Umpires make an inexplicably bad call overturning a HR by Hessman in the 5th, and Francoeur and Blanco follow by striking out on pitches way out of the strike zone. Wright and Beltran with back-to-back two-out doubles in the bottom of the 6th to make it 1-0. Dickey gives up his first hit in the top of the 6th.
I'll have to watch for the replay on MLBN tonight. I got home for the 6th inning. I was listening to some of the game on the radio. Cole Hamels got hit by a batted ball in the groin area. He stayed in the game. That's about right, I figure. When he takes off his hat he looks like the biggest queer in MLB history.
Dickey with the complete game one-hit shutout, and the Mets win 1-0. They've beaten Hamels 1-0 twice in the past week.
That's easy to say when the hit has already been given up. If he pitched the last 3 innings with the no-hitter in tack, the nerves tighten up a little and everything changes. That being said, Dickey's the kind of pitcher I don't see that being a big issue for. Dickey, Niese, Pagan and Johan. The only 4 guys on this roster you really have to give it up for this season.
Pagan has been a very nice player for us, have to credit Omar with that move. I don't remember what we gave up to get him from the Cubs but it couldn't have been much. Dickey has been a very nice find and you'd have to think should be in the running for comeback player of the year. Niese looks like a star in the making. Johan has had some ups and downs but outside of a few blips on the radar has been very very good this year. Considering what we gave up for him it's still a steal. I think Wright has had a good bounce back year but outside of those guys you mentioned and Wright it doesn't look good. Hopefully Pelfrey will regain some of that early season magic after his last start... Beltran is untradable at this point as if his 18 million dollar salary wasn't enough of a deterent he has a full no trade clause. I don't think we'll ever see Reyes regain his 3 year ago form and Bay looks hopeless.
He had a bad June but if he was on a team with an offense worth a damn, he'd easily have 16-17 wins right now, Dickey should also have 13-14 wins if we could hit worth a damn
You'd have to think that if he got some dam run support he'd have a legit Cy Young shot... I think he's gotten a ND or a loss in 6 games in which he's allowed less then 1 run.
Yup 6 no decisions with 0 or 1 run allowed and another start with just 2 runs allowed. Add another 4 no decisions by Dickey with 2 or less runs allowed. It is funny that at one point last year we had both JJ Putz (1.96 ERA this year) and Billy Wagner (1.74 ERA All Star year) and now we have no setup man all year. Some silly stats, we have 18 shutout wins, we also have I think 12 walkoff losses leading the league by a mile. Our rotation has Santana that has been mostly dominate, Dickey that has probably been our best starter, Niese that has shown brilliance for most of his starts and Pelfrey who was unhittable for all of his starts prior to the all star break with Taka being slightly better than .500 and somehow we are just 1 game over .500. It is sickening the year we basically wasted due to stupid management
That's what is sickening, I might be wrong but didn't the Red Sox get 2 sandwich picks for Wagner and all we got was Carter? Now just imagine if Dickey got those 2 wins and Santana won say 4 of those 6 games... that's a 6 game swing.
Yeah the Wagner move was completely idiotic only because we were cheap, they feared that he would accept arbitration if offered but seriously underestimated his ego and feared that they would have to pay him and got raped in that trade, we should have either gotten a damn good prospect/a setup man in Wagner/2 sandwich picks and somehow we just ended up with just a bench player that can't play defense Everything about our planning is half-assed right now, we are a big market team acting with a small market mentality but also makes the dumb mistakes that a small market team would never do.
Wagner's had a good year, but he's been very shaky lately, and I only expect that to continue. The loss of Larry will hurt the Bravos more than most expect. I hate the fucking guy, but he's a strong veteran presence on a team with little postseason experience. As much as I hate to say this, the Phillies are going to win the division.....again. Too much starting pitching and a lot of balls. Balls, that's one thing our team has NONE of. For years now. Fuck me.
Wright fails again when the team needs him. he gets decent figures when it doesn't matter but when he is really really needed to drive in runs 9/10 he fucks up completely.
Are you sure you know who you're talking about? August has been one of his best months this season, it's the rest of the Braves who suck dick.
Since you seem to know what you're talking about...why has Wagner blown 3 saves in a little over 2 weeks and given up a game-losing HR to Franceour in a non-save situation over the same 2 plus weeks? I'd call that a pretty mediocore time span, but that's just me. I went through the trouble of looking over their games, it's a fact. Guy was pretty much lights out before that. Could be a slump, could be more.
The problem with the way they operate is the contracts they give are terrible How long did they sign up Beltran for? Bay? Even Santana is what a 7 year deal? You don't see the Red Sox and Yankee make those type of mistakes. Yes they make mistakes but not the same ones over and over like the Mets do.
