Astros 4, Mets 1: Brett Myers Silences Mets, Slaps Them In Public

by Eric Simon on Aug 28, 2010 10:29 PM EDT

"Even injured and a month removed from my last bit of exercise I'm better than Jeff Francoeur." (Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images)

Brett Myers shut out the Mets over seven innings, striking out six and walking just one. Johan Santana likewise pitched seven innings, but allowed four runs on eight hits and was saddled with the "loss", his ninth of the season. Three of the Astros runs were driven in by the unspectacular but noticeably fat "first baseman" Carlos Lee.

The story of the game was the story of the season: offensive ineptitude. The Mets went 1-for-10 with runners in scoring position, with the one hit a David Wright single in the bottom of the eighth that cut the deficit to 4-1. That they had those runners on base in the first place is a good thing, as they haven't been able to say that after a lot of games. Over a long enough period of time, performance with runners in scoring position will generally reflect a team's performance in all situations, and for the most part the Mets have adhered to that principle.

	OPS	OPS w/RISP
Mets	.693	.733
NL	.726	.762

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Mike Hessman was not happy with the Mets today...

…and they’re hearing it from him right now.

by Spike Davis on Aug 28, 2010 10:38 PM EDT reply actions

Lee Marv... er Hessman is the baddest muthafucka evar

by secret defense on Aug 28, 2010 11:40 PM EDT up reply actions

He bears a striking resembalance to Colonel Potter

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Aug 28, 2010 11:49 PM EDT up reply actions

I hate when Bret Myers hits things.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Aug 28, 2010 10:47 PM EDT reply actions

The Mets bats ran away from Myers like a scared woman on a public street

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but Jerry abuses the privilege.

by AnthonyR on Aug 28, 2010 11:18 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs

OPS w/RISP by player

In case anyone is interested, probably a day old.

Name             PA    OPS w/RISP
Thole		 29    1.006  	
Pagan    	113  	.995
Wright  	158  	.830  	
Bay   		119  	.826 
Davis 		139   	.781  
Barajas 	 81  	.772
Beltran    	 52  	.765
Reyes 		117  	.737  	
Francoeur 	138 	.629 
Castillo 	 60  	.552 
Blanco		 29  	.378 
Tejada  	 37  	.361

by George_Sloan on Aug 29, 2010 12:22 AM EDT reply actions

wait

are you talking about OPS or RISP?

mediocrity thy name is Wilpon- jdon

by Gina on Aug 29, 2010 12:26 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs

OPS w/RISP

Since it was mentioned in the main article as a Mets season total. Mets total for this year: OPS w/RISP = .733.

by George_Sloan on Aug 29, 2010 12:35 AM EDT up reply actions

I'm guessing you haven't read through

Scotty! My all time favorite AA thread.

by Evan_S on Aug 29, 2010 4:47 AM EDT up reply actions

Ha

No Evan, I hadn’t seen Scotty’s thread. If I had, there was no way I would have posted the stats.

I just thought I had confused poor Gina again with a bad post. I seem to have a skill at doing that, so I just tried to answer the question straight up.

Thanks for enlightening me.

by George_Sloan on Aug 29, 2010 10:29 AM EDT up reply actions

brings back memories

John Olerud, Hall of Famer. Got a nice ring to it.

by squid92 on Aug 29, 2010 11:00 AM EDT up reply actions

Man, I read that entire thread.

Amazing stuff. I never actually made it into the comment section before. Absolute gold. “I’m a statistician?” Classic.

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
Gil Hodges IS a Hall of Famer.

by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Aug 29, 2010 12:25 PM EDT up reply actions

I just read the Scotty thread for the first time...

Wow. The thing is, in an inartful and premature way he made a few correct predictions. In particular, his thing about Longoria and Wright. Oh well, I’m sad I missed that but ya know, back then I had a job and stuff.

by MookieTheCat on Aug 29, 2010 5:08 PM EDT up reply actions

what he say about Longoria and Wright?

If he was projecting Longoria to be better I don’t think anyone would be surprised. Longoria’s kind of superman.

mediocrity thy name is Wilpon- jdon

by Gina on Aug 29, 2010 7:32 PM EDT up reply actions

Not to mention Longoria is signed to an absurd contract

I don’t think they’d do Pujols or Hanley straight up for Longoria either. Longoria is probably the single most valuable trade asset in MLB right now.

mediocrity thy name is Wilpon- jdon

by Gina on Aug 29, 2010 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions

Actually his point on trading Longoria for Wright...

It would kinda be a wash this year, no? Or did I read that wrong?

by MookieTheCat on Aug 29, 2010 7:43 PM EDT up reply actions

a wash?

I don’t know if it’d be a wash this year but any one for one swap that nets you Longoria is going to be a win for the team getting Longoria regardless of who they give up.

I meant the Rays wouldn’t do Pujols or Hanley for Longoria either. And that’s not just this year basically since he came up and signed the extension he’s been by far the most valuable trade commodity in the ML. They hold his rights for the next 6 years for a whopping total of like 40 million. Predicting that the Rays wouldn’t swap Longoria for Wright isn’t really out there or that shocking. We’d probably have to give them Wright, Reyes for 60 million dollars for it to make sense.

mediocrity thy name is Wilpon- jdon

by Gina on Aug 29, 2010 9:47 PM EDT up reply actions