The Mets beat the Marlins today in Miami by the score of 9-3.
Why the Mets won:
Hitting. Hitting. Hitting. The Mets put on a show at the plate today, pounding out 16 hits against the Marlins pitching staff. Eight of nine starters had a hit and three had at least three hits.
Why the Marlins lost:
Ricky Nolasco was not sharp at all today. He looked awful in the first inning, throwing 25 pitches. He was pulled after 4.2 innings, giving up nine hits and six runs. He also walked three batters.
Points of discussion:
- David Wright had a great day at the plate as well as in the field. He went 4-6 and made some flashy plays at third as well. He hit a solo home run off Ricky Nolasco in the third inning and finished with three RBI. He has just been so good this year, leading the NL in batting and really making a case for a contract extension.
- R.A. Dickey was decent, allowing two runs on nine hits over six innings. He was hit by a pitch on his wrist, but stayed in the game. UPDATE: According to Andy McCullough, Dickey will not have an X-Ray on his right wrist.
- The Mets bullpen was much better today, allowing only one run in three innings. Manny Acosta gave up one run on two hits, getting the first two outs in the seventh. Besides that, however, Tim Byrdak, Bobby Parnell, and D.J. Carrasco pieced together a decent performance, holding the MArlins scoreless the rest of the game.
- Lucas Duda had a nice day, going 3-6 with two doubles. He seems to be bouncing back, unlike Ike Davis. Ike was 0-5 today, including three strikeouts. I’m starting to worry about him now.
- Lastly, Daniel Murphy had a productive day. He went 3-4, along with a walk. The one thing the FOX broadcast team got right today was their praise of him. He really is a pure hitter with a bright future. Daniel’s batting average is now at .321.
The Mets and Marlins play a rubber game tomorrow, with Jon Niese facing off against Carlos Zambrano.
19 comments
Stickguy
5/12/2012-5:16pm at 5:16 pm (UTC -4)
starting to worry about Ike? you certainly have a lot of patience!
and hopefully Dickey just has a bruise of something. Hard to think that he really damaged anything, since he stayed in and pitched fine. Really cannot afford to lose him!
ConnorUAF
5/12/2012-5:25pm at 5:25 pm (UTC -4)
Well now I’m starting to REALLY worry about him. I gave him a month because lots of players start off slow (eg: the other NY first baseman) for the first month of the season.
Mr North Jersey
5/12/2012-5:26pm at 5:26 pm (UTC -4)
Very good comeback win. Nice job to hand Nolasco his 1st loss of 2012. Watching Dickey grab his wrist after getting hit by the ball left me only thinking that he may have broke it. I’ll be very attentive the next few days until I hear Dickey get a clean bill of health.
How about Mr. Wright? Show the man some love or rather let me show the man some love for his play thus far this season and I am not talking about his .402 batting average. I am talking about his defense. The man has been locked in defensively.
I want to take a moment to recognize Mike Baxter’s contributions thus far this season coming off the bench. Nice job Baxter keep it up.
Positives for me goes to David Wright. The man goes 4 for 6 1/HR 3/RBI 2/R and 0/SO to raise his batting average to .402. Nice job.
Niese on the hill 2morrow as we try to take the series and end the road trip 5-1 and reaching 6 games above .500.
LGM!!!
srt
5/12/2012-5:28pm at 5:28 pm (UTC -4)
Wright is just on fire.
Dickey said after the game, he doesn’t really think he needs an x-ray, it throbs a little but nothing bad. They’ll probably make him get one anyway.
3-4-5 hitters today doing a lot of damage. I think the only starter not to get a hit was Ike – even Dickey had one hit.
Not sure I’d call Carrasco’s performance all that decent. He better have been pitching to the score b/c if that was a close game, I’d characterize his bottom of the 9th as poor.
Honorable mention to Whitestone Mike as a PH. He seems to get the job done more often than not.
ConnorUAF
5/12/2012-5:31pm at 5:31 pm (UTC -4)
No he wasn’t great, but he didn’t allow a run, which is all that matters.
srt
5/12/2012-7:32pm at 7:32 pm (UTC -4)
Fair point.
Oklahoma Met
5/12/2012-11:08pm at 11:08 pm (UTC -4)
Carrasco. Bleh. Was not excited to have him back.
ConnorUAF
5/12/2012-5:30pm at 5:30 pm (UTC -4)
David Wright- hitting .402 with 4 HR, 21 RBI, .489 OBP. WOW. He is also hitting .459 away from Citi Field.
ConnorUAF
5/12/2012-5:34pm at 5:34 pm (UTC -4)
UPDATE:
“No x-xray for Dickey, the team says. Ball left a nice scuff mark on his right wrist.”
-@McCulloughSL
Stickguy
5/12/2012-6:06pm at 6:06 pm (UTC -4)
gotta admit, dickey is one tough dude. he has just kept pitching, and pitching well, even while hurt.
NJstuckinTX
5/12/2012-5:46pm at 5:46 pm (UTC -4)
It’s such an about face thing to write, but man, I would have never figured Ike to fall this far from what he was progressing into. We all had him penciled in for huge success. Right now, he needs about 2 weeks in the minors, get his head on straight, work out his kinks and get rid of this entitlement mentality where he is yelling at the umps. It was a couple days ago, but when Ike slammed his glove on the ground when they couldn’t turn a double play (the guy sliding into 2nd base got called for interference, so they did get the 2 outs on the play) all I could think of was showing up and ump is going to get you on the bad side of every call you’ll see going forward. Borderline pitches will be strikes, all day long.
Glad Murph is hitting like a champ. Wish there was a little more power there. He’s a perfect #2 hitter. Had the team had a competent RH batter on the team other than Wright (all eyes stare condescendingly towards Bay), rolling with Murph, Wright, Duda, Competent RH bat would be a perfect 2/3/4/5 combo… oh well.
Stickguy
5/12/2012-6:08pm at 6:08 pm (UTC -4)
I’m still on board with a 2 week or so stint in buffalo. And do it now, so he can be back for June!
much more of this, and he may never see the mendoza line this year.
gategem
5/13/2012-1:53am at 1:53 am (UTC -4)
Three things you can bank on:
Some time this season
• Ike will start to hit,
• Baxter will stop his Rusty Staub imitation and
• Duda will fall down chasing a ball in the outfield.
gategem
5/12/2012-7:24pm at 7:24 pm (UTC -4)
Nice bounce back win and I invoke clichés 37 through 41 which says it all.
If the Mets at 16 hits put on a hitting clinic then the Fish at 13 hits put on a faux hitting clinic.
If 9 runs on 16 hits is a hitting clinic then what was 9 runs on 17 hits in the game Colorado won 18-9 with 18 runs on 19 hits and 11 runs in the 5th inning?
Ike has shown signs of recovery with today being a temporary setback. I previously called for a trip to Buffalo for him but no longer.
srt
5/12/2012-9:09pm at 9:09 pm (UTC -4)
Think I’m gonna go with gategem on this one regarding Ike.
You can see he’s completely frustrated. I’ll agree though something has to change in the next few weeks.
darknova306
5/12/2012-7:33pm at 7:33 pm (UTC -4)
Unfortunately I missed the game cause I forgot it was a 1pm start. Lame.
Anyway, does anyone else see .700 winning percentage against the division as unsustainable? It just makes me think that when this team comes back to earth, it’s be fast and hard.
Stickguy
5/12/2012-8:12pm at 8:12 pm (UTC -4)
there will be ups. and downs. hopefully more up than down though by the end~
SaltyGary
5/12/2012-10:11pm at 10:11 pm (UTC -4)
Well if the keep these ups, there won’t be enough games for a sharp down.
gategem
5/13/2012-1:45am at 1:45 am (UTC -4)
The season is interminably long (it reminds me of project I’m consulting on that has resulted in three program managers becoming monks) so as of now there is still time for a reversal. So don’t give up hope.