Category: Game Results

Marlins End Mets Season Again With 4-2 Win

It’s hard to believe that this team couldn’t generate any juice from Johan Santana’s performance yesterday. But the Mets just couldn’t get any offense going after scoring two runs in the sixth inning.

Oliver Perez did a decent job giving up only two runs over 5.1 innings. The killer was Scott Schoenweiss and Luis Ayala giving up back to back homers to Helms and Uggla in the eighth inning. That capped the win for the Marlins.

Shea Stadium goes out sadly with the Milwaukee Brewers sealing the Wild Card spot with a win today.

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Santana The Great Leads Mets To Shutout Over Marlins 2-0

The Mets didn’t get much offense today mustering only six hits and two runs. But that turned out to be enough because Johan Santana was on the hill.

I was lucky enough to be at the game today with terrific seats. I went with Rich, Greg, and Jim from the band Scratch. Clearly, there was some good karma from us being there. And the house was rocking for the last weekend of regular season games at Shea Stadium ever.

Santana sliced through the Marlins lineup like a Ginsu knife, throwing a complete game 3-hit shutout. All of this on the heels of three days rest and a 125 pitch effort in his last start, more than he’s ever thrown as a professional. The fans were chanting his name throughout the game and into the afternoon as we joyfully walked down the ramps of Shea exiting the stadium, many of us for what could be the final time.

Santana just became a modern folk hero in Flushing. The Venezuelan native proved he has what it takes to succeed in big market, high pressure situations. Now he’s a Met…

The NL East title is out of reach but the Mets control their own destiny for the Wild Card as the Brewers lost to the Cubs this afternoon. The entire season is in the hands of Oliver Perez tomorrow.

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Mets Go Quietly In 6-1 Loss To Marlins

The Mets had no offense in tonight’s crucial loss that may put them out of the playoffs. They had seven hits and nine men left on base. The one run they scored was on a fielders choice by Brian Schneider in the sixth. They just looked flat as a board and couldn’t have picked a worse time to lay an egg.

Mike Pelfrey appears to be running out of gas at the end of this long season. And the Marlins have had his number all season. As usual, the bullpen gave up three runs over the final three innings to make sure that the Mets would need a monstrous comeback to get back into the game. The capper was Aaron Heilman giving up a bases loaded walk in the seventh on a pitch in the dirt. That was very symbolic of his season.

The Phillies won tonight and the Brewers are on their way to a win over the Cubs. That leaves the Mets out of playoff position tonight.

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Mets Win 7-6 Over Cubs In Bottom Of Ninth

The Mets and Cubs played through the rain tonight to finish nine innings, and the Mets needed every one of them. Pedro Martinez was bad again giving up five runs over six innings, including two runs in the first inning.

Ricardo Rincon came in and gave up a first pitch homer to Micah Hoffpauir, his second homer of the night. It looked like the game and possibly the season was lost.

Surprisingly, the Mets fought back scoring runs in the seventh, eighth, and ninth innings. Carlos Beltran had the big RBI single in the ninth to score Jose Reyes with the winning run.

It’s a dramatic victory that showed this team isn’t dead yet.

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Mets Lose Critical Game To Cubs 9-6 In 10 Innings

The Mets lost a see-saw battle in 10 innings on an RBI single by Derrek Lee and a two-run homer by Aramis Ramirez off Luis Ayala.

The Mets had great momentum with a grand slam by Carlos Delgado in the 3rd inning and coming back to tie the game in the eighth on a bases loaded walk by Ramon Martinez. Martinez had a really nice game in the field and at the plate.

The Mets end up tied for the Wild Card lead with the Brewers and only have four games left. That was a really tough loss.

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Santana Brilliant As Mets Defeat Cubs 6-2

Johan Santana went eight innings throwing more pitches than he ever has in his career. The 125 pitch effort, giving up only two runs, is exactly what the Mets needed to get the monkey off their backs of a three game losing streak.

The big offense came from a three run triple by Jose Reyes in the sixth inning that solidified the Mets lead over the Cubs.

The Phillies lost tonight so the Mets move to 1.5 games back in the NL East.

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Cubs Clobber Mets Niese In 9-5 Win

The Mets lost their third straight game after starter Jon Niese got rocked for six runs over three plus innings. The ultimate embarrassment was giving up a grand slam to the opposing pitcher Jason Marquis. It was the second opposing pitcher to hit a grand slam off the Mets this season.

The shaky bullpen went on to give up three more runs over the final six innings.

The Mets had 11 hits on the night but it was all for naught again as the Mets continue another late season slide.

Carlos Beltran was shaken up when he hit the wall hard making a catch. He did stay in the game despite the nay-sayers that have called him “soft” for the past four seasons.

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