Game 93: Mets 7, Padres 0

http://weblogs.newsday.com/sports/baseball/mets/blog/2007/07/mets_7_padres_0.html

Willie Randolph thinks walks are sexy:

The last time the Mets scored as many as six runs was July 5 in a 6-2 win over the Astros at Minute Maid Park and it was no coincidence they drew eight walks in the process. After watching his team come up empty on Monday, Randolph was thrilled with last night's approach.

"Some guys don't think it's glamorous to walk," Randolph said. "I think it's glamorous. I think it's sexy."

John Maine Facts

by Mike Nichols
Here are few facts on Mets RHP John Maine:

* John Maine does not sleep. He waits.
* The chief export of John Maine is pain.
* Outer space exists because it's afraid to be on the same planet with John Maine.
* The Great Wall of China was originally created to keep John Maine out. It failed miserably.
* When John Maine sends in his taxes, he sends blank forms and includes only a picture of himself, crouched and ready to attack. John Maine has not had to pay taxes, ever.
* John Maine can win a game of Connect Four in only three moves.
* John Maine is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.
* If you spell John Maine in Scrabble, you win. Forever.
* Time waits for no man. Unless that man is John Maine.
* There are no steroids in baseball. Just players John Maine has breathed on.

Game 75: Cardinals 5, Mets 3, 11 innings

Went to the game tonight. They lost in 11. Came back in the 9th only to lose.

“My mom could be up there right now and hit a home run, pretty much,” Schoeneweis said.

Schoeneweis was awful tonight.

After the game, Schoeneweis was sitting in a chair staring into his locker when he got up to motion reporters to come toward him.

“Let’s go so I can go home and kill myself,” said Schoeneweis, whose earned run average is 5.86.


I wish he didn't have a good sense of humor. It's hard to hate him so much in this regard.


Weird:
Bright orange T-shirts were waiting for the players in the clubhouse Tuesday. A circus clown head, printed in blue underneath a Mets logo, is printed on the front of each, and underneath it, the word "enough." The back offers an explanation: "There isn't a top big enough for this circus."

No one in the clubhouse owned up to the T-shirts or what they infer, but players didn't hesitate to try them on for size before batting practice.

Game 74: Mets 2, Cardinals 1, 11 innings

Mets had three hits. Two of them were home runs. One was from Carlos Gomez. In his at-bat in the third he fouled a pitch into the loge section 350 feet. Two pitches later he homered to the bleachers. Both times he did a home run trot. Come on Carlos. The second was from Shawn Green in the eleventh. He hit a homer just foul. Two pitches later, BOOM, it hit the part of the big scoreboard where they show the umpire numbers. Mets win and get revenge (yeah right) on the Cardinals after the NLCS.

Game 73: Mets 10, A's 2

SWEEP!

Happy days are here againnnnn. And only one mental breakdown by yours truly! Not bad.

The moment Jose Reyes doubled and scored on the same play to lead off the first inning, things permanently turned in the favor of the Mets, who closed out Interleague Play 2007 with a sweep of the A's. John Maine issued no walks for the third time in five starts and picked up his first career RBI.

That Reyes play was awesome. Maine was great. Happyhappyjoyjoy.

Game 72: Mets 1, A's 0

LoDuca went nuts and I loved it. Threw his shinguards and chest protector from the dugout arguing a strike call in the seventh. Good for him. Fuck the suspension, we need that. I relate the most to Paul. We both are from Brooklyn, both 5'9", both play catcher, and both like college-aged girls.

Too soon?

In the bottom of the ninth Ramon Castro led off with a double, the A's intentionally walked Beltran and Wright characteristicly hit the ball the opposite way, and it got by Travis Buck to score Castro to win it 1-0. We just needed Joe Blanton to get tired to win. Props to El Duque for throwing seven solid.

Game 71: Mets 9, A's 1

Winner winner chicken dinner. I'd prefer winner winner Wendy's dinner.

Making his sixth attempt at career win No. 296, Tom Glavine delivered, holding the A's to one run in eight-plus innings and pitching into the ninth for the first time since his last start of 2005. Carlos Beltran hit his second home run since May 13, Shawn Green added a solo homer and Glavine drove in two runs of his own.

And I learned from Glavine and Reyes that you can't get credit for a triple if the runner ahead of you is out at home. Thanks guys! WIN!

Phillies 2 GB
Braves 2.5 GB
Marlins 4.5 GB