4/6/21

Mets News and Breakfast Links 4/6/2021

 



Good Morning. Happy Birthday Phil Regan. Jacob deGrom is great but not the Mets Bullpen as Phillies beat the Mets 5-3.  

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Phillies 5 Mets 3 (Box Score); Kevin Pillar CF 1 for 5; Francisco Lindor SS 1 for 4 with a walk and a K; Michael Conforto RF 1 for 4 with a K; Pete Alonso 1B 1 for 4, with a run scored, walk and 2 Ks; J.D. Davis 3B 1 for 3, with a run scored, walk and 2 Ks;; Jeff McNeil 2B 0 for 4; James McCann C 1 for 4 RBI; Brandon Nimmo LF 1 for 3, 1 walk, 2 Ks; Jacob deGrom 2 for 3 with an RBI, 1 K; 6 innings, no runs, 3 hits, 7 Ks, 2 walks; Miguel Castro 1 inning, no runs, one hit, no walks; Trevor May: 1/3 inning, 2 hits, 3 runs - 2 earned, 1 walk, 1 K; 

Brian Joura Mets360.com: “Opening Day happened four days later than it should have. The Mets should have scored more runs early in the game. They should have had Jacob deGrom pitch deeper in the game. James McCann should have caught the less-than-great throw from Luis Guillorme. All of those should haves added up to a 5-3 loss to the Phillies Monday night.” (Subscription required).

Anthony DiComo Mets.com: All the pieces were in place as Luis Rojas had drawn them up. The Mets had the best pitcher on the planet on the mound, cruising, at an extremely low pitch count. They had two runs on the board and few worries in the world. Then Rojas removed Jacob deGrom and the good vibes evaporated.

Mike Puma NY Post: “The Mets went from May to Mayday to mayhem in a torturous five-run inning…Entrusted a two-run lead in his Mets debut, Trevor May loaded the bases with one out in the eighth. Another new arrival, lefty Aaron Loup, entered and plunked Bryce Harper to force in a run. J.T. Realmuto’s ensuing RBI single tied it, and Luis Guillorme’s throw home that ticked off James McCann’s glove on Alex Bohm’s grounder (the error was charged to Guillorme) allowed two additional runs. The Phillies scored a final run on Didi Gregorius’ sacrifice fly.”

Metstradamus: “I tabbed Trevor May as someone who would be a key to the season. Unlocking the door to the gates of hell with that key wasn’t what I had in mind here.”

















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New York Mets traded Tim Foli, Mike Jorgensen and Ken Singleton to the Montreal Expos for Rusty Staub on April 6, 1972.

New York Mets released Rich Chiles on April 6, 1974.

New York Mets traded Ed Glynn to the Cleveland Indians for Dominick Bullinger on April 6, 1981.

New York Mets traded Mark Bomback to the Toronto Blue Jays for Charlie Puleo on April 6, 1981.

New York Mets sold Butch Benton to the Chicago Cubs on April 6, 1981.

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1974

The Bronx Bombers begin their two year stint at Shea Stadium, where the team will compile a 172-150 (.534) record during the renovations to the Stadium, with a 6-1 victory over Cleveland. The 'other' NY fans cheer loudly when the scoreboard posts the Mets' 5-4 loss in Philadelphia.

1974

At Veterans Stadium, Phillies third baseman Mike Schmidt hits a ninth inning two-run home run off Tug McGraw to beat the Mets on Opening Day, 5-4. The walk-off homer is the first of the league-leading 36 dingers the third baseman will hit this season.

 

2015

The Mets start 41 year-old Bartolo Colon on Opening Day, much to the chagrin of the fan base who hoped one of their young guns, Matt Harvey and Jacob deGrom, would get the coveted assignment. The oldest pitcher ever to get the nod on Opening Day in franchise history doesn't disappoint when he gives up one run on three hits, besting Washington's $210 million ace Max Scherzer in the team's 3-1 victory at Nationals Park.


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1971: The Mets win their first opener ever at Shea Stadium‚ beating the Expos‚ 4 - 2‚ in 5 innings. Heavy rain and wind cuts the contest short. Tom Seaver is the winner over Carl Morton. 

1974: The New York Yankees defeat the Cleveland Indians, 6 - 1, at Shea Stadium. This is the Yanks' first game of a two-year period at Shea while Yankee Stadium is being rebuilt. 12-year-old Teddy Kennedy‚ Jr.‚ flanked by his father and Mayor Abe Beame‚ tosses out the first ball. Missing from the ceremony is George Steinbrenner‚ indicted two days earlier for illegal campaign contributions. Graig Nettles' two-run homer in the 4th off the Indians' Gaylord Perry opens the scoring and the Yanks score 4 more times to win. Charlie Spikes scores the only Cleveland run in the 9th following a triple off starter and winner Mel Stottlemyre. Perry‚ who is warned once for an illegal pitch‚ is the loser today‚ but he will win his next 15 decisions. 

Mike Schmidt, batting 8th in the lineup, hits a two-run homer off Tug McGraw in the 9th inning to give the Philadelphia Phillies a 5 - 4 win over the New York Mets at Veterans Stadium. It is the Mets' only Opening Day loss of the 1970s. 

1992: Mets reliever Jeff Innis is credited with the win over the Cardinals in New York's 4 - 2 Opening Day victory. In 1991‚ Innis became the only pitcher in baseball history to appear in at least 60 games with neither a win nor a save. 

2002: The Mets score 9 runs in the 9th inning - 8 off John Smoltz - to break a 2 - 2 tie and defeat the Braves‚ 11 - 2. Rey Ordonez's bases-loaded double is the big blow as the Mets have 15 at bats in the 9th. It is the most runs they've ever scored in the frame. 

2004: The Mets open their season with a 7 - 2 win over the Braves. SS Kazuo Matsui, making his American baseball debut, opens the game with a home run on the first pitch from Russ Ortiz‚ becoming only the 20th player in baseball history to homer on the first major league pitch he sees. Matsui adds a pair of doubles and two walks in his debut. He is the third player in Met history to homer in his first at bat‚ joining Mike Fitzgerald and Benny Ayala.

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7 comments:

Tom Brennan said...

Watch the Stanton slam...I want to order my meatballs from that guy..

Jake screwed again, and yes, pulling him after 77 pitches is nauseating. That kind of crap decision making needs to stop

April 6, 2021 at 6:11 AM
John From Albany said...

Yogi said it best..."If You Don't Got a Bullpen You Got Nothing"

April 6, 2021 at 7:56 AM
Tom Brennan said...

The key is to position yourself for your bullpen to succeed. As I said in my 8 AM article, Mets are stupid. And good teams don't give games away.

April 6, 2021 at 8:04 AM
John From Albany said...

Leaving men on base, not going for the jugular and not pinch hitting Dom Smith for Pillar...the layoff in DC...not making the key play at the big moment...these are the things that try Mets Fans souls.

April 6, 2021 at 8:17 AM
bill metsiac said...

I get your point, John, but the reason Pillar was in there was to provide the best defense possible behind Jake. PHing for him, tempting as it was, meant going with Dom in LF and Nimmo in CF.

Sure, if it were the 6th or 7th, it might make sense, though it still puts the weakest D in the game for the late innings.

If Pillar were a good glove/no bat player, it would make more sense, but we were not trailing early and Pillar is more than capable vs RHPs.

April 6, 2021 at 9:10 AM
Bob W. said...

The Tatis Jr. injury reminds me of the one that Conforto suffered a few years back. I was at the Conforto game. I went to the concession stand and came back to see Conforto lying on the ground in pain.

April 6, 2021 at 9:15 AM
Anonymous said...

So many things were upsetting about last night's loss.

The lineup was obscene and really put a bad vibe (for me) on the game. Dom Smith earned that opening day start and those ABs. He hits lefties. That stats demonstrate that.

(The guy who can't hit lefties is Conforto.)

Nimmo at 8th is, again, the stupidest thing ever AND -- in both moves -- are not borne out by analytics. His OBP vs. LHP is better than Pillar's by a long shot.

Bill Metsiac: I think you pinch-hit there because you have Almora on the team.

Are we suddenly afraid to play the team we played all Spring Training? If that was the case, then Sandy did not do nearly enough to address that concern. I had thought, given all the signs, that the Mets were good with a great lineup and subpar outfield defense, liberally using defensive substitutions. Last night they operated scared.

Trevor May has not particularly impressed me this Spring. He comes in throwing high heat at 97. After Jake throws it at 99. And Castro throws it at 98. He threw one great slider, but to me May looked so much like Montero out there -- the same pitch over and over and over again. Sometimes it will work. But he's going to need to throw the slider, too.

McCann may have called a weird game last night. Very FB heavy with Jake, too.

Loup signing just never made sense to me. Does he impress anybody? As a second LH, maybe he'd be okay? Too soon to say, I know. But he can't pitch every day. He looks like a LOOGY guy, a Lefty Paul Sewald.

Meanwhile the pitchers who scare me are Benetiz and Gsellman.

Need Vizcaino and Lugo back.

Jake pulled himself from that game; that decision was made in consultations with Rojas. However, part of the thinking was to have Jake pitch on Saturday (skip the #5 spot). But in a 2-0 game, let's try to win the game at hand. If it was going to hamper the team's ability to win last night, then using Jake on Saturday was a mistake. If he had one more rest day, he could have thrown 90 pitches.

One complaint with baseball today is that too many games are scripted beforehand, managers don't seem to manage "the game" before them. Thoughts of Saturday messed up our ability to win last night. A deGrom night.

I know there's an idea that it's best to give relievers clean innings. But at that point in the game, we should be thinking about OUTS? The Mets needed 9. Jake could have reduced that number to 7 or 6. You save Castro -- still go with May -- but you at least have him in case of trouble. Bringing in Loup to face Harper and some RH batters with the bases loaded was not going to end well. And it's obviously not a clean inning anyway.

We are looking at a mediocre bullpen.

A little concerned by JD Davis swinging through fastballs all Spring. Hopefully he'll get his timing and does not have a slow bat.

Terrible throw by Guillorme -- and very bad setup by McCann, who had his wrong foot on the plate -- just awful all around.

Kind of sucky.

Jimmy

April 6, 2021 at 10:15 AM

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