Martino on DNL tonight termed it ‘rib cage/oblique’ problem.
Oblique injury? Ugh.
Beato says his problem is ST normal shoulder stiffness.
Ceetar
3/6/2012-7:31pm at 7:31 pm (UTC -4)
I don’t think there’s new info, I think Martino’s just ad-libbing.
supposedly he did his normal workouts, I imagine they’re being just super extra cautious and figure no point sending him out there until there is no pain whatsoever at all for a good day or two.
Still, you’d like to see him out there.
wanny
3/6/2012-8:34pm at 8:34 pm (UTC -4)
given the recovery histories of other pitchers who have had the surgery santana has had (or something close to it), i.e. Wang and Young (sounds like a law firm in Korea), i’m not optimistic that santana is going to be a real factor this year. i’d probably sign up for 150 IP with a sub 4 ERA and I’m not even expecting that much.