Pirates 5, Mets 3 (top of the 8th)
….Heath Bell gets to play the part of Randy Niemann.
(Captain Red Ass makes it very clear to Jeff Kellogg — he’ll call the umpire’s daughter any time he wants)
Mike DeFelice, filling in for the ejected Paul Lo Duca, led off the Mets’ half of the 8th with a ground rule double. I hope the ball was retrieved for the veteran catcher. The Baseball Encyclopedia might claim this wasn’t his first hit, but I’ve never seen it happen before.
Baltimore’s Hayden Penn allowed 6 Detroit runs in the 4th inning tonight at Comerica before being pulled. Incredibly, Penn managed to lower his ERA to 27.00. He’s having some kind of month. The Tigers lead, 15-2 after 6.
Why was Petey crying in the dugout? Was it a reaction to pain, or emotional? I plan to root for these fuckers during the Subway Series, so I need to know.
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=260915123
“Television cameras showed a distraught Martinez crying in the dugout and being consoled by Randolph and pitching coach Rick Peterson after leaving the game.”
post-game show on SNY : super testy Pedro with tape recorders in his face. Says he’ll be ok. Lady reporter human suggests fans might be disappointed with Friday’s peformance, Pedro snaps “three innings in 30 days, what do you expect?” Not really sure where this was headed, but Martinez wasn’t crying, so I suppose that’s a good thing.
The Phillies were either nice enough to allow the Mets another shot at an on-field celebration or pricks for making them hangout in the clubhouse for 90 minutes waiting to celebrate with their tightwire win against the Astros. The Astros have delivered kick-in-the-nuts wins over the Phillies for years now and the Phillies came very close to a utterly demoralizing (if not backbreaking) loss after Ryan Howard committed a Buckneresque error and the man who killed the Phillies in 2003 (Jeff Conine) nearly killed the 2006 squad as a Phillie by dropping a routine fly ball. Mercifully, Tom Gordon coaxed a dp ball that narrowly averted what would have went down as a another chapter of Philly Phutility. This loss may have put the final nail in the Astros coffin and if any Houston readers need a scapegoat, pinch-runner Charlton Jimersons baserunning gaffe in not moving to third on an infield single prior to the Conine flub cost the Astros the tying run.