| J U N E 2 0 0 6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Red Sox beat the New York Mets 4-2 Thursday night and stretch their winning streak to 12 games. Curt Schilling became Boston's second 10-game winner, one day after Josh Beckett reached the plateau. New York starter Tom Glavine faltered after five strong innings, failing to extend his big league-leading win total to 12. New York dropped its third straight, the Mets had been the only team in the majors that hadn't lost more than two in a row. The UN-Happy Recap >>> Cliff Floyd went 0-for-2 with a walk and played left field for seven innings of a rehab game with Class-A Brooklyn. New York manager Willie Randolph said there was a chance Floyd could play for the Mets on Friday night at Yankee Stadium. Paul Lo Duca was back behind the plate after serving as the DH in New York's 10-2 loss Wednesday night.
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
June 29, 2006 Pedro Martinez gave up four runs in that inning, four more in the third and spent the rest of the game on the sidelines as baseball's hottest team went on to a 10-2 win over the New York Mets. Martinez was hurt by two poor fielding plays in the first, one of his own making. Lastings Milledge misplayed another flyball in the first inning. This time he was charged with an error. The UN-Happy Recap >>> The 19 runs the Mets allowed Tuesday and Wednesday are the most they've given up in consecutive games this season. Jose Reyes has gone 0-9 in 2 games in Boston. We can officially say he is ice cold now, his average has dropped nine points. Tom Glavine tries to help New York avoid being swept in a series for the first time this season when he faces Curt Schilling on Thursday night. Carlos Delgado's 43 career interleague homers are second to Jim Thome's 49.
June 28, 2006
In a pregame ceremony, the Red Sox honored the 1986 AL champion team that blew a chance to win the World Series against the Mets when Mookie Wilson's grounder went between Bill Buckner's legs. Former Mets 1B Keith Hernandez, now a broadcaster with the team, watched the ceremony on television from the media dining room. Pedro Martinez was treated to a highlights video after the first inning, and the fans called him out of the Mets dugout with a standing ovation and chants of "Pedro!" He popped to the top step to wave and mime a hug. Scott Kazmir allowed six earned runs and six hits in five innings on Tuesday at Florida to take the loss and fall to 9-6. He walked three batters and struck out eight. Sounds like an average Zambrano outing. Carlos Delgado's 390th career homer tied Graig Nettles for 46th on the all-time list. Mets RF Xavier Nady left the game with a bruised left wrist after getting hit by a pitch in the sixth. The Mets never regarded Jason Scobie as a prospect. But he moved through their system, and last summer, at age 25, he won 15 games for the Norfolk Tides, a record for the Mets Triple-A affiliate. He was the starting pitcher in the Triple-A All-Star Game. Now he finds himself out of a job. The Mets have released Scobie, who posted a mark of 1-11 with a 7.91 ERA this season.
June 27, 2006 There's a cool movie clip of Game Six of the 1986 World Series with Nintendo RBI Baseball.
June 26, 2006
Three of Jose Reyes' eight homers this season have been leadoff shots. He's done it five times in his career. Reyes had four hits for the second consecutive day, the first Met to do so since Edgardo Alfonzo in 2000. Reyes extended his hitting streak to 13 games and is batting .561 (32-for-57) with eight doubles, three triples, two homers and 19 runs scored during that stretch and has lifted his average to .302. Steve Trachsel last won four consecutive starts from Aug. 7-23, 2003, en route to a career-high 16 victories with New York. Mets 1B Carlos Delgado turned 34.
June 25, 2006 Mets Catcher Paul Lo Duca left the game in the third because of a bruised left thumb. After Lo Duca grounded out to end the top of the third, Castro replaced him to start the bottom half. The injury has been nagging Lo Duca. He's listed as day-to-day.
June 24, 2006 Lastings Milledge made a nice, over-the-shoulder catch at the wall in left in the seventh. Duaner Sˆnchez is 4-0 with a 2.43 ERA.
June 23, 2006 David Wright connected in the fourth and fifth innings for his third two-homer game of the season, raising his batting average to .338. He has 10 RBIs in the last five games and 60 for the season in 71 games. Wright's two homers gave him 202 RBIs in 300 games for his career. Scott Kazmir took a two-hitter into the eighth inning and beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 4-1, becoming the youngest pitcher to win nine games this early in the season since Tom Gordon and John Smoltz in 1989. Only Detroit's Kenny Rogers and the New York Mets' Tom Glavine have more victories (10) among major league pitchers, and Kazmir's .568 career winning percentage (21-16) is the best in Devil Rays history for a pitcher with a minimum of 25 decisions. Thanks Rick Peterson, how is Victor Zambrano coming along? In 1963, Jimmy Piersall of the New York Mets hit his 100th career home run and celebrated by running around the bases backwards.
June 22, 2006
Billy Wagner was unable to convert a save opportunity for the fourth time this season and took his first loss as Met. He hadn't allowed a run in 12 appearances (13 1/3 innings). Braden Looper, Armando Benitez, John Franco and Doug Sisk were seen in the Diamond Club at Shea sharing a pitcher of beer during Wagner's meltdown. Mets LF Cliff Floyd (sprained left ankle) got some work in a pool on Tuesday and ran Wednesday. He is eligible to come off the DL on Thursday but manager Willie Randolph said he isn't sure when he'll be activated. Randolph said he'll know more about when Floyd will return when the veteran gets some simulated game action.
June 21, 2006
Shea Stadium has been filled lately with many so-called Met fans with brand new hats and jerseys. One fan wearing a Edgardo Alfonzo jersey was asked if he was playing tonight. There has been a lot of big mouth fans back at Shea abusing fans of visiting teams. Nothing like a drunken asshole wearing a Carlos Beltran jersey screaming at a guy and his girlfriend watching his hometown Orioles play at Shea. Doesn't it feel good to be a jerk? Go back to the Yankees, enjoy the game and Mets have not won anything since 1986. Carlos Delgado also became the fourth Met to reach 20 home runs in the team's first 70 games, matching Dave Kingman (game 52 in 1976), Darryl Strawberry (game 64 in 1987), and Mike Piazza (game 68 in 2000).
June 20, 2006
Kaz Matsui, have the Rockies plucked a gem from baseball's scrap heap. The Rockies think they landed Hideki Matsui. As Bob Klapisch writes, "Willie Randolph also is the anti-Art Howe, as edgy as his predecessor was comatose." Doesn't Pedro Martinez look fat when the cameras show him in the dugout. Layoff the candy bars Pedro. Two Mets named co-NL Players of the Week. The Reds added two runs in the eighth off relievers Pedro Feliciano and Chad Bradford to give Arroyo some cushion to finish the game and pick up his ninth win of the season. Bradford, who had not allowed a run in his last 11 outings and had allowed only one of 24 inherited runners this year to score, the highest percentage in the Majors, could not continue his hot streak. The 6-foot-5 right-hander allowed a double to Brandon Phillips and two runs scored, thus ending his streak and any chance for the Mets to stake a comeback.
June 19, 2006 OF Eli Marrero also made a pair of nice, running grabs in the first. He reached base safely three times and stole two bases. Xavier Nady was received warmly in the Mets clubhouse before the game. The right fielder was activated from the disabled list following an appendectomy on May 30. Nady replaced Cliff Floyd on the Mets roster, after Floyd was placed on the 15-day disabled list because of the left ankle sprain suffered on June 6 at Los Angeles. Floyd's assignment is retroactive to June 7 and, if healthy, he'll return for Thursday's afternoon game against the Reds.
June 18, 2006
Another Former Met had a great game Saturday night. Scott Kazmir pitched five solid innings allowing two runs and struck out nine, making him the 23rd lefty since 1900 to reach 300 career strikeouts before his 23rd birthday. The Mets signed RHP Joseph Smith, their third-round choice in the amateur draft. He will report to Class-A Brooklyn of the New York-Penn League. The Mets scored in the first inning for the ninth time in the last 10 games.
June 17, 2006 3B David Wright made a diving glove-hand catch of Fahey's attempted bunt in the first inning. right extended his hitting streak to 10 games with a sixth-inning single.
June 16, 2006 A notoriously slow worker, Steve Trachsel delayed the start of the game when he trotted in from the bullpen with his catcher just before the first pitch. Carlos Beltran has a hit and RBI in eight straight games. Country singer Tim McGraw, son of former Phillies and Mets reliever Tug McGraw, threw out the first pitch.
June 15, 2006
Marty Noble of MLB.com writes that Lastings Milledge is likely headed backed to the Minors.
This date in Mets history, the Mets made their best and worst deals ever on this date. They traded away Tom Seaver, for all the wrong reasons, in 1977, and six years later, they traded for Keith Hernandez. In between, they produced four last-place finishes and a .407 winning percentage. Seaver sobbed as he emptied his locker the day after he was exiled to Cincinnati by board chairman
M. Donald Grant. Hernandez, merely months removed from the Cardinals' World Series championship of 1982, cried in the shower in the visiting clubhouse in Montreal following his first Mets game. Xavier Nady (appendectomy) played in another extended spring game yesterday and went 4-for-6 with a double and homer. The team will send him to Norfolk today In explaining why he has struggled lately, Aaron Heilman said he was working to fix a mechanical flaw that is affecting his follow-through. Heilman has allowed a hit in each of his past 10 appearances. Mike Pelfrey pitched great at Double-A Binghamton last night, notching the win by allowing one run on five hits in six innings. Pelfrey struck out eight and is now 2-1 with a 2.66 ERA. St. Lucie manager Gary Carter will manage the U.S. team in the July 9 Futures Game for prospects in Pittsburgh, two days before the All-Star Game. Carter, whose high-A St. Lucie team entered last night with a division-leading 38-27 record, will manage opposite Ferguson Jenkins.
June 14, 2006 The Mets are 12-2 when Glavine starts. Glavine allowed four homers against Atlanta on May 30, 2003. The Mets are 7-1 on their 10-game road trip.
June 13, 2006
David Wright, who has moved into fifth place in the National League batting race with a recent surge, has surged ahead in the All-Star balloting for NL third basemen. Vote For David Wright on MLB's web site. Does anyone miss Mike Piazza? Does anyone remember Mike Piazza? The New York Mets activated pitcher John Maine from 15-day disabled list and optioned him to Triple-A Norfolk.
June 12, 2006 Pedro Martinez, who opened the season 5-0, broke a string of seven starts without a victory. He is 3-1 lifetime with a 1.36 ERA against Arizona. OF Eli Marrero made his Mets debut as a pinch-hitter for Beltran in the sixth. He collected his first hit, a double, and RBI in the eighth inning.
June 11, 2006 New York OF Lastings Milledge got his first career stolen base.
June 10, 2006 Carlos Beltran had his 14th multihomer game and the first this year. Accepting that Kaz Matsui was a failed and costly experiment, the Mets today traded the second baseman to the Rockies for utilityman Eli Marrero. Thank God! Check out the New York Post take on the trade. Congratulations to Kazuo for making the list of the worst free agent signings in New York Mets history.
June 9, 2006
Aren't glad that the Mets did not sign Alex Rodriguez after the 2000 season. Instead on June 5, 2001, the Mets drafted David Wright in the 1st round (38th pick) of the 2001 amateur draft. David Wright has come up with more clutch hits than A-Rod in the past couple of seasons. The Mets drafted Aaron Heilman in the 1st round (18th pick) of the 2001 amateur draft. Aaron has his moments when his changeup works. Wright is the face of the Mets and writes Franz Lidz of Sports Illustrated, the Prince Of the City. Why is Kazuo Matsui still on this team? I guess no one wants a .200 hitter. Now The New York Post reports, Kaz Matsui is a candidate to be released by the Mets, according to a person with knowledge of the club's thinking. As early as Tuesday, Xavier Nady could comes off the disabled list and a roster spot will have to be created. Matsui also be traded; one major league team official said yesterday there was buzz that the Mets were going to "move him soon." RHP John Maine, on the DL with an inflamed right finger, gave up six runs and eight hits in a four-inning start at Triple-A Norfolk on Tuesday night. Maine walked three and struck out seven. Carlos Beltran has driven in 18 runs in his last 19 games. Endy Chavez' two-run single snapped an 0-for-10 skid on the Mets' road trip.
June 8, 2006 Built to last writes the Daily News Adam Rubin. He thinks Nady job may be in jeopardy. Lastings Milledge, the Mets' first-round pick in 2003, went 2-for-4 with three RBI. He is hitting .308 with two homers and eight RBI in his eight-game big-league career.
June 7, 2006
The Mets announced just before the game that Reyes wouldn't start, saying he hurt the wrist late Monday during one of his at-bats. During last night's game the Mets said an X-ray was negative. Cliff Floyd turned his left ankle and had to be helped off the field with Willie Randolph and assistant trainer Mike Herbst. The Mets said Floyd is day-to-day. Willie Randolph backed up his move to bypass Billy Wagner writes Mark Hale. With their first pick the Mets selected Villanova right-hander Kevin Mulvey, the 62nd player drafted overall. Mulvey had a 3-8 record, Villanova was shut out in three of his losses and scored just one run in two others and had a team-low 3.61 ERA in 92 1/3 innings. He allowed 91 hits and held opponents to a .254 batting average, struck out 88 and walked 22. MLB's Marty Noble gives us a complete draft breakdown as the Mets stockpiled on arms.
June 6, 2006 The Dodgers have been in Los Angeles now for 50 seasons and played in Chavez Ravine for 45 seasons now. The Brooklyn Dodgers played in Ebbets Field for 45 seasons. So you old Dodger fans, who want the Dodgers to come back to Brooklyn, let go, they are not coming back! The Brooklyn Superbas (later Dodgers) played in Washington Park from 1898 to 1912; it is now the 3rd Avenue wall to the Con Edison yard at 222 1st Street in Brooklyn. On ESPN Radio's Mike and Mike in the Morning, former Met GM Steve Phillips was asked if he was responsible for Lastings Milledge. Phillips said that he drafted Milledge just before he got whacked by the Wilpons. At least Phillips did not trade Scott Kazmir and left us with Milledge, Jose Reyes, and David Wright. Thanks Steve, say Hi to Mo Vaughn for us. The Mets are 117-101 since Willie Randolph took over as manager. The last Mets manager who had a better record in his first 218 games was Bud Harrelson, who was 122-96 between 1990 and 1991. Davey Johnson, who guided the team to its last World Series championship in 1986, also started out 122-96.
June 5, 2006
Former NHL coach and player Barry Melrose, while being interviewed on the radio about the Stanley Cup finals. Melrose was asked if there any unwritten rules in hockey. Melrose responded, "You are not suppose to drink before a game." Melrose also said predicted that Hurricanes would win in six games. As the Daily News Bill Madden writes, "Rookie's high-fives a real low blow to Giants." Good to see Armando Benitez have a meltdown not wearing a Met jersey. Benitez was 14-14 in save opportunties against the Mets since being traded in 2003. Cliff Floyd did not start yesterday and was the recipient of a practical joke. Floyd became a bubble head as someone took a blowed bubble and stuck it on the back of Cliff's hat while on the bench. The Mets have played 11 extra-inning games, most in the majors. They are 6-5 in those games.
June 4, 2006 The Mets bullpen looks worn out. What happened the guys who throw gas and blow away the opposition? One guy we traded for El Pukue. Glavine has pitched at least six innings in 27 straight starts, the longest current streak in the majors. The Giants and Mets split a rain-delayed doubleheader that ended 9 hours, 14 minutes after the scheduled first pitch.
June 3, 2006 Would it be hard for the Mets to watch the Weather Channel and call the game before thousands of fans pile on crammed subways during rush hour and head out to Shea? With the promotion of Lastings Milledge from Triple-A Norfolk, Victor Diaz has slipped on the Mets' depth chart and is expected to be packaged in a deal to strengthen the rotation in the coming weeks, Newsday reports.
June 2, 2006 Tom Glavine (8-2, 2.59 ERA) starts tonight against the Giants. He is 17 victories shy of 300 career victories. Matt Cain (3-5, 5.07) pitches for the Giants. Cain threw seven solid innings to win the April 24 matchup, but lost his next three outings before getting skipped in San Francisco's rotation. The Mets lead the major leagues with eight victories that came at home in the ninth inning or later this season, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. Colorado and Minnesota are tied for second with five, and the Yankees have one. The Mets had a total of eight in 2004 and 2005.
June 1, 2006
The New York Daily News Mike Lupica writes that fans should Booooo Bonds! I know I will booing Balco Guinea Pig. Sportsnet New York needs to stop showing bizarre camera shots of Gary Cohen and Keith Hernandez in the booth. Hernandez looks like Whitey Herzog just caught him doing blow in Cardinals locker room. Cohen could be an alien, he may have been cast as a grey on "The X-Files." Please stop, why is Chris Cotter interviewing that fossil in the bullpen when Pedro is pitching? What is next? Fran Healy career highlights and Met memories?
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
