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Mets lineups and their games with the Braves
Since I have not talked about the Mets for a few days I might as well talk about how they did last few games. I’m not going back to the day with the San Francisco Giants, I’m going to talk about the first two games while hosting the Braves.
I’ll give short summaries for the first two.
Game one
Braves 4, Mets,9.
Oliver Perez beats Derek Lowe.
Matt Diaz hits a three run home run in the second inning, Adam LaRoche hits a solo blast in the third inning. The Mets would respond in the fourth inning by scoring 8 runs, 10 hits and effectively knocking off Derek Lowe out of the game. Gary Sheffield had two doubles in that inning also.
Game two
Braves 15, Mets 2
Biggest part of the game was the 8 run second inning, with Brian McCann’s three run home run. Adam LaRoche and Matt Diaz also homered later in the game. Jair Jurrjens beats Bobby Parnell in the pitching matchup.
What are the Mets to do now?
Here was their Opening day lineup
Jose Reyes SS
Daniel Murphy LF
David Wright 3b
Carlos Delgado 1b
Carlos Beltran CF
Ryan Church RF
Brian Schnieder C
Luis Castillo 2b
Johan Santana p
Here was their lineup in their last game, at the time of this posting
Angel Pagan CF
Luis Castillo 2b
Gary Sheffield LF
Daniel Murphy 1b
Jeff Francoeur RF
Fernando Tatis 3b
Omir Santos C
Anderson Hernandez SS
Bobby Parnell P
I’ll note some differences here.
1. Jose Reyes, David Wright, Carlos Delgado, and Carlos Beltran are not playing because they are injured.
2. Johan Santana and Brian Schnieder were not scheduled to play.
3. Because Carlos Delgado is out, Daniel Murphy and Fernando Tatis have to plantoon at 1st base, when they are usually outfielders.
4. Anderson Hernandez was with the Nationals on opening day, Jeff Francoeur was with the Braves as well. Both ended up with the Mets with Hernandez coming out of waivers from the Nationals, while Francoeur was acquired by trade with Ryan Church. Gary Sheffield started the season as a Free Agent.
5. Angel Pagan and Omir Santos weren’t with the Mets on opening day, they were called upon subsequently to replace the injured players, Carlos Beltran, and when Brian Schnieder were on the DL.
6. Luis Castillo is the only player playing the same position in both lineups.
I am refusing to give up on the Mets until the season is finally over. After that we’ll see whtch team I’ll be rooting for depending on who goes there.
In other news:
The Yankees beat the Athletics 3 to 2, benefiting from Mark Teixiera’s two run home run. Mariano Rivera collects his 36th save. Chad Gaudin didn’t qualify for the win because he only pitched 4 and one thirds innings. I think Joe Giradi should have left him out there to qualify for the win.
Phillies beat the Diamondbacks 8 to 1. Cliff Lee pitches a complete game and Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, and Jayson Werth each homered. Good offense and great pitching sure wins games in this case.
Later tonight is the start of the NPF (softball) championships. Four teams vie for the Championship title in Akron Ohio.
The teams competing are
1. Chicago Bandits
2. Akron Racers (host team for the event)
3. Rockford Thunder (Illionis)
4. USSSA (Florida) Pride
Seeds 1 and 4 play in a best of three series while 2 and 3 play in another best of three series. The winners of each series face each other in the final round. I believe it’s a best of three series with the winner taking the title. The Bandits are the defending champions and are looking to repeat while the Racers, Thunder, and Pride look to dethrone them.
Go to profastpitch.com for live games and schedule of the events. Unfortunately there’s no TV schedule for this tourney.
Thanks for reading today.
My baseball memorabila and more caps
Tonight, instead of talking about Major League Baseball’s events, I decided to talk about baseball related items laying around my room. I have some caps I didn’t get to show yet and some stuffed animals with baseball shirts on them. Without further ado, here are the caps first.
Retro Mets blue cap above, and gray cap with green lettering below.
Two New York Yankees caps by Mitchell and Ness
Chicago White Sox, primary and secondary logos on one cap. 
New York Giants (football) and New York Knicks of the NBA
And here are my stuffed animals.
This is a Chicago Cubs Cow.
New York Mets mascots.
A Yankee Mascot, (my older sister got this at Yankee Stadium as a gift)
The Colorado Rockies’ alterante home cap, didn’t see this worn yet.
Colorado Rockies road cap. 
This Yankee cap is adjustable, not fitted and only cost me $5. Be careful, this hat is not MLB Merchandise.
Atlanta Braves Authentic cap. 
New York Mets home cap with Citi Field inaugural season patch.
Thanks for viewing, I hope you enjoyed.
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.
|
NY Mets
|
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 1 | |
|
Houston
|
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.
|
San Francisco
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | |
|
Colorado
|
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.
|
Oakland
|
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 9 | 0 | |
|
NY Yankees
|
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.
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