Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Diamondbacks 12, Mets 8
Hey, guess what? James Baldwin sucks. But you knew that already. The man with the 5.02 career ERA went out and added to it, recording just six outs while being charged with six runs on seven hits and two walks, with a pair of home runs mixed in, while striking out none. And most of those six outs were hard hit flyballs to deep centerfield. An easily predictable disaster like this makes you wonder if this organization has any idea what the hell they're doing. In the end it's just one start for a guy who was scheduled to pitch today anyway taking the place of a guy who needed a few more days to deal with a cracked fingernail. If the Mets learn something from this and we never see Baldwin pitch again, you can hardly get too upset about it. But that they expected something better than this, and perhaps even had plans of Baldwin sticking around at the major league level, makes you shake your head.
Dan Wheeler got knocked around as well in relief, allowing six runs of his own on six hits, one walk and three home runs while striking out one. Ricky Bottalico and Orber Moreno at least gave the Mets a few good innings, with the former tossing two and two-thirds scoreless, striking out three, walking one and allowing one hit, and the latter pitching a pair of perfect innings with one strikeout mixed in.
Of course, the Mets scored some runs as well, as Arizona starter Casey Daigle got smacked around pretty well himself. Ty Wigginton had a career high five hits, including a double. Mike Piazza and Eric Valent each had three hits, including a double, and a walk. Mike Cameron hit hits seventh home run of the season, a solo shot in the ninth. And Kazuo Matsui went two for three with a double before fouling a ball off of his ankle and being a subsequently removed as part of a double switch that resulted in Ricky Bottalico batting for himself with the bases loaded and two outs in the fifth.
Tomorrow is the last day before the Mets run up against a five-day buzzsaw of starting pitchers that will start with Randy Johnson and end with Roger Clemens on Sunday. Tomorrow, they just have to deal with Elmer Dessens (1-4, 7.85) as Al Leiter (1-1, 1.53) takes the mound still leading the league in ERA. Presumably they'll be able to put up a little bit of run support for Leiter against Dessens.
On a slightly happier note, the Mets are apparently considering possibly looking into maybe trying something new to deal with Jose Reyes' recurring hamstring problem. ¶ joe | 1:33 AM |
Hey, guess what? James Baldwin sucks. But you knew that already. The man with the 5.02 career ERA went out and added to it, recording just six outs while being charged with six runs on seven hits and two walks, with a pair of home runs mixed in, while striking out none. And most of those six outs were hard hit flyballs to deep centerfield. An easily predictable disaster like this makes you wonder if this organization has any idea what the hell they're doing. In the end it's just one start for a guy who was scheduled to pitch today anyway taking the place of a guy who needed a few more days to deal with a cracked fingernail. If the Mets learn something from this and we never see Baldwin pitch again, you can hardly get too upset about it. But that they expected something better than this, and perhaps even had plans of Baldwin sticking around at the major league level, makes you shake your head.
Dan Wheeler got knocked around as well in relief, allowing six runs of his own on six hits, one walk and three home runs while striking out one. Ricky Bottalico and Orber Moreno at least gave the Mets a few good innings, with the former tossing two and two-thirds scoreless, striking out three, walking one and allowing one hit, and the latter pitching a pair of perfect innings with one strikeout mixed in.
Of course, the Mets scored some runs as well, as Arizona starter Casey Daigle got smacked around pretty well himself. Ty Wigginton had a career high five hits, including a double. Mike Piazza and Eric Valent each had three hits, including a double, and a walk. Mike Cameron hit hits seventh home run of the season, a solo shot in the ninth. And Kazuo Matsui went two for three with a double before fouling a ball off of his ankle and being a subsequently removed as part of a double switch that resulted in Ricky Bottalico batting for himself with the bases loaded and two outs in the fifth.
Tomorrow is the last day before the Mets run up against a five-day buzzsaw of starting pitchers that will start with Randy Johnson and end with Roger Clemens on Sunday. Tomorrow, they just have to deal with Elmer Dessens (1-4, 7.85) as Al Leiter (1-1, 1.53) takes the mound still leading the league in ERA. Presumably they'll be able to put up a little bit of run support for Leiter against Dessens.
On a slightly happier note, the Mets are apparently considering possibly looking into maybe trying something new to deal with Jose Reyes' recurring hamstring problem. ¶ joe | 1:33 AM |
