| time: | 4:10 p.m. PT |
| tv: | 4SD |
| sp: | Chris Young (9-4, 1.93) vs John Maine (13-7, 3.59) |
| pre: | Padres.com, SI.com, B-R.com |
Interesting matchup. Both of these pitchers were acquired for “name brand” pitchers that turned out to be loads of, pardon my French, steaming crap. Much as we marvel that the Padres were able to pry Chris Young and Adrian Gonzalez away from the Rangers for Adam Eaton (and a good reliever in Akinori Otsuka), Mets fans must be positively giddy that their management was able to turn John Anna Kris Benson into John Maine and Jorge Julio (since traded for Orlando Hernandez).
The only downside with Maine right now is that he’s struggled so far in the second half (6.31 ERA over 7 starts). The last (and only) time he faced the Padres came at Petco Park on July 18. He allowed 4 runs in 6 innings, serving up homers to Milton Bradley and Gonzalez. (This was the game where Scott Linebrink walked two batters with nobody on and two out in the eighth to get to David Wright, who whacked the first pitch he saw into the left-field bleachers; the Padres came back with a run of their own in the bottom half to win, giving Linebrink a victory that Greg Maddux and his 5 shutout innings deserved.)
aaaargh!
aagh. Marlon owns Trevor.
$%&%&%&%&W&W$&%%&!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wow..
ouch. this one stings.
Well that sucked. Not much you can do about a cavalcade of singles, though.
Hate to say it, but we deserved that loss. Complete lack of execution in the seventh killed us. You cannot give good teams a second chance. Oh well, maybe tomorrow will be better.
Overall, it was stilla good game. We came back from 3 down and played our hearts out.
Trevor has been aweful, terrible, hideous recently.
crud. don’t want to make too much of this, but winning a game when CY has a slightly off night (read: Beltran is on fire) and the team rallies is a bit heartbreaking….
#107: Check that, lack of execution in the eighth.
sigh…
107: Or you can look at it like we had more hits, more extra base hits, and more walks than the Mets. Sure, the execution in the 8th was abysmal, but that sort of thing is just a fluke.
Gosh, do we feel good about anyone in the pen right now? What a gut-puncher that was. Ugh. If I drank hard liquor, I imagine I might indulge some.
111. Yes, but when you hand the game over to your closer with a lead in the ninth you’ve done enough to win.
This may not be as bad as the Dodgers 4 home runs, but it’s close… and I repeat my earlier comment: Trevor has been terrible… here’s his line since Aug. 5:
0-1 record
4 1/3 IP, 6 R, 5 ER, 10 H, 3 BB, 10.39 ERA
3 saves, 2 blown saves
Switching gears to the even more depressing, Jack Cust is having an unbelieveable year – 20 blasts in a little more than half a season. Seeing Sledge for a painful 170 pa’s makes me wonder why the Pads wouldn’t at least give Cust a cup of coffee – that is all the A’s did – Cust turned a cup of coffee into a regular job in about 4 days.
BTW, and I will not ever forget this because it may be the biggest spin, snow job that this management team ever tried to pull off – but remember the 60 days spin this Winter when the Padres tried to make us believe that Sledge could bat leadoff for the Pads and was much faster than anyone gave him credit for and was capable of stealing a decent amount of bases out of the leadoff role. Are you kidding me ?
The Dbacks lost, so we hold at 3.5 games back. JP it seemed goofy at the time, and pitiful now.