Blankety Blank
The Ballclub —
If I'm not mistaken, this might be the first normal, run of the mill loss the Mets have had in what feels like 3 months. The Mets, of late, haven't had many games like this; games where nothing they did seemed to break their way, where they ran into a pitcher who simply buzzsawed them, where they couldn't get any rallies going, and where they got a nice, solid effort from their pitchers, and that added up to a nothing game from the Mets. And I don't know how, exactly, to react. I figured that the Mets would lose at least one game in this series, and ...
No Hurricane Yet, But It Sure Did Blow
Faith and Fear in Flushing —
... The Mets, the crowd, all of Shea Stadium went brain dead in their opener against the Phillies. No real sign of life from the bats, no sustained pulse from the fans, no evidence that the plug hadn't been pulled on the flight from Milwaukee. ...
THT Daily: Near No-No
The Hardball Times —
... big names. The rotation is a different matter, but it's hard to assign blame there. Yesterday’s Results American League OAK 11 BAL 2 (Recap and Boxscore) TOR 6 TB 4 (Recap and Boxscore) CHA 10 LAA 2 (Recap and Boxscore) CLE 9 KC 3 (Recap and Boxscore) MIN 10 DET 2 (Recap and Boxscore) SEA 3 NYA 1 (Recap and Boxscore) BOS 8 TEX 1 (Recap and Boxscore) National League ATL 10 WAS 5 (Recap and Boxscore) PHI 3 NYN 0 (Recap and Boxscore) CIN 10 CHN 2 (Recap and Boxscore) MIL 3 SD 2 (Recap and ...
The Ten Best Wins of 2008
The Good Phight —
... on August 15; and Myers firing eight shutout frames against the Mets on September 5; Hamels, clearly without his best stuff, finishing the team's perfect 9-0 record in Atlanta for the season on the strength of a two-run Burrell homer in ...
