Believe me I will be cheering for them all the way, but I remember that 86 team. a bunch of pro's. Scrappers, battlers. That game winning rally in game 6, you could just see it. Their approach was just one man, one hit at a time. They knew how to simply make contact, to adjust at the plate. This team is about solo homers that give you one run at a time and rely on your pitching. But should it falter the troops aren't coming to the rescue. Not with guys seemingly trying to hit a 3 run homer with nobody on base. Who can't barrel up fastballs in hitter's counts from a guy throwing 91-93 mph. Maybe it's my great frustration talking because I heard a lot about the Royals at the plate but not much about them having any stellar starting pitching so I actually had expectations that the Mets hitters might step up, but instead they've been dominated by the likes of Chris Young who dominated no one during his time with the Metropolitans. We'll see if they turn it around in NY and have me eating my words. Let's Go Mets.Now that's thinking like a Rutgers-Mets fan!! Give up!! Throw in the towel.
Let's take a historical look at 1986:
1 October 18 Boston Red Sox – 1, New York Mets – 0
2 October 19 Boston Red Sox – 9, New York Mets – 3
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Does anyone remember how that Series ended?
You gotta believe!!!!
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That's why I don't want to give him any crap. But if he is hurt, he should say so, and someone else should play. What's up with Uribe?
Mets are done. Royals beat up their best starter in game 2 and their dominant closer in game 1. Mets are feeling like the Cubs did after two games - drained and over matched. It's looking like a sweep to me.
That's a fascinating stat there. Lost by 1 run and then 6 runs exactly the same as this team. Well here's to hoping that history repeats itself.Now that's thinking like a Rutgers-Mets fan!! Give up!! Throw in the towel.
Let's take a historical look at 1986:
1 October 18 Boston Red Sox – 1, New York Mets – 0
2 October 19 Boston Red Sox – 9, New York Mets – 3
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Does anyone remember how that Series ended?
You gotta believe!!!!
Granderson walks, Wright singles to center, Granderson to third, Murphy singles to right, Granderson scores, Wright to third, Cespedes doubles to right-center, Wright scores, Murphy scores, Cespedes to third on the throw home, Duda doubles to right, Cespedes scores.......................
That's the kind of rally you long to see. Stringing hits together, running the bases, having fun. But it ain't happening right now. Guys are not doing their job at the plate. Lots of 1 for 8 or 2 for 9 stat lines. Some even o-fer.
That's the kind of rally you long to see. Stringing hits together, running the bases, having fun. But it ain't happening right now. Guys are not doing their job at the plate. Lots of 1 for 8 or 2 for 9 stat lines. Some even o-fer.
Agreed, but Grandy and Murph have been doing that throughout the playoffs, its just that no one else has.
No doubt the Mets have a tough road, but if Familia doesn't give up that HR in the ninth, everyone would be singing a different tune. (I know, if your aunt had balls, she'd be your uncle). Regardless, if they can win the next two at home, everything changes again.
My biggest concern is that Harvey and deGrom couldn't get any strikeouts and the Royals made them go deep into counts and seem to hit better the harder they threw. That doesn't bode well for Syndegaard (who throws evern harder) and Matz,
I'm not giving up hope yet. Obviously, gotta win tonight.
My biggest concern is that Harvey and deGrom couldn't get any strikeouts and the Royals made them go deep into counts and seem to hit better the harder they threw. That doesn't bode well for Syndegaard (who throws evern harder) and Matz,
I'm not giving up hope yet. Obviously, gotta win tonight.
Why does Fox keep replaying this idiot moustakas with his ugly ass face and gum chewing, screaming obscenities at the mets? You can clearly read his lips every word is a curse word. Man fox sucks
Not looking that way tonight! I was concerned when I saw the Royals take the lead early twice, but the Mets showed a lot of guys tonight. Definitely not drained, and definitely not over matched. The difference thus far is KC had two games at home and Familia had his first blown save in three months.
I know Chris Young did well in extras in game one, but tomorrow will be a different animal. Let's get this thing back to a best of three series and see what happens. I still like our starting pitching more than KC's. Ya gotta believe!
1 October 18 Boston Red Sox – 1, New York Mets – 0
2 October 19 Boston Red Sox – 9, New York Mets – 3
3 New York Mets – 7, Boston Red Sox – 1
Hmmm. . . . a 6 run victory tonight . . . . .
Never let the loser mentality permeate your mind.
Some folks crapped all over Wright. Good for the Captain.
Time for Cespedes to show up for the hit parade. . .
Murph---baby come back!!!!
Time for Cespedes to show up for the hit parade. . .
Murph---baby come back!!!!
http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/writer...beats-pain-and-plays-hero-as-mets-take-game-3
Love David and his family's optimism. My kind of person:
NEW YORK -- David Wright arrives in the a.m. every game day to do his back rehab. After the game is over, you see he is wrapped up, almost like a mummy. And while he endures, his game is picked apart by critics. He doesn't have the power he used to have, they point out. Look, they say, he's throwing sidearm to compensate for the pain.
Oh, Wright does a lot for the continual back discomfort, there's no question about that. He leaves his model bride Molly behind very early on game days, arriving at the ballpark in the a.m., hours before anyone else. By game's end he is wrapped up, almost like a mummy.
Anything to keep playing for the Mets. His Mets.
When the ugly diagnosis came back -- spinal stenosis -- nobody would guarantee he'd even make it back this season. The Mets, the most optimistic predictors of time-off timetables in history, weren't making book on this one.
The back was bad. But no one ever went wrong betting on Wright's heart.
No matter what the doubters say, he remains quite capable, and here Friday Wright came up with a signature game, a four-RBI day when the Mets needed it most, when their backs were pressed almost up against the Citi Field Bridge. It was a must-win game, and Wright made sure they got back into this World Series, delivering a two-run home run off Royals starter Yordano Ventura and later a two-run single off Royals reliever extraordinaire Kelvin Herrera to ice things in the 9-3 Mets Game 3 victory that narrowed their series deficit to two games to one.
His in-laws, Molly's parents, as predictably nice as you'd imagine, noted to me en route from Kansas City (I ran into them on a stopover in Detroit) that the Mets also lost World Series Games 1 and 2 in 1986 by one run and six runs, respectively. These two folks from Manhattan Beach, Calif., as sunny a place as you are going to find in the continental United States, were suggesting that World Series glory was still doable.
That they are eternal optimists does not surprise me. Wright is the guy who signed to stay eight more years with the Mets when they resided at the intersection of Flushing and rock bottom. Now there's a fellow who believes.
Deep down, he always figured he'd make it back, too, when everyone else was shrugging their shoulders. He listened as closely to brilliant Los Angeles back doctor Robert Watkins (I know, he went to him once) as anyone ever has. He does everything he's supposed to, exactly when he's supposed to. And it's a lot.
While he was out in Los Angeles, he visited another New York baseball hero, Don Mattingly, who also experienced back trouble around 30 years of age. And Mattingly told him there'd be days he'd wake up and wouldn't feel he could do anything. And he should go ahead and take those days as days off.
Wright heard Mattingly, but of course that doesn't apply to the World Series. He has waited all his years to be here, and be here for the Mets, and there is nothing that would stop him. He hasn't said a word about his trouble, or his pain. He is bearing it, and grinning, all the way through October.
He wasn't supposed to be able to turn on gas anymore, but the homer into the left field bleachers, which gave the Mets a 2-1 lead in the first, came on a 95.6-mph fastball from Ventura, the fastest pitch he's hit out since 2013. Then five innings later, Herrera was summoned into the game for the express intent to whiff Wright with the bases loaded and one out, and instead Wright greeted him by lining a single to center to let the Mets, his Mets, live another day.
When Wright left LA after rehabbing there for months, he entered Terry Collins' office, they both smiled about how well the team was playing, and he told Collins he could sit him if he wanted. And Collins responded, “Hell, I'm not sitting you.” Or words to that effect.
The Mets were doing all right without their captain, but they didn't seem completely whole without him. He is their unquestioned leader, and his return was welcomed by everyone around the club, everyone who wanted to see the Mets win, and see the longtime Met be a part of it.
And he made sure they won Friday night, in a Game 3 they trailed twice early, registering the second-biggest RBI game in Mets World Series history (Rusty Staub had a five-RBI game in 1973), and ensuring that the Mets, his Mets, would right remain in the hunt for the 2015 World Championship.
Love David and his family's optimism. My kind of person:
NEW YORK -- David Wright arrives in the a.m. every game day to do his back rehab. After the game is over, you see he is wrapped up, almost like a mummy. And while he endures, his game is picked apart by critics. He doesn't have the power he used to have, they point out. Look, they say, he's throwing sidearm to compensate for the pain.
Oh, Wright does a lot for the continual back discomfort, there's no question about that. He leaves his model bride Molly behind very early on game days, arriving at the ballpark in the a.m., hours before anyone else. By game's end he is wrapped up, almost like a mummy.
Anything to keep playing for the Mets. His Mets.
When the ugly diagnosis came back -- spinal stenosis -- nobody would guarantee he'd even make it back this season. The Mets, the most optimistic predictors of time-off timetables in history, weren't making book on this one.
The back was bad. But no one ever went wrong betting on Wright's heart.
No matter what the doubters say, he remains quite capable, and here Friday Wright came up with a signature game, a four-RBI day when the Mets needed it most, when their backs were pressed almost up against the Citi Field Bridge. It was a must-win game, and Wright made sure they got back into this World Series, delivering a two-run home run off Royals starter Yordano Ventura and later a two-run single off Royals reliever extraordinaire Kelvin Herrera to ice things in the 9-3 Mets Game 3 victory that narrowed their series deficit to two games to one.
His in-laws, Molly's parents, as predictably nice as you'd imagine, noted to me en route from Kansas City (I ran into them on a stopover in Detroit) that the Mets also lost World Series Games 1 and 2 in 1986 by one run and six runs, respectively. These two folks from Manhattan Beach, Calif., as sunny a place as you are going to find in the continental United States, were suggesting that World Series glory was still doable.
That they are eternal optimists does not surprise me. Wright is the guy who signed to stay eight more years with the Mets when they resided at the intersection of Flushing and rock bottom. Now there's a fellow who believes.
Deep down, he always figured he'd make it back, too, when everyone else was shrugging their shoulders. He listened as closely to brilliant Los Angeles back doctor Robert Watkins (I know, he went to him once) as anyone ever has. He does everything he's supposed to, exactly when he's supposed to. And it's a lot.
While he was out in Los Angeles, he visited another New York baseball hero, Don Mattingly, who also experienced back trouble around 30 years of age. And Mattingly told him there'd be days he'd wake up and wouldn't feel he could do anything. And he should go ahead and take those days as days off.
Wright heard Mattingly, but of course that doesn't apply to the World Series. He has waited all his years to be here, and be here for the Mets, and there is nothing that would stop him. He hasn't said a word about his trouble, or his pain. He is bearing it, and grinning, all the way through October.
He wasn't supposed to be able to turn on gas anymore, but the homer into the left field bleachers, which gave the Mets a 2-1 lead in the first, came on a 95.6-mph fastball from Ventura, the fastest pitch he's hit out since 2013. Then five innings later, Herrera was summoned into the game for the express intent to whiff Wright with the bases loaded and one out, and instead Wright greeted him by lining a single to center to let the Mets, his Mets, live another day.
When Wright left LA after rehabbing there for months, he entered Terry Collins' office, they both smiled about how well the team was playing, and he told Collins he could sit him if he wanted. And Collins responded, “Hell, I'm not sitting you.” Or words to that effect.
The Mets were doing all right without their captain, but they didn't seem completely whole without him. He is their unquestioned leader, and his return was welcomed by everyone around the club, everyone who wanted to see the Mets win, and see the longtime Met be a part of it.
And he made sure they won Friday night, in a Game 3 they trailed twice early, registering the second-biggest RBI game in Mets World Series history (Rusty Staub had a five-RBI game in 1973), and ensuring that the Mets, his Mets, would right remain in the hunt for the 2015 World Championship.
Mets got off the mat tonight and came back swinging. Kind of like the pre-washed up Arturo Gatti. Good to see.Tomorrow is a monster game. Have to remind people that it's Chris and not Cy Young going for KC. I figure the rookie will give up some against that lineup so he's gonna need some run support. Bartolo and Neise will be ready in the wings too. I thought YO looked much better at the plate. Got a hit, laid off the pitches out of the zone. I though he got it all on what turned out to be a sac fly. Now we need Murph again. I
All that can be said for certain right now is that these 2 teams will play in November.I'm still surprised that Duffy didn't start for KC.Yost should keep him for a possible Game 7.
Thank god. I have Empire Suite tickets for game 5.
Last time I had WS tickets were for game 6...clemens vs leiter...in 2000. Stupid mets blew it that time.
Now back to rooting for Les Royales.
Last time I had WS tickets were for game 6...clemens vs leiter...in 2000. Stupid mets blew it that time.
Now back to rooting for Les Royales.
