This is a brief mid-day Mets links post today. As a matter of fact, this post isn’t specific to the Mets at all. There were a couple of good baseball technology posts that I wanted to link to. If you’re a baseball and simultaneously a gadget junkie, this is the post for you.
DavidDaniels.com– Our own David Daniels writes about the MLB At-Bat 2010 app for the iPhone
Fangraphs– Dave Cameron writes that the only way to watch MLB.tv is on the PlayStation 3.
You’ve probably already heard that Ken Griffey, Jr. missed an opportunity to pinch hit because he was asleep in the locker room. Apparently, it’s turned into an epidemic. The video below was shot of Keith Hernandez asleep between innings of last Saturday’s game on WPIX against the Giants. At least you can tell that he’s doing a good job with the Just For Men while his head is down on the desk.
http://www.hulu.com/yahoo/http%3A%2F%2Ftv%2Eyahoo%2Ecom/embed/mmQqeOW8dxrHOPLLiJ5zFQ
http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.jsThe Mets got a good start from John Maine, his third in a row. He went 6 IP giving up 2 ER on back to back homers by Adam Kennedy and Ryan Zimmerman in the third inning. He did have a lot of traffic on the bases giving up 7 hits and 4 walks but managed to keep the damage to a minimum.
Pedro Feliciano was terrible in the eighth inning giving up 3 straight hits and a run while only recording one out. That’s where the game was lost.
The Mets did have 12 hits including a long home run in the ninth by Angel Pagan. The Mets left 11 runners on base including Ike Davis leaving 5 and Jose Reyes 4. Speaking of Reyes, he got tossed in the seventh inning for throwing his bat and helmet down after a called third strike. Jerry Manuel came out and got tossed immediately after Reyes.
Washington Nationals (17-14) at New York Mets (17-14) 7:10 pm
Luis Atilano (2-0 4.67) vs John Maine (1-1 5.97)
TV: SNY Radio: WFAN
What to watch: The Nationals come to town playing much better than we’re used to seeing from them. They took two of three from the Marlins in their last series. Atilano started well for them but got rocked by the Braves in his last start. He gave up 6 ER in 5.1 IP. Maine has put up two quality starts in a row after a terrible start to the season.
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I feel like I’ve written this same post before. Oliver Perez is the kind of pitcher that will give you a decent start or two and then blow up like he did yesterday. Can we just say that we’ve learned that by now? As Denny Green would say “He is what we thought he was”.
There are some viable alternatives to Perez. R.A. Dickey is pitching really well in Buffalo and Hisanori Takahashi has done much better than expected as the long man. But that’s not the problem.
The problem is what to do with Perez if he isn’t in the rotation. He can’t come out of the bullpen if he can’t throw strikes. That just won’t work. The Mets could come up with some “injury” that Perez has like they did last season. Perez got rocked by the Braves on Aug. 18 for 4 ER in 5 IP. Then he completely imploded against the Phillies for 6 ER over 0.2 IP on Aug. 23. That was the last we saw of Perez in 2009 because of a convenient knee injury. Continue reading “Oliver Perez Rotation Spot Appears Safe”
Warning: NSFW
Here’s a link to the MLB.com video of David Wright getting ejected for arguing a called third strike yesterday. You can hear pretty clearly the “salty” language that got him tossed.
Nice job by Dave Singer of NY Sports Dog for finding the link.
Click the link below the view the video at MLB.com.
This is the big day that we’ve all been waiting for. Well, maybe not. The day we’ve all been waiting for is the day that Carlos Beltran actually re-joins the Mets and is in the lineup. In lieu of that, we’ve been waiting for the day when Beltran starts running again.
Today is that day. The reports from Port St. Lucie, where Beltran has been rehabbing from knee surgery, are that he’ll try to run today for the first time. If so, it should be another three weeks or so before we start looking at a timetable for his return to the Mets’ lineup.
Beltran has already missed 100 games over the last two seasons. Anytime a player signs a 7-year contract, you have to believe that there will be a couple of bad seasons during that contract. And those bad ones will probably be towards the end of the deal. That’s exactly what’s happening with Beltran and we can probably expect the same from Johan Santana in a few years. Players are bound to break down at some point.
It seems like it’s been so long since we’ve seen him play. To jog your memory, here are Beltran’s career averages over 162 games:
.283/.360/.496 28 HR’s 107 RBI’s 30 SB’s
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