Mets 4 – Rockies 0 July 28, 2009

The Mets won their fourth game in a row and moved to 5.5 games behind the Rockies in the wild card race. Mike Pelfrey had a second straight solid start going 6.1 shutout innings. Hopefully, this is the beginning of some consistency from him.

Daniel Murphy, David Wright, and Alex Cora had two hits apiece tonight to lead the attack. Jeff Francoeur had a single and another RBI. But he also got hit on the hand that looked like it swelled up immediately. I would think that the Mets crack medical staff is looking at that tonight. I hope they know how to use the x-ray machine so they can check for some broken bones.

I’ll be at the game tomorrow night so my post-game wrap up will be a little late.

7.28.09

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Game Preview: Rockies at Mets [Game 99] July 28, 2009

rockiesColorado Rockies (54-45 Road: 27-24) at New York Mets (47-51 Home: 26-20)   7:10pm

Jason Marquis (12-6 3.49) vs. Mike Pelfrey (7-6 4.99)

TV: SNY

What to watch: Marquis has had an unbelievable season so far. He’s 3-1 in his last four games, including going at least 8 innings in three of those starts. Pelfrey is 1-3 in his last four starts including two terrible stinkers. He needs to start showing us something before this season ends up being a failure for him.

Don’t forget to visit The Mets Report Live Game Chat during the game to chat with other Mets fans!

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Mets 7 – Rockies 3 July 27, 2009

It was another average, or maybe below-average start for Oliver Perez tonight. He went 5 innings giving up 3 runs on 103 pitches. And again, he had 4 walks. Perez just hasn’t been able to cut those down. The 3 runs he gave up were on two home runs as well. Brian Stokes put up two nice, scoreless innings in relief.

Jeff Francoeur homered again in the fourth inning. And the Mets put up 2 runs in the sixth inning to tie the game. The big hit came in the bottom of the eighth inning. Fernando Tatis hit a pinch hit grand slam with one out on an 0-2 count. I was completely expecting him to hit into another double play. But he hit a bomb to left-center. It’s great to see that from him. He’s had such a bad year after his big comeback last season.

7.27.09

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Omar Minaya Apologizes For Trashing Adam Rubin

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After Mets GM Omar Minaya attempted to discredit NY Daily News reporter Adam Rubin at a press conference today, he thought better of it and issued an apology. Interestingly, COO Jeff Wilpon was by his side looking like an adult forcing a child to apologize for bad behavior.

You can see the original press conference here. Oh, by the way, the press conference was to announce that the Mets fired VP Player Development Tony Bernazard.

Rubin quickly became the focus of the press conference to everyone’s surprise. This just goes to show that the Mets can make a bad situation even worse. You can see Rubin’s response to Minaya’s accusations here.

It’s been a bizzare day, even by Mets standards. This kind of bad PR just can’t be doing Minaya any good right now. Unbelievable… Does the embarrassment ever end?

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Mets Fire Bernazard; Rubin’s Motives Questioned

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The Mets finally fired VP of Player Development Tony Bernazard after several stories of misdeeds came out like this. It’s not a big surprise considering the transgressions that we’ve heard of. Minaya said that Mets human resources was looking into complaints about Bernazard prior to the NY Daily News publishing damning stories about him. Minaya said that inter-personal communication problems by Bernazard were the reason for the firing.

The bombshell came when Omar Minaya implied that the journalist that broke the stories about Bernazard, Adam Rubin, had an ulterior motive for writing his stories. Minaya said that Rubin has spoken to him and other people in the Mets organization about getting a job with them in player development.

Minaya said that he “scuffled” (whatever that means) when he read that Rubin was the person writing the stories. SNY showed Rubin on camera during the press conference, who appeared to be shocked by this public revelation.If this is true, it seems to be very unprofessional of Rubin. I can’t wait to read what Rubin has to say about this.

Instead of Bernazard, Rubin became the focus of this press conference. Amazing! It was another great moment in this season’s Mets soap opera.

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Game Preview: Rockies at Mets [Game 98] July 27, 2009

rockiesColorado Rockies (54-44 Road: 27-23) at New York Mets (46-51 Home: 25-20)   7:10pm

Ubaldo Jimenez (7-9 3.85) vs. Oliver Perez (2-3 7.68)

TV: SNY

What to watch: The Rockies come into town hot, going 7-3 in their last 10 games and leading the wild card race by 2 games over the Giants. Jimenez is a very good pitcher, especially away from Coors Field. He’s 3-5 with a 3.73 ERA and .224 BAA on the road this year. Perez took a loss to the Nationals in his last start giving up 4 runs in 6 innings. As usual, he needs to cut down on the walks. He’s walked 17 in 17 innings since coming off the disabled list.

Don’t forget to visit The Mets Report Live Game Chat during the game to chat with other Mets fans!

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