Mets 1, Brewers 0
by Kyle Lobner on Apr 18, 2009 2:46 PM CDT
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PrintW: Johan Santana (2-1)
L: Carlos Villanueva (1-2)
S: Francisco Rodriguez (3)
MVP: Yovani Gallardo (.353)
LVP: J.J. Hardy (-.189)
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For 6 1/2 innings, Yovani Gallardo and Johan Santana traded zeroes in a fantastic pitcher's duel. Gallardo pitched six scoreless innings, allowing five hits and striking out seven, but was pulled after throwing 103 pitches. Johan Santana also struck out seven and allowed five hits over seven innings.
Villanueva, apparently removed from the interim closer's role, walked #8 hitter Ramon Castro to lead off the seventh, and gave up an earned run after another hit, an error and a fielder's choice brought the run home.
Offensively, the Brewers were locked down all day. Despite playing scoreless baseball into the seventh inning, they only had a Win Expectancy over 50% one time in the game (Corey Hart's leadoff single in the sixth), and every Brewer hitter had a negative WPA.
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That picture was taken by Frank Franklin II?
That alone is more exciting than today’s game.
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Yesterday's Sheffield pic was, too.
Combined with battlekow’s caption, it was a quite a one-two-punch.
The Braves
It almost seems like we’re having the same problem in 1 run games that the Braves had last year
The wind
It was erratic, but the wind was blowing in throughout the game. It was at, or near, it’s strongest in the 4th, when JJ hit his deep fly out to left center. Deep park of the park against at least a 10mph wind…them’s the breaks, I guess.
Also, cheese.
earned run rules?
I didn’t see the error, but how was the run earned? did it simply result in a base advancement that the player would have advanced to anyway?
Reconstruct the inning without the error
Runner was on first with no one out. The error came on a sacrifice, so no error would have resulted in a runner on 2nd with 1 out. Reyes’ out would have advanced the runner to third with 2 out. Castillo’s hit would’ve plated the run.
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I didn't mind watching the 90s and early 00s teams lose
but this is infuriating.. I may have to take the first Brewer break of my life.
Hmmm
I wonder: how rare is it for a team to lose a three-game series by a total of three runs?
"I will agree that the attitude [at BCB] is ridiculous and they have done so much to instigate animosity and then block us from responding. Real mature!"
I don't know
Last year in June the Mets lost three straight 2-1 games to San Diego. That was a four-game series, though, and they lost the finale 8-6.
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NL Central Standings
| W | L | PCT | GB | STRK | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chicago
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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Cincinnati
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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Houston
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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Milwaukee
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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Pittsburgh
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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St. Louis
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0 | 0 | .000 | 0 | Lost 0 |
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