Saturday, June 10, 2006
Mets 10, Diamondbacks 6
Steve Trachsel went back to not pitching well in this game, but the Mets supplied plenty of offense to compensate. Trachsel pitched five and one-third innings and allowed eight hits, including two home runs, and a preposterous six walks. Still, when he left he had only given up three runs. But Pedro Feliciano's relief pitching and a couple of errors added two unearned runs to Trachsel's record.
Carlos Delgado and Carlos Beltran were responsible for the two errors, but they did a pretty good job making up for it with their bats. Each hit two home runs and drove in a total of three runs. Beltran had a double and a single as well. Twice in the game Beltran tied Delgado for the team lead in home runs only to have Delgado pass him again two innings later. Beltran may only have seventeen home runs as compared to Delgado's eighteen, but he's still surpassed Carlos Beltran circa 2005, who only hit sixteen all year. David Wright also went deep in this game, giving him eleven on the season.
Tonight Alay Soler (1-1, 5.00) will try to find the consistency that eluded Trachsel and pitch well for the second consecutive game. The Mets will need him to, as Brandon Webb (8-0, 2.14) will be on the mound for Arizona. Webb pitched seven scoreless innings against the Mets in New York last week, and only a great performance by Pedro Martinez kept them in a position to eventually win the game. They may need to give Soler a bit more offensive support in this game.
Also of note yesterday was the quiet departure of Kazuo Matsui from the Mets. He was traded to the Rockies in exchange for Eli Marrero and then immediately demoted to AAA. The Mets will be responsible for the enormous difference in the two players' salaries for the rest of the year.
I can't say this is a bad move for the Mets, as Matsui wasn't contributing anything and didn't seem likely to get any better. Still, I'm a bit sad to see him go. He seemed like a good guy who worked hard. And he was fun to watch when he was playing well. But that wasn't very often and his three-year $20 million contract turned out to be quite the blunder. I can't believe he was always this bad, though. No one who swings as pathetically as Matsui did this year could have hit 36 home runs in a season in any league, as Matsui did in 2002 with the Seibu Lions. We'll probably never know quite what went wrong, but I wish him well. I hope he takes full advantage of that ridiculous hitting environment in Colorado. ¶ joe | 4:54 PM |
Steve Trachsel went back to not pitching well in this game, but the Mets supplied plenty of offense to compensate. Trachsel pitched five and one-third innings and allowed eight hits, including two home runs, and a preposterous six walks. Still, when he left he had only given up three runs. But Pedro Feliciano's relief pitching and a couple of errors added two unearned runs to Trachsel's record.
Carlos Delgado and Carlos Beltran were responsible for the two errors, but they did a pretty good job making up for it with their bats. Each hit two home runs and drove in a total of three runs. Beltran had a double and a single as well. Twice in the game Beltran tied Delgado for the team lead in home runs only to have Delgado pass him again two innings later. Beltran may only have seventeen home runs as compared to Delgado's eighteen, but he's still surpassed Carlos Beltran circa 2005, who only hit sixteen all year. David Wright also went deep in this game, giving him eleven on the season.
Tonight Alay Soler (1-1, 5.00) will try to find the consistency that eluded Trachsel and pitch well for the second consecutive game. The Mets will need him to, as Brandon Webb (8-0, 2.14) will be on the mound for Arizona. Webb pitched seven scoreless innings against the Mets in New York last week, and only a great performance by Pedro Martinez kept them in a position to eventually win the game. They may need to give Soler a bit more offensive support in this game.
Also of note yesterday was the quiet departure of Kazuo Matsui from the Mets. He was traded to the Rockies in exchange for Eli Marrero and then immediately demoted to AAA. The Mets will be responsible for the enormous difference in the two players' salaries for the rest of the year.
I can't say this is a bad move for the Mets, as Matsui wasn't contributing anything and didn't seem likely to get any better. Still, I'm a bit sad to see him go. He seemed like a good guy who worked hard. And he was fun to watch when he was playing well. But that wasn't very often and his three-year $20 million contract turned out to be quite the blunder. I can't believe he was always this bad, though. No one who swings as pathetically as Matsui did this year could have hit 36 home runs in a season in any league, as Matsui did in 2002 with the Seibu Lions. We'll probably never know quite what went wrong, but I wish him well. I hope he takes full advantage of that ridiculous hitting environment in Colorado. ¶ joe | 4:54 PM |
