Post Game: Singles
Posted by GravediggerHebner on 9:45pm, Tuesday July 21st 2009
Baseball is a game. Easy to start. Hard to finish.
Washington Nationals starting pitcher John Lannan (7-7), Long Island native and Yankee fan, shutout the New York Mets on 7 singles Tuesday night. The Nationals only had 4 hits, also all singles. The key difference was Lannan walked no one in 9 innings, while Met starter Oliver Perez (2-3) walked 6 in 6 innings. I would’ve made the title and theme of this post “walks” but then I couldn’t have worked in “Citizen Dick.”
"This negativity just makes me stronger, we will not retreat, this team is unstoppable."
The Nats got 2 runs each in the 4th and 5th innings. Ryan Zimmerman led off the 4th with a walk. Adam Dunn singled him to third, then Austin Kearns walked to load the bases. Alberto Gonzalez hit a fly ball to RF Jeff Francoeur, who dropped the ball, then fired it to second for a force out on Kearns, while Zimmerman scored. A single by Wil Nieves drove in Dunn to make it 2-0 Nats.
"Mets, you rock my world."
Nyjer Morgan was hit by a Perez pitch leading off the 5th. He stole second, then Zimmerman walked. Dunn singled to drive in Morgan, then a Josh Willingham sacrifice fly plated Zimmerman to give the Nats a 4-0 lead. That would be the final score.
"That's a very nice hat you're wearing."
Lannan kept out of trouble by spreading the Mets 7 singles around. Only once, in the 3rd inning, did the Mets get a runner as far as second base. Oddly enough that runner was Perez, who had of course singled earlier in the inning.
Excellent soundtrack
That’s all I’ve got to say about the game. I highly recommend the soundtrack to the movie Singles. The Seattle sound of the late ’80s-early ’90s is well represented.
Please visit yahoo.com for the box score.
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lol well done again buddy…
check this out from twitter
Last start by Lannan against #mets: 2:00hrs CG, Tonight 2:04hr CG shutout
Start #3, 2:08hrs, CG no hitter?
Maybe we should trade ollie maine and pelfrey to the nats for lannen and pay for ollie too
Indeed, a great soundtrack, including the great Pearl Jam tune “State of Love and Trust.” Man this team sucks…..
Since we live in the “Drugstore Cowboy” building in Portland…any Matt Dillon themed post-game is fine by me!
This was just… just… uninspiring. Even Ollie isn’t melting down in new ways. It’s all so predictable and almost unwatchable. You know the melt down is going to happen, you just hope it’s far along in the game that the bullpen doesn’t get overworked too much.
Do we not bring up any kids (Neise) for fear of hurting their trade value?
It was refreshing, however, to hear the Nats fans cheering. I didn’t realize they still had any.
When the hell is Wright going to hit a homerun and maybe dare I say carry this team a bit. I’m sorry IMO he is having an awful season. I know the batting average masks his horrible cold streaks and I know he’s not being pitched to that much due to the wonderful talent around him but GEEZ!!! Maybe if he wins a few games and we get some good starts we would put a streak together or at worst beat the Nats.
AWESOME!!!
Grave, you have outdone yourself tonight….I lived and played music in Seattle when that was filmed, and that movie hit the 20-something music/social scene in the early 90s in the center of the bullseye…..Sweetwater was a real band I opened for, and The Vogue was a very real classic club back in the 80s and 90s, where I am proud to say, Candlebox opened for ME (OK, when they were totally unknown)…
Buddy, you always outdo yourself, and I came here expecting to wallow in misery, and now I am smiling ear to frigin ear and remembering the great old days!
And incidentally, there were a LOT of bands just like Citizen Dick…and I assume you know that the rest of the Citizen Dick band was three of the guys from Pearl Jam before they were big…
Grave, the main reason I never go to Metsblog anymore is because of how much better YOU are then everyone over there combined.
Thank you again.
Agreed, hail Grave, a man who helps us get through these miserable Mets games. And I think all the posters on this site put MetsFraud to shame. A true fan’s blog, this site is (done in my Yoda voice)…
Sad I was and happy now I am.
(In my Yoda voice…)
Thank you and everyone else for your kind words. They are truly appreciated, and help keep me going through the awful games that precede many of these posts.
I must share your thanks with HDNet which has recently been running the movie, therefore bringing it from the deep recesses to the front of my mind, and to the Mets and Nats who cooperated by not producing an extra base hit. Once I thought of it I was worried that the concept would be blown by a meaningless late game extra base hit.
You needn’t have worried on the Mets’ end. They take “powerless” to a whole new level….
That was the one moment of Omar’s visit to the booth that struck a completely truthful chord with me, when he briefly mentioned the team’s overall lack of power in response to one of Gary’s questions.
But I don’t hold these weird and evasive things Omar says publicly against him, as a GM he does have to operate in a shadow world somewhat. They all do.
Those were the good old days? Consider poor me whose good old days include my favorite album, “BLIND FAITH,” that I have (and most of you probably don’t even know what this medium is) on pre-recorded open reel tape that I purchased from Sam Goody for $4.76.
Hey, I may be a youthful 42, but I have the Blind Faith LP, and I may have bought it at Sam Goody’s in NJ, but probably for $7 or $8 in the mid 70s!
We have reached a new low shutout by the nats 4 words that shouldn’t go together
The worse we get, the better the after game posts are. Funny how that works out.
Speaking of funny, how does your pitching staff only give up 4 hits, but give up 4 runs and lose the game? I guess that error, half dozen or so walks, hit batsman and the inability to actually score a run for us will do it.
I’m wondering why all seem to be handling Ollie with kid gloves. Jerry said he pitched fairly well, DWright danced around, commenting on Lannen saying ‘there’s something to throwing Ks, getting ahead in the count’. Wonder why he’ll get in Pelf’s face but not Ollie. Everyone tiptoes around Ollie.
I don’t know guys, but the last time I had a job where I might have been trying but doing poorly and everyone patted me on the back saying ‘good effort’ was when I was a teenager. In my world, perform poorly, management goes to plan B.
The most entertaining part of this evening was Omar’s interview in the booth. Worth the price of a ticket. When asked about the Frenchy for Church trade, he went on about wanting the gold glove caliber in RF at Citi - just at the exact moment Frenchy drops the fly ball.
Then…Tatis comes up with a runner on first. All knew what was coming next. Omar stops talking, chuckles and says ‘well…look at that’, just as Tatis hits into a DP.
How did we get here? It was only 3 short years ago when we were down 4 runs, you knew we were coming back and winning the game.
Sigh….
Even Omar must think to himself, “look at this crap team I’ve assembled, man I’m lucky to still be employed.” And as for handling Ollie with kid gloves, I honestly believe they know it’s futile to get in the guy’s face because it will just go in one ear and out the other. The guy redefines the word aloof….
I dont think he has a clue. During the Interview with Gary and Kieth, he didnt even know how far back in the standings we were. The man is a moron.
Luckily, I didn’t hear the interview. I may have wanted to throw things at the TV, although I probably would have just laughed, especially when he was lauding Francoeur’s defense at the moment he dropped a fly ball.
If you bring a flashlight to the mound and shine it into Ollie’s right ear Murphy will scream that the light is blinding him.
Yeah MetsFan4, that was unreal what was going on when Omar was in the booth….and the postgames get better and better—can you imagine what they will be like someday when we are in first place at this point in the season, or (allow me to fantasize) if we ever see the postseason again??
doesnt seem like we will ever sniff one again. Every year it is a different reason. Mega collapse, Mini collapse + BP issues, injuries. I dread to think whats next.
And we had such high hopes coming into this season.
At this rate, KRod will be the most expensive non used healthy guy on the roster. He’ll be lucky to get in a game once a week….
The Tatis double Play moment was priceless! I was laughing hysterically. the man was not shocked. “Well look at that”
LMAO!!
I commented on that in the game thread he must be high on drugs he is a politician when asked questions he talks around them
I guess when they mean you must be creative to be an effective GM, I think it has less to do with assembling a talented team and more to do with they really mean you’d better be able to spin a yarn your fan base is going to buy hook, line and sinker….
Steve, you are so right…it seemed as though Keith was having a hard time keeping a straight face and not diagreeing with the absolute nonsense Omar was spewing!
Especially about the strength of the minor league system….
Yeah, if the minor-league system was so strong, there would have been able-bodied replacements at the higher levels when all the injuries occurred. Instead, we get guys like Ramon Martinez, Argenis Reyes and Angel Berroa. I don’t doubt there’s talent in the Mets’ system (especially at lower levels) but other than Niese, there really isn’t a prospect that’s close to contributing at the MLB level this year. It was obvious F-Mart certainly wasn’t ready…..
To be fair to Omar he never said the “higher levels” of the system were strong. He did mention FMart, but also Holt, Mejia, Flores, Marte and others that are mostly at AA or lower in suggesting that overall the team “had prospects.”
Every team has prospects, doesn’t mean the minor-league system is good. The jury is out on guys like Wilmer Flores and Jefry Marte because they’re so young. I really question the way the Mets rush these kids through the system. I know their logic is they want to challenge these kids and have them learn to deal with failure and make adjustments, I just don’t know if it’s the best policy. Marte seems in over his head at Single-A, as he jumped short-season ball. He’s made a ton of errors and is a strikeout machine right now. Flores is putting up OK but underwhelming stats at Savannah. The thing is, I don’t know why Mets fans are so high on Flores but seem to dismiss Ruben Tejada as an all-field, no-hit guy. He’s yet to turn 20 but is hitting .276 with a decent .348 OBP at Double-A. Not a lot of pop (.353 slugging) but he has 17 doubles, so maybe he could be a gap-to-gap guy.
I hear you. I just think he neatly sidestepped the issue of strength of system by instead listing prospects. What’s he going to say, “yeah, our system is terrible?”
I personally envision the time in the not-to-distant future when J. Reyes’ contract expires and he fulfills his destiny by going to the Yankees to replace Jeter (to their bitter disappointment because while Jose has way better physical gifts he has no idea what he’s doing and Jeter does) and Tejada takes over in Queens.
I thought his
destiny was to
sign w/the yanks and go on
to win an MVP
Award and a Championship!
That’s what the Yankees fans say/think.
What they don’t realize is that after part I (signing with them), parts II & III are going to be very difficult unless Reyes suddenly learns how to play baseball. I suppose that might happen under their tutelage, it hasn’t happened yet here.
Just release him pease.He’s not even good enough for a #
5. Or 6 or 7
But I must say this, out of all the pitchers on this staff, he would be the one to throw a no hitter.
Yeah, he’d throw an A.J. Burnett style no-no with eight or nine walks and a few hit batters…..
Still be the Mets first. And you know it would have to be that way. No 1 walk, 16 strike out no hitter…
I know this is getting old but….interesting on SNY regarding Halladay…Heyman broke Nieve’s tear, Manuel and Omar job being safe for next year, and next came the Halladay trade lol….I dont know. All three personalities believe Heyman stating he almost always gets it right and the 2 previous reports were dead on…
Hmm… You remind of this person that comments here from time to time his name is “Joe R” you wouldn’t happen to know him by any chance would you?
haha yes. my home laptop lost its sign in…had to renew then forgot to change display name lol
Great postgame. Good movie. Lousy game. Matt Dillon is a Die hard Mets fan.
He’s dying hard with a vengeance after tonight’s game.
I’ll never forget him after the last game in ‘07. His reaction was priceless. Just looking out on the field like “WTF?”.
He’s a year older than me, I feel like I’ve kinda grown up with him. I’ve enjoyed the various eclectic choices he’s made in roles over the years.
One of my favorites is the “other” Employee of the Month (not the Dane Cook/Jessica Simpson one). Very good plot twists, fun story.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362590/
Agree
on the above Heb…
Since
“My Bodyguard” Great
teen flick.
10 games back…..
Whens the first Giants pre season game?
Monday, 8/17 8:15 PM ET ESPN vs. Carolina
cant come soon enough……….
Amen to that, although of all the teams the Giants had to be eliminated against last year, WHY did it have to be the Eagles? I honestly felt like God was punishing me for some reason last year…..
It was just their year. But unlike ‘86, they didn’t get the Super Bowl too.
Yes, we’ll always have ‘86, a truly awesome time to be a fan….
Damned. I will have to miss it. I will be at citi filed that night for the Mets game.
oh well.
Ya but,we can still win like
7 of 9 to end the month AND
THEN in August,we start to get
our guys back and we could go
like 20-9 that month and get
right back in the thick of
things heading into September!
No???
Yeah if we smoke the happy Omar medicinal cigarettes, maybe
Who are you and what have you done with Fongy?
Grave,
I just don’t believe in Omar anymore. I’m honestly hoping he proves me wrong, but I think it would be unwise if the organization uses the injuries as the only excuse. Yes, I know no team could surive the injuries the Mets have had, but did this team really inspire a ton of confidence when healthy? This team has been fundamentally lackadaisical for awhile now, whether it be Beltran’s baserunning boners, Church missing third, Reyes stopping to admire his home runs that weren’t, Delgado and Castillo dropping popups, Pelf’s balk-a-thon, it just seems like a team where the chemistry is off somewhat. And you have to point at the guy running the show, Omar Minaya. I think Omar has done some good things and the organization became relevant again under his watch, but things have gone horribly bad basically since Beltran looked at strike 3 in 2006. Don’t know if Omar can get out from under this mess, I really don’t.
I can’t argue against your thought here.
I did not come up with this myself, but I read many reviews of the 2009 Mets amateur draft since I knew I’d be writing about it, and one really stood out to me.
It was a thesis that essentially the Met organization’s philosophy under Omar is to, at every level, acquire “tools” players and attempt to teach these players “baseball.”
So what you get is a system laden with superb athletes who just don’t understand how to play baseball. They can run fast, jump high, and so on, but they don’t know what a cutoff man is let alone how to “hit” him.
I think this philosophy might have some success if the players were moved slowly through the system and taught along the way by capable teachers. I cannot grade the teachers, mostly I don’t know who they are, but when we see these players rushed through the system and/or played at levels above their seeming capabilities how can this teaching (if it is happening) take hold?
Ultimately there is little long term hope under Omar unless osmosis takes over, if this reviewer paints an accurate picture.
Now see, I don’t understand this philosphy. As most of you know, I’m female. So it’s not like I had the opportunity to play organized hardball in my youth from little league on up (at least in my day little girls were not allowed). But I grew up watching professional baseball.
I understand the philosophy of the game. I don’t think it would take all that much to learn the nuances of a game I spent my whole life watching, in order to make a living at it. The only question should be is if the talent is there.
What does it say about the youth of America that they arrive at the ML level, still not understanding how to play the game, how to take direction from coaches and managers? Or are we really blaming this all on the ‘teachers’ at the lower levels?
I’m just baffled…..
It almost makes you wonder is Tony B isn’t the real GM and Omar is the Face to chat with the crowd. What was that movie with Natalie Portman? V for Vengeance or Mr. V, or odd English type Film… Whatever, I hope you get my point.
Hello All!
I have nothing to add…….
Just hello to some of my fellow Met
fanaticos.