Nate Shierholtz came through with a walk off RBI single in
the bottom of the ninth inning. The Cubs beat the Mets 2-1. Tuesday night the
Mets came to Chicago to face the team with the worst record in baseball having won
3 in a row and 4 of 5. Zach Wheeler started for the Mets and was brilliant.
Curtis Granderson’s sac Fly in the top of the 1st staked Wheeler to
a 1-0. Wheeler left after 6 2/3 scoreless innings. But in the eighth Chris Coghlan
hit a solo homer (1) off Josh Edgin to tie the game. Then in the ninth Anthony
Rizzo singled and moved to 2nd on a double play grounder to third
that David Wright bobbled and salvaged with a throw to first. Then with 2 out Shierholtz came through
against Scott Rice to win it for the Cubs. The Mets had 9 hits on the game and
had plenty of scoring chances during the game but just couldn’t cash in and it
cost them the game. Wheeler went the 6
2/3 he allowed just 2 hits (both to Schierholtz) he walked 2 and struck out
7. He gets the no decision but lowers
his season ERA to 3.89. Rice gets tagged with the loss; he falls to 1-2. Shierholtz went 3 for 4 for the Cubs,
Granderson went 3 for 3, Matt den Dekker went 2 for 5 with a stolen base for
the Mets. The Mets now fall to 28-30 on
the season and 15-13 on the road. Wednesday night is game two of the series.
Daisuke Matsuzaka (2-0 2.45) goes for the Mets, Edwin Jackson (3-5 4.81) goes for the Cubs.
5 comments:
Young must go...either to "house detention" on the bench or just release him. He is doing what all fans feared he would when they signed him...keep them out of the playoffs. Part ways.
You're overacting after a bad loss.
You can't cut an outfielder when tow of yours (EYJ, Lagares) are on the DL.
I don't like Young either, and right now, I'd play the combo of Grandy, den Dekker, Campbell, Abreu until it stops working.
Last night's loss was lost when they had bases loaded and couldn't even single in two more runs. Frustrating loss but this is a weak offensive team that had a nice series in Philly, that's all.
Root for a bounce back and a series win here. It's going to get a lot harder soon.
Hi Mack
That is why I am OK (for now) with the other option - benching him, so in that view the guys you propose to play I am happy with.
While Young went hitless (I read he is .140 in last 26 games) Brown was 2 for 2 last nite.
Brown it seems has redeemed his accumulated Brownie Points for a free ticket to the Windy City, I am reading. It will crowd things for now - I'd work Brown into the OF mix with Grandy, Dekker, and Abreu until Lagares is back, and Campbell would become a pinch hitter and start at 1B vs. lefties. Brown is red-hot - see if it carries over. Don't bring him up to just sit.
Brown's recall is to be offset with Carlyle or Eveland going down - but when Lagares and EY Jr are to return, it will get tough. Likely Brown goes back down, but the two Youngs may be on the table for cuts too in a few weeks instead. But I think the Brown call up is a sign even Mets management has Chris Young one step closer to jettisoning him in a few weeks if he does not start to show a pulse.
Interesting that the subject of expanded rosters has come up - when I was a kid back in the '60's, teams had 15 position guys and 10 pitchers- now more like 13 position guys and 12 pitchers, correct? I think to recognize how the game has changed, with more pitchers needed, rosters should go up 1 or 2 players to not short-change offensive players' careers.
But cap # of pitchers at 12 before Sept 1. With 60 more big league slots for position guys, offensive players like Brown and EY Jr, who would not have to worry about finding a spot, as they in fact have to under the current 25 man set up.
If it were 27, say, I'd love to keep EY Jr around to occasionally play, pinch hit, and pinch run. A prefect role. A Tejada (or Tovar) could be a late inning defense guy. Etc.
YOU are the single person on the earth responsible for the Brown promotion
You may be right there, Mack...as you recall, I really pushed Campbell earlier too. Could it be my rants had some affect? Nah....the Met front office has much greater minds than mine - their track record shows that.
Anyway, after my last post, I reflected back to Ike of 2013 - I seem to recall the Mets did some similar move - called up an offensive guy, sent down a pitcher - a short while before Ike went to minors. Maybe this is Young's prelude.
Although they invested a lot in Chris, they I think are really hearing fan unrest this year and won't let one bad decision (signing him) affect the next one (getting rid of him if he does not improve). Because the remaining fans will remind them of their sticking with a bad player to a fault for the wron reasons.
Hey, I hope Chris Young has a "Tejada experience" as Ruben did when Flores was called up and start playing better. 2013 and 2014 to date for Young, viewed without emotion, looks like the person who expects good things to soon follow from Young to be the one doing wishful thinking.
I understand your thoughts as to not churning the roster...but I wonder if guys might actually be happy. Young, after all, is causing them to lose games. Wright is sick of losing year after year, and Grandy is used to winning - if this guy is an impediment, I don't think his departure would be seen negatively by them, the two team leaders.
One quick side question - Jose Abreu has hit 2 HRs since coming off DL and looks a lot like Babe Ruth homer-wise. How obvious was it in tryouts (and from his track record) that this guy would be this darned good - did the Mets see he'd likely be real good - and did they just cheap out in not going after a likely (super) star but instead seeing how the cheap Davis/Duda dilemma would play out? If there were real doubts he'd excel, OK, but boy would his bat be useful in the Mets line up. So if they cheaped out on a potentially great acquisition, shame on them.
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