Pre-Game: Mets at Nationals [Game 54] June 6, 2009

washington-nationals-logo1New York Mets (29-24 Road: 12-15) at Washington Nationals (14-39 Home: 8-19) 7:05 pm

John Maine (5-3 3.75) vs. John Lannan (2-5 4.21)

TV: SNY  Radio:  WFAN

What to watch: Maine has won his last two starts and has pitched very well. The Mets will need that with all of the players they have out of the lineup. Sheffield will be back in the outfield even with his bad leg. Lannan has lost his last two starts and really hasn’t pitched very well. Let’s hope that trend continues.

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 3 – Nationals 1 June 5, 2009

When things are going badly it’s nice to have a three game series against the Nationals. They are absolutely putrid. Even Tim Redding looked good against them going 6 innings and giving up just one run. And the bullpen backed him up big-time. They got 4 shutout innings from the bullpen and Shawn Green looks like he’s found his stuff again after a few weeks when he couldn’t get anyone out.

The Mets offense was all about David Wright tonight (4 for 5). He hit a huge 2-run double in the tenth inning to win it and cap a big night for him. On a strange note, he was thrown out at third base three times in the game. You don’t see that very often, and with good reason. I’m not sure if Razor Shines was the culprit or Wright was overly aggressive on the bases. But he needs to sharpen that up. Against a better team that could cost the Mets a game.

The Mets take the first of three and do it again tomorrow night in DC. Don’t forget the game is at night, there aren’t too many Saturday night games.

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Mets Putz Out 8-10 Weeks

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J.J. Putz is having surgery on a bone spur in his right elbow according to a report by Fox Sports Ken Rosenthal. This was the elbow that the brilliant Mets medical team injected with cortisone and allowed him to continue to pitch with. And now Putz is having the surgery done by Mets medical director David Altchek.

Flying Ryan Church around the country with a concussion, Carlos Delgado with a bad hip that required surgery, and who knows what else. Frankly, the Mets medical team has earned some criticism around the Internet that may not be undeserved.

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Pre-Game: Mets at Nationals [Game 53] June 5, 2009

washington-nationals-logoNew York Mets (28-24 Road: 11-15) at Washington Nationals (14-38 Home: 8-18) 7:05 pm

Tim Redding (0-2 9.20) vs. Shairon Martis (5-1 5.62)

TV: SNY  Radio:  WFAN

What to watch: The Mets get to Washington limping after a sweep in Pittsburgh. But the Nationals have lost 7 of their last 8 games, nothing unusual for them. Redding has been horrible in his last two starts, getting rocked for at least six runs in each. Martis has been bad in his last three starts, getting hit for at least five runs in each. This could be an offensive explosion tonight for both teams.

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

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Become An Owner Of A Baseball Team, For Real

Our Baseball HavenThere’s a goup in New Haven, CT that’s gathering investments for a baseball team using the crowdsourcing model of ownership. It’s a very cool idea. Although this doesn’t have anything to do with the Mets, I thought that the readers here would find this interesting.

You can see what they’re doing at Our Baseball Haven. You can also follow them on Twitter at twitter.com/ourbaseballhvn. I met Brett Orzechowski, one of the organizers, at an event in New Haven and the idea seems very compelling. It’s been done with a soccer team in England already so this isn’t brand new.

The annual membership fee is $100.00 and you’ll be able to vote, as an owner, on the issues that impact the team. The team is going to be a professional independant or collegiate summer league team. Check it out…

Mets Reyes Has Hamstring Tear

Jose ReyesThe injury news for the Mets goes from bad to worse. After leaving an extended spring training game in Florida early this week because of pain, Jose Reyes was diagnosed with a slight tear in his hamstring.

He’s going to rest for two days and resume treatment for it on Sunday, but he’ll likely miss about a month. Since Reyes’ legs are his game, it’s possible that it could be longer than that.

We’ll have to get used to seeing Alex Cora (with an injured thumb) and Wilson Valedez out there on a daily basis. That’s not exactly what we’re used to.

Maybe we’ll get to see Ruben Tejada make his major league debut. He’s the 19 year old Panamanian shortstop playing with Double-A Binghamton. He’s hitting .281 with 1 HR and 19 RBI’s in 167 at-bats.

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Mets Pitcher Putz May Need Elbow Surgery

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Flickr photo courtesy of ajagendorf25

Mets reliever J.J. Putz is leaving the team in Washington today for New York to have his elbow examined. He told reporters after another awful appearance that he has sharp pain in his elbow now. He had a cortisone shot in the elbow a couple of weeks ago to address a bone spur and it sounds like that might have become worse. His ERA is up to 5.22 with a 1.636 WHIP.

Putz isn’t helping the Mets right now anyway. He can’t get anybody out. So he might as well leave to get this situation addressed. I would assume that if he needs elbow surgery that he’ll be done for the season.

I’ll be curious to see what the doctors have to say about this injury. I’m wondering if Putz is making more of it than it is because he’s pitching so poorly. Either way, it can only help the Mets for him to leave for a while.