Series Thread: Mets @ Philthadelphia Phillies 5/29-6/2

[Johnnydollaz89]

Why a 5 game series?!

Wheeler vs Buchanon on the mound tonight.

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

The Monday game on June 2nd is a makeup that was rescheduled from the April 30th rain out.

 

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Series preview: Mets at Phillies - Mets Blog - ESPN New York

 

[Nasty_Magician]

I will be there on Saturday, fired up.

 

[Johnnydollaz89]

I will be there on Saturday, fired up.

Nice!! Enjoy it!

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

NEW YORK--(5/29) -- The back end of the bullpen has been a work in progress for the New York Mets, ever since the early April day they lost closer Bobby Parnell to an elbow injury that led to Tommy John surgery.

They can't say they've solved it yet, but after watching Jenrry Mejia and Jeurys Familia record six-out and five-out saves in a 24-hour span, manager Terry Collins has reason to feel better about the late innings than he maybe has all season.

Noah K. Murray/USA TODAY Sports
Jeurys Familia became the sixth Met to record a save this season.


With Mejia unavailable after throwing 37 pitches in his two-inning save Tuesday night, and with Daisuke Matsuzaka and Vic Black also unavailable, Collins turned to Familia on Wednesday, calling on him to face Ike Davis representing the tying run with one out in the eighth inning and then leaving him in for the save in a 5-0 Mets win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The results were impressive, enough so that in his postgame comments, Collins suggested that he could use both Mejia and Familia to close games in the days to come.

"We've reached the point that [Familia] has got to be in the back end," Collins said. "He's got to be a late-inning guy."

The Mets bullpen has been transformed several times in the first two months of the season, first by Parnell's injury and then by ineffectiveness from Jose Valverde and Kyle Farnsworth, two veterans who pitched poorly and were eventually released.

The difference now is that Mejia and Familia (both 24 years old) have earned their status by pitching well, and by displaying stuff worthy of pitching in the late innings of games.

"We've got some really good young power arms," David Wright said. "These guys have the ability to go out and dominate, shut the door on games."

Wright included Black in that mix, and Collins did the same. Black got four outs without allowing a run Tuesday, but also walked two batters.

Familia has had some command issues in the past, too, and has walked 12 in 24 2/3 innings this season. But his control has seemed to improve of late, and he threw 15 of his 19 pitches for strikes on Wednesday.

Collins had little choice but to count on him in this game, with so many of his other options unavailable. He said he was so committed to staying with Familia that he would have allowed him to bat for himself in the bottom of the eighth, even if he had come up with two out and the bases loaded.

As it was, Familia came to the plate only after Lucas Duda had padded the Mets' lead with a long two-run home run. And as it was, Familia added another hit himself.

Much more importantly, he became the sixth Met to record a save this season. No other team in the majors has more than four pitchers with saves.

The Mets haven't spread the saves around by choice, but rather because they keep searching for a combination that will work.

The way Mejia and Familia are pitching now, perhaps they're on the way to finding one.

 

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Pretty darn good article on Zack Wheeler....

It's not as bad as it looks for Wheeler - Mets Blog - ESPN New York

 

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PHILADELPHIA...(5/29) -- Here are the lineups as the Mets open a five-game series against the Philadelphia Phillies at 7:05 p.m. Thursday at Citizens Bank Park.

Travis d'Arnaud appears in a major-league game for the first time since suffering a concussion on May 13 when he was hit on the top of the head with a backswing from Alfonso Soriano in the Bronx.

Juan Lagares, cf
Daniel Murphy, 2b
David Wright, 3b
Curtis Granderson, rf
Lucas Duda, 1b
Chris Young, lf
Wilmer Flores, ss
d'Arnaud, c
Zack Wheeler, rhp

Ben Revere, cf
Jimmy Rollins, ss
Chase Utley, 2b
Ryan Howard, 1b
Marlon Byrd, rf
Domonic Brown, lf
Carlos Ruiz, c
Cesar Hernandez, 3b
David Buchanan, rhp

 

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D'Arnaud's return incidentally gives the Mets a statistical quirk. He joins Jacob deGrom and Matt den Dekker on the active roster, making the Mets the first team in MLB history with three active players that have surnames beginning with a lower-case "D."

"d'Groovy"

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

wow....25 of these next 33 games for us are on the road......so read into that what you will....

 

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Wheeler gives up a lead off single then proceeds to mow down the next 3 batters....
...all K's....(rollins, futley + howard)

Mets got a 2 out single from DW but Grandy flied out in the top 1st.

 

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Mets load the bases w/ none out, but could only manage 1 run on a Td'A GIDP......sheeeesh.
( He went after the 1st pitch..... d' EFFING STUPID!!!)

 

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Wheeler allows a 2 out double and infield single (deflected off his hip, but he's okay) then strikes out the side again....he has 6 thru 2 innings.

1-0 Mets

 

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Phils go down 1-2-3 in the 3rd. ( wheeler k's phutley again)...and now has 7 thru 3.

 

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CY crushes a 2 run homer over the LF wall......3-0 mets....

 

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Can we please just bring up Plawecki or Teagarden already, and let T d'A hone his batting stroke in Vegas or Bingy instead of the big club FFS ?

 

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Grandy w/ a 1 out bases loaded walk & rbi...plates Wheeler who led off the inning w/ a single.....4-0 Mets

 

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Ughhhh...... zippity flippin Duda whiffs w/ the bases loaded....2 down....CY is up.

 

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And of course for some unknown reason CY goes after a 3-0 pitch and pops up, to leave them loaded.

LMFAO at these clueless ass hats.