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Don’t Mess With the Johan
Aug 18th
The Mets bullpen is a mess. While that isn’t exactly news to anyone who has been following the Mets (or subjected themselves to ESPN for more than 5 minutes, God help them), I doubt anyone has felt the effects any more keenly than their ace, Johan Santana. Sure, Mets fans are rather angry at the bullpen but then that goes along with being a Mets fan.
Aces Up
Jul 27th
The night before was heartbreaking for Mets fans. Comeback after comeback were wasted as the home team could not push across the winning run in extra innings. Finally, Albert Pujols decided matters in favor of the Cardinals with a 2 run blast off of a weary Aaron Heilman in the fourteenth. The Mets were out of pitchers, out of comebacks, and out of time.
Maybe little more than a month and a half ago, last night’s loss would have sent this Mets team into a skid. A new manager, new pitching coach, and apparent new attitude later, it would just be another loss from which to bounce back. The reason for such an optimistic outlook was that fact that today brought Johan Santana to the mound. The unspoken instructions for the team’s ace, “Get us a win and spare the bullpen while you’re at it”.
I’ve been rather lucky with my Sunday seats at Shea in terms of pitching performances. It’s hard from so high up to judge what type of stuff the pitcher has that day. So I’m forced to go purely by results. More >