Wow.
For the first 16, I don’t know if this was that memorable a game other than the number of innings and the weird managerial moves (especially in the home dugout). Â I actually had an original version of this post, written around the 16th or so, that said it wasn’t a remarkable game. Â Â I had another version in the bottom of the 19th with 2 out. Â Oops.
As the night got longer and longer this one became amazing. Â For all the armchair managers, this was a field day.
I think Jerry is dead now. Â Two runs against three innings of position players. Â This team is going nowhere.
I jumped on-line during the 8th inning, and as the game kept going and going I cleaned out my inbox and posted 13 new articles for the next 7 days, this one being the 14th post of the night.
I hung out on twitter (@metspolice) which was tremendous fun, and a great way to watch a game. Â The community aspect is wonderful.
I can’t tell you how many times I asked if Jerry was going to use K-Rod…Jerry danced with the devil tonight and got away with it several times. Â And then he used K-Rod and…oops!
The bullpen was awesome. Â The offense was awful.
How about that Cora at first?
How about the Marlins playing a 7pm game and finishing before the Mets?
How about the Rockies getting a no-hitter while this went on?
The Cards bringing Lopez in to pitch the 18th?
Valdez being thrown out at second?
What’s with Jerry giving up an out, with Reyes on first and a position player on the mound? Â In the 19th?
Loved Mather’s look-back at Reyes on second.
Two innings of position players pitching (the 18th and 19th) and they get one run on a sac-fly, with a pitcher-in-left making the putout. Â Three innings, two runs.
Pujols doubles after a caught-stealing in the 19th. Â Then a pitcher playing outfield is up next. Â Wild.
You just knew K-Rod would blow the save. Â Nothing against K-Rod, but he’s on the Mets.
The 20th inning! Â I enjoyed Castillo popping up to the pitcher-playing-LF, and Mather catching
Pelfrey leads the team in wins and saves! Â K-Rod the win, Pelfrey the save. Â what?????
Omar got his win.
so much to say on this (I posted some as comments on your facebook twitter updates). but I’m spent. This is the type of game that becomes a tidbit or a story that Howie Rose will tell in a 12 inning game years from now.
Yeah man I’m cooked too. Twitter was a ball tonight, it was a great virtual hang. I’m done. 14 posts and 700 tweets. Gonna watch half an hour of TV and pass out.
I am tired and dizzy now..I could have sworn I had seen Charlie Samuels warming up in a black ny road jersey
“Two runs against three innings of position players.”
NOW, will you people believe me when I say the hitting has been a bigger problem than the pitching since the middle of last season?
Hitting is always streaky. Bay is slumping, Reyes isn’t up to speed, Jacobs is a minor league player, Blanco is a backup, Valdes is a pitcher. Everyone else was also exhausted. Mather wasn’t exactly throwing it down the middle. Francoeur hit it well, 300+ feet. Not that this should forgive them, but it’s hardly “everyone sucks” fodder.
Manuel should’ve listened to Shannon earlier. K-Rod was gassed before he ever got in.
How about Lopez pitching to Valdes the day after he hit the winning grand slam off of him? And Valdes got his first major league hit! And tried to advance on an error and was thrown out!
Ludwig was definitely the goat of the game, between getting thrown out at second, and between third and home.
I know this. Mike Pelfrey is a horse. I read somewhere that he threw a 70pitch side session earlier in the day! Excepting his next start, Manuel better not pull him after 95 pitches. He can handle more than that. You gotta worry about Pelf a little bit in his next start actually, big guy, starts in Colorado in the low-oxygen air, something that supposedly messed you up for your next start due to the exhaustion of it, and then last night.