Manuel’s Musing

“I want to do it so badly, sometimes I get a little impatient.”

-Jerry Manuel on batting Jose Reyes third

Game Recap: Mets 5 – Rockies 0

(I didn’t see an inning of the game, but I followed via MLB Gameday / At Bat.)

The Good

Seven combined hits for the 1-5 of the Mets order.  Two hits a piece from Jose Reyes, Luis Castillo and Jeff Francoeur.

David Wright’s 3 walks.  It’s not every day you walk three times.

Mike Pelfrey.  On the mound, Pelf turned in seven solid innings of shutout baseball, scattering five hits, walking none and striking out six.  This saved him from running laps around Coors Field.  Big Pelf also helped his own cause with an RBI single in the 4th.

Feliciano to K-Rod.  Pedro Feliciano worked the 8th, bridging to Francisco Rodriguez in the 9th.  Just like Jerry wrote it up.

The Bad & Ugly

6, 7, 8 of the order going hitless. Fernando Tatis, Henry Blanco and Angel Pagan all went hitless.

Baserunning.  If you saw it, you know.  If you didn’t see it, don’t bother looking it up; It was that bad.

Game Ball

Mike Pelfrey

On Deck

Meet me the Mets in St. Louis.  8:15 p.m. tomorrow.

Game Chat: NYM @ COL [Game 9]

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Chat removed, as usual.

Lineup [Game 9]

1. Jose Reyes – SS
2. Luis Castillo – 2B
3. David Wright – 3B
4. Jason Bay – LF
5. Jeff Francoeur – RF
6. Fernando Tatis – 1B
7. Henry Blanco – C
8. Angel Pagan – CF
9. Mike Pelfrey – RHP

Game Chat will be up around 3:00 p.m.

Manuel’s Musing

“I think if we keep ourselves in games, we have a shot because of the fight that's in the club.”

-Jerry Manuel on the Mets

Game Recap: Rockies 6 – Mets 5

Welcome to the big leagues, Jenrry Mejia.

The Good

Jeff Francoeur’s hitting streak is still alive, this time due to a solo home run in the first inning.  He was even intentionally walked.

David Wright also went yard, a two-run shot in the third inning.

The Mets scratched back with runs in the 8th and 9th innings to force extra innings. 

Raul Valdes, Fernando Nieve, Pedro Feliciano and Ryota Igarashi turned in scoreless innings in relief.

Three stolen bases: Jose Reyes, Jason Bay, Gary Matthews Jr.

The Bad & Ugly

Mejia, in his first pressure situation, surrendered a leadoff home run in the bottom of the 10th inning to end the game.

Jon Niese, the starter, surrendered 9 hits and 5 earned runs in five innings of work.  He also hit two batsmen.

Mike Jacobs is a mess at first base.  That is all.

Aaron Cook, the Rockies starter, hit two doubles and scored once.

The Rockies committed three errors (should have been four).

Game Ball

Francoeur: 1-3, HR, 2 BB (Two!)

On Deck

The Mets and Rockies finish out the series tomorrow afternoon, a 3:10 p.m. start time.

Game Chat: NYM @ COL [Game 8]

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Chat removed, as usual.

Lineup [Game 8]

1. Jose Reyes – SS
2. Luis Castillo – 2B
3. David Wright – 3B
4. Jason Bay – LF
5. Mike Jacobs – 1B
6. Jeff Francoeur – RF
7. Rod Barajas – C
8. Angel Pagan – CF
9. Jon Niese – LHP

Game Chat will be up around 8:30 p.m.

Rubin: Bowman claimed by Jays

Forever blocked by David Wright, Shawn Bowman has been claimed by the Toronto Blue Jays, according to Adam Rubin.

Yes, it’s early, but…

The Mets are only 7 games into the season.  That’s very, very early in baseball terms.  But, to me and to many, they’re giving fans very little to hope for so far.

• We haven’t even made two full turns of the rotation, and the team is already talking about dropping John Maine from the starting five.
• The team’s “starting first baseman” is being outplayed by Fernando Tatis.
• The team’s most expensive reliever, Francisco Rodriguez, is yet to have a save opportunity.
• Many fans are already calling for Jerry Manuel’s head.
• Many fans are already calling for Omar Minaya’s head.
• The stadium, for home games, is drawing smaller crowds than last year when the team was already out of playoff contention.

We’re seven games in.  There are 155 more games to play.  But at this pace, it’s a miracle fans aren’t revolting, jumping ship and burning merchandise in the parking lot.

It’s early, but many have seen enough.  But change for change’s sake isn’t going to cut it.  The team, from the front office on down, needs to present some sort of plan for fixing everything that seems to be wrong with the organization.  The fans see it, the media sees it, it’s time for the Mets to be up-front about their situation and spell it out for the angry mob that seems to be growing.

At this point in time, it seems the Mets are just floating along aimlessly, without a way to steer or even a planned direction to head in.  I’d love to see Fred Wilpon cop to it all, say that the team is going for an overhaul and start fixing things internally, externally and whatever-ternally helps the Mets out.

It might be a blow to the pride of the Mets, but in the long run, the transparency will help the sanity of the fans - the ones who put the money into everyone’s pockets – the ones that matter.