-Jerry Manuel on Mike Pelfrey
6/9/10
Game Recap: Mets 2 – Padres 1
I yelled and clapped quite loudly at T.G.I. Fridays. Oops.
The Good
Mike Pelfrey. Seriously, how good is he? A no decision after nine stellar innings of baseball is just wrong. Only five hits and one earned run, as he struck out five and walked none. He only needed 103 pitches to get through the nine innings. I was shocked that he didn’t come out to start the 10th. What a performance. I’m so proud of him.
Solo shots. Jose Reyes and Ike Davis both homered for the Mets only runs. Davis’ shot was an absolute bomb, landing about a dozen rows up in the Pepsi Porch. Can’t wait to see where Hit Tracker puts that ball.
Reyes, Pagan and Wright each had two hits. Wright picked up a two-bagger, while Pagan (thanks to a fan and botched call by the umps) hit the game’s only triple.
The Bad & Ugly
J. Bay: 0-5, 3 K
The usage of the bullpen really frightened me, but save for the one hit Pedro Feliciano allowed, they were perfect.
Game Ball
Pelf and Davis
On Deck
Mets and Pads go at it tomorrow night, 7:10 p.m.
6/8/10
Jesus Feliciano promoted
Jesus Feliciano, 31, is making his first appearance in the majors with his promotion to the Mets yesterday.
Feliciano had been hitting .385 / .426 / .481 over 53 games for the Triple-A Buffalo Bisons.
A career minor leaguer, Feliciano has been with four different organizations. He’s been at the Mets Triple-A level for the last four season.
Omir Santos was moved back to the minors to make room for Feliciano.
“That's a tremendous problem to have.”6/7/10
Mets go with UNC’s Harvey
With the seventh overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft, the Mets selected University of North Carolina’s Matt Harvery.
The 6-foot-4 right hander, from Mystic, Conn., went 8-3 with a 3.09 ERA, 102 strikeouts and 35 walks over 96 innings as a junior.
A first-team All-ACC pick and preseason All-America, Harvey ranks ninth all-time in strikeouts (263) and tenth all-time in wins (22) in Carolina history. The Mystic, Conn., native pitched two complete games this season while registering a career-best eight wins.
In 2010, Harvey led the Tar Heels in nearly every statistical pitching category posting 102 strikeouts and a 3.09 ERA in 96 innings pitched. Opponents hit a lowly .224 against the junior, who registered a near 3:1 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
He also struck out a career-high 15 batters in a complete game on April 23.
Harvey was drafted out of high school by the Los Angeles Angels, but they missed out on signing him when his agent, Scott Boras, passed on their $1.4 million offer.
Guess The Met! [Solved]
The rules are easy: I post a Mets player photo, but only reveal a tiny part of the image. From there, your goal is to try and guess which player the photo is of.
No prizes, but pride and honor is on the line.
Here is today’s Guess the Met… Good luck!
This Met is… CARLOS BELTRAN!
Manuel’s Musing
-Jerry Manuel on Ruben Tejada
6/6/10
Game Recap: Mets 7 – Marlins 6
Sweep.
The Good
Fighting back. Mets were down 5-0 before rallying back with three in the sixth and three in the seventh.
Chris Carter and Angel Pagan drove in the three runs in the sixth on RBI singles.
Jeff Freakin’ Francoeur. Ten game hitting streak. 2-4 with a three-run home run in the bottom of the seventh inning to tie the game. Welcome back, first-week Francoeur.
David Wright is also on fire. 3-5 today with a run scored.
Productive double play. The Mets took the lead in the 8th on a Ike Davis double play.
The Bad & Ugly
Taka’s start. He let up five earned over 5 1/3 innings. Walked two. Not really terrible, but not good either.
Ryota ain’t right. One inning, allowing one earned on two walks. Something isn’t right with him.
Can we have a 1-2-3 9th inning, K-Rod? Please?
Game Ball
Citi Field, because the Mets love the park.
On Deck
Monday is an off-day before the Mets welcome the Padres on Tuesday night, 7:10 p.m.
Manuel’s Musing
-Jerry Manuel on Oliver Perez’s knee
What I missed
1. Oliver Perez DL’d with right knee patella tendonitis.
It’s bull and we all know it. But anything that gets Perez to the DL and hopefully thoroughly through the minor leagues, while (again, hopefully) improving his ability as a pitcher is a good thing. Unlikely, but a good thing.
Jon Niese took Ollie’s roster spot.
2. Mets win 4-3 on Friday night.
R.A. Dickey is awesome. Three runs and seven hits over seven innings. I like it. He also went 2-3 at the plate, driving in one and scoring once.
3. Mets win 6-1 on Saturday afternoon.
Niese came back from the DL and was awesome. Seven innings, allowing just the one run. Ike Davis went 4-4, scoring three times. David Wright went 2-3 with three RBI, including a monster two-run blast off the Acela Club.
The Mets go for the sweep at home today at 1:10 p.m.
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