Month: April 2011

Preview: Rockies at Mets April 13, 2011

Colorado Rockies (7-2) at New York Mets (4-6)  7:10pm

Esmil Rogers (1-0 1.23) vs. Jon Niese (0-1 6.55)

TV: SNY   Radio: WFAN

What to watch: Here’s a re-boot of last night’s rain out. The Mets will try to avoid their fourth straight loss tonight to the Rockies at home. Niese got crushed in Philly in his last start going 4 IP and allowing 6 runs. He’ll need to do a lot better than that tonight for the Mets to get a win.

Rogers made one excellent start this season in Pittsburgh going 7.1 IP and allowing only 1 run. He’s only made two relief appearances against the Mets in his career throwing 3 IP and allowing 1 run. Tonight will be only his 11th career start for the 25 year old righty.

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Preview: Rockies at Mets April 12, 2011

Colorado Rockies (7-2) at New York Mets (4-6)  7:10pm

Esmil Rogers (1-0 1.23) vs. Jon Niese (0-1 6.55)

TV: SNY   Radio: WFAN

What to watch: The Mets will try to avoid their fourth straight loss tonight to the Rockies at home. Niese got crushed in Philly in his last start going 4 IP and allowing 6 runs. He’ll need to do a lot better than that tonight for the Mets to get a win.

Rogers made one excellent start this season in Pittsburgh going 7.1 IP and allowing only 1 run. He’s only made two relief appearances against the Mets in his career throwing 3 IP and allowing 1 run. Tonight will be only his 11th career start for the 25 year old righty.

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Rockies 7 – Mets 6 April 11, 2011

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The Mets lost their third consecutive game to the Rockies tonight. Mike Pelfrey pitched poorly but not as poorly as his two prior starts. Pelf reduced his ERA to 10.80 by throwing 5.1 IP and allowing 4 runs (3 earned). He gave up 6 hits and 4 walks in the game. Way too many baserunners to be successful.

Despite Pelf’s start, the Mets had a tie game going into the 8th inning. They were stringing together hits to score. They had 10 hits and 1 walk as a team with 2 RBI’s apiece by David Wright and Willie Harris.

Bobby Parnell blew up in the 8th inning throwing a wild pitch, making an error on a throw to home, and allowing a 2-run homer to Troy Tulowitzki. It was a complete disaster of an inning and Parnell was boo’d off the mound after the inning. His ERA is an awful 8.31 now and he just can’t get it done in the 8th (or any other) inning right now.

Box score

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Preview: Rockies at Mets April 11, 2011

Colorado Rockies (6-2) at New York Mets (4-5)  7:10pm

Jason Hammel (1-0 7.20) vs. Mike Pelfrey (0-1 15.63)

TV: SNY   Radio: WFAN

What to watch: The Rockies come to town for a four game series after taking three of four in Pittsburgh. They’re playing some good baseball after signing CarGo and Troy Tulowitzki to big contracts this offseason. Hammel’s first start against the Dodgers wasn’t very good (5 IP, 4 runs) but he did get a win.

Pelfrey has been struggling badly in his first two starts. He needs to turn things around quickly or the Mets will be in trouble with Johan Santana out until mid-season. The Mets have lost four of their last five games and need a win and a good start from Pelfrey tonight badly.

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Nationals 7 – Mets 3 April 10, 2011

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The Nationals took the series today at Citi Field with a win in 11 innings. Chris Young had an excellent start going 7 IP and only allowing 1 run. The Mets offense only managed 8 hits in the game and struck out 17 times including 4 by Willie Harris alone.

Blaine Boyer blew another game in the 11th inning today raising his ERA to 10.80. That earned him a quick trip to the waiver wire being DFA’d after the game. Ryota Igarashi and Jason Isringhausen were called up and will be with the team tomorrow.

Lucas Duda, hitting .118, blew a fly ball in the 11th inning and he earned a one-way ticket to Triple-A Buffalo.

Overall, it’s a poor start to lose a home series to the Nats. That shouldn’t happen. But the Rockies come to town tomorrow and it doesn’t get any easier because they’re playing well so far this season.

Box score

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Video: Mets Weekly Report on Pelfrey, Collins, Warthen

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In this week’s episode of the the Mets Weekly Report with Kerel Cooper of On The Black, we talk about the first week of games in Florida, Philly, and home against the Nationals. Specifically, we get into Mike Pelfrey getting boo’d during player introductions on opening day. Kerel was at the game and said that K-Rod got the loudest boo’s and then Pelf got plenty as well.

We also talk about an article in the Bergen Record this week that Terry Collins time may be short with the Mets. That may be true but can we give the guy more than a week before we start writing him off?

The last segment is about the under-performing pitching staff. Dan Warthen needs to get these guys going quickly. The Mets have the second worst team ERA in the National League. Only the Astros are worse.

Check out the video below and leave your comments on the state of the Mets this week.

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Preview: Nationals at Mets April 10, 2011

Washington Nationals (3-5) at New York Mets (4-4)  1:10pm

Jason Marquis (0-0 2.84) vs. Chris Young (1-0 1.69)

TV: SNY   Radio: WFAN

What to watch: The Nats and Mets play the rubber game of the series this afternoon at Citi Field. The Mets can’t lose a home series to a second division team like the Nats if they expect to be contenders for a playoff spot at the end of the season. It’s that simple.

Marquis had a nice start in Florida in a losing cause going 6.1 IP and allowing 2 runs in his season debut. He only pitched in 13 games last year because of injury.

Young pitched a very nice game in Philly in his season debut going 5.1 IP and allowing only 1 run to a good team in a tough park to pitch in. It’ll be interesting to see if Terry Collins plays Carlos Beltran today after his two-homer game last night. I’m sure they were planning to give him the day off today. I wouldn’t sit him down after hitting two homers though.

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