Month: June 2009
Game Preview: Mets at Nationals [Game 55] June 7, 2009
New York Mets (29-25 Road: 12-16) at Washington Nationals (15-39 Home: 9-19) 1:35 pm
Livan Hernandez (4-1 4.33) vs. Craig Stammen (0-1 5.71)
TV: SNY Radio: WFAN
What to watch: The Mets and Nationals play the rubber game of the series this afternoon. Hernandez has been better than I thought he would be, he hasn’t lost a game since April 23, But the Mets have lost 2 of the last 3 games that he’s started. Stammen is another one of the good looking young pitchers that the Nats are running out there. The Nats have won 2 of his 3 last starts. Expect to see Ryan Church in the lineup today back from the disabled list.
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Pre-Game: Mets at Nationals [Game 54] June 6, 2009
New York Mets (29-24 Road: 12-15) at Washington Nationals (14-39 Home: 8-19) 7:05 pm
John Maine (5-3 3.75) vs. John Lannan (2-5 4.21)
TV: SNY Radio: WFAN
What to watch: Maine has won his last two starts and has pitched very well. The Mets will need that with all of the players they have out of the lineup. Sheffield will be back in the outfield even with his bad leg. Lannan has lost his last two starts and really hasn’t pitched very well. Let’s hope that trend continues.
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Mets 3 – Nationals 1 June 5, 2009
When things are going badly it’s nice to have a three game series against the Nationals. They are absolutely putrid. Even Tim Redding looked good against them going 6 innings and giving up just one run. And the bullpen backed him up big-time. They got 4 shutout innings from the bullpen and Shawn Green looks like he’s found his stuff again after a few weeks when he couldn’t get anyone out.
The Mets offense was all about David Wright tonight (4 for 5). He hit a huge 2-run double in the tenth inning to win it and cap a big night for him. On a strange note, he was thrown out at third base three times in the game. You don’t see that very often, and with good reason. I’m not sure if Razor Shines was the culprit or Wright was overly aggressive on the bases. But he needs to sharpen that up. Against a better team that could cost the Mets a game.
The Mets take the first of three and do it again tomorrow night in DC. Don’t forget the game is at night, there aren’t too many Saturday night games.
Mets Putz Out 8-10 Weeks
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J.J. Putz is having surgery on a bone spur in his right elbow according to a report by Fox Sports Ken Rosenthal. This was the elbow that the brilliant Mets medical team injected with cortisone and allowed him to continue to pitch with. And now Putz is having the surgery done by Mets medical director David Altchek.
Flying Ryan Church around the country with a concussion, Carlos Delgado with a bad hip that required surgery, and who knows what else. Frankly, the Mets medical team has earned some criticism around the Internet that may not be undeserved.
Pre-Game: Mets at Nationals [Game 53] June 5, 2009
New York Mets (28-24 Road: 11-15) at Washington Nationals (14-38 Home: 8-18) 7:05 pm
Tim Redding (0-2 9.20) vs. Shairon Martis (5-1 5.62)
TV: SNY Radio: WFAN
What to watch: The Mets get to Washington limping after a sweep in Pittsburgh. But the Nationals have lost 7 of their last 8 games, nothing unusual for them. Redding has been horrible in his last two starts, getting rocked for at least six runs in each. Martis has been bad in his last three starts, getting hit for at least five runs in each. This could be an offensive explosion tonight for both teams.
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Become An Owner Of A Baseball Team, For Real
There’s a goup in New Haven, CT that’s gathering investments for a baseball team using the crowdsourcing model of ownership. It’s a very cool idea. Although this doesn’t have anything to do with the Mets, I thought that the readers here would find this interesting.
You can see what they’re doing at Our Baseball Haven. You can also follow them on Twitter at twitter.com/ourbaseballhvn. I met Brett Orzechowski, one of the organizers, at an event in New Haven and the idea seems very compelling. It’s been done with a soccer team in England already so this isn’t brand new.
The annual membership fee is $100.00 and you’ll be able to vote, as an owner, on the issues that impact the team. The team is going to be a professional independant or collegiate summer league team. Check it out…
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