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Due to the hurricane warnings, neither outfielder Cliff Floyd nor right-hander Pedro Martinez were able to work out Wednesday in Florida at the team's minor league complex in Port St. Lucie. Carlos Beltran has scored at least once in 12 consecutive games, a Mets record. Jose Valentin had his 18th multiple home run game. The Texas Rangers acquired Victor Diaz from the Mets for minor league catcher Mike Nickeas.
Aug 30, 2006 The Mets have 17 home runs in their last 11 games.
Aug 29, 2006
Mets LHP Billy Wagner struck out the side in the ninth in a non-save situation. Only 8,766 fans passed through the turnstiles on Monday for the rescheduled game. The paid attendance was 45,868. Sounds like the Mets Ticket Office fucked the fans again, bunch of greedy bastards.
Aug 28, 2006 Mets RHP Orlando Hernandez threw in the outfield Sunday. Hernandez was scheduled to start last Friday but was pushed back in the rotation as a precaution. Randolph said he isn't certain when Hernandez will start again.
Aug 27, 2006 Oliver Perez was the opening day pitcher for Pittsburgh each of the last two seasons.
Aug 26, 2006 Mets SS Jose Reyes jammed a finger on his left hand while stealing second base in the fifth inning, but stayed in the game. The Mets optioned Brian Bannister to Triple-A Norfolk after the game. Oliver Perez was called up from Triple-A Norfolk to start Saturday.
Aug 25, 2006 Mets leftfielder Endy Chavez made two tough catches in the fifth, one on a looping fly by Jason Marquis, the other on a line drive by Ronnie Belliard. The Mets signed C Kelly Stinnett to a minor league contract. He was released last month by the New York Yankees. Thursday night's 6-2 victory completed New York's third straight sweep and gave the Mets seven straight victories and 11 in a row at Shea Stadium, their longest home winning streak since September 1995. The Mets (78-48) moved to 30 games over .500 for the first time since 1999 and lead second-place Philadelphia by 14 1/2 games in the NL East.
Jose Reyes, in an 0-for-12 slide coming in, batted in each of the first four innings and had hits in his first three trips. His 15 homers are double his previous high: seven last year. Reyes also stole a pair of bases, raising his major league-leading total to 52. Ex-Mets closer Braden Looper was booed when he entered in the eighth. Julio Franco celebrated his 48th birthday, and didn't have a piece of cake.
Aug 23, 2006 PitcherTom Glavine can return in 7-to-10 days. Reliever Guillermo Mota made his Mets debut, pitching a scoreless inning. The Mets got him Sunday from Cleveland for a player to be named. Carlos Delgado has 40 multihomer games. Delgado's 400th homer moved him past Al Kaline and Andres Galarraga into 42nd place on the career list. The Mets' ninth grand slam of the year also set a team record.
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Aug 22, 2006 Tom Glavine will be taking the mound again. A source told The New York Post last night that the Mets' All-Star left-hander, feared done for the season, maybe even for his career with a possible blood clot in his pitching shoulder, underwent an angiogram yesterday and will not require surgery.
Aug 21, 2006 The Mets obtained Guillermo Mota from the Indians after yesterday's game for a player to be named. Cliff Floyd, recovering from an Achilles' injury, is expected to start working out at the spring training complex Tuesday. Floyd is returning to workouts following the death of his sister, Mets general manager Omar Minaya said. Billy Wagner's 315th save moved him past Robb Nen into sole possession of 14th on the career list.
Aug 20, 2006
The Mets played '80s music and showed highlights from the 1986 season on the video scoreboard throughout the game as part of the tribute to the championship team. The 1986 reunion helped attract a crowd of 55,085, New York's eighth sellout of the season. Darryl Strawberry, Lenny Dykstra, Mookie Wilson and Howard Johnson got the loudest applause from the crowd, which chanted "Lenny! Lenny!" for Dykstra and thundered "Mookie!" when Wilson was introduced in the steady rain. The 1986 team won a club-record 108 games during the regular season and beat the Boston Red Sox in seven games in the World Series.
Aug 19, 2006 Steve Trachsel had two other seven-inning outings this season, May 17 at St. Louis and June 4 against San Francisco.
Aug 18, 2006
Mike DiFelice's RBI was his first since July 7, 2004, with Detroit. Carlos Delgado has 39 career multihomer games. His previous one was June 9 at Arizona. The Mets have hit back-to-back homers five times this season. Jose Valentin left with a slight strain of his hamstring. Randolph said Valentin will be OK.
Aug 17, 2006 RHP Heath Bell was recalled from Triple-A Norfolk to take Martinez's spot on the roster.
Aug 16, 2006
Jack Fisher was the previous Mets pitcher to give up 11 runs. He did it in 4 2-3 innings against San Francisco on June 3, 1967. Lastings Milledge looks like Todd Hundley in the outfield. I wonder if he swings a bat underwater? He is the most overrated Met prospect in team history according to David West and Shawn Abner. Jose Reyes has five of his seven career leadoff homers this season. Reyes and Kazuo Matsui (2004) share the single-season team record for leadoff homers. Reyes became the seventh player to hit three homers in a game for the Mets, who have a 13-game lead over the Phillies in the NL East. He is the eighth player, it's been done 16 times, to homer from both sides of the plate for New York. The other players who hit three homers in a game for the Mets are Jim Hickman, Dave Kingman, Claudell Washington, Darryl Strawberry, Gary Carter and Edgardo Alfonzo.
Aug 15, 2006
Aug 14, 2006
The Mets, meanwhile, are 71-45, the fastest they've reached 70 wins since 1986, the last time they won the World Series. Billy Wagner's 312th save moved him into sole possession of 15th place on baseball's career list. Michael Tucker's last homer came July 17, 2005, for San Francisco at Los Angeles.
Aug 13, 2006 Carlos Beltran is the first player in the majors with 30 homers and 30 doubles this season. Needing a homer to complete a cycle, he grounded out in the ninth. Why does Gary Thorne need to announce every single batter John Maine got out that the scoreless streak continues. Then he gave a home run. Gary shut up.
Aug 12, 2006
Aug 11, 2006 Jose Reyes' 14 triples and 48 stolen bases lead the majors and his 94 runs scored are second only to Michael Tucker, starting in LF, threw out Dave Roberts trying to stretch a single in the third inning. It was the Mets' 30th outfield assist, which leads the majors.
Aug 10, 2006 Ricky Ledee, claimed by the Mets on waivers from the Dodgers a day earlier, grounded out as a pinch-hitter. Pedro Martinez earned his 206th career victory. The Mets scored their 100th first-inning run, most in the majors.
Aug 9, 2006
Carlos Beltran also doubled three times to tie a Mets record. Twenty times a Mets player has hit three doubles in a game. The previous time was David Wright at San Francisco on Aug. 21, 2004. New York stole four bases in the game. Steve Trachsel is 9-1 in his last 11 starts (since June 9) despite an earned run average of 5.40 over that span. Trachsel leads the major league in wins over that span, but ranks 85th in ERA among pitchers with at least 50 innings pitched. After the game, the Mets designated OF Eli Marrero for assignment to make room on the 25-man roster for OF Ricky Ledee, who was placed on waivers Monday night by the Los Angeles Dodgers and quickly claimed by New York. Earlier, the Mets said they designated RHP Anderson Garcia for assignment to make room for Ledee on the 40-man roster. "An experienced bat, a guy that I know real well and a good teammate so hopefully he can help us," Randolph said of Ledee. After his flap involving a Padres masseuse in the dugout during the April 20-23 series in San Diego, SNY analyst Keith Hernandez was given this series off according to the NY Daily News. In the Daily News there's a story about another former Met. AWOL Howard Johnson puts Norfolk job in jeopardy. It seems that Sonia Lo Duca is more than the beautiful girl next door. Meanwhile the N.Y. Post reports about Lo Duca's teen lover. She calls LoDuca, Catcher In The 'Lie' As Sexy Tryst Teenager Calls Met Star A 2-Timing 'Scum' Looks like Paul Lo Duca enjoys the ladies in this blog.
Aug 8, 2006
Gambling, cheat rumors fail to shake Paul Lo Duca according to the Daily News. Mike Piazza is back at Shea tonight. I am sure many of the front runners who have been at Shea this season will not know who Mike Piazza is. He was what David Wright is today to the Mets. Former teammates still hold the 37-year-old future Hall of Famer in high esteem. Piazza commented, "I am not gay!"
Aug 7, 2006
Paul Lo Duca Playboy-model wife accused him of scoring off the field and filed for divorce, The New York Post has learned. David Wright, who signed a $55 million, six-year contract extension before the game, doubled in the first run. The Mets also had eight grand slams in 1999 and 2000. Mets OF Cliff Floyd still felt some tenderness in his Achilles' tendon and did not start Sunday's game. He hopes to be ready by Tuesday, when the Mets open a three-game set with San Diego "It will be a couple of days. The tests showed some fluid inflammation," Floyd said. "Hopefully I'll be ready Tuesday." Tom Glavine had the previous longest scoreless streak for the Mets this season with 17 innings. Paul Lo Duca is hitting .430 (43-for-100) since July 1. Too bad he can't throw runners out or catch the ball with a runner coming into the plate.
Aug 6, 2006 Jose Reyes doubled leading off the bottom of the first and scored on Lastings Milledge's single.
Aug 5, 2006 Philadelphia stole four bases in the first two innings including the 24th and 25th of the season in the first by Rollins. Way to get those runners out Paul Lo Duca. Jose Reyes stolen base in the fourth was his 45th of the season, tops in the majors. Roberto Hernandez struck out Nunez in the sixth on a 52-mph curveball.
Aug 4, 2006
Pedro Martinez is 17 strikeouts shy of 3,000. Martinez limited the Marlins to four hits in six innings, striking out nine and issuing no walks while tossing 100 pitches. The strikeout total was his highest since May 26. Mets 3B David Wright was 4-for-23 on their trip before he singled in successive at-bats. Mike Piazza (.298, 16 homers, 47 RBI) will be greeted with a video tribute when he arrives in Flushing on Tuesday with the Padres. Darryl Strawberry, Dwight Gooden, Davey Johnson and Ray Knight will not attend when the Mets honor their '86 title team Aug. 19.
Aug 3, 2006 The Mets have scored 98 runs in the first inning, an average of almost one per game. Paul Lo Duca extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a single in the first inning. Following a no-decision in the Mets' 6-5 loss on Tuesday night, Mike Pelfrey was optioned to Triple-A Norfolk on Wednesday afternoon. Reliever Royce Ring was recalled from the Tides to fill in the roster spot.
Aug 2, 2006
The Mets' defense gave up a run in the first when right fielder Lastings Milledge, recalled Monday from Triple-A Norfolk, lost a routine two-out fly in the setting sun and let it drop for a single. That put runners at first and second, and the next batter doubled for a 1-all tie. Milledge scraped his left hand when spiked sliding into second base in the eighth and left the game. He said he'll be available to play Wednesday. Mets setup man Duaner Sanchez had season-ending shoulder surgery. Adam Rubin of the N.Y. Daily News gives us more details about the lastest Met taxi accident. Carlos Beltran leads the NL with 22 road homers, one shy of Howard Johnson's 1987 team record. Beltran was named NL co-Player of the Week as he batted a toasty .385 and became the first Mets player and seventh Major Leaguer to hit three grand slams in one calendar month. Jose Reyes 10th homer tied a record for Mets shortstops, Kevin Elster held the Mets' single-season record by a shortstop. Reyes hit 17 triples in 2005 and he hit his 13th triple this year in the Mets game in Florida Tuesday night. Reyes is the first National League player to have 30-or-more triples over a two-season span since Juan Samuel hit 32 for the Phillies spanning 1984 (19) and 1985 (13).
Aug 1, 2006
Mets send Xavier Nady to the Pittsburgh Pirates for bullpen help. The Mets will assign Oliver Perez to Triple-A Norfolk and recall prized prospect Lastings Milledge from the Tides to share playing time in right field with Endy Chavez.
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