Tune in Wednesday at 10:00 PM EST as the New York Mets take on the Los Angeles Dodgers. Scheduled starters are Livan Hernandez (3-1, 5.59 ERA) for New York and Jeff Weaver (2-1, 3.38 ERA) for Los Angeles. Drew Fairservice from
Ghostrunner on First will be liveblogging for your enjoyment.
Hey hey folks. Its a Metsocaplypse!
David Wright just won American Idol!
Awesome starting pitching matchup tonight, circa 1999
Livan Hernandez v. Jeff Weaver. FEEL the HEAT
Mets lineup:
J. Reyes ss
L. Castillo 2b
C. Beltran cf
D. Wright 3b
D. Murphy 1b
R. Church rf
R. Castro c
A. Pagan lf
L. Hernandez p
Dodgers lineup:
J. Pierre lf
R. Furcal ss
O. Hudson 2b
A. Ethier rf
R. Martin c
J. Loney 1b
X. Paul cf
C. Blake 3b
J. Weaver p
Orlando Hudson hitting third - welcome to the National League West!
Mathew McConaghy threw out the first pitch. alright alright alright
No Matt Kemp, I'm a little disappointed. He's fun to watch
Here we go, first pitch is right to rookie Xavier Paul for the first pitch
Expect lots of fly balls from Weaver. The Mets haven't hit a home run in almost two weeks, so expect most of them to stay in the park
Mets fans out there? Best core, worst supporting cast
Vin Scully's got the call tonight, all is right with the world. Except the world of one of the umpires. We're down to three umps as a call up Ump is en route
Slap hitter Luis Castillo is slapping more pitches around. It's sort of his thing
Another ball hit directly to a fielder. Line drive to short stop Raffy Furcal, two down
Carlos Beltran, one of the best players in all of baseball steps in. He's hitting .374 on the season. Steve Phillips doesn't think he's good enough to keep
Beltran promptly drives one to the left field gap. He cruises into second with an easy double
Also awesome David Wright steps in with a runner in scoring position
Vin GD Scully mentions Beltran's basestealing ability. He's one of the most successful (percentage wise) in baseball history.
Casual Mets fans don't think he runs enough. Sigh
Wright runs the count full. Because he's awesome
Beltran takes off running with the full count pitch. Wright bounces it foul. Scully just noted Betran's steal % is 88 his career.
Make that 89. The pitch is a ball four to Wright but Beltran stole third anyway. Runners on the corners for Daniel Murphy.
Murphy's playing first base tonight because all-world gentleman Carlos Delgado had surgery on his hip this week. Out for 10 weeks.
Weaver falls behind once again 2-1
Wright's already been thrown out 7 times stealing this year?
Murphy watches strike three to end the inning. Weaver looked positively Weaver-esque
Pierre/Furcal/Hudson due up for the Dodgers. PARTY LIKE ITS 2003!
10 for 17 is pretty bad. Anything less than 75% is counter productive.
20 pitches for Weaver in the first. 20 is speed in miles per hour of Livan Hernandez's fastball
To Livan's credit, his BB/K ratio is 2-1 this season. That's something
Juan Pierre is down 0-2 before I can type Juan Pierre is a bad baseball player
Pierre lunged at a pitch that travelled a good 12 feet. He's fast, Livan is slow off the mound so Pierre's on first with nobody out. Left the thievery begin!
Furcal brings big numbers against Hernandez, .333 with 4 tater tots
Two pitches and Pierre hasn't attempted to steal. Torre's getting conservative in his old age
Livan's 83 mph fastball misses outside. Break out the sundial
Slow move to first, Pierre dives on top of first. He just wanted to get his pants dirty
Furcal serves it over the second baseman's head for a easy single. Furcal got a poor jump so he's still at second. Two on, nobody out
Hernandez keeps going away, away away with his "hard" stuff. Nibbling against the Dodgers slap hitters, of which they have many
Behind 2-0 to O-Dog.
3-1, Vin predicts a double steal. They've got the speed, Livan's got the girth
Nobody's moving, pitch is in for a strike. Counts full!
