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The resurging Mets and the stung Yankees
My second day in the border of the US and Canada, and it’s been a fun one looking at nice parks and a small airport in Ogdensburg New York. It really does not get too hot up there, the weather’s really cool and lows are in the upper 50s
Let’s talk about the Rockies at Mets game now.
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Colorado
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | |
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NY Mets
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0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | X | 4 | 9 | 0 |
Last night, not so much offense but Mike Pelfrey was stellar when the bases were loaded twice for the Colorado Rockies. Amazingly, the Rockies never scored the game despite having the bases loaded. The Mets however did score four runs in the game.
The scoring plays.
Colorado Rockies did not score and left 9 runners on base, Absolutely shocking.
Mets did score though.
2nd inning
Jeff Francoeur single brings home Daniel Murphy
3rd inning
Luis Castillo singles to bring home Alex Cora
4th inning
Brian Schneider sac fly brings home Daniel Murphy
8th inning
Daniel Murphy singles to bring home Luis Castillo
Mike Pelfrey pitches six and one thirds innings to get the win. (8-6)
Jason Marquis (hometown boy and Yankee fan) goes six innings and loss the game, giving up three runs. (12-7)
What happened to Jason Marquis’ favorite team?
They lost to the Tampa Bay Rays.

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NY Yankees
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0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 2 | |
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Tampa Bay
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0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | X | 6 | 10 | 0 |
Here’s the scoring
Bottom 2nd
D. Navarro sac flies to bring home Ben Zobrist.
Bottom 3rd
Carl Crawford (Rays CC) triples to bring home BJ (Melvin) Upton
Evan Longoria reaches on a error and Carl Crawford scores.
Top 4th
Hideki Matsui singles and Mark Teixiera scores.
Bottom 5th
Evan Longoria hits a solo home run
Bottom 6th
Jason Bartlett singles to bring home Gabe Kapler.
BJ (Melvin) Upton doubles to bring home Jason Bartlett
Top 9th
Hideki Matsui doubles to bring home Alex Rodriguez.
Who won and lost?
Scott Kazmir wins. (5-6) CC Sabathia loses (10-7)
Scott pitched 7 strong innings, while CC pitched only 5 and 2/3rds innings. CC didn’t have his best stuff, and the Yankees were unusually sloppy in this game. Tonight I think Joba Chamberlain will be the true ace that he’s bound to be and win the game over Matt Garza, Of course the only team the Rays are not allowed to beat are the Yankees. Yankees will win the AL East and the Rays will win the wild card.
As for the Mets, can we please not talk about their injured players. I know people keep labeling the Mets as a team with high potential with the players that are not playing. Let’s talk about the players that are actually playing in a Mets uniform right now. I feel like the injured players are taking more attention than the ones that are actually playing the game and making a bigger difference. Give credit to the Mets that are playing the game, not sitting out due to injury, the players will eventually come back, it takes time. Injuries are a part of the game, but they shouldn’t be the constant talk. Other teams have injured players too, but the fans are not making such a big deal about that. I do not want the Mets’ injuries to be a big deal, even David Wright says “he’s sick and tired of the injured players talk” so let’s put that to bed. This goes to every team that has injury problems.
That’s all I’ll say, I’ll update this with tonight’s scores after they are done, since I’m able to watch both the Mets and Yankees telecasts from up there.
Here’s another game.
The Houston Astros and the Chicago Cubs were playing today. 

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Houston
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | |
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Chi Cubs
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6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | X | 12 | 14 | 2 |
Who homered?
Alfonso Soriano, Aramis Ramirez, and Andres Blanco homered.
Randy Wells was the winning pitcher while Mike Hampton who won against the Mets, lost to the Astros today. The Cubs sure had a great hitting and scoring day.
The scoring plays for the Cubs, Astros did not score.
1st
Derrek Lee Sac Fly to bring home Reed Johnson
Aramis Ramirez singles to bring home Ryan Theriot.
Alfonso Soriano homers, also scoring Aramis Ramirez and Milton Bradley.
Koyie Hill singles; scoring is Jeff Baker, reaching on a walk.
2nd
Aramis Ramirez homers.
4th
Derrek Lee doubles to bring home Ryan Theriot
Milton Bradley singles to bring home Derrek Lee
7th
Jake Fox sac flies to bring home Milton Bradley.
8th
Andres Blanco hits a home run.
Jake Fox singles to bring home Micah Hoffpauir.
That’s the 12 run scoring stint for the Cubs.
Thank you for reading.
One more thing, the Mets and Yankees despite their issues will both have successful seasons. Remember, it’s not how your start, it’s how you finish your journey and the Mets and Yankees are bound to have happy endings at the end.
EDIT:
This is tonight’s score from the Yankees at Rays score, I don’t know if it’s the final score though.
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NY Yankees
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1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 0 | |
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Tampa Bay
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
As for this matchup.

No score, the game was rained out. oh well.
Good night everyone.
Mets, Rockies win rubber games.
For this week, I am going to be really busy so I won’t blog as much as I would usually do. I’ll give the box score of the Mets at Astros game today.
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NY Mets
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0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 0 | |
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Houston
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3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
Unfortunately, there were no home runs in the game, unlike yesterdays.
Now the scoring plays.
Bottom 1st
Miguel Tejada doubles to bring home Kazuo Matsui.
Carlos Lee doubles to bring home Miguel Tejada.
Geoff Blum doubles and Carlos Lee scores.
The Astros could have added some more, but they ran themselves out of this inning, as Geoff Blum is thrown out at home plate, and Hunter Pence is caught stealing a base.
Top 3rd
Luis Castillo triples to bring home Angel Pagan.
David Wright singles to bring home Luis Castillo.
Jeff Francoeur sac flies to bring home David Wright
Top 4th
Angel Pagan triples to bring home Alex Cora.
Luis Castillo bunts and Angel Pagan scores, (this was ruled as a fielder’s choice)
Top 8th
Jeremy Reed triples to bring home Alex Cora.
Top 9th.
David Wright doubles and Luis Castillo scores.
Jeff Francoeur singles to bring home David Wright.
Livan Hernandez had a first inning throwing 30+ pitches since then he’s settled down to go seven innings. He wins the game going (7-5) Brian Moehler loses going (7-6) Sean Green has the first save for the Mets. The Mets’ three triples brought home one run each, so that was some productive hitting. No home runs though, at least the runs counted for the win. This was a good series for the Mets, having double digits in the hits column in all of the three games. The Mets have all the confidence to take on the Colorado Rockies right now at Citi Field tomorrow.
Speaking of the Rockies, they won their game 4-2 over the Giants. 

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San Francisco
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0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 0 | |
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Colorado
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1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 4 | 10 | 0 |
The Scoring plays
Bottom 1st
Brad Hawpe singles to bring home Seth Smith
Top 2nd
Travis Ishikawa scores on a groundout by John Bowker
Bottom 3rd
Troy Tulowitzki sac flies and Seth Smith scores.
Ian Stewart singles to bring home Todd Helton
Top 6th
Edgar Renteria singles to bring home Fred Lewis
Bottom 6th
Yorvit Torrealba sac flies and Carlos Gonzalez scores.
That’s it for the game.
Aaron Cook wins the game (10-3)
Ryan Sadowski loses (2-3)
Huston Street saves the game (25)
Neither team homered in the game.
Tomorrow it’s Ulbado Jimenez (7-9) vs Oliver Perez (2-3). From what I know Jimenez is a hard thrower, so if the Mets can, they should be patient at the batter box and not hit anything too far off the plate, work up the count and increase the number of pitches he throws. For the Rockies, if they have to take a pitch, they should, because Oliver Perez can be erratic at times with his fastballs and curveballs. This should be a fun four game series.
Speaking of which, I won’t be surprised to see these caps at Citi Field on Monday whether it’s the fans or the players wearing them.![]()
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Mets cool off Astros, as Rockies take back Wild Card lead.
I’ll talk about the Mets’ win over the Houston Astros today. Jonathon Niese is superb against Russ Ortiz. The Mets’ offense is evident as they score 10 runs over the Astros’ 3 runs. Niese goes seven innings, giving up one run and four hits. Russ Ortiz pitches just only four and one third innings and giving up five hits and six runs.
Here’s the box score.
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NY Mets
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3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 12 | 0 | |
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Houston
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1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
The scoring plays are here.
Top 1st
Daniel Murphy doubles to bring home Angel Pagan
Jeff Francoeur sac-flies to bring home Luis Castillo
Cory Sullivan (former Rockies player) singles to bring home Daniel Murphy.
Bottom 1st
Ivan Rodriguez singles to bring home Michael Bourn.
Top 4th
Alex Cora hits a double play and Cory Sullivan scores.
Top 5th
Jeff Francoeur hits a three-run home run and also scoring is Luis Castillo and David Wright.
Top 6th
Omir Santos hits a solo home run.
Luis Castillo singles to bring home Angel Pagan.
Top 9th
David Wright hits a solo home run
Bottom 9th.
Hunter Pence hits a two run home run off Francisco Rodriguez. Jason Michaels also scores.
Jonathon Niese wins, he’s (1-0) while Russ Ortiz loses (3-5) Francisco Rodriguez was brought in to have inning worth of work, but he’s a bit shaky giving up two runs via a Hunter Pence home run. It must been the fact that he has not pitched in a game since last Monday at Washington DC. The Mets had their bats working with home runs by Omir Santos, David Wright and Jeff Francoeur. Jeff has been a huge help to the Mets, and he proved that driving in four runs.
The Astros might want to think twice before sending in Chad Poronto and Tim Byrdak, they each gave up one home run. Hunter Pence was the only bright spot for the Astros in that game.
The players for this game are Jonathan Niese for his solid seven innings of work, and Jeff Francoeur drving in four runs, including a three run home run.
I was lucky enough thanks to MLB Network to check out the San Francisco Giants vs the Colorado Rockies game.
Here’s the box score.
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San Francisco
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | |
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Colorado
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0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | X | 8 | 9 | 0 |
This game concerns me a lot, because the winner of the game has the coveted wild card lead in the National League. I was hoping that the Rockies would win the game, and they did, Jorge De La Rosa (8-7) defeats Jonathan Sanchez (3-9) in this game.
Here are the scoring plays.
Bottom 4th
Troy Tulowitzki hits his 18th home run of the year, a three run shot, Garrett Atkins and Todd Helton also score.
Top 6th
Pablo Sandoval doubles to bring home Andres Torres.
Bottom 6th
Troy Tulowitzki doubles to bring home Garrett Atkins, Troy has driven home four runs up that point.
Chris Iannetta sac flies to bring home Brad Hawpe (all star)
Top 8th
Fred Lewis grounds out brings home Randy Winn in the process.
Botton 8th
Troy Tulowitzki singles to bring home Ian Stewart, wow, Troy has five runs batted in. Great!
Chris Iannetta doubles and Brad Hawpe scores.
Seth Smith flies out, but gets an RBI when Ryan Spilborghs scores.
Troy Tulowitzki drove in five runs for the night to help the Rockies out, driving in five runs including a three run home run, for that performance, he’s the player of the Giants vs Rockies game.
The teams fight for the rubber match tomorrow, I hope the Rockies win the game so they can carry their momentum to Citi Field and take on the Mets in the four game series. I hope the Mets are fired up to beat up the Rocikes if they hold the wild card spot. It’s going to be a fun four game series, whoever wins that series is a serious contender. We’ll have to wait until Monday to see that.
I’d like to see the Mets and Rockies win their series respectively tomorrow as each team is playing in a rubber game. If both teams win, then it’s both teams with high hopes for a big series. If the Mets lose and the Rockies win, then the Mets will be more pumped up to beat up the Rockies, and vice-versa. I hope the Mets can gain some confidence no matter what and treat the Rockies series as the turning point of their season, I expect the Rockies to do the same. If the Rockies can’t beat the Mets, then the Giants will fly past the Rockies in the NL West.
This is the turning point, and whoever wins the Mets and Rockies series, will be contenders.
Here are the Wild Card Standings, for the top ten teams, not including games playing in the West coast on this date.
W L Games behind
Rockies 53
44 n/a
Giants 52
45 1.0
Cubs 50
45 2.0
Astros 50
47 3.0
Marlins 50
48 3.5*
Braves 50
48 3.5
Brewers 49
48 4.0
Mets 45
51 7.5
Reds 44
52 8.5
Pirates 43
54 10.0
That’s all for tonight.
*Dodgers defeated Marlins 4 runs to 3 this wild card standing reflects that result.
Mets and Astros this weekend, and the Rockies hit NYC Monday
The Mets
and Astros did a lot of hitting, the Mets has 14 and the Astros had 12 hits.
Mike Hampton pitched well, and even hit a home run off Johan Santana. Mike hit
his 16th career home run in the game. I give big thumbs up to Hampton for taking advantage of a mistake
pitch by Santana. Though the Mets did some hitting, they did not score enough
runs. The Mets left 10 men on base while the Astros stranded 11 runners. It’s bizarre
that the team with the fewest hits and more runners left on base would win this
game.
Omir
Santos made up the deficit by hitting a home run off Hampton later in the sixth inning. That’s
the last batter that Hampton faced. The bullpen for the Astros
did its job including LaTroy Hawkins and Jose Valverde. What a job.
Mike
Hampton wins. (6-7)
Johan
Santana Loses (11-8)
Jose
Valverde is the savior. (11)
The
scoring plays of yesterday’s games.
Top 1st
David
Wright singles to drive in Angel Pagan
Bottom 1st
Carlos
Lee singles to bring home Kazuo Matsui
Bottom 4th
Mike
Hampton hits a home run. Hampton and Jeff Keppinger both score.
Top 5th
Luis
Castillo doubles to bring home Angel Berroa
Jeff
Francoeur singles to bring home Luis Castillo
Bottom 5th
Chris Coste
doubles to bring home Hunter Pence and Ivan Rodriguez.
Top 6th
Omir
Santos hits a home run.
Astros
beat the Mets 5-4. Astros win their fourth straight game while the Mets lose
their third straight.
Here’s
the box score.
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NY Mets
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1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 1 | |
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Houston
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1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 5 | 12 | 0 |
The Mets’
next opponent is the Colorado Rockies. No matter how the other two games at the
Astros turn out, they’ll be limping back to New York City to take on the Rockies at Citi Field. With the recent
resurgence of the Colorado team, I won’t be surprised to see
more Rockies fans at Citi Field. The Rockies are the team the Mets are
currently chasing in the wild card race. The big difference makers in the Rockies are Todd Helton with a .322
batting average, Troy Tulowitzki with 17 home runs, Brad Hawpe with a 61 RBI
season, Garrett Atkins, and pitchers like Jason Marquis who has 12 wins and
Ulbado Jimenez with seven wins. Ian Stewart has been a pleasure surprise
hitting 17 home runs; (leading the team in that category) The Rockies are tied
with the Giants right now at 52-44 and are nine games out of the leading
Dodgers.
I have a
feeling that the Rockies are going to take this wild card spot for the NL, because of their
timely hitting, and the fact that Jason Marquis is vying for a Cy Young award. I
hope the Rockies enjoy their time hitting at Citi
Field because their home runs won’t come cheap due to the spacious outfield. As
for the Mets, inducing ground balls is a must if they are going to beat the
visiting Rockies. That series begins on Monday. It’ll be a homecoming for Jason Marquis who was born in Manhasset, New York, in Long Island might play in that series. I bet Marquis is going to see his hometown fans root for him to beat the Mets at their park. Marquis is a huge Yankee fan so this gives him the reason to pitch well against the Mets.
Here’s
the game’s box score last night versus the Giants, tied for the Wild Card spot after the result in the NL. I bet the Mets were concerned about this game as well as the Astros, since both the Mets and Astros were fighting for that same spot too.
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San Francisco
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0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | |
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Colorado
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
Top 4th
Nate Schierholtz homered off Jason
Hammel, in the fourth inning, a two run shot, scoring himself and Fred Lewis.
Top sixth.
Bengie Molina singles to bring
home Fred Lewis.
Bottom sixth.
Garrett Atkins singles to bring
home Ryan Spilborghs.
Matt Cain wins, he’s 12-2, while Jason Hammel loses (5-5) and Brian Wilson saves the game (his 25th save of the season)
Interestingly enough, Jason Hammel used to play with the Tampa Bay Rays. Nate Schierholtz of the Giants and Dexter Fowler of the Rockies were in the USA Baseball team that participated in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, that team won the bronze medal.
Speaking of Jason Marquis’ favorite team growing up, the Yankees played and were defeated by the Athletics by a score of 6-4, this is today’s game, and snapping their eight game winning streak. 

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Oakland
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 0 | |
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NY Yankees
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
Who homered?
Derek Jeter and Mark Teixiera did, but it was not enough.
Which pitcher won and lost?
Andy Pettitte loses (8-6) while Gio Gonzalez wins (2-2) Andrew Bailey collects his 11th save.
Scoring plays
Bottom 6th
Brett Gardner triples to bring home Derek Jeter.
Top 7th
Rajai David doubles to bring home Scott Hairston
Landon Powell singles to bring home Nomar Garciaparra and Rajai Davis.
Adam Kennedy singles to bring home Bobby Crosby.
Orlando Cabrera doubles to bring home Landon Powell and Adam Kennedy.
Bottom 8th
Derek Jeter hits a home run and Jorge Posada scores too.
Mark Teixiera homers.
That’s it for today.
The Yankees can not keep winning forever, it did feel like it before today’s game. It was a fun ride for Joe Giradi and and the Bronx bombers.
Mets versus Astros
Here’s today’s main event.
New York Mets have just managed two wins out of the seven games they played since the All Star Break. They are on a two game losing streak since the Nationals beat them twice in a row with their timely hitting and stellar pitching from Craig Stammen, John Lannan, and reliever Tyler Clippard. In this trip, Fernando Nieve, and Gary Sheffield have been lost due to injury.
As of the Houston Astros, they are on a roll, they won five of their first seven games two of them at the Dodgers and the three game sweep against the St Louis Cardinals. The Astros have to send Lance Berkman on the 15 day disabled list due to injury on his calf. The temperatures at Houston are expected to be in the high 90s but the Mets and Astros don’t have to worry about that because the roof at Minute Maid Park will close to prevent heat-related problems.
Today’s pitchers
Johan Santana (11-7) vs Mike Hampton (5-7)
Probable lineups
For the Hometown Astros
Michael Bourn cf
Kazuo Matsui 2b
Miguel Tejada ss
Carlos Lee lf
Geoff Blum 3b
Hunter Pence rf
Ivan Rodriguez c
Chris Coste 1b
Mike Hampton p
For the Visitng Mets
Angel Pagan cf
Luis Castillo 2b
Daniel Murphy 1b
David Wright 3b
Jeff Francoeur rf
Cory Sullivan lf
Angel Berroa ss
Brian Schnieder/Omir Santos c
Johan Santana p
How the Mets can win the game:
Mets need some hits. Angel Pagan and Luis Castillo can run so hitters David Wright and Daniel Murphy can drive them in, or Jeff Francoeur for that matter. They have some good speed so no need to worry about hitting home runs early as a necessity. Johan Santana needs to cut this long ball issue and keep the ball inside the park, he’s given up 15 home runs this season.
How the Astros can win the game:
Johan Santana is a fly ball pitcher, so hitters like Hunter Pence, Miguel Tejada, and Carlos Lee should have their quick sticks ready to hit a hanging curveball. Michael Bourn is the better lead off man here and so is Kazuo Matsui. They should set the tone for the Astros. Mike Hampton needs to use his breaking balls effectively too and finish them off with fastballs at pitchers’ counts.
Game is tonight at 7 Eastern 6 Central
One more note, this game is awesome Major League Baseball 2k9, I believe it’s available on XBOX 360 and Nintendo Wii

This is a screenshot from the XBox 360 one
Here’s the Nintendo Wii version taken (by IGN.com)
The graphics do vary by console you buy, the best graphics are on the XBox one, the controls are easier on the Wii version.
Mets limp to Astroland (in Houston)
The Mets are looking lost right now. Since the All-Star break they are 2-5 to start off their second half of the season, losing three out of four to the Braves, and two out of thee to the Nationals. I refuse to say that the Mets aren’t playing hard, they are, Angel Pagan’s triple and him scoring on the wild throw, Angel made a heads up play going to home on that throw. The Mets need to keep their heads up as they go to Houston to take on the Houston Astros.

Angel Pagan batting

Angel Pagan scoring.
Josh Willingham impresses the Mets with his two run shot off Mike Pelfrey. (photo by AP)
The Astros just won their game last night and currently are on 49-46 this season, one game away from the first place Cardinals, How did the Astros win the game? Look at this:


The Houston Astros have won 7 of their last 10 games and are on a three game winning streak, all against the Cardinals. Miguel Tejada, Carlos Lee, Hunter Pence and the ‘stros are coming around nowadays. I have a feeling the way the Astros are playing they are going to make things harder on the other teams, including their next opponent, the Mets. The Cardinals and Astros series was strange in that the Cards did play well, they didn’t come up with a win in the series. I always though the Cardinals and Astros rivalry was interesting since 2004 when they met in the National League Championship series and again in 2005.
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St. Louis
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | |
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Houston
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 0 |
The scoring plays
Top fifth
Mark DeRosa hits a solo home run.
Bottom sixth
Michael Bourn scores on a ground out by Carlos Lee.
Top seventh
Yadier Molina singles to bring home Ryan Ludwick.
Brendan Ryan flies out and Mark DeRosa scores.
Bottom seventh.
Kazuo Matsui singles to bring home Ivan Rodriguez.
Bottom ninth.
Chris Coste doubles to bring home Ivan Rodriguez.
Miguel Tejada singles to bring home Jeff Keppinger who scores the winning run.
Jose Valverde wins the game for the Astros, while Ryan Franklin loses for the Cardinals. Chris Carpenter (who went 8 innings) of the Cardinals took on Roy Oswalt who went 7 innings.
Congrats to the Houston Astros for being a contender again, and making this an interesting matchup. The Mets versus the Astros begins this Friday.





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