Playoff Reality Hits in Game Two
So it finally happened. After a charmed second half of the season the vaunted Mets bullpen finally blew a big one.
Guillermo Mota started it off buy allowing Albert Pujols and Jim Edmunds to reach base with two out. At this point I’m not sure why Willie didn’t give him the hook. Then Mota either blew off Paul LoDuca or missed his location in throwing Scott Spezio a fastball on the inside of the plate. This was after Spezio missed badly on two changeups and had just drilled a fastball foul down the right field line. The result was a two run triple and a tie score.
Aaron Heilman did his job and passed it on to Billy Wagner in the ninth. Wagner was awful, starting with the Taghuchi homer. I had a bad feeling during that at bat. Then the Cards just kept eating him up. I’m not going to kill Billy Wagner for this one. He had a great second half and had done well in the playoffs before last night. That stated, he should never let that happen again in the playoffs.
There were other missed opportunities as well. The Mets had first and second in the eighth and Beltran hit into a double play. David Wright still hasn’t found his stoke yet in this series either. Paul LoDuca and Carlos Delgado have been a two man wrecking crew at the plate.
So the reality of the playoffs is that nothing is guaranteed. Certainly not a lead at home in the late innings. Every run counts. Every pitch counts. Maybe the Mets needed to realize that after four playoff wins in a row. The best way to remedy a loss is to win and we have the opportunity to do that again this evening. This Mets team can out hit and out run St. Louis. Our bullpen is better than their bullpen. The starting pitching matchups ain’t so bad either. So let’s get back on the horse tonight and take the series lead back.
Let’s Go Mets!
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So… once again Traschel kills us… Isn’t this guy supposed to be on our team? Is he secretly being paid by the Cardnials to suck.. because he’s got to be paid alot to be this bad… Traschel is officially DTM (dead to me).. He has lost all confidence I had in him (which was little to begin with)… If we somehow get out of this series I say drop floyd off the roster and bring in Williams as a starter and throw Traschel in the Hudson River!
Comment by Ron | October 14, 2006
Amen, I never liked him eaither. What we could also do is consider putting Darren Oliver in the starting rotation because he was looking real good. Then again, he almost always has. I really like Darren Oliver. In any pitcher that is actually good, we might still have a game or be close because down by 2 or 3 isn’t too bad, but when your down by 5, almost all hope is lost. I think we should look at Floyd’s health at the end of the series if we do go to the WS. He could be a threat of a DH if healthy but i don’t know. What do you all think? Anyways hang in there guys, its just a speed bump, hopefully we will get over it before it is too late. Come On METS!!!
Comment by Matt | October 14, 2006
let’s worry about gettin past this series… if the bats don’t pick up it might not even get to a point where we have an opportunity to fiddle with our starting rotation. like i said… we need average pitching and good swingin’ and right now we’re getting neither.
Comment by Brett | October 14, 2006