Tag: Johan Santana

Cardinals 12- Mets 8 April 23, 2009

42309The final score actually wasn’t indicative of the beating that the Cardinals handed the Mets today to complete the 3-game sweep. Livan Hernandez was bad again and this game was over by the sixth inning. The Mets starting pitchers, beside Johan Santana, have an ERA over 7. That’s all that you need to know about the Mets current four game losing streak.

Albert Pujols hit two homers today for the Cardinals. Ryan Church and Carlos Beltran hit meaningless homers in garbage time for the Mets as well. Beltran’s average is up to .404 for the season.

The Mets go home and hope to get right against the Washington Nationals.

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Santana, Mets Over Brewers 1-0 April 18, 2009

Score 4.18.09Johan Santana threw seven shutout innings again only giving up five hits and no walks. His season ERA is down to 0.46. There’s no slow start to the season for Santana. Once again, the bullpen shut down the Brewers over the final two innings with J.J. Putz and Francisco Rodriguez combining to preserve the shutout. I can definitely get used to this bullpen!

The only run for the Mets, and in the game, occured in the bottom of the seventh. Omir Santos pinch ran for Ramon Castro and scored on a fielder’s choice by Jose Reyes. Scoring the run in the seventh earned a win for Santana.

The Mets go to 6-5 on the season and go for the sweep tomorrow afternoon against the Brewers.

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Game Preview: Brewers at Mets [Game 11] April 18, 2009

Milwaukee Brewers logoMilwaukee Brewers (3-7 Road: 1-3) at New York Mets (5-5 Home: 2-2) 1:10 pm

Yovanni Gallardo (1-1 6.94) vs. Johan Santana (1-1 0.71)

TV: SNY Radio:  WFAN

What to watch: Gallardo’s last start was pretty bad against the Reds. He went 5 innings and gave up 7 runs. He’s the guy they’re counting on to pick up the slack since they lost Ben Sheets and CC Sabathia. We may see Gary Sheffield get a start in left field today. I expect Santana to put on a good show in his first start at Citi Field.

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

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Marlins Edge Mets 2-1 April 12, 2009

Johan Santana on May 17, 2008
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Johan Santana was good, but Josh Johnson was better. Santana threw 7 innings of 3- hit ball with 13 K’s and 1 walk, only giving up 2 runs. Johnson threw a complete game and nearly shut out the Mets. That’s how you beat Johan Santana.

Johnson nearly blew it in the ninth inning, giving up an RBI single to Carlos Beltran. He had the tying run on base but not in scoring position while managing to hang on and get the win.

The Mets lose the series to the Marlins 2-1 and go home to open Citi Field tomorrow night.

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Game Preview: Mets At Marlins [Game 6] April 12, 2009

Florida Marlins logoNew York Mets (3-2 Road: 3-2) vs. Florida Marlins (4-1 Home: 4-1) 1:10 pm

Johan Santana (1-0 1.59) vs. Josh Johnson (1-0 0.00)

TV: SNY Radio:  WFAN

What to watch: Josh Johnson threw 6.2 shutout innings against the Washington Nationals on April 7. Hey, it was the Nationals but Johnson is another one of Florida’s really good, young pitchers. My guess is that a lot of people won’t see this one because of the holiday. But if you get a chance to watch all or part of the game its one of the best pitching matchup’s that we’ll see throughout the season.

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

Video: Johan Satana Handshakes

Sure, opening day was great to see yesterday. It felt like so long since we’ve seen a meaningful Mets game. Of all the story lines in yesterday’s game one of the more interesting ones that’s garnering attention are the Johan Santana handshakes. He came in from the bullpen before the game and had a different handshake for every player in the dugout. Check out the video.

Thanks to Dave at Mets Lifers for the link.

New York Mets Top News Stories April 7, 2009

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The Mets had a nice win on opening day yesterday against the Reds. The weather was cold and dreary but it was great to see Johan Santana get a win that he didn’t have to pitch a complete game to get. The bullpen held up just as Omar Minaya drew it up in the off-season. Of course, every media outlet is running stories this morning about how the Mets bullpen problems are fixed. I’ve seen about 50 of those columns today and I’m sure more will be coming during the day today.

Onto the news of the day:

Dave Singer at New York Sports Dog has a great post about the Mets all-time record on opening day. He lists every opening day game result and starting pitcher back to 1962. Very cool post. Its incredible to see how things went down hill after Doc Gooden left in 1995.

Darren Rovell of Sportsbiz at CNBC has a good post about the Mets and Yankees official sponsors. Did you know that Kozy Shack is the official pudding of the Mets? I didn’t either.

Andy Knight of the Cincinnati Enquirer has a good photo slideshow of the opening day parade in Cincinnati yesterday. It was good to see Frank Robinson back in Cincy.

Adam Rubin of the NY Daily News writes sarcastically about how confident we would have been to see last year’s bullpen save the game for Santana yesterday.

The New York Post has some video of Francisco Rodriguez talking about his save yesterday after the game.
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