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The New York Mets (21-19) are playing Game 41 of the 2008 Regular Season against the New York Yankees (20-23) at Yankee Stadium. It’s the second game of the two-game series. The game began at 8:05 p.m., and it was aired on ESPN. We will have to suffer through hours of Joe Morgan just to watch a Mets game. In my opinion, a Subway Series should never have national broadcasters.
Mets Lineup: Reyes, Anderson, Wright, Beltran, Church, Alou, Delgado, Schneider, Castillo.
Yankees Lineup: Damon, Abreu, Jeter, Matsui, Giambi, Cano, Cabrera, Gonzalez, Molina.
At the Plate
Chien-Ming Wang (6-1) was the starting pitcher for the Yankees. In the Top of the 1st, Wang retired the side with three ground outs. Wang gave up 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 BBs, and he had 0 SOs in the 1st Inning. In the Top of the 2nd, Wang now retired the first six Mets that he faced. Wang gave up 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 BBs, and he had 0 SOs in the 2nd Inning. In the Top of the 3rd, Wang now retired the Mets in order the first time through the lineup. Wang gave up 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 BBs, and he had 1 SO in the 3rd Inning. In the Top of the 4th, Reyes led of with a double that one-hopped the right field wall for the Mets first hit of the game. Anderson grounded to the pitcher, and Wang turned around and made the throw to second which got Reyes in a rundown. Jeter made the throw to Gonzalez who applied the tag on Reyes as Anderson ended up on first. Wright grounded a one-out single through the hole on the left side, and Anderson went to second. Beltran drew a one-out walk to load the bases. Ryan Church grounded to first, and Giambi threw it off target to second to the point where Jeter had to stretch and eventually come off the bag so Marlon Anderson scored and everybody is safe. Moises Alou lined an one-out 2-run single into right, and David Wright and Carlos Beltran came around to score as Church went first to third. (Carlos Delgado crushed a no-out 3-run home run which hit the foul poul in left field which would’ve scored Ryan Church and Moises Alou, but the Umpires screwed up the call and it doesn’t count which is bull. Where is the instant replay?) (Jerry Manuel was Ejected from the game for arguing the call.) Carlos Delgado ended up grounding a one-out RBI single through the hole on the right side which scored Ryan Church, and Alou advanced to second. Schneider grounded to second, and Cano made the out at first as both runners advanced. Castillo drew a two-out walk which loaded the bases. Reyes flied out to left leaving the bases filled with Mets. Wang gave up 4 Hits, 4 Runs, 2 BBs, and he had 0 SOs in the 4th Inning. In the Top of the 5th, Wang quickly retired the side. Wang gave up 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 BBs, and he had 0 SOs in the 5th Inning. In the Top of the 6th, Ryan Church belted a leadoff solo shot to straight away center field. Alou grounded out to third. Delgado flied out to left. Schneider grounded out to second to end the inning. Wang gave up 1 Hit, 1 Run, 0 BBs, and he had 0 SOs in the 6th Inning. In the Top of the 7th, Wang retired the side in order with ground ball outs. Wang gave up 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 BBs, and he had 0 SOs in the 7th Inning. In the Top of the 8th, Wright led off with an opposite field double down the right field line. Beltran hit a slow ground ball in front of home plate, and Wang made the throw to first to get the out while Wright advanced to third. Wang intentionally walked Church. Moises Alou hit a sacrifice fly to right field, and David Wright tagged and came home to score while Church went to second. Wang gave up 1 Hit, 2 Runs, 1 BB, and he had 0 SOs in the 8th Inning. Wang left the game after pitching 7.2 Innings allowing 6 Hits, 7 Runs, 7 ER, 3 BBs, and he had 1 SO.
Girardi replaced Wang with Ross Ohlendorf with two outs in the Top of the 8th. Ohlendorf intentionally walked Delgado. Brian Schneider lined a two-out RBI single to right so Ryan Church came around to score, and Delgado went first to third. Luis Castillo grounded a two-out RBI single through the hole on the left side which scored Carlos Delgado, and Schneider advanced to second. Jose Reyes drilled a two-out 3-run homer over the short porch in right which scored Brian Schneider and Luis Castillo. Chavez replaced Alou, and Chavez grounded out to first to end the inning. Ohlendorf gave up 3 Hits, 4 Runs, 1 BB, and he had 0 SOs in the 8th Inning.
Girardi replaced Ohlendorf with Jose Veras to begin the Top of the 9th. Veras pitched a 1-2-3 inning. Veras gave up 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 BBs, and he had 1 SO in the 9th Inning.
On the Mound
Oliver Perez (3-3) was the starting pitcher for the Mets. In the Bottom of the 1st, Jeter drew a two-out walk. With Matsui at the plate, Jeter stole second without a throw. Matsui lined out to first to leave Jeter stranded at second. Perez gave up 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 1 BB, and he had 0 SOs in the 1st Inning. In the Bottom of the 2nd, Giambi drew a leadoff walk. Cano grounded to first, and Delgado tagged first as Giambi went to second. Cabrera flied out along the right field line, and Church ran a long way over there to make the catch. Gonzalez lined out to right leaving Giambi standing on second. Perez gave up 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 1 BB, and he had 0 SOs in the 2nd Inning. In the Bottom of the 3rd, Perez pitched his first 1-2-3 inning of the game. Perez gave up 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 BBs, and he had 2 SOs in the 3rd Inning. In the Bottom of the 4th, Jeter grounded a leadoff single up the middle. Hideki Matsui crushed a no-out 2-run jack to right which scored Derek Jeter. Giambi popped up in foul ground behind home plate, and Schneider made the catch. Perez hit Cano with the pitch. With Cabrera in the batters box, Cano beat out the throw as he stole second. Cabrera popped up to shallow right, and Church made the catch. With Gonzalez at the plate, Perez threw a wild pitch so Cano advanced to third. Gonzalez popped up to second leaving Cano on third. Perez gave up 2 Hits, 2 Runs, 0 BBs, and he had 0 SOs in the 4th Inning. In the Bottom of the 5th, Molina led off by lining a double off of the right field wall. Damon grounded to first, and Delgado tossed it to Perez who tagged first as Molina moved over to third. Perez caught Abreu looking at strike three. Jeter flied out to center leaving Molina standing on third. Perez gave up 1 Hit, 0 Runs, 0 BBs, and he had 1 SO in the 5th Inning. In the Bottom of the 6th, Perez hit Giambi with the pitch to give the Yankees a leadoff runner. Cano grounded to the pitcher, and the Mets turned the inning ending double play. Perez gave up 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 BBs, and he had 0 SOs in the 6th Inning. In the Bottom of the 7th, Perez pitched a 1-2-3 inning. Perez gave up 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 BBs, and he had 1 SO in the 7th Inning. In the Bottom of the 8th, Perez retired the first two batters before Randolph made a pitching change. Perez gave up 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 BBs, and he had 0 SOs in the 8th Inning. Perez left the game after pitching 7.2 Innings allowing 3 Hits, 2 Runs, 2 ER, 2 BBs, and he had 4 SOs.
Randolph replaced Perez with Joe Smith with two outs in the Bottom of the 8th. Jeter grounded out to second. Smith gave up 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 BBs, and he had 0 SOs in the 8th Inning.
Randolph replaced Smith with Scott Schoeneweis to begin the Bottom of the 9th. Schoeneweis hit Giambi with the pitch to give the Yankees a one-out base runner. Cano flied out to left. Cabrera grounded to the pitcher, and Schoeneweis made the out at first to end the game. Schoeneweis gave up 0 Hits, 0 Runs, 0 BBs, and he had 0 SOs in the 9th Inning.
Final Score: New York Mets 11 - New York Yankees 2. The MLB.com Box Score is attached. Oliver Perez (4-3) got the win and Chien-Ming Wang (6-2) got the loss.
By the time this game was over, the Mets were able to turn Yankee Stadium into Shea Stadium. The fans were standing and clapping for Schoeneweis rather than the batters which meant that they were Mets fans. I mentioned yesterday that the Mets needed to cash in in that 4th inning because they didn’t get much out of the situation. Today, the did just that by scoring 4 runs in the 4th inning and that’s without Delgado’s 3-run blast that didn’t count. The Mets swept the Yankees in this two-game series. I thought the Mets would win two game after they lost two games because that’s the .500 trend that the Mets have been keeping pace with. Perez pitched better as the game went on. The Mets batted around in the 4th inning and the 8th Inning so everybody contributed for the most part. The Mets are the kings of New York for another month until they face each other again.
Onto Atlanta. I hope the Mets sweep the Braves, but they will probably will lose the first game because that will follow their l-w-l-w-l-w-l-l-w-w pattern…what’s next? Unfortunately, a loss or a losing streak before they get on a winning streak. Or just maybe, this meeting by Willie will really be what the Mets needed to get to the next level.
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The Mets have to opportunity to go into the Bronx and sweep the Yankees tonight. Even though it’s just interleague play, the Amazin’s do need to win some games to improve upon their less than stellar record. We all know how great Wang has been during the regular season of the past two seasons, but maybe Oli can keep our boys from Queens in the game tonight. Or maybe the Mets can figure out how to get Wang out of the game as fast as possible so they can get to the bullpen. After the Mets sweep the Yankees, the Mets travel to Atlanta tomorrow and play a four-game series with the Braves. It begins with a day/night double header on Tuesday.
The Metropolitans and the Yankees duked it out this afternoon, and the Mets won the first battle of the ’08 Subway Series. A mini-sweep in the Bronx will delay having to listen to annoying Yankees fans for another month when they go head-to-head in June.
