Sunday afternoon the Mets closed their season on Mike Piazza Day….and while they miss his offense, the Mets come from behind late and beat the Brewers 3-2 averting a 4 game sweep of their last series of the year. The Mets finish up matching their 2012 record of 74-88. They finish with a worse home record of 33-48, 3 games behind 2012. The Mets scored their first run in the bottom of the first thanks to the speed of Eric Young Jr. who ends the season showing what his speed can bring. Young led off with a single, stole 2nd and 3rd and then came home on a very short pop out sac-fly to right field by David Wright and it was 1-0 Mets. Jon Niese started for the Mets and was looking to finish over .500…but it wasn’t to be. In the 4th, Jonathon Lucroy scored on an infield hit by Sean Halton, which first base umpire CB Bucknor clearly missed. Logan Schafer followed with an infield hit to score Carlos Gomez with the go ahead run. Niese gave up 5 of the 6 hits he allowed in inning but it would have been much worse if not for both Young and Juan Legares throwing out runners at the plate to save a pair of runs. In the bottom of the 8th, some luck finally came the Mets way. Juan Legares reached 1st on a throwing error. Then Juan Centeno hit a bunt single which was fielded and thrown away by Lucroy and Legares scored the tying run from 1st. A squib ground out by Young brought home pinch runner Matt Den Dekker to give the Mets the lead. Niese went 6, he allowed 6 hits, allowing 2 runs (earned) walked 2 and struck out 2..he gets the no-decision finishes at 8-8 with a 3.71 era. Vic Black who pitched a scoreless 8th gets the win he finishes 3-0. Frank Francisco pitched the 9th and got his 1st save in his probable last appearance as a Met. Young with the two stolen bases finishes with 47 and claims the NL SB title. Daniel Murphy finishes with a team leading 188 hits led the team with 161 games played . That wraps up 2013….All eyes now to the post-season and possibilities that lie ahead for 2014. This is Craig Mitchell on the NY Mets Metsforum. https://www.facebook.com/MetsForum
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9/29/13
September 29th - Mets 3, Brewers 2
Sunday afternoon the Mets closed their season on Mike Piazza Day….and while they miss his offense, the Mets come from behind late and beat the Brewers 3-2 averting a 4 game sweep of their last series of the year. The Mets finish up matching their 2012 record of 74-88. They finish with a worse home record of 33-48, 3 games behind 2012. The Mets scored their first run in the bottom of the first thanks to the speed of Eric Young Jr. who ends the season showing what his speed can bring. Young led off with a single, stole 2nd and 3rd and then came home on a very short pop out sac-fly to right field by David Wright and it was 1-0 Mets. Jon Niese started for the Mets and was looking to finish over .500…but it wasn’t to be. In the 4th, Jonathon Lucroy scored on an infield hit by Sean Halton, which first base umpire CB Bucknor clearly missed. Logan Schafer followed with an infield hit to score Carlos Gomez with the go ahead run. Niese gave up 5 of the 6 hits he allowed in inning but it would have been much worse if not for both Young and Juan Legares throwing out runners at the plate to save a pair of runs. In the bottom of the 8th, some luck finally came the Mets way. Juan Legares reached 1st on a throwing error. Then Juan Centeno hit a bunt single which was fielded and thrown away by Lucroy and Legares scored the tying run from 1st. A squib ground out by Young brought home pinch runner Matt Den Dekker to give the Mets the lead. Niese went 6, he allowed 6 hits, allowing 2 runs (earned) walked 2 and struck out 2..he gets the no-decision finishes at 8-8 with a 3.71 era. Vic Black who pitched a scoreless 8th gets the win he finishes 3-0. Frank Francisco pitched the 9th and got his 1st save in his probable last appearance as a Met. Young with the two stolen bases finishes with 47 and claims the NL SB title. Daniel Murphy finishes with a team leading 188 hits led the team with 161 games played . That wraps up 2013….All eyes now to the post-season and possibilities that lie ahead for 2014. This is Craig Mitchell on the NY Mets Metsforum. https://www.facebook.com/MetsForum
The faucet has finally been turned off and constant drip, drip, drip that was torturing us has ended.
ReplyDeleteNow we sit back and watch to see how they plan to address the four holes in the starting lineup (assuming Wright, d'Arnaud, Lagares and someone from the triumvirate of Murphy/Young/Flores plays 2B).
Instead they will squander their limited funds on a mediocre starting pitcher (Shaun Marcum, the sequel), and a veteran backup catcher (how old is Charlie O'Brien, anyway?).
The last time I counted they had 10 starting pitchers that any other team would consider reasonable alternatives to fill out a five man rotation (plus a likely invitation to Dice-K and possibly to Harang, too), and they have a catcher in Juan Centeño who hit in the .280-.300 the past two years who is also considered a plus defender). What signal does it send to Travis d'Arnaud to say, "The first time you have a cold couple of weeks we'll take your job away!"?
Doesn't anyone on this club know that the problems are (in no particular order), OFFENSE, OWNERSHIP and TERRY COLLINS?
Craig, thank you very much for all your hard work this season.
ReplyDeletePlease feel free to post anything that crosses your mind in the off season and I hope to see you back on opening day.
Mack