Dillon
Gee pitched five wonderful innings, throwing 66 pitches, 46 o which were strikes.
One
of these strikes was a none movement down the pipe ball that all-star 3B Ryan
Zimmerman put in the stands. All-star hitters do this some time, however, Gee
was basically in control through five innings and this would be the first test
for the patience of Terry Collins.
Gee
went on to have no problem in the sixth, going 1-2-3. After six, Gee’s pith
count was 77, with 56 strikes.
What
do you do?
It’s
the first game of the year, Gee is in command, but this is no time wear out one
of the few healthy starters you have in the clubhouse.
One
of the factors could easily be how long it took the Mets to bat in the bottom
of the sixth. It went quick, so Terry’s on his own here.
The
Mets are four innings away from a win. That’s like from Hilton Head Island to
the planet of Saturn.
TC
kept him in… give up a single after retiring 15 in a row, then walked a second
runner with two outs…
Here’s
where great bullpens take over, but since the Mets don’t have that, they left
Gee in with two on and two out…
Uh…
another single brings the third Nats run in… that’s 100 pitches, with 68.
Collins
turns it over to Carlos Torres, and then Scott Rice, but he gets my vote on how he pushed Gee
into the 7th inning.
I
like that approach and I hope to see more.
If this was the Cardinals organization, Syndergard, Montero, and DeGromm would all be in the bullpen right now and the Mets would have victory #1 rather than a great blueprint for 2017. Of course they would also have major league players at SS and 1B.
ReplyDeleteI have no problem with how TC executed Gee in Game 1
ReplyDeleteThe las thing he expected was Torres and Rice not to pound strikes