Too Legit To Quit: Mets 6, Phillies 3

by Eric Simon on Aug 28, 2008 1:28 AM EDT

It's funny: on Tuesday night, even when the Mets led 7-0, I had little doubt they would find a way to blow the game. Yet last night, trailing by a run in the eighth, I thought there was no way they'd ever win. Well, they won, they're back in first place, and the disaster of the previous night is all but forgotten. For better or worse.

Johan Santana wasn't at his best, and the Mets' offense was mostly held in check by Kyle Kendrick. Down 3-1 in the sixth, Carlos Delgado put the rest of the team on his back and solo homer-ed the Mets back in the game, knotting the game at three when he poked his second longball of the game over the short porch in left with two outs in the eighth. The Mets' offense erupted for three more runs that inning, and a trio of Met relievers combined to pitch two perfect innings to close things out.

The Mets have a *gasp* day off Thursday before heading to Florida for three games against the Marlins, featuring Instant Replay™.

Big winners: Carlos Delgado, +43.5% WPA, Carlos Beltran, +11.1% WPA
Big losers: Luis Castillo, -15.8% WPA, David Wright, -10.4% WPA
Teh aw3s0mest play: Murph!, +26.6% WPA
Teh sux0rest play: Howard two-run dink, -18.0% WPA
Total pitcher WPA: +9.5%
Total batter WPA: +40.5%
GWRBI: Daniel Murphy

Game Thread Roll Call

Nice job by LOUtheMETfan; his effort in the game thread embiggens us all.

Name	# of Posts
LOUtheMETfan	99
BobbyV_Incognito	97
Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright	66
Simons	64
pingel	38
kingcritical	32
JoshNY	28
johnnyapple	18
Prince	16
kendynamo	12
mmxii	8
Shomov	4
DoctorK16	3
BlackOps	2
anonymous	1
gogomets	1

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Last night!

I haven’t had that much fun since I put a 6 foot inflatable gumby on the roof of my high school as a senior prank and then thrown in the back of a sqaud car.

"Saturday, Donny, is Shabbos, the Jewish day of rest. That means that I don't work, I don't get in a car, I don't fucking ride in a car, I don't pick up the phone, I don't turn on the oven, and I sure as shit don't fucking roll! Shomer shabbos!"

by LOUtheMETandNATSfan on Aug 28, 2008 3:31 AM EDT reply actions

delgado's OPS+ is now 124

he’s making a lot of fans eat the words, especially me. if we’re not in the teixiera sweepstakes you’d have to pick up his option for next year, right? i mean its still a tough call but what other good options are out there?

by kendynamo on Aug 28, 2008 10:14 AM EDT reply actions

Dunn

Not that I’m necessarily sure I’d take him for five-six years if I thought I could keep Delgado for one-two and have him sustain this level.

by JoshNY on Aug 28, 2008 11:30 AM EDT up reply actions

yeah, Dunn

It might make sense to pick up Delgado’s option anyway, though. I’d love to see him and Dunn splitting time at 1B and Dunn playing some games in LF.

by anonymous on Aug 28, 2008 11:49 AM EDT up reply actions

if dunn has another year in the OF in him

so that he could then take over first the following year then we’d really have something. i think he’s pretty much finished out there tho. i fear he may also head to the AL so he can DH too.

he definitely another option tho that i would support. i forgot that he had just gotten traded and not resignd.

by kendynamo on Aug 28, 2008 12:25 PM EDT up reply actions

I like Dunn

But I don’t know that you’d want a platoon at 1B where both of them are lefties and neither of them is particularly good in the field.

by JoshNY on Aug 28, 2008 5:44 PM EDT up reply actions

they split the series, which is what I expected

And while the Mets lost a game they should’ve won, they also won a game the Phillies should’ve won, so it’s even.

The Phils have to head to Chicago for a 4-game set against the best team in the NL (if not all of baseball). Hopefully the Cubs will brutalize them while the Mets pummel the fading Marlins. Only 3 games left with the Phils (at Shea), so the Mets simply have to take care of business against the Marlins of the world.

Vote change: DePodesta/Acta in 2009!!!

by Greenpoint Ian on Aug 28, 2008 10:15 AM EDT reply actions

Brian Schneider

every time I abuse this guy on one of these threads, he actually does something to help us win a big game. So for the rest of the year, I will scream Schneider Sucks!! and watch him shine. I am like a reverse jinx for that guy.

by Endys Game on Aug 28, 2008 11:25 AM EDT reply actions

Scheider

Enough with blaming the pen for the other night. The second baseman threw an absolute strike to Schneider which he turned into a short hop by getting on the foul side of home plate to field. And somebody please tell him to watch some film of Grote whose mask would have been 10 feet away ,not blocking his vision on a throw he HAD to field and get the runner on. Ahh , it’s only fundamentals , if they dont give a s..t , why do I ?

by johnniec on Aug 28, 2008 8:37 PM EDT reply actions