Mike Trout, Albert Pujols and Raul Ibanez hit back to back
to back homers in the bottom of the first inning Sunday afternoon, all coming against
the Mets Bartolo Colon. The Angels take the rubber game of their weekend series
with the Mets winning 14-2. The Mets took a brief 1-0 lead in the top of the
first against C.J. Wilson on an RBI single by David Wright. After that, it was
all Angels. Colon had his worst outing in 9 years giving up 9 runs, all earned
in 5 innings on 11 hits. Colon walked 2 and struck out 3. All in all Colon gave
up 4 dingers on the day . Hank Conger
added a 2 run shot in the 5th
. The Angels pounded out 17 hits on the day. The scored a pair of runs off Scott
Rice in the 6th inning. John Lannon gave up the final three runs in
the bottom of the 8th inning on a wild pitch and then a two run
homer by Ian Stewart. The Mets only
managed 6 hits in the loss. Juan Lagares
continues to be the hottest Met as he went 2 for 4 on the day. He’s now hit in
8 straight games and 10 out of 11. David
Wright and Daniel Murphy who both had questioned close strike out calls by home plate umpire Toby Basner earlier
in the game were both ejected in the 7th inning by Basner after they made
their displeasure known from the bench when Travis d’Arnaud was called out on a
low pitch. Wilson was the winning pitcher going
7 allowing 6 hits 2 runs, both earned he walked 3 and struck out 9.
Wilson improves to 2-1 on the year. Colon takes the loss falling to 1-2. The
Mets now stand at 5-7 on the year and 3-3 on the current road trip. Monday the Mets
start a 3 games series in Arizona to cap off the road trip. Zach Wheeler
(0-2 5.73) goes for the Mets. Josh
Collmenter (0-0 1.29) goes for the
Diamondbacks.
3 comments:
Today was a good day.
If you're going to lose a baseball game, do it big and let it all hang out.
Also, use a pitcher with no future who doesn't give a rat's ass what his ERA is going to be this or next year.
The Mets are two games below .500 and I easily can count two games that were lost on one pitch. Your degree of Met-dom is based on what you want out of this team.
You're probably depressed if you are one of those 90 win guys, but, if .500 PCT is your goal, it's just around the corner.
Write this one off and get back to winning the next series.
Chris Young went 5-5 with two homers and a double in Vegas today.....
And Montero was good, as usual.......I guess we should enjoy all the minor league teams wins today, and root for Wheeler tomorrow.
The minors were so good, even Mike Minor couldn't beat 'em. Kudos to Mets' minors, and the fat boy will sing in his next start.
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