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Delgado has just three hits in his last 23 at-bats. Though he missed
three games in the middle of that stretch because of a sore rib cage,
he did not use that as an excuse for his slump.
“I'm a little too quick, in baseball terms,” he said. “I'm not waiting back.”
Delgado said the fact his batting average is so low at this point is a sign he hasn't been able to get comfortable in the box.
“In order to hit for average you have to be consistent, and I haven't been consistent,” he said.
Is it just me, or did your heart skip a beat when Reyes hit the deck at home? I know mine did. I actually feel like Reyes should have gone in a bit stronger, looks like he went in half hearted. Willie said after the game he just got the wind knocked out of him. I'm thanking all that is sacred that he's ok. Reyes returned and finished the game, but went hitless, ending his streak.
Tough loss tonight, which is funny to say when you're up 12 games, but you want to beat the good teams to prove you can win in the postseason and the Red Sox are one of them. Mets will have their two aces up next and will have a chance to win this series, but will face a tough task against Schilling and Beckett.
Soler looked overwhelmed all night. He got in trouble as he usually does in the first and it unraveled from there. The bats never got going, aside from Delgado and Marrero's solo homers. Wright got badly fooled on a nasty curve by Lester. Milledge made some nice plays off the wall but the one he missed scored two and honestly thats a tough task for a guy who just came up to the big leagues.
Get back on the horse and bring Pedro, who loves to step up in the spotlight and he will have a major stage to show his stuff on tomorrow. I hope he does his best to show the Boston faithful what they gave away.
David Wright…
three first-inning homers against Livan Hernandez. “We have a lot of
confidence. We just have an attitude about us right now that we don't
think we're going to lose.”
“Last year we had guys on the ropes and let them hang in the ballgame,”
Wright said. “This year we smell blood, we go for the kill.”
Carlos Delgado…
said Delgado, who went 3 for 5 with a home run and also scored three
times. “That's nice for us. It doesn't happen too often, but it's nice
when you have this.”
Cliff Floyd…
“The one thing that has probably kept me sane is the team is winning,” Floyd said. As for his reaction to homering, he offered: “I felt like the biggest
idiot in the world. You go up there and you swing so nice and easy and
compact and then you get good results, whereas the first week every
swing I was taking was trying to hit the ball out of the stadium.”
On their hot start…
“Hype goes a long way,” Floyd said. “But when you actually show it,you tend to shut people up. There ain't nothing about this phony.
That's pretty good for a team that everybody talks about not having
enough pitching, or not enough this or not enough that. But we're not
going to read into all that stuff. We're just going to keep playing.”
Willie Randolph…
Wednesday on WFAN, Willie Randolph said, “[Steve]
Trachsel is my fifth guy basically,” but yesterday the manager
explained himself.
“I just threw a number out,” he said. “I just basically said
that when you have your first two guys, Pedro and [Tom] Glavine,
everybody else is 3, 4 and 5, whatever you want to do. I might have
said that, but all I meant by that is that when you go around one time,
everyone just falls into place.”
On Anderson Hernandez…”The bottom line is winning, and if he's making a contribution to us
winning, then he'll continue to play,” manager Willie Randolph said of
Hernandez. “That's what it's all about. You don't want to mess up that
rhythm. I'm not just going to throw Matsui in there when he gets back.
If we're playing well, and [Hernandez] is doing certain things, then
he's going to play. That could be all year as far as I'm concerned. I'm
not going to fool around with a situation that's working.”
Steve Trachsel...
the longest tenure with the club of any active Met — five seasons and
eight games.
Paul “The Duke” Lo Duca…
Paul Lo Duca doesn't recall that same sense elsewhere.
“Not
really,” he said. “But here, we have so much talent. I've been on
talented teams before, but it doesn't seem like anything's missing
here.”
Carlos Beltran…
“The best team in baseball?”
After an extended exhale, he continued.
“That's the way we feel,” he said without qualification.
Former Fish Carlos Delgado and Paul “The Duke” Lo Duca will face their former mates tonight as the Mets take on the Florida Marlins. The Marlins won 1 of 3 in their series with the Astros to start off the season, last night narrowly missing a late inning comeback.
Tonight, Steve “Slow Hand” Traschel takes the mound, thus the heading of this article “Sleeping With The Fishes”, in reference to the laboring pace that Slow Hand seems to take when on the hill. Steve has lost his last three decisions to the Marlins and has not won against them since June 25, 2003. Overall, last year he went 1-4 with a 4.14 ERA after missing the first five months
recovering from back surgery.
Florida will have lefty Jason Vargas, who was 5-5
with a 4.03 ERA in 17 games - 13 starts - after being called up
from Double-A Carolina.
Mike Jacobs was shipped to Florida as part of the Carlos Delgado trade this past winter. He was a shot in the arm to the Mets, and showed flashes of brillance that had Met fans thinking they had another young superstar in the making on their hands to add to the other two on the left side of the infield.
There is a great article about Jacobs in the Miami Herald which includes the following…
Jacobs' father died of cancer when Mike was 6 years old, but he will carry the memory of his dad into this season, too.
''He was a real good high school athlete,'' said Jacobs, who has a
tattoo on his back that reads ''JAKE'' in Gothic print. It serves as a
tribute to his father. ''Everyone called him Jake, and that's what they
call me,'' he said with a slight smile of pride.
Jacobs is one of those feel-good stories, the one about the kid
nobody wanted who somehow made it to the majors. He was a catcher in
high school in San Diego.
From time to time, he worked out with other Hilltop High grads Jose
Silva, Todd Pratt and Bob Natal, major leaguers who went home in the
winter.
But Jacobs was an afterthought. The Tampa Bay Devil Rays picked him
in the 43rd round of the draft. He didn't sign with Tampa Bay and tried
to gain attention playing for Grossmont (Calif.) Junior College. The
Mets then drafted him in the 38th round.
You won't find Jacobs, a converted first baseman, reading the long
lists of can't-miss prospects in Baseball America. It's fine reading,
but it doesn't mean much to Jacobs, who ignored all the hype given to
so many other players, and just went to work to prove everyone wrong.
''There are so many guys who weren't drafted high who made it,'' he said. “I never thought that way.
“I just believed if I worked hard I would get a chance to prove myself.''
Jacobs, who was the Mets' organizational player of the year in 2005,
got more than a chance. He got a helping hand from Pedro Martinez.
The Mets called him up last August. Four days later, Jacobs hit a
pinch-hit, three-run home run in his first big-league at-bat. After the
game, the Mets were preparing to leave for a road trip, and they told
Jacobs he was being sent back to the minors.
Martinez heard they were sending Jacobs down, and had a tirade in
the clubhouse over the decision, telling Mets manager Willie Randolph
that Jacobs deserved to stay.
''It's just not right,'' Martinez told reporters at the time. “It
could frustrate a kid when he hits a three-run homer that puts us back
in the game, and you send him back down.''
Martinez's words made a difference, and the Mets kept Jacobs. He
made Martinez look like a genius. He hit a home run in each of his
first four games. Jacobs finished the season with 11 homers in 100
at-bats. If you extrapolate the numbers to an entire season it comes
out to 55 home runs for the year.
''I thanked Pedro for standing up for me,'' Jacobs said. “What he
did was awesome. He said he remembered what it was like coming up. For
a guy like Pedro Martinez to stand up for you was something I'll never
forget.''
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