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4/22/10
Lineup [Game 16]
- Jose Reyes – SS
- Luis Castillo – 2B
- David Wright – 3B
- Jason Bay – LF
- Jeff Francoeur – RF
- Ike Davis – 1B
- Rod Barajas – C
- Angel Pagan – CF
- Johan Santana – LHP
I wonder if the Game Chat could get more people than Citi Field.
Game Chat will be up at 7 p.m.
Jeff Francoeur is falling back to Earth [Graphs]
Tip of the cap to Baseball-Reference for the stats.
Manuel’s Musing
-Jerry Manuel on Gil Hodges
4/21/10
Game Recap: Cubs 9 – Mets 3
Pretty ugly all around.
The Good
Ike Davis’ catch. If you didn’t see it, watch it here. A Web Gem, I think.
Rod Barajas went yard in the second inning. The Mets only hit until the sixth, Barajas drove one deep to left field, his third of the year. He has more home runs than he has walks: three to none.
The Bad & Ugly
The pitching. Nine runs, eight earned against Oliver Perez, Manny Acosta, Raul Valdes and Hisanori Takahashi. Perez wasn’t awful, but the bullpen was. Just yuck. No one was on point and the Cubs, who have only scored more runs than Houston, made them pay.
Mets pitchers walked nine Cubs.
The Mets managed only two hits off of Carlos Silva.
Jeff Francoeur is 0-for-his-last-22 and only saw eight pitches in four at-bats.
Game Ball
Ike for his catch.
On Deck
The Mets and Cubs finish it out tomorrow night, as Johan Santana takes the mound for a 7:10 p.m. start.
Lineup [Game 15]
- Jose Reyes – SS
- Luis Castillo – 2B
- David Wright – 3B
- Jason Bay – RF
- Jeff Francoeur – LF
- Ike Davis – 1B
- Rod Barajas – C
- Angel Pagan – CF
- Oliver Perez – LHP
Game Chat will be up at 7 p.m.
Igarashi to DL, Acosta called up
Ryota Igarashi, who strained his hamstring in the 8th inning of last night’s game has been placed on the DL. Manny Acosta, who was pitching for Triple-A Buffalo, has been tabbed to replace him.
Acosta pitched in 36 games for the Braves last season, all in relief. Over 37 1/3 innings he allowed 47 hits, struck out 32 and walked 19. He surrendered four home runs. ERA: 4.34, WHIP: 1.714.
For Buffalo this season, he’s appeared in five games, 8 1/3 innings, allowing two earned runs and seven hits for a 2.16 ERA and 0.960 WHIP.
Good thing I didn’t buy that “Igarashi” jersey just yet.
All-Star voting already?
Yesterday, this popped up in my inbox…
All-Star Balloting for the 81st Midsummer Classic begins today
A press release followed explaining that voting for the All-Star Game, being held at Angel Stadium, was now live.
Uh, why?
We are 14 games into the season, and you expect me to make a call on who should play in the All-Star Game already? Isn’t that a bit quick on the trigger finger? Voting should happen as close to the game as humanly possibly. If fans only had a week, or even a month, to vote, meaning the voting started in June, wouldn’t that give everyone a lot more time to make a selection based on performance?
What we’re forced to do, if you choose to vote this early, is make selections based on past performance. In that way, this isn’t really a 2010 All-Star Game, but rather a Who-Did-Well-Last-Year-And-You-Know-His-Name-Game. It’s been boiled down into a popularity contest more so than ever before. The stars, the performers, should be voted in, not the popular players.
I, like hopefully most of you, will not cast my votes until the deadline is approaching. There is no possible way a player should be voted in based on two weeks of games.
What are you thoughts on this? I’d like to hear some feedback in the comments.
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