The Haiku

Generous Ollie
Gives away a dozen walks
Mets go quietly

The Game

Last night the Mets got shut out by John Lannan and the Washington Nationals.

Go ahead, just sort of take that in for a moment or two, I’m in no rush.

Yes sir, the Mets took on the historically bad Washington Nationals last night, and came away with nothing to show for it. Literally, nothing. Seven hits were managed. This means that the Mets had seven base runners against the Nationals last night, none scoring a run. John Lannan notched his second career complete game. The best part of the entire evening was this relentlessly entertaining quote from Lannan after the game:

“I’ve never considered myself a dominating pitcher, I don’t think the guys over in the Mets clubhouse are like, ‘Wow, that guy dominated me.’”

The very man who shut out the Mets is acknowledging the absurdity of the situation, as though to say “I mean I knew the Mets were bad, but mother of God, come on! This is ridiculous!”

Sure, Oliver Perez went six innings last night, but the story here really has to be this loss. I’m pretty sure if any Mets fan on the face of the earth had hope for this team before tonight, it’s now been dashed away. Ten games back in the NL East, seemingly no help on the way…this is it. Yup, another Mets season with a completely pointless September ahead. And so shortly after the “New Mets” era began. Sigh. Well, anyone for basketball?

Tonight Mike Pelfrey will take on Craig Stammen. This is going to be awesome.

The Boxscore

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E NY Mets 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 Washington 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 x 4 4 0

NY Mets AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO PO A Pagan, CF .316 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 Castillo, L, 2B .290 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 Wright, D, 3B .317 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 Francoeur, RF .261 4 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 Tatis, LF .240 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Murphy, Dn, 1B .243 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 1 Santos, O, C .253 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 Cora, SS .242 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 2 Perez, O, P .333 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5   Stokes, P .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1   a-Berroa, PH .115 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0   Parnell, P .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals .266 32 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 1 24 13 a-Struck out for Stokes in the 8th. BATTING GIDP: Castillo, L, Tatis. Team RISP: 0-for-1. Team LOB: 5. FIELDING PB: Santos, O (2).

Washington AVG AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO PO A Morgan, CF .288 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 Guzman, C, SS .293 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 Zimmerman, R, 3B .283 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 Dunn, A, 1B .268 4 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 1 12 0   Johnson, N, 1B .305 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Willingham, LF .283 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 3 0   Harris, W, LF .235 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Kearns, RF .198 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 0 Gonzalez, Al, 2B .308 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 5 Nieves, C .271 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 Lannan, P .118 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Totals .261 24 4 4 0 0 0 4 6 4 27 16 BATTING RBI: Gonzalez, Al (16), Nieves (14), Dunn, A (65), Willingham (27). S: Lannan (off Perez, O). SF: Gonzalez, Al (off Perez, O), Willingham (off Perez, O). Team RISP: 2-for-5. Team LOB: 6. BASERUNNING SB: Morgan (29). CS: Morgan (13). FIELDING DP: 2 (Gonzalez, Al-Guzman, C-Dunn, A, Gonzalez, Al-Dunn, A).

NY Mets ERA IP H R ER BB SO HR BF Perez, O (L, 2-3) 7.68 6.0 4 4 4 6 4 0 28 Stokes 3.66 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Parnell 4.14 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 Totals 4.34 8.0 4 4 4 6 4 0 34

Washington ERA IP H R ER BB SO HR BF Lannan (W, 7-7) 3.38 9.0 7 0 0 0 1 0 32 Totals 5.13 9.0 7 0 0 0 1 0 32

Team ER: off NY Mets 4, off Washington 0. BB: off Perez, O 6 (Willingham, Morgan, Zimmerman, R, Kearns, Zimmerman, R, Nieves). SO: by Perez, O 4 (Dunn, A, Kearns, Lannan, Morgan), by Lannan 1 (Berroa). HB: Morgan (by Perez, O). Pitches-strikes: Perez, O 103-57, Stokes 8-6, Parnell 15-9, Lannan 106-80. Umpires: HP: Doug Eddings. 1B: Dana DeMuth. 2B: Brian Knight. 3B: Hunter Wendelstedt. Official Scorer: Todd Jacobson. Weather: 81 degrees, cloudy. Wind: 3 mph, In from RF. T: 2:09. Att: 23,414.

The Win Probability Added Graph

The Credits

Recap by Milo Taibi
Haiku by Howard Megdal