Tuesday, October 17, 2006
Glavine
While I hope that Glavine has a solid game tonight, and expect no worse than 3 runs over 5 innings, I also hope that Mets aren't mentally expecting or banking on another Glavine shutout gem. Hopefully in their minds he'll be good but not great, so that if he isn't perfect, they don't get unnerved by it. Rather, they calmly play through the way they usually do and score more runs.
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Good call. 3 runs over 4+ IP. Could he have pitched 5? Maybe. But Willie had a short leash and that makes sense in a game of this magnitude.
Great job by the two-headed monster getting out of the 5th.
Wow. The top of the 7th is an inning that should long be remembered if we lose this series. Having finally gotten Weaver out of the game, and into a bullpen we torched in Game 4, things looked to be setting up nicely for the Mets. With 9-1-2 coming up, all we need was one baserunner to bring up our red hot Beltran-Delgado tandem with a chance to tied the game.
Instead, the Mets bench was exposed, when with the series potentially on the line, we had to trot a guy out to pinch hit whose season average was below the Mendoza line. Predictably, he took two strikes over the heart of the plate before swinging at a ball out of the zone. No matter, Tucker sucks, we all know it. Jose Jose Jose coming up.
After getting behind in the count with two strikes, Reyes did the kind of thing that makes me absolutely crazy. He took a huge uppercut swing that actually uncleated his drive foot, pulled his head so far off the ball that he was actually looking at the 1st base stands, and missed a pitch that was a foot low and half a foot outside.
LoDuca then gets jammed and grounds out meekly to second. While he got the ball in play, it still was a failure. Three chances to bring Beltran to the plate as the tying run against middle relief, and three horrible at bats. I'll be remembering that half a frame if we lose this game and the series.
No doubt not hitting sucker weaver AGAIN is inexcusable. The guy stinks. Mets lineup seems like a deer in headlights at the plate when they are not hitting HRs.
If we lose this series you have to look pretty strongly at Mota and Wagner in Game 2.. Puking up 5 runs killed our momentum in this series.
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