Saturday, July 10, 2004
Mets 6, Marlins 3
Ty Wigginton apparently likes playing every day in the major leagues. On a day when David Wright went two for five with a walk, raising his stat line to .322/.406/.611 in ninety at bats at AAA, Wigginton had two hits of his own, both for extra bases, including a double and his twelfth home run of the year. He only hit eleven in nearly six hundred at bats last year. He's raised his slugging percentage seventy-five points in the last two weeks, all the while with Wright looker ever more closely over his shoulder. The twenty-six year old current Met third baseman, now hitting .276/.319/.504, probably can't keep this up for too long and at the very least is enjoying a career. Wright is still clearly the future of this position, but it would be great if the Mets could manage to keep Wigginton around as a very potent bat off the bench, with some versatility to act as the backup to their oft injured second baseman. Still, the Mets are very much n the reace fo the division lead and ye tin need of at least one more arm, whether in the rotation or the bullpen, and trading Wigginton now, when his value's as high as it's likely to go, may in fact be for the best.
Other Mets contributed to those six runs, of course. Mike Cameron followed Wigginton's fourth inning home run with a blast of his own, giving him fourteen on the year and four in the last three days. In addition to auditioning for a spot as the new Richard Hidalgo, Cameron drew a pair of walks in the game, one intentional. Hidalgo himself had just a single and an RBI, while Kazuo Matsui added his twenty-sixth double.
Jae Weong Seo had another decent outing, allowing just three runs in six innings, though he did allow a pair of home runs among the Marlins' seven hits. He walked two and struck out two before being relieved by Dan Wheeler, who pitched an inning and two-thirds scoreless, allowing a hit and a walk with one strikeout. John Franco finished off the eighth for him, getting Hee Seop Choi on one pitch, and Braden Looper pitched a perfect ninth for his eighteenth save.
Tomorrow, Tom Glavine (7-6, 2.49) tries to bounce back from the one bad start he's had this season while the Marlins send Brad Penny (7-7, 3.21) to the mound. ¶ joe | 2:44 AM |
Ty Wigginton apparently likes playing every day in the major leagues. On a day when David Wright went two for five with a walk, raising his stat line to .322/.406/.611 in ninety at bats at AAA, Wigginton had two hits of his own, both for extra bases, including a double and his twelfth home run of the year. He only hit eleven in nearly six hundred at bats last year. He's raised his slugging percentage seventy-five points in the last two weeks, all the while with Wright looker ever more closely over his shoulder. The twenty-six year old current Met third baseman, now hitting .276/.319/.504, probably can't keep this up for too long and at the very least is enjoying a career. Wright is still clearly the future of this position, but it would be great if the Mets could manage to keep Wigginton around as a very potent bat off the bench, with some versatility to act as the backup to their oft injured second baseman. Still, the Mets are very much n the reace fo the division lead and ye tin need of at least one more arm, whether in the rotation or the bullpen, and trading Wigginton now, when his value's as high as it's likely to go, may in fact be for the best.
Other Mets contributed to those six runs, of course. Mike Cameron followed Wigginton's fourth inning home run with a blast of his own, giving him fourteen on the year and four in the last three days. In addition to auditioning for a spot as the new Richard Hidalgo, Cameron drew a pair of walks in the game, one intentional. Hidalgo himself had just a single and an RBI, while Kazuo Matsui added his twenty-sixth double.
Jae Weong Seo had another decent outing, allowing just three runs in six innings, though he did allow a pair of home runs among the Marlins' seven hits. He walked two and struck out two before being relieved by Dan Wheeler, who pitched an inning and two-thirds scoreless, allowing a hit and a walk with one strikeout. John Franco finished off the eighth for him, getting Hee Seop Choi on one pitch, and Braden Looper pitched a perfect ninth for his eighteenth save.
Tomorrow, Tom Glavine (7-6, 2.49) tries to bounce back from the one bad start he's had this season while the Marlins send Brad Penny (7-7, 3.21) to the mound. ¶ joe | 2:44 AM |
