Man Up Awards For Wednesday
Posted by dirtysanchez on 12:00pm, Thursday July 2nd 2009
First up is Mike Pelfrey. Just a few hours from when an old Met icon John Franco said that the team lacked “leadership”, Mike Pelfrey shut down the Brewers for 7.2 innings and racking up 6 punch outs in the process to end the Mets season worse losing streak of 5 games. Big Pelf did his thing tonight and no doubt earned a Man Up Award for his performance in such a troublesome time in the Met season. Lets hope that Pelf is an every other month pitcher as he is appearing to be so if you look at his stats. In April, Mike won 2-0 in 3 games but had a 6.32 ERA. In May, Mike went 2-1 in 6 games but had a nice 2.32 ERA. In June, Mike went 1-2 in 5 games but had a 6.39 ERA. Noticing a trend here…Lets hope it continues as we are going to need the big man to get this job done.
Next up is Ryan “Da Ryno” Church. Church singled in Luis Castillo in the 6th to account for the ONLY run in this contest. Talk about a good time to Man Up. Ryan has very quietly put together a nice season so far. Ryan is hitting .289 with 2 HR’s and 19 RBI’s. Looks like being the everyday outfielder is doing more good than harm as in the series, Ryan went 7/12 thus raising his BA from .267 at the end of the Yankee series to .289 by the end of the Brewer series. Ryan is definitely a nice addition to this team and we hope that July will keep em going.
Last up is K-Rod. Frankie gets his MUA for having the assignment of getting out Prince Fielder, Ryan Braun and Cory Hart….all while protecting a ONE RUN LEAD. As usual Krod is always up for the challenge. Working around a single to being the 9th, Frankie gets Fielder to line out and gets Hart and McGhee to ground out for his 21 save of the year. Krod is still holding on to a ridiculous 1.19 ERA and now is one save behind Fuentes and Bell for the Major League lead in the saves category. Krod has been money very well spent and a welcomed relief from last years woes. Im sure Krod will get more than enough save opportunities this year and im sure he will be up for the challenge.
Honorable Mentions:
Luis Castillo for doubling to begin the 6th inning and accounting for the teams ONLY run
Sean Green for bailing out the big man and earning his 7th hold of the season
David Wright for shutting up John Franco
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That Pelfrey trend does not bode well for October, but hey they have to get there first.
“Da Ryno?” I guess it’s because I watch ‘The Simpsons’ too much, but I’ve always called him “Churchie McChurch” because sometimes Homer calls Flanders that.
I will sign up for the big september right now, and take my chances with October.
Ha! that has Tkfj on it but its better than calling him churchy, which was the best i could come up with
Eddie Coleman just said “the rain has started, and it looks like we’re going to be delayed.”
I better getting working on mowing my lawn before it makes it to the other side of the state. At least I might not miss the game!
The baseball gods were smiling on the Mets yesterday. Slappy slaps one down the line and then Church brings him in on a single JUST past the slow 2B. Pelf did his thing, though. Big Pelfin’
We be big Pelfin’, spendin’ cheese
We be big Pelfin’ on B.L.A.D.’s
We be big Pelfin’ down in NYC
It’s just that Jigga-man, Pimp-C and B.U.N.B.
Cause we be big Pelfin’, spendin’ cheese
We be big Pelfin’ on B.L.A.D.’s
We be big Pelfin’ down in NYC
It’s just that Jigga-man, Pimp-C and B.U.N.B.
We be big Pelfin’, K-ing 1, 2, 3,
We be big Pelfin’ in 8 innings’s
We be big Pelfin’ out in Milwaukee
It’s just that Ryan Church, K-Rod and Big Pelfrey.
Holla brau at the mau!
N.Y. Mets be the realest
Franco is right. Wright is not the leader because he’s afraid of Delgado. It’s been clear how relaxed David looks now in Delgado’s absence. When/if he’s back, Wright’s “leadership” will come to an end.
You really think DWright is ‘afraid’ of Delgado? Really?
What would he have to be afraid of? I can see respect as a senior team member with leadership traits but afraid????
While I’ll agree with Franco that something seems to be missing with this team - or has, in my opinion from 2006 through first part of this year, I think his evaluation of what’s wrong is way off.
Not just Wright… the club house in general is more relaxed since Delgado went down. I don’t want Delgago back and if Wright becomes the leader, I don’t have a problem with that as long as he backs his leadership talk on the field.