Game Thread: Mets (38-39) vs Pirates (36-42) Make Up Game
nleastchatter.com 7/2/2009 — Game Time: 12:35 pm
Record: 1-3 Era: 6.35 K: 30 BB: 19 WHIP: 1.48
Mets Notes:
It all fell apart for Redding in a hurry on Saturday against the Yankees. After giving up two hits in the first five innings, Redding allowed four runs on four hits on four consecutive pitches in the ...
Mets + Furries = A Beautiful Combination
slanchreport.com 7/2/2009 — In the movie Major League , team owner Rachel Phelps, in an effort to cause the Indians to play worse, starts removing the amenities that big leaguers are used to; I wonder if the Wilpons are doing something similar with the Mets. Either that, or they lost a whole lot more money than they are ...
Sign No. 147 That the Mets Are Doomed: Furries
scratchbomb.com 7/2/2009 — During the Mets' mostly disastrous series in Milwaukee, the team stayed at a haunted hotel. So they had to be relieved to move on to Pittsburgh for today's make-up game against the Pirates, and stay in poltergeist-free lodgings.Except that last...
Lowest Scoring Day
baseballmusings.com 7/2/2009 — With three 1-0 games Wednesday , July 1 proved to be the lowest scoring day of the year (minimum 10 games played) at 6.47 runs per game. Three of the six lowest scoring days of the season happened since Sunday, with 6/28 coming in at 7.13 R/G, sixth and 6/29 resulting in 7.08 runs per game, ...
Rain and blown leads [Mets 9 Pirates 8]
raisethejollyroger.com 7/2/2009 — I was hoping for a quick, relatively ordinary game today. It was a 12:35 scheduled start and I had work at 5:00 (and it would take 45 minutes to get from place to place). This game was far from ordinary. Or quick.
As soon as we had bought tickets (college student discount FTW–good seats ...
Post Game: Mets Avoid Plank
nleastchatter.com 7/2/2009 —
"There's got to be a way out of this"
The New York Mets narrowly avoided an ugly, ugly loss at the Pittsburgh Pirates Thursday afternoon. With 2 outs in the top of the 10th inning, Fernando Tatis was hit by a pitch for the 2nd time in the game, then stole 2nd base. Ryan Church ...
Suit Up: The Mets, And The Furries, Are In Town
sportsbybrooks.com 7/3/2009 — Just what the Mets needed: As their team bus pulled into Pittsburgh Wednesday night for today’s makeup game with the Pirates, they are greeted not by smiling bellhops at the Westin Hotel, but by that city’s annual convention of furries ...
Mets win it in 10th after K-Rod blows save —
Newsday.com - Mets 7/2/2009
PITTSBURGH - The Mets suspected yesterday's one-day makeup game trip to Pittsburgh was going to be a little odd when they arrived at their hotel Wednesday night and saw grown men and women in furry animal costumes. Lots of them.