Wednesday night in Flushing, a 9th inning rally
by the Mets falls short, the Nationals beat the Mets for the 10th
straight time on their home turf with a 3-2 win. It was Bartolo Colon vs Jordan
Zimmerman. The Mets took a 1-0 lead in the 4th when a dropped fly to
Kevin Frandsen in left allowed Lucas Duda to score. In the 7th the
Nats scored twice on sac flies by Bryce Harper and Frandsen. In the 8th, Jeurrys Familia
yielded a homer to Asdrubal Cabrera, his first as a National. In the 9th
Travis d’Arnaud hit a solo homer (10) off Rafael Soriano to make it 3-2, then
after singles by Matt den Dekker and Wilmer Flores the Mets had 1st
and 3rd with one out. Eric Young Jr. pinch ran for Flores and immediately
stole 2nd, his 27th steal on the year. Eric Campbell pinch hit and hit into a fielder’s
choice where den Dekker was thrown out at home. Curtis Granderson then hit into
a comebacker and the Nats got the win. Colon pitched terrific once again going 7 allowing 6 hits 2 runs (only 1 earned)
walking 1 and striking out 8. He takes
the loss falling to 11-10. Zimmerman gets the win improving to 8-5, Soriano
notched his 27th save. The
Nationals are now 9-2 against the Mets in 2014.
The Mets out hit the Nats 9 to 8, David Wright, d’Arnaud and den Dekker
each had 2 hits apiece. Wright has now hit in 12 straight games. The Mets now fall to 57-64 on the year and
28-29 at Citi Field. Thursday night is
the final game of this three game set. Dillon Gee (4-4 3.54) goes for the Mets, Stephen Strausburg
(8-10 3.68) goes for Washington.
1 comment:
Okay, so it is now official that Tulo will not be an option for 2015 because he will have to retake the field and demonstrate he can recover from hip surgery. I had posted yesterday that this question may answer itself before the end of the year and lo and behold it took a day. Can you imagine if we had traded a boat load of prospects and had him going under the knife without putting the jersey on once? Not only would we be minus players, but would have exhausted all future payroll additions. I can tell you that as someone who partially tore my hip labrum playing football (mine didn't require surgery) that this is often considered a collateral injury resulting from recruiting effort from another damaged part of the lower body. Although, the success rate for this surgery is high, this absolutely should be considered a total deal killer for any future trade because it heals the symptom (or result) but not the underlying cause of recruitment. Here is another bold prediction: Tulo plays more games in the next 4 years than Cargo, who has now developed serious tendinitis in his knee like Beltran and that does not go well with a sport where you have to take the field 25 days a month. As I said yesterday, it is not that I don't WANT an established bat, I just don't think it will be available, so plan B likely involves a player who has yet to play in the ML, like a Tomas or one of the baby Cubs. I would actually try to do both, sign Tomas and trade for Javier Soler. I said that I don't want to trade Crown Jewels, but if we do, Soler would be my target. Noah for Soler and it will probably take one more piece because of current premium on offense, maybe even a Nimmo or Plawecki, but no more.
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