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August 21, 2008

Daily Mets Recap: August 21st, 2008

Scribbled by: Milo Taibi, Howard Megdal and Eric Simon @ 8:18 am | Filed under: Game Recaps

The Game

Mike Pelfrey helped the Mets steamroll the faltering Atlanta Braves on Wednesday night, by a score of 6-3. Big Pelf threw his first career shutout, limiting the Bravos to merely three hits on the evening.

The Mets jumped on opposing starter Jair Jurrjens early on in the game. After allowing a single and two walks, Daniel Murphy took a Jurrjens delivery up the middle for a two run single. With Murphy on first, Fernando Tatis hit a grounder to Larry Jones at third. Jones fielded the ball, but threw low to Dick Stuart, the first baseman (Excuse the typo; Greg Norton was actually the first baseman last night). Norton couldn’t handle the throw, and two additional runners crossed the plate. On the very next play, Brian Schneider hit a grounder to shortstop Yunel Escobar. Escobar threw a bit high to Norton, who dropped a very catch able throw. The next batter, Mike Pelfrey, hit an RBI single to increase the Mets lead to 5-0. Jones and Escobar were charged with errors on the plays, despite the obvious misplays of iron glover Greg Norton. The early five run hole proved to be too deep for the young Jair Jurrens to dig himself out of. He’d be tagged with the loss on the evening, downgrading his record to 11-9.

Mike Pelfrey was simply dominant last night. Even when he loaded up the bases in the 6th, he got Brian McCann to ground into a double play. Pelfrey didn’t need K’s last night (Pelf only recorded three punch-outs), because he limited his walks (Three walks allowed), and got his flyball outs (Groundout to strikeout rate 9-15). Mike Pelfrey became the first Met to twelve wins this season last night.

This was a nice, quick victory. No bullpen needed in this win, Pelfrey brought this game home in two hours and eight minutes. David Wright added an insurance run in the 6th inning, a solo jack off of Jair Jurrjens. The Mets disposed quickly of the Braves in this series’ first two games, so Thursday evening they’ll go for the sweep. Pedro Martinez will take off against Mike Hampton. Hampton will be making his first major league start since May of 1983.

The Haiku

Mets search for closer
Has ended; Big Pelf clearly
can lock down the ninth

The Boxscore

Atlanta	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	LOB	AVG
Blanco, LF	4	1	2	1	0	1	0	.258
Escobar, SS	3	1	0	0	1	0	1	.283
Jones, C, 3B	3	0	0	0	1	2	0	.362
McCann, C	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	.295
Kotsay, CF	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	.296
Norton, 1B	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	.247
Francoeur, RF	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	.230
Johnson, 2B	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	.263
Jurrjens, P	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.102
Carlyle, P	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250
Ohman, P	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
a-Infante, PH	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.304
Boyer, P	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Totals	28	3	3	1	3	3	5
a-Popped out for Ohman in the 8th.
BATTING TB: Blanco 2; Francoeur. RBI: Blanco (28). 2-out RBI: Blanco. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Escobar. S: Jurrjens. GIDP: McCann. Team LOB: 2. FIELDING E: Jones, C (10, throw), Escobar (13, throw). DP: (Norton).

NY Mets	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	LOB	AVG
Reyes, J, SS	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	.301
Reyes, A, 2B	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	.271
Wright, 3B	3	1	1	1	1	0	1	.291
Delgado, 1B	2	1	0	0	2	0	1	.254
Beltran, CF	3	1	0	0	1	0	1	.273
Murphy, LF	4	1	1	2	0	1	1	.404
Chavez, RF	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.270
Tatis, RF-LF	4	1	2	1	0	0	0	.298
Schneider, C	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	.256
Pelfrey, P	3	0	1	1	0	0	0	.111
Totals	30	6	6	5	4	1	7
BATTING HR: Wright (24, 5th inning off Jurrjens, 0 on, 0 out). TB: Reyes, A; Wright 4; Murphy; Tatis 2; Pelfrey. RBI: Murphy 2 (11), Tatis (38), Pelfrey (2), Wright (97). 2-out RBI: Murphy 2; Tatis; Pelfrey. Runners left in scoring position, 2 out: Reyes, J. Team LOB: 4. BASERUNNING SB: Reyes, A (2, 2nd base off Jurrjens/McCann). FIELDING DP: (Reyes, A-Reyes, J-Delgado).

Atlanta	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Jurrjens (L, 11-9)	5.0	6	6	4	3	0	1	3.28
Carlyle	1.2	0	0	0	1	0	0	3.57
Ohman	0.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3.20
Boyer	1.0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4.85

NY Mets	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Pelfrey (W, 12-8)	9.0	3	3	3	3	3	0	3.86

WP: Pelfrey.
Pitches-strikes: Jurrjens 88-50, Carlyle 26-16, Ohman 1-1, Boyer 10-6, Pelfrey 108-62.
Ground outs-fly outs: Jurrjens 9-5, Carlyle 1-4, Ohman 1-0, Boyer 1-1, Pelfrey 9-15.
Batters faced: Jurrjens 24, Carlyle 6, Ohman 1, Boyer 3, Pelfrey 32.
Inherited runners-scored: Ohman 1-0.
Umpires: HP: Angel Campos. 1B: Brian Runge. 2B: Greg Gibson. 3B: Charlie Reliford.
Weather: 73 degrees, partly cloudy.
Wind: 8 mph, In from CF.
T: 2:08.
Att: 50,178.
August 20, 2008

Box score official statistics approved by Major League Baseball Office of the Commissioner

The Win Probability Added Graph

The Credits

Recap by Milo Taibi
Haiku by Howard Megdal

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One Response to “Daily Mets Recap: August 21st, 2008”

Comment posted by Brian on August 21, 2008 at 9:26 am (#811994)
Was there last night, my first this season. Glorious. Crowd really loved Big Pelf coming ot for the ninth