Posts tagged ‘Mike Pelfrey’

Just when we get two in a row in unusual fashion, the 2008 Mets we’ve grown to hate showed up tonight.  They score three runs in the first three innings and then do nothing as the bullpen blows it.

It’s amazing how many times they’ve lost a three-or-more run lead, yet have only come back from down three-plus runs one time.  Part of that has to do with the fact that they’re rarely down by three runs because their rotation is excellent and they score early runs, but you wish they would hold onto more games.

Mike Pelfrey was very good tonight against a team he usually struggles against.  He had one rough inning which unfortunately killed the team, but you’ll take 6.2 IP and two runs every time from Big Pelf.

The bullpen continues to be a disaster in progress.  Pedro Feliciano, as he normally does, can’t retire the first guy he faces so Duaner Sanchez has to work more than one inning.  Well he gets the job done in the seventh and then on cue gives up a solo bomb to former-Met Mike Jacobs.

Brian Stokes is pretty much the only guy in this bullpen who is getting the job done.  He might be the permanent set-up guy for a while.

Aaron Heilman was back to his old self after an amazing performance on Tuesday.  How do you walk in the winning run on a 3-1 pitch?  I mean throw a meatball and at least give your defense a chance.  Ugh, just terrible.

Now the Mets are back to clinging to a one-game lead after the Phillies won this afternoon.  Just another one of those games the Mets can look back on if they fall short of postseason ball by a few games.

And that is a nice away to erase the bad memories of the previous two losses.  Tonight the Mets smacked the Astros around badly.

Mike Pelfrey was absolutely awesome.  He became the first Met since 1995 to throw back-to-back complete game wins.  Pelfrey was just unhittable tonight, throwing strikes and getting double plays.  He makes me feel really confident about this rotation even with the loss of John Maine.

Carlos Delgado had another monster game, smacking two long three-run bombs.  Delgado is up to 28 homers and 93 RBI already.  If you told me he’d have that for the season a few months ago, I would have told you that you were crazy.  Now he can get 35 homers and 115 RBI easily.  He’s going to finish in the top 15 of the MVP vote too…his turnaround has been simply amazing.

The Mets defense had another very solid outing.  They’ve only made four errors over the past 33 games, which is a team record over that time span.

Everyone says you win with pitching and defense.  Well right now the Mets starting pitching and defense is the best in baseball.  If they can get any sort of consistency from their bullpen and some offense late in games, this team is going to run away with the division.  If not, it’s going to be a fight to the end with the Phillies.

I’m excited for the next two games in Philadelphia.  The Mets have played the Phillies great all year…in fact they’ve lost three games against them this year and the bullpen had a huge say in all of those losses.  Come on ‘pen…if they get the job done, the Mets are going to get themselves a two-game sweep.

Well when you’re starting pitcher gets an RBI single in the first inning, I’m assuming your odds of winning are well above 90%.  Kind of the same old story for the Mets.  They score early on, do nothing after that, but hold on to win. 

The offense really got some breaks in the first.  Although they got a legitimate first two runs thank to who…Daniel Murphy.  This guy is just unreal.  It seems like he delivers more than half the time.  Then the Braves defense helped the Mets score three more runs which turned out to be the difference.

Good to see David Wright hit a home run.  He has to pile up some numbers if he wants to win the MVP. 

Mike Pelfrey was his usual dominant self tonight, but he went the distance for the first time in his career.  I have a feeling there’s plenty more where that came from.  The Mets have are 13-3 in his last 16 starts…which is pretty amazing.  I loved him before the year, but even I didn’t think he’d be this good in 2008.

I’m greedy and want a sweep tomorrow night.  Make sure to listen to tomorrow night’s show as Mike Silva will join us to talk about the team’s recent surge.

Welcome boys to 10 games over .500.  How nice it is!!  We’re in first place and it’s time to pull away from those Phils!

Mike Pelfrey was back to his dominant self tonight.  He got his 11th win of the year and was pretty much unhittable all night.

The Mets got two first-inning runs and then, big surprise, they did nothing for the rest of the game…they need to change this.

David Wright looks to be in the zone right now.  He made some hard outs to go along with his first-inning RBI.

And gotta give credit to Aaron Heilman.  His two-out walk was pretty inexcusable, but he got the job done.  Let’s take another one tomorrow and keep it rolling.

Ted has run out of new stuff to write about for his Mets “Column” on SNY.tv so he’s going back to an idea we’ve talked about on our show: moving Mike Pelfrey to the bullpen. I agree with Ted on this idea…Pelfrey to the pen is probably the right move for him now. He can be a real contributor late in ballgames for the Mets…a spot they sorely need to be filled. Check out what Ted has to say.