In the game broadcast on Channel 11 WPIX TV in NYC and CW 15
in Albany, the Marlins beat the Mets 5-3 (Box).
Video
Highlights. Rick
Porcello started for the Mets followed by 7 other pitchers.
It was nice to see pitchers like Ryley
Gilliam, Kevin
Smith, Ryder
Ryan, and Adonis
Uceta, in action in addition to Daniel
Zamora, Corey
Oswalt (only one to go two innings) and Chasen
Shreve who already have MLB experience.
Rick Porcello gave up two hits and a run in his one inning
of work that saw the Marlins Monte
Harrison steal two bases. Per
Fox Sports: “Get out there first pitch with a runner on first (base), and
he’s gone,” Porcello said. “I’ll start paying attention to that more and be
prepared more for a change in style of play.”
Newsday
talked to Porcello about how he is building his relationship with Ramos: “It’s
been great and we have to continue to get better and get closer,” Porcello
said. “We’re learning each other. He’s caught all my bullpens, he’s asking me
questions, I’m asking him questions. We’re feeding off one another. We’ll keep
building that relationship that is extremely important for both of us to have
success out there.”
Mets starting catcher, Wilson
Ramos, threw out a runner in the second.
Wilson drove in two with the help of a wind blown double
after the Mets loaded the bases on a Jeff McNeil
single, Pete Alonso
reaching on an error by Marlins CF Monte Harrison on a fly ball, and a Michael
Conforto single. Matt Adams
drove in one on a sacrifice fly. No
further offense for the Mets after that.
After the Mets took the lead in the first 3-1, Chasen Shreve
allowed two runs including a solo homer.
The game was tied 3-3 until the eighth when the Marlins got
a run off Adonis Uceta who was charged with the loss, Ryder Ryan gave up a
homer in the ninth for the final run.
Per
SNY.TV: Luis Rojas liked what he saw from Rick Porcello and Wilson Ramos. "I
thought it was a good inning," said Rojas. "Establishing his fastball
down, mixing his curveball…I like Ramos with a knee down trying to get
Porcello's fast ball.” Luis also
mentioned how the Mets turned three double plays and that Andres
Gimenez looked good at shortstop.
The
Miami Herald posted a photo gallery of the game (most are Marlins pictures
but Mets like Jake Marisnick and Michael Conforto are also included.)
In the other game the Cardinals Beat the Mets 2-0 (Box).
Video
Highlights.
Marcus
Stroman pitched an inning and 2/3 giving up a solo homer in the
second. His highlight of the day had to
be the back to back strikeouts to end the first of Yadier
Molina and Paul Goldschmidt.
Marcus was followed by Stephen
Villines, Stephen
Gonsalves, Pedro
Payano, Matt
Blackham, and Yefry
Ramírez.
Not much offense for the Mets who did have 7 hits. Luis
Guillorme made a nice play on a line drive that he tunred into a double
play and Rene
Rivera threw out a runner trying to steal off Stephen Villines in the
second.
Per
SNY.TV: About his outing Marcus Stroman said: “Felt great. Really excited
with where I'm at, to be honest…Really excited with my body, my pitches,
everything is coming out. Really spinning my four-seam pretty well.” More
on the game from SNY.TV here.
12UP.com
had VIDEO: Entire Cardinals Team Watches Jack
Flaherty Warm up for Spring Debut in Awesome Gesture.
Per
SNY.TV: The Mets will host the St. Louis Cardinals at Clover Park, today, Sunday,
with first pitch set for 1:10PM.
Lefty Steven Matz
is scheduled to start for the Mets, while veteran Adam
Wainwright will go for the Cardinals.
Other Mets Links:
Per
NY Post: Mets’ Seth Lugo
returns to mound after fracturing his toe.
Seth threw a bullpen session saying: “All the pitches were there,
executing and locating...Real light and real simple right now, the further
along we’ll start to do some tougher stuff.”
More
on Seth Per Elite Sports NY: “It felt pretty good,” Lugo said, per Corey
Hersch of SNY. “Pitches were coming out real good. I felt a little soreness
when I got done but that’s to be expected. Hopefully tomorrow that’s gone.”
MLB
Video: Mets Officially open new Clover Park.
Tim
Healey in Newsday detailed all the new high tech gear that assistant
general manager Adam Guttridge is using this year from Drones to TrackMan (a
radar system that precisely records virtually every movement of a baseball) to
multiple camera angels in the bullpens.
Joel
Sherman in the NY Post wrote: How Jacob
deGrom can pull off daunting Hall of Fame challenge. Noting his lack of wins Joel said “What would
help deGrom is a third Cy Young.”
Rob Rogan of Mets 360 discussed Noah
Syndergaard’s pitch-framing dependency.
His detailed analysis included Noah’s ERA with the following catchers:
Travis d’Arnaud – 2 Games 8.10 ERA; Tomas Nido – 12 Games 2.88 ERA; Wilson
Ramos 16 Games 5.20 ERA; Rene Rivera 2 Games 2.84 ERA.
213
Miles from Shea did a 2020 Mets Conglomerate Projections: Jed Lowrie
– 300.75 Plate Appearances, 259.75 At Bats, 7.4 HR, .244 BA., .724 OPS.
Ryan
Finkelstein of MetsMerized Online said: Tomas Nido Needs To Earn Spot on
Opening Day Roster.
Tim
Boyle of Rising Apple looked at Mets Extension Candidate: Michael Conforto,
the $100 million player.
James
Richards of Rising Apple: Mets reliever Edwin Diaz could have some challengers
for the closer job.
Other MLB News:
12UP.com:
Felix
Hernandez Dominated His First Inning in a Braves Uniform and it Felt
Extremely Strange. Hernandez threw a perfect 1-2-3 inning, inducing two
groundouts, and ending the frame with a swinging strikeout.
Per
masnsports.com: Nats cheered, Astros booed during rained-out spring opener.
Per
AP Sports: Fans heckling Astros spring opener get signs stolen.
Phil
Mushnick in the NY Post said that “Oakland Athletics’ radio fiasco is MLB slap
in the face.” The A’s games will
only be available in the Oakland area via an online app.
Tony
Clark: MLBPA’s ‘Strong Preference’ Rays Remain In Tampa Bay. One consideration is that the Rays would
split their games between Montreal and Tampa.
Mack’s
Blast From the Past comes from 2-23-12: Mack shared an e-mail from Erik
Goeddel as well as other thoughts.
Born on this date:
- Ron Hunt (1941)
- Don Shaw (1944)
- Ken Boswell (1946)
- Bobby Bonilla (1963)
- Chris Aguila (1979)
2013
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Jason Bay, who mutually agreed to
terminate his contract with the Mets in November after three years of
futility in New York, clouts a two-run homer in his first at-bat of spring
training in the Mariners' 8-6 exhibition victory over the Padres. The
likable, but oft-injured outfielder signed with Seattle in the offseason for
$1 million, a far cry from the four-year, $66-million free-agent deal he
inked when he left Boston for the Big Apple in 2009.
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2016
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At a news conference at Borough
Hall in Queens, the Mets announce the team will host an LGBT Pride Night on
August 13 at Citi Field, featuring discounted seating for the game against
the Padres and a free postgame concert. A portion of the proceeds from each ticket
sold at Mets.com/pride for the event, which is expected to attract more than
5,000 lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender fans, will benefit the LGBT
Network, a non-profit organization, and its Safe Schools Initiative working
to stop bullying in Long Island and Queens.
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10 comments:
Day 1 is in the books. Hitting was in short supply in Metsville.
I like the game recaps
will we see you doing this in the regular season in the Links'?
Thanks Mack. Yes I was thinking of daily recaps for Mets and all Mets minor league teams during the season similar to the recaps of the winter games this past winter.
Also will include key notes from other MLB games like how I had the notes above regarding the Nats-Astros gane, etc.
I also want to do recaps of the minor league games I attend similar to the ones I did for Syracuse and Brooklyn last September.
Any feedback from you and the readers will be helpful.
That will match up very well with the actual press release from the teams that I will post later on in the morning.
Per MLB.com: Yoenis Céspedes broke his media silence early Sunday morning, saying he intends to be ready for Opening Day.
"If I continue progressing the way that I am, yes," Céspedes said through an interpreter.
Tebow is the starting lineup today along with Gimenez back at SS.
Today's Starting lineup: 1. Rosario DH; 2. Gimenez SS, 3. Davis 3B, 4. Adams 1B, 5. Marisnick CF, 6. Nido C, 7. Guillorme 2B, 8. Cordell RF, 9. Tebow LF.
This Tebow circus has to end.
It is pitiful that he starts.
And he will play everyday in Syracuse this year.
Tebow is a 4th and 99.
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