The stage was set for R.A. Dickey….He was facing the Marlins, a team he had beaten five time this season. The weather woudn’t be a factor becasue the match was inside. The Marlins had 2-5 Jacob Turner on the bump.
It’s too bad the Mets couldn’t find any bats in the dugout until the top of the eighth inning after Dickey had left the game down by three. Jacob Turner, on the other hand, shut the Mets down for 7 innings tonight.
It was a scoreless game, that is, until Gorky Hernandez hit a solo home run in the bottom of the fourth. Rob Brantly hit his third home run of the year in the bottom of the fifth to add to the Marlin lead of 2-0.
Then there was a time in this game that baseball really meant nothing. Adam Greenberg, hit in the head by a fastball 7 years ago, made his first plate appearance and struck out. But the crowd went wild. The Marlins would add another run making the score 3-0.
It was in the top of the eighth inning when the Mets found their bats and again, like so many other times, it began with a Valdespin one out double followed by a Daniel Murphy single that put runners on the corners for the Amazin’s. Heath “I hate the Mets” Bell was called in by Ozzie and gave up a single to David Wright putting the Mets on the board. Ike “don’t trade me” Davis drew a walk to load the bases for Scott Hairston who, after Bell threw a wild pitch to score Murphy from third, hit an infield hit to knot the game at three apiece.
Jose Reyes would lead off the bottom of the 11th with a triple over the head of Andres Torres. The Mets would walk both Stanton and Lee to load the bases and score on a base hit up the middle.
The Mets play their last game tomorrow at 4 pm.
12 comments
srt
10/2/2012-11:28pm at 11:28 pm (UTC -4)
RA Dickey tonight after the game revealing he’s pitched just about all season with a torn abdominal muscle. Tore early on in the season. He will have surgery to repair it on the 18th. Will be a quick recovery.
Said he credits the trainers, doctors, etc. for working with him and doing their magic to allow him to take the mound every 5th day without a lot of pain.
Said something happened in the 2nd inning tonight, aggravating it immensely to the point that the pain took his breath away. Told TC he’d give it every thing he could until he couldn’t go anymore.
Yikes!
I’d say the magic is RA Dickey pitching the season he pitched with that tear, putting up those numbers.
He deserves the CY.
srt
10/2/2012-11:46pm at 11:46 pm (UTC -4)
Excellent read over on AA on evaluating the new FO regime over the past two years:
http://www.amazinavenue.com/2012/9/29/3380402/evaluating-the-sandy-alderson-regime-two-years-later
Stickguy
10/3/2012-8:42am at 8:42 am (UTC -4)
Better send the link to your stalkers in the box (err, the coeur?). You know how much they love AA, and are always looking for different opinions on things, especially liking to be fair and unbiased.
srt
10/3/2012-9:30am at 9:30 am (UTC -4)
Ha!
No sense telling some what they don’t want to hear.
I just don’t get how any rational Met fan can virtually ignore the Mets financial mess while determining that 2 years into this mess the FO is a failure.
Took Cashen 7 years to get us to a post season as he promised he would.
Stickguy
10/3/2012-1:05pm at 1:05 pm (UTC -4)
wait, you mean that Fred is not really begging Sandy to spend money, and he just refuses to do it?
well, dang.
gategem
10/3/2012-3:45pm at 3:45 pm (UTC -4)
When Cashen was brought in by Doubleday and Wilpon he found a team that was essentially the equivalent of an expansion team. M. Donald Grant had destroyed the franchise from the bottom up. The pity was that Devine and Weiss had built what was one of the premier minor league systems in baseball only to have Grant totally destroy it.
srt
10/3/2012-3:50pm at 3:50 pm (UTC -4)
Exactly.
Rome wasn’t destroyed in a day…anymore than it was rebuilt in a day.
Pacific NorthTex
10/3/2012-9:25am at 9:25 am (UTC -4)
I thought it was a solid read. Thanks for sharing the link.
TRS86
10/3/2012-9:33am at 9:33 am (UTC -4)
Seemed to be a very fair article so you are right there would be no need for it for some Mets fans.
srt
10/3/2012-9:50am at 9:50 am (UTC -4)
It’s the best unbiased evaluation I’ve seen yet anywhere on this subject.
Stickguy
10/3/2012-1:11pm at 1:11 pm (UTC -4)
It was. and nice to see everything consolidated and analyzed like that.
really, looking at it, about as best as you could expect for a limited budget. could they have (in hindsight) gotten different guys that would have worked better? of course, but that goes for every team.
and to a large extent, Sandy followed a BB version of the Hippocratic oath: first, do no harm the patient. Meaning that while he might not have done anything exciting yet, he also hasn’t done anything with a long horizon of damaging the team (such as signing another Bay just to have “done something”
srt
10/3/2012-2:41pm at 2:41 pm (UTC -4)
Good points.
No argument from me on them.