According to ESPN, The Mets’ Orlando Hernandez is questionable for tomorrow night’s NLDS start against the Dodgers. Short of learning that Victor Zambrano had just been activated, I can’t imagine worse news.
Willie Randolph said that Hernandez felt something in his right calf while running in the outfield Tuesday. Hernandez, who is 11-11 with a 4.66 ERA with the Mets and Arizona Diamondbacks this season, was scheduled to have an MRI exam this afternoon.”It’s not great news, that’s for sure,” Randolph said. “We hope it’s just a cramp. Hopefully, it’s just something mild. We’ll have to wait and see and what happens.”
Randolph said the Mets’ options for Game 1 include Tom Glavine, who is unlikely to pitch on three days’ rest; projected Game 3 starter Steve Trachsel, who is still in San Diego attending to personal business; or rookie John Maine.
“We can’t exclude anybody,” Randolph said. “That’s life. That’s the way it goes.”
Indeed, Willie can’t exclude anybody. Except Aaron Heilman.
Move over, David Wright, there’s a new Most Boring Blogger in town.
Just to be sure: There’s no way Lima can get onto the postseason roster at this point, correct?
I was working on a post about this when Firefox crashed. Probably just about the same as yours, although I think my title — ‘Is It Lima Time Yet’ — should be an indication that at least one fatalist Mets can can think of something somewhat worse than a V-Zam game one. If Maine gets the nod for the Mets in Game One and Hong-Chih Kuo goes in Game Two for LA, will that set some sort of record for previously anonymous starters in a postseason series? I’m having a hard time thinking of any, although I guess no one knew who Livan Hernandez was before the 1997 postseason, either.
Eh, make that two fatalistic Mets fans. Everybody’s beating me to the punch today.
re : Firefucks. emptying the cache every few hours helps. Well, that and not watching 3 different snuff videos at the same time.
I’ll try the former but will thank you to stay out of my business on the latter. I use it for card-writing research, and so have three or four tabs open at all times (not to mention the Tab I be sippin’), but Firefox crashes about five times a day. Not so good. Not Game One-starter-getting-MRI bad, but pretty bad, actually.
The initial article on ESPN said it could be a cramp but the newly update (and linked above) piece ends with:
“Hernandez, however, has a more dire diagnosis.
‘I was sprinting in the outfield,’ Hernandez told Newsday. ‘And I pulled my right calf. It’s not a cramp.’ ”
Proposed solutions:
1. No more movement for the senior citizens. No more cab rides. No more leaving the clubhouse to go home. Tom Glavine should be locked in a cage until his start because he’ll probably injure himself brushing his teeth.
2. Start John Maine. Don’t even question it Willie. Don’t be ambiguous and let Maine go to bed not knowing. Call him right now, tell him he’s not Kris Benson, and he’s going to go out there tomorrow afternoon and shove the ball down Rafael Furcal’s drunken piehole.
3. Canseco!
Mets.com says Tom Glavine would start on 3 days notice.
Double fuck.
I agree with both Sam and Marc. Yuck. Just start Maine, for chrissakes! There’s no sense in jeopardizing the health/fragile ‘tude of the one decently healthy SP on the team. I am inclined to think the Mets can beat the Dodgers with relative ease, but any further health-related defections down the line will not be so easy to get past.
http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061003&content_id=1698169&vkey=news_nym&fext=.jsp&c_id=nym
Maine is the official starter.