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Mike left the game tonight after 6.2 innings and 118 pitches with a 3-2 lead. Bullpen gives up single runs in the 8th and 9th and the Mets lose 4-3. No decision.
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I watched the game on New York cable and Keith Hernandez (who is the Mets color commentator with Ron Darling) said, "Pelfrey is dominating the National League the way he dominated hitters at Wichita State!" :yahoo: :posterwu:
However, as soon as he said this the Marlins started a two out rally in the sixth scoring the only two runs Pelfrey allowed. Still all in all another very good outing.
Hernandez also said that Pelfrey had become the workhorse of the rotation and that they would have liked to give him an extra day of rest sometimes down the stretch before Maine got hurt.Shocker Nation, NYCComment
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From the 8/31 NYTimes. a little more on the history.
The Mets wasted a quality start by Mike Pelfrey, who leads the team with 13 victories. He had complete-game victories in his previous two games. This time, he went six and two-thirds innings and left with a 3-2 lead.
But the Marlins tied it, 3-3, in the eighth on a solo home run by Mike Jacobs against Duaner Sánchez, who threw a changeup that stayed up and kept rising after it was hit.
“Basically, that’s not a mistake,” Sánchez said of the pitch. “He just hit the ball. Everything was fine.”
That was not the first time the Mets had heard from Jacobs. In the second, he had to be restrained after Pelfrey hit Florida’s Cody Ross with a pitch. But Ross showed temper, too. Pelfrey seemed amused later by what he characterized as Ross’s delayed response after players filled the field but no punches were thrown.
“He got a lot more fired up when there were 24 men behind him,” Pelfrey said with a tight smile. In that Pelfrey had two strikes on Ross, Pelfrey said, “I actually did him a favor.”
There is a history between the two. In their last meeting, Pelfrey also hit Ross with a fastball and said he recalled that at the time Ross “did that like fake charge thing” as if he wanted to go after Pelfrey. On Saturday, Ross cursed at Pelfrey from the first-base line.
“I told him I was right here,” Pelfrey said. “He kept talking.”
Once things calmed down, Pelfrey picked Ross off first base to end the inning.
In the previous incident, on Aug. 10, Pelfrey hit Ross in the back at Shea Stadium, causing Ross to shout out in pain, a sound heard on television through a field microphone.
What might have precipitated that was something the night before on Aug. 9 when relief pitcher Matt Lindstrom was on the mound for the Marlins and David Wright was at the plate in the seventh inning.
On a 1-1 count that night, Lindstrom threw a 98-mile-per-hour fastball near Wright’s head. Sometimes, when such incidents occur in baseball, similar ones follow.Comment
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interesting...veni, vidi, viciComment
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I love the part where he plunks him. Shows no remorse (as it should be).
Then, he picks him off first base.Comment
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Another solid outing for Big Pelf last night--
Hate to say it, but he might be the best MLB SHOCKER PITCHER--
No offense DD.Comment
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Well unless he runs into injury problems like DD. DD could have been amazing but just couldn't get healthy after he signed that 55 mil contract.Comment
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Met's bullpen blows another lead Mike gave them to handle. He left after starting the 7th with a runner on that latter scored. 3 ER in 6 innings. Mets lose.Comment
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