Game Recap: Mets 5 – Orioles 1

#FreeChrisCarter

The Good

R! A! Dickey!  Seven innings, seven hits.  He allowed one earned run, walked one and struck out a career high eight batters.  He’s awesome. 

The Animal.  Chris Carter crushed a three-run home run – his first major league blast – in the fourth inning.  Awesome.

David Wright went 3-4, driving in the other two Met runs.  Also awesome.

The Bad & Ugly

Pedro Feliciano allowed three hits in his inning of work.  Thanks to a double play, no one scored.

Another inning allowing a hit for K-Rod.

Game Ball

Dickey and Carter.

On Deck

Tomorrow night, 7:05 p.m.

For those that want Bobby V back…

The Orioles will interview ESPN analyst Bobby Valentine for their open manager's job Friday, according to an industry source.

Andy MacPhail, the club's president of baseball operations, is expected to conduct the meeting in Baltimore.

-Baltimore Sun

And the Mets are actually playing well!

Guess Jerry Watch may be put on hold.

Manuel’s Musing

“He fights, scratches, claws, no matter what we're doing offensively.”

-Jerry Manuel on Johan Santana

Game Recap: Mets 3 – Padres 0

Niese and easy.

The Good

Jonathon Joseph Niese.  A complete-game, one-hit shutout.  108 pitches, 59 for strikes, allowing just one hit.  A double from Chris Denorfia was the only hit that stood between Niese and a perfect game.  Perfect.  Game.  Yeah, that just happened.

Francoeur, Wright and Davis all drove in runs.

Jose Reyes went 3-4, scoring once.

The Bad & Ugly

That damn Denorfia hit.

Game Ball

Niese.

On Deck

The Mets travel to Baltimore for a three-game series starting tomorrow night.

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Game Recap: Padres 4 – Mets 2

Thank goodness for Hank White.

The Good

Henry Blanco.  The all-mighty Hank White hit a two-run home run over the “Great Wall of Flushing”  for the Mets only two runs of the game.

The Bad & Ugly

Johan Santana walked four and allowed eight hits, surrendering four runs over 6 2/3 innings.  He only struck out one batter.  His velocity was noticeably down all game and his velocity wasn’t all there, either.  Are you worried about him?  Because I am starting to.

The last 22 Mets to come to bat were retired in order.

Ike Davis, David Wright and Jeff Francoeur each struck out twice.

Game Ball

Blanco

On Deck

Tonight at 7:10 p.m.

Manuel’s Musing

“We have to continue this once we leave the house here.”

-Jerry Manuel on playing on the road

Rain out

Tonight’s game has been rained out.  There will be a split doubleheader tomorrow, 1 and 7 p.m.

Tickets for tonight’s game will be redeemable for tomorrow’s 7 p.m. game.

MY EYES!!! [Images]

 

There are more.

Where’s the eye bleach?!?!

The SNY takeover?

SNY, the Mets' cable channel, is in talks with local stations about providing sports reports for their newscasts, The Post has learned.

The sports channel is talking to both Ch. 11 and Ch. 4 about eventually doing away with their own sportscasters and replacing them with SNY reporters, according to sources.

-Michael Starr, New York Post

I find this intriguing as both a Mets fan a media nut.

I believe SNY has done a fine job of establishing themselves not only as the Mets network, but – as they say – a home for all New York sports.

If this ever happens, maybe more fans start watching SNY more often, the network gains popularity, and so do the Mets.  Also, they might just feed some more money into the Mets organization.

High hopes?  Yeah.  But I’m a dreamer.

H/T Geoffrey Sorensen