Category: Game Results

Rain Delay Mets-Braves Game Two

Update 8:41pm- The game is expected to start around 8:50 or 8:55pm.

Update 8:26pm- The tarp is coming off the field. It looks like they’re getting ready to start things up soon.

Update 7:45pm- The game is still delayed. They’re expecting to get the game started soon.

The tarp is on the field with a thunderstorm watch in Atlanta. If you don’t want to suffer through the horrible programming on SNY, check back here and I’ll update the site when the game starts. I can’t believe I’m watching this awful “Beer Money” show on SNY. This network really knows how to push the limits of being a Mets fan.

Glavine, Braves Top Mets 6-1

You won’t read this here very often: the Mets scored their only run of the game on a Luis Castillo home run. How about that?

The most disappointing thing about this game is how well Tom Glavine looked. John Maine couldn’t keep up with him. The Mets scored their only run in the first inning and left the bases loaded. They never mounted a threat after that.

Maine only made it through four innings giving up four runs on eight hits and three walks. Scott Schoenweis relieved him in the fifth and then Aaron Heilman let things get out of reach in the seventh inning. Brian McCann hit a two run homer off Heilman. He just can’t figure out how to get through a clean inning.

They’ll do it again tonight at 7:00pm with Claudio Vargas going against Jorge Campillo.

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Ump Admits He Owes Delgado Home Run

Crew chief Bob Davidson called Carlos Delgado’s home run a foul ball last night that we’ve all seen the replay of a million times. So I won’t go into the scenario again. Watch the video highlights of the game here to see the situation.

Davidson seemed so sure of himself when he called the ball foul. It’s good to see that he can admit that he’s wrong. From ESPN:

I (expletive) it up. I’m the one who thought it was a (expletive) foul ball. I saw it on the replay. I’m the one who (expletive) it up so you can put that in your paper,” Davidson said. “Bolts and nuts, I (expletive) up. You’ve just got to move on. No one feels worse about it than I do.

Delgado can barely hit the ball to the 318 foot mark these days. He needs every homer that he can get. Watching Delgado now, you get the feeling that any home run that hits could be his last in the major leagues. The team goes crazy when he’s able to slip a ground ball past the infielders for a hit. He’s done…

Perez Shuts Down Yankees For 11-2 Win

Oliver Perez was his usual self tonight, wild at times and brilliant at others. He went 7.1 innings for his longest outing of the year. He only gave up three hits, two walks, two hit batsmen, and had four strikeouts. This was the type of outing that the Mets have been waiting for from Perez this season.

Ryan Church and Jose Reyes homered. For Reyes it was his second straight game with a home run. Moises Alou chipped in with a 1 for 3 night with 3 RBI’s. Carlos Delgado hit a homer off the left field foul pole that was originally called a home run and then overturned by the umpires. Replays showed that it should’ve been a home run, and Jerry Manuel was thrown out of the game for arguing from the dugout.

The Mets get a two-game sweep of the Yankees which may be a springboard for their upcoming road trip to Atlanta and Colorado.

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Santana, Mets Top Yankees 7-4

Johan Santana went 7.2 innings for a much needed Mets win today. Willie Randolph might have needed this win more than anyone else to retain his job. As usual, Santana gave up some long balls to Derek Jeter, Jason Giambi, and Bobby Abreu. But he powered through to keep the Mets in the game. That’s been his MO this season.

On offense, David Wright and Carlos Beltran had three hits each. Jose Reyes and Wright homered off Kyle Farnsworth in the three run seventh inning that blew the game open for the Mets.

Billy Wagner came in for Santana in the bottom of the eighth to get an unusual four out save. Wagner has said that he doesn’t like to pitch more than one inning but after the last week, the Mets needed to lock down this win.

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