Tag: San Francisco Giants

Mets 6 – Giants 4 May 7, 2010

New York Mets' Barajas watches his solo home run ball leave park against Cincinnati Reds during MLB game in Cincinnati

http://cdn.pis.picapp.com/IamProd/PicAppPIS/JavaScript/PisV4.jsThis was definitely one of the most exciting games of the year. I saved it on the Tivo to watch the highlights again. What a game!

Mike Pelfrey had an excellent start going 7.1 strong innings on only 85 pitches. I thought he was going the distance but he ran into a little trouble in the eighth. Overall, it was an excellent showing especially considering that he had some shoulder stiffness after his last start.

It was also a huge game for Ike Davis. He continues to impress with two home runs tonight off tough lefty Jonathan Sanchez. Sanchez hadn’t even given up a hit to a left-handed http://laparkan.com/buy-prednisone/ batter before tonight. Davis also made another incredible catch going over the rail into the dugout to catch a foul ball in the ninth for a huge out.

But the hero of the game was Rod Barajas. He also had two home runs in the game, if you can believe that. His second home run was a walk off in the bottom of the ninth to break the tie and win the game after Francisco Rodriguez blew the save.

It’s these kind of games that really get you pumped up. I’m hoping that this win can carry them for a while.

Box score

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Preview: Giants at Mets May 7, 2010

San Francisco Giants (17-10) at New York Mets (15-13)   7:10 pm

Jonathan Sanchez (2-2 2.48) vs Mike Pelfrey (4-1 2.40)

TV: SNY   Radio: WFAN

What to watch: This one could have the making of a good pitching match up. Pelfrey had an MRI earlier this week but got the go-ahead to make this start tonight. His right shoulder was stiff after his last start but he was okay to do some bullpen work. Sanchez has great stuff but doesn’t always have great games. He did throw eight shutout innings against Pittsburgh last month. So he’s capable of having excellent starts like his no-hitter last July.

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Giants 10 – Mets 1 Aug. 17, 2009

Livan Hernandez
Image by tedkerwin via Flickr

The Mets got smacked around by the Giants in the final game of the four game series to earn a split. The big news is that David Wright and Billy Wagner were both in the dugout with the team, although they’re headed in different directions.

Also big news, Livan Hernandez actually made it out of the first inning without giving up a run. But he ended up going 5.1 innings and giving up 6 runs on 11 hits and a walk. Tim Redding also got bombed in the eighth inning giving up 3 more runs on 4 hits.

The Mets weak offense reared its ugly head again with the team only able to come up with 8 hits and 4 walks. Only one of those hits was for extra bases, a double by Daniel Murphy.

The Braves come to town for a series starting tomorrow night.

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Preview: Giants at Mets Aug. 17, 2009

giants logoSan Francisco Giants (63-54 Road: 24-34) at New York Mets (55-62 Home: 32-26) 7:10pm

Joe Martinez (2-1 6.00) vs. Livan Hernandez (7-7 5.28)

TV: SNY

What to watch: The Giants are trying to split the four game series with a win today. Martinez got hit pretty hard in a 9-1 loss to the Dodgers in his last start giving up 3 earned runs in 4.1 innings. Hernandez is hanging onto his spot in the rotation by a string. His last two starts have been exceedingly bad giving up 12 earned runs in 9 innings. Another bad start today and he can kiss his job goodbye.

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Preview: Giants at Mets Aug. 16, 2009

giants logoSan Francisco Giants (63-53 Road: 24-33) at New York Mets (54-62 Home: 31-26) 1:10pm

Jonathan Sanchez (5-10 4.61) vs. Mike Pelfrey (8-8 4.88)

TV: SNY

What to watch: The Mets and Giants play the third game of their series today. I don’t think that the beanball war will continue into today’s game. Sanchez’ season has really been up and down. He’s 2-2 since pitching a no-hitter on July 10. Pelfrey is 0-2 in his last two starts and the Mets have lost four of the last five games that he started.

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Santana Protecting Mets In David Wright Beaning

Johan SantanaAfter yesterday’s game, Johan Santana said that he was protecting his teammates when he threw behind Pablo Sandoval and then hit Bengie Molina. Santana went on to say that he plays the game the right way. I won’t disagree with that. But I think that Santana should have hit or threw near Matt Cain instead of waiting three innings to throw at Sandoval.

Santana probably would’ve been thrown out of the game for throwing at Cain. But at this point in the Mets season, does that really matter? The Mets season is over and the message would have been much more clear to Cain. If Cain can’t stay in control when he’s on the mound, things can get dangerous for everyone including him.

Larry Brooks of the NY Post has some good quotes from Santana about the incident:

“I feel like I have to protect my teammates; you can call it whatever you want. There’s no question we are going to stick together.”

“I’m going to protect them the way they protect me.”

I’m not going to complain too loudly about the way Santana dealt with this. Because he did deal with it. But I still think Cain should have been the one that was on the receiving end of a fastball.

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