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May 23, 2008
Daily Mets Recap: May 23rd, 2008
The GameThe Mets are very quickly becoming unwatchable. They took a 4-2 loss at the hands of the Atlanta Braves last night, completing a four game sweep. A Mets fan would have liked our odds of winning in last night’s game, as we had ace Johan Santana pitching for us. Santana didn’t really pitch badly, but he didn’t put in the type of performance a prolific ace should in a big game. He went seven innings, but gave up 12 hits, three earned runs, with just a single strikeout. Santana generally kept the Braves offense quiet until the 7th inning, when he gave up three runs on singles from Omar Infante, Larry Jones, and Mark Teixeira. Johan pitched well enough to win, but not well enough to win with this current Mets team behind him. The Mets looked to be playing with authority from the get-go on Thursday. In the top of the 2nd inning, both Carlos Beltran and Carlos Delgado skied deep home runs to put the Braves at a 2-0 deficit. However, keeping consistent with the way they’ve been playing lately, these would be the only runs they’d score in the game, and its sickening. Atlanta starer Tim Hudson went eight innings for the win. This would be a tough game to win for the Mets, as they had to play without Moises Alou (who’s been placed on the DL), and Ryan Church. But there’s a point where a team simply must do everything in their power to win a game, which certainly didn’t appear to happen last night. True, Carlos Beltran’s line-drive double play in the 9th inning was bad luck, but its no coincedence that they had to hit for dear life in the 9th inning. The Mets didn’t draw a single walk last night, had eight hits and stranded eight baserunners. Ugly, ugly baseball. Can I also say that I’m so sick of Raul Casanova, and would rather see just about anyone else get the call-up than him? Instead of carrying three catchers, why not call up Val Pascucci and give him the left field job until Alou comes off the DL? At least we’d have some solid OBP and power coming out of left field, rather than Endy Chavez, or Marlon Anderson, or Damion Easley etc. Friday night the Mets will look to turn around their losing ways against Greg Reynolds and the Colorado Rockies.
The HaikuHudson wins battle
The Boxscore
The Win Probability Added Graph
The CreditsRecap by Milo Taibi 2 Responses to “Daily Mets Recap: May 23rd, 2008”Leave a ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment. |
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Pascucci can play first as well, so he can fill in for Delgado at least against lefties. I can’t believe they brought up Casanova. We don’t even use our backup catcher enough, so I have no idea why we need a third-stringer.
You know what’s funny about this game? Santana has been giving up lots of home runs, but he didn’t in this game. In fact, he pitched better than he has been pitching in some respects. The Braves just swung early and often and got lots of lucky singles. A “hang with ‘em” that’s tough because it’s the final game of a sweep at the hand of our arch-rivals with the whole Mets team in a quandary and its manager on the hot seat.