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My thoughts about Barry Bonds
Barry Bonds is a baseball player that’s not retired yet, although we may not get a chance to see him play again. Here is my take on the outfielder.
Barry Bonds has to be
amongst the most appreciated baseball players around, however he has been
hounded by several fans as a cheater and a steroid user. I have a message to
those who continue to taunt Bonds as a cheater. It’s not officially proven that
he used steroids, although many people are suspecting that is the case. I do
not believe anything about Barry Bonds using steroids and I continuously refuse
to believe that he cheated unless he confesses or if it’s proven true.
I can understand why fans
think Bonds was on a high in steroids. After all he was thin when he started
with the Pittsburgh Pirates, and became bigger like an American Football
linebacker with the San Francisco Giants. His hitting became better while he
was in the mid 30s when usually their hitting and fielding stats tend to
diminish. Since the speculation of steroids began in the 2000s, Barry has
continually dodged questions regarding Steroids, even to the point where he
cried and played victim. The Media was eating him alive.
In one reality show “Bonds
on Bonds” in the first episode shown on ESPN Bonds said “If it makes them happy to go out
of their way to try to destroy me, go right ahead. You can’t hurt me any more
than you’ve already hurt me,” he said. He continued by saying, “You
don’t see me bringing anyone else into this. I’m going to take it myself.”
Bonds paused as his eyes welled and he choked back tears, “And I’m going
to take it because there’s so many people who depend on me.”
I will be heartbroken to
find out if he actually used performance enhancing drugs. I just can’t imagine
him juicing himself up. According to the book, “The Game of Shadows” published
in 2006, it was said that Bonds was inspired to use steroids when Mark McGwire
used them during the 1998 season. (of course he just admit to that this month)
Was this actually true that he juiced himself to hit 73 home runs in 2001 as a
member of the San Francisco Giants? Many suspect that, but I do not believe
anything about him and steroids.
For now Barry Bonds is the
legit home run king. I know him breaking the home run record by Hank Aaron is
legit. I’ll have to wait for the news and pray that steroids didn’t help him. I
will stand my ground and not believe that he used steroids.
Barry Bonds has not retired
from MLB action, he last played with the San Francisco Giants in the 2007
season and currently hold the record with 762 home runs, but he has not amassed
three thousand hits yet. His Hall of Fame candidacy is not certain yet either. I
wonder why no other team has signed up with him. Oh maybe it’s because pitchers
will throw four baseballs outside of the strike zone so he won’t get anything
to hit. That’s the treatment Bonds has received the last few seasons he’s been
playing.
Barry Bonds was a speedster,
stealing over 500 bases during the course of his career, and a great
outfielder, winning a few gold gloves along the way. He’s also closing in on
2,000 career runs batted in. He’s 45 years old right now, and I think he still
has a few years left of his power, if only a MLB team can give him another
chance besides the San Francisco Giants who won’t sign with him again.
Chances are that he needs
to play in the 2010 season, and so far no one wants to sign with Bonds, fearing
that he might demand some serious cash just to play. He’d still make a good
outfielder, maybe not a fast one, and neither as a base runner, however he
deserves another chance.
If you think he used
steroids, that’s your thought, and I’m not going to argue about it. My
perspective is that he’s innocent until proven guilty.
Mets’ sloppy homestand
The New York Mets have been anything but amazing in this 11 game home stand. They go 2-2 against the San Francisco Giants, 1-2 against the Atlanta Braves, and lose three of the last four games against the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Mets are anything but amazing this season. I will continue to stick to injuries are not the reason the Mets are losing these games. Not an excuse. I’m not buying it anymore.
The memorable highlights from this homestand.
David Wright’s injury.
Luis Castillo homers for the first time against the Giants.
Joe Martinez the hometown boy dazzles the New York Mets.
Derek Lowe struggling.
Mets and Braves each put on a 8 spot. Mets did it the first game off Lowe, and Braves did in the second game off Bobby Parnell.
Kenshin Kawakami was awesome vs Johan Santana.
Mike Pelfrey has his stuff in the first game against the Phillies.
Pat Misch is the culprit for the Mets losing to the Phillies. 
The game in which Eric Bruntlett made the triple play. This should’ve stand out better.
Jayson Werth hitting a home run.
Carlos Ruiz after hitting a three run home run against Oliver Perez.
Pedro Martinez pitching for the Phillies.
Eric Bruntlett (4) completing his triple play effort.
Here is what happened in the last game.
Ryan Howard hits a three run home run.
This was the man who gave it up, Bobby Parnell. 
All photographs by Associated Press and MLB.com
Here are the scores for the homestand.
Giants vs Mets
Mets win 3-0
Giants win 5-4
Mets win 3-2
Giants win 10-1
Braves vs Mets
Mets win 9-4
Braves win 15-2
Braves win 3-2
Phillies vs Mets
Mets win 4-2
Phillies win 4-1
Phillies win 9-7
Phillies win 6-2
Next road trip the Mets take on the Marlins, Cubs, and Rockies. This is do or die for them. What did the Mets do this homestand other make the visiting teams better. The ceremony for the 1969 Mets was no good luck charm for them. The Phillies, Braves and Giants put on a better show than the hometown Mets. The Mets go 4-7 in this homestand. That’s not an inspiring marathon for the hometown fans at all.
Some of my friends told me that looking at Citi Field during the homestand was much better than watching the actual field. There’s so much to do walking around rather than sitting on one spot. That’s what most fans were doing during that series. Go walk through those hallways, you can still see the game. The ballpark is more roomy, more legroom and even the highest seats, you can still see the game up close. Great ballpark but the team isn’t so.
I’ve been reading some other Mets fans thoughts and their “what if” the Mets players come off the DL right now? What difference will it make? In my opinion, it won’t make a difference. Angel Pagan is the perfect center fielder and lead off hitter right now. Daniel Murphy pretty much solidified his first base spot, so I don’t see Carlos Delgado coming back to the Mets. Gary Sheffield was held “hostage”? That talk is gone now.
Jeff Francoeur and Johan Santana have been hit by injuries too lately.
This is my latest Mets recap, and thanks for reading.
Baseball in the head
Two
players were hit in the head yesterday by a baseball. Mets’ third baseman David
Wright took a 94 mph pitch off Matt Cain in the left ear and Dodgers Huroki
Kuroda took a line drive off the left side of his head off Diamondbacks hitter Rusty
Ryal.
By the way
the scores are here:
Giants 5,
Mets 4
Dodgers 3,
Diamondbacks 4
Let’s begin with Matt Cain’s bean ball to David Wright.
The ball is on it’s way.
This is David Wright laying down, and Matt Cain looking up.
David Wright wouldn’t be getting up for around five minutes. Everyone was in shock that day. Matt Cain would later ask Mets’ catcher Brian Schnieder if he was doing fine. Brian couldn’t answer him. Although Matt’s pitch there was inintentional, Johan Santana opposing him would later pitch behind Pablo Sandoval (warinings were issued) and later Bengie Molina. Johan was not ejected from the game. Those two Giants later did homer in the game.
Back to this beanball…
And hits David Wright hard in the replays from FOX Saturday Baseball.
FOX Saturday Baseball’s image at the moment David was hit. Yikes. He would later be rushed to the hospital where he would stay there overnight.
Let’s head west to the other player Huroki Kuroda.
Rusty Ryal hits a line drive off Huroki Kuroda’s head.
The ball is hit headed into Huroki Kuroda’s head.
Huroki is hit and falls down on the mound. He would be taken off via a cart after the Dodgers players and coaches attend to him. These screenshots are from FSN Arizona.
In comparison, David Wright walked to the dugout on his own power while Huroki Kuroda was carried off. Seeing those two get hit by the ball was scary. I think Huroki had it worse though because he was hit and his baseball cap was his only protector, while David Wright had a batting helmet.
I never thought we’d see these scary moments happen on the same day, let’s hope that these two players recover soon. Actually, these two players have been taken out of hospital care and will be out for a while, I’m not sure if they’re going on the disabled list or not. We’ll have to see about that.
Edit. I forgot to note, there was a third player hit in the head last night:
Ian Kinsler of the Texas Rangers was also hit in the head by a Fernando Cabrera pitch.
Unlike David Wright and Huroki Kuroda, Ian stayed in the game like it was just an ordinary bean ball. He did have some words for Fernando Cabrera though. Good thing he didn’t have to go to the hospital. Three players, risking their heads. Yikes! This was taken from FSN South The Rangers beat the Red Sox 7 to 2.
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.
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.
John Lannan completes a shutout as Nationals defeat Mets.
John Lannan pitches nine shutout innings against the New York Mets, only allowing seven hits. Lannan threw 106 pitches in which 80 of them were strikes. Oliver Perez pitches six innings, giving up four hits, and four runs. Brian Stokes and Bobby Parnell pitched no-hit innings.
Here’s the box score
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R | H | E | |
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NY Mets
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
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Washington
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0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 4 | 4 | 0 |
Since the Mets did not score, I’ll discuss how the Nationals scored their runs
The scoring innings
Bottom 4th
Ryan Zimmerman walked.
Adam Dunn singles and Zimmerman goes to third.
Josh Willingham pops out.
Alberto Gonzalez hits a sac fly to score Ryan Zimmerman for the first run, Dunn to third.
Wil Nieves singles to bring home Adam Dunn. Alberto Gonzalez goes to second base.
John Lannan grounds out.
Bottom 5th
Nyjer Morgan is hit by pitch.
Cristian Guzman flies out.
Ryan Zimmerman walks, Morgan stole 2nd base while Zimmerman was batting.
Adam Dunn singles, scores Morgan, Zimmerman to third.
Josh Willingham sac flies to score Zimmerman.
Austin Kearns grounds into a force out.
The Mets had seven hits, one each by Angel Pagan, Luis Castillo, David Wright, Daniel Murphy, Oliver Perez, and two hits by Jeff Francoeur, (the best hitter of the game that is)
Mets players grounded into two double plays, and left five on base.
The Nationals had four hits, one by Ryan Zimmerman, one by Wil Nieves, and two by Adam Dunn. Nationals leave six men on base, but they won by four runs.
There were no home runs hit in the game.
Oliver Perez pitched good, despite allowing four runs, he just didn’t have any run support at all, because John Lannan was great at handling pressure situations and stranding baserunners.
At the end of the day, the Mets are 44-49, and the Nationals are 27-66, even though they played better than their record indicates.
Here are some other scores that have reached their ends.
Braves beat Giants 8-1, in which Brian McCann homered.
Brian McCann drove in four runs, Chipper Jones, Garret Anderson, Yunel Escobar, and Martin Prado each drive in one run, while Juan Uribe hits to bring home Matt Downs for the Giants.
Martin Prado had three hits while Brian McCann and Yunel Escobar each had two hits for the Braves.
Randy Winn had two hits for the Giants also.
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San Francisco
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | |
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Atlanta
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1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 8 | 12 | 0 |
The Indians beat the Blue Jays 2-1, and Scott Rolen homered for the Jays. Victor Martinez drives in two runs.
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Cleveland
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 0 | |
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Toronto
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0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
I hope the summer is turning out great for everyone.
Mets go for it at Pittsburgh amongst other things…
1. The New York Mets will try to win at least once today, same matchup, Mike Pelfrey for the Mets and Ross Ohlendorf for the Pirates. Game starts around noon time. Let’s hope the Mets bats get going in this series, it has in the first game when Livan Hernandez pitched well but an uncharastic issue occured in the Mets bullpen.
2. Randy Johnson will attempt again to win his 300th career game with the San Francisco Giants against the Washington Nationals in a two game day. He will oppose Jordan Zimmermann. The second game of the double header, the Giants will send out Matt Cain to take on Ross Detwiler.
3. The Chicago Cubs will take on the Atlanta Braves and this game is available nationally on MLB Network, so any fans wanting some national attention worthy MLB action, tune in to that game. Of course if you regularly see Cubs or Braves games on televison, you should stick to your teams’ brocasting feeds instead due to blackout restrictions. MLB Network will show another game instead. Matchup today is Carlos Zambrano (who is coming off a five game suspension for his actions in a game hosting the Pirates for arguing a safe call.) Jair Jurrjens will take the mound for the Atlanta Braves
4. The Yankees are coming off from a loss to the Texas Rangers last night, so they should be looking forward to improving from their mistakes, heck they had about a streak of errorless games before this series so this should be no problem to them. Pitching matchup is Brandon McCarthy for the Rangers taking on Chien-Ming Wang for the Yankees who’s looking forward to making a better impression in the starting rotation this time around since having rehab assignments in the bullpen.
5. The last matchup I’ll talk about for today, Phillies vs Dodgers. The Phillies have won six straight games thanks to an awesome pitching effort from JA Happ outdueling Chris R Young of the Padres. Ryan Howard blasts a two-run home run of the inning in last night’s game. The score last night was 5-1 in favor of the Philadelphia Phillies over the San Deigo Padres. What a sweep! Next opponent, the Los Angeles Dodgers, Cole Hamels vs Clayton Kershaw. Two young lefties going at one another. The Dodgers are really good at home this season, even though Manny Ramirez is halfway through his fifty game suspension. Last night the Dodgers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 1-0 behing strong pitching from Chad Billingsley. Casey Blake’s sac fly was the only run producing play of the game.
Now for other things.
Orlando Magic take on the Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA Finals tonight on ABC
Game one is at Los Angeles at Staples Center. Who do you think will win this series?
That’s all, for the rest of the info go to these sites mlb.com and nba.com for NBA Finals coverage.
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