Mets v. Marlins, 8th inning
0-0 game, great pitchers duel, heading into the inning.
Mets have a chance to take the lead when Carlos Beltran comes to the plate with two outs and the leading run on 3rd base. But, failure strikes, and Carlos hits a broken bat routine grounder to second. But wait! The Mets scratch out a run when Dan Uggla boots Beltran's routine grounder, allowing the leading run to score.
Bottom of the frame, one out. Line drive hit by Miguel Olivo into the left centerfield gap. Beltran is able to cut it off before it gets to the wall. But then he slips. He gets up quickly and lollipops the throw into third, not thinking Olivo will go for 3. Olivo gets the triple, diving in just ahead of Beltran's lazy throw. He eventually scores on a sac fly tying the game, but interestingly enough almost gets thrown out when the hitter in the on-deck circle fails to tell him to slide. The on deck hitter...Dan Uggla. The replay catches Olivo sharing an unkind comment for Uggla on the way to the dugout. Then, with a runner in scoring position and a chance for the Marlins to take the lead with 2 outs, Uggla comes up and strikes out looking on 3 pitches.
So who had the worse inning: Uggla or Beltran?
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Boy was this an ugly game. The two teams completed the first 7 innings in 1 hr 50 minutes. The final two innings took 1 hr 20 minutes.
Sloppy, sloppy, sloppy. But at least we won. I'll take it.
Despite the ugliness and lack of consistent performances by the pitching staff or offensive lynchpins, the beloved blue-and-orange (the only way it should be, btw) have only lost 4 series this season--and 3 of them were 2-1 splits to the bravos (according to the SNY crew--i thought there may have been a few others).
As bad as things have seemed at times, this is pretty impressive.
And it is reflected in their record.
Duque was strong in his return and Pedro's looking powerful so i think our pitching will be more than sufficient given time (which we do have).
And the offense just needs a rhythm--I think Willie needs to come up with a fairly regular line-up and go with it. Let guys adapt to their assigned roles...
DC,
Oh, so I should just be happy because the Mets have the best record in the league?
Look, even the best players make an out in 6 of every 10 plate appearances. Being a pessimist in baseball is a bull market.
More good news--looks like Green whacked his foot pretty bad last night on that foul tip.
Now we'll be treated to (for the next week or so) an extended look at CarGo (my trademark) in right.
At best, we've got him locked in even after Alou returns. At worst, for the next week we don't have to be subject to Shawny letting balls drop all over the southern portion of the field (stadiums are oriented n a general west-east direction from home to centerfield...).
And at least we're not the Yanks who are livid with the poor performance of 66% of their outfield (who make about 25 mil) with no hope of trading all that dead weight away.
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