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Mets-Phils Game 1 (kind of)
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Alright team, here’s the deal: some how, some way I deleted my entire game notes from the Mets/Phils game and there is no way I can recreate them until BH saved most of them. This sucks for you, (they were epic) and for me (it’s like someone murdered a loved one, which is especially bad for me because I hate murder). Anyway, if by some off chance you have a live link to what I posted (it was in real time) please send it my way and I’ll promise to love you forever. I’ve got pregame notes saved, so enjoy reading nothing about the actual game ATJ.
ugh.
We’ll be coming at you live all night with updates and observations from
what is shaping up to be a pretty big series. Outside of Sox-Yanks and
Cubs-Cards this is the best rivalry out there.
Notes in real time
Pregame
- Charlie talks about how the
feel is more businesslike before big games like tonight’s, but doesn’t
seem to show it himself. He has the press cracking up for what seems
like half his interview - I know I’ve
covered this before, but Hamels is really competitive out
there. Today, two days before he’s scheduled to toss next, he pops the
last pitch of his BP session up and leaves the cage visibly pissed.- FWIW here is Chris
Coste on the phenomenon: “A lot of guys try to get mad because that
is what they think they’re supposed to do, Cole is one of those guys who
legitimately gets mad at the slightest amount of failure.”
- FWIW here is Chris
- I’m not sure what to make of
this, but I totally heard Sarge talking with some TV guys about Alyssa
Miliano. Those two
have history. - The Mets strike first,
pouncing for two in the first, but Moyer gets himself out of trouble. - Big Cheer for Jimmy as he comes to bat
UPDATE: BH saved some of the previous notes, so check below for some of those. Right now it’s tomorrow and the Mets and Phils are still going at it. Chris Coste and Clay Condrey both came up bit their bats, Jimmy raised his average 14 points over the last two years, Ch
ooch Ruiz played a little bit of
third base (!) and Jamie Moyer finally got a few runs of support.
The Phillies are like, 1 for a million with runners in scoring position, but that one came with two outs in the bottom of the 9th. Onto more notes
- Rudy Seanez gets buckets, or something
- The Mets beat guy apparently just called this game a microcosm of their entire season
- Shane Victorino is the man. He is a hero’s hero. All this game needed was a little bit of the Beale magic. End it Werth.
- or get intentionally walked. End it Bruntlett
- or get intentionally walked. End i, pinch-hitter Brett Myers?
- A couple weeks ago in DC a few guys on the team were making fun of Myers’ anemic batting average (.045) he replied by saying “they don’t pay me to hit.” Now, it seems, they do. It’s Kendrick if this thing goes 14
- Chris Coste … ballgame
- There is debate on whether or not Myers was sent up there with instructions not to swing, so as to not GIDP. Seems odd to me, couldn’t Seanez not swing with the best of them? What do you think?
We’ll be coming at you live all night with updates and observations from what is shaping up to be a pretty big series. Outside of Sox-Yanks and Cubs-Cards this is the best rivalry out there.
Notes in real time, ATJ
Pregame
* Charlie talks about how the feel is more businesslike before big games like tonight’s, but doesn’t seem to show it himself. He has the press cracking up for what seems like half his interview
* I know I’ve covered this before, but Hamels is really competitive out there. Today, two days before he’s scheduled to toss next, he pops the last pitch of his BP session up and leaves the cage visibly pissed.
o FWIW here is Chris Coste on the phenomenon: “A lot of guys try to get mad because that is what they think they’re supposed to do, Cole is one of those guys who legitimately gets mad at the slightest amount of failure.â€
* I’m not sure what to make of this, but I totally heard Sarge talking with some TV guys about Alyssa Miliano. Those two have history.
* The Mets strike first, pouncing for two in the first, but Moyer gets himself out of trouble.
* Big Cheer for Jimmy
* Chase gets hit by a pitch for his league-leading 87th time this season (maybe it just seems like that
* Pedro calls his catcher to mound to discuss how to face the second straight batter. He’s thrown 10 pitches and has had two mound visits. He’s like when the kid from Rookie of the Year lost his fastball and had to re-sort to guile and trickery to get out of that one climatic inning. I forget how that movie ended, but you gotta assume the kid got rocked without his fastball, right? This bodes well for the Good Guys.
* If Moyer gives up another run tonight it’ll be the first time in fifteen starts that he would have allowed more than three
* This would have been a hell of a pitching matchup in 1999.
* Weird, weird play in the top of the third. Jamie Moyer gets Fernando Tatis to ground to third, shattering his bat in the process. The ball hits Carlos Beltran, bounces to the ground where Feliz picks it up and tosses out Tatis. It should have been a double play, it was ruled a foul ball. Four pitches later Tatis goes yard, blowing open the game. Expect to hear a lot about this tonight.
o Worth noting: if the bat hadn’t broken the third base umpire probably gets that call right. The bat came right at the base and had to be distracting.
* For the first time in fifteen games, Jamie Moyer has given up more than three runs. His final line isn’t going to be pretty.
o Update: it’s not. 3 innings, 9 hits, 6 runs, all earned.
* It is the top of the 4th inning and Damien Easley is a double away from the cycle. This may not be the Phillies’ night.
holy crap! PTOITWCFTFP!