On a night where Sandy Alderson essentially gave Luis Rojas a public vote of “no confidence,” the Mets celebrated with a 3-2 loss to the Marlins Wednesday night.
Taijuan Walker turned around a second-half slide to pitch into the eighth inning. But he gave up a double and a one-out walk before getting pulled for Seth Lugo, who allowed both inherited runners to score, along with one his own, which turned a 2-0 lead into a one-run deficit.
Outside of Walker’s strong performance, the highlight on the field was a home run ball that Michael Conforto absolutely crushed. The highlight outside the field was Alderson’s press conference. Additionally, Jerry Seinfeld dropped by the booth and stuck around for a couple of innings, telling Gary that no one cares about him calling the games off a monitor and essentially to quit complaining about it.
Maybe it should be an every two-week thing. Seinfeld can drop by the TV booth and tell GKR what they’re doing wrong. Put him on the payroll, he could probably use a few bucks.
Jerry most certainly doesn’t need the money, but I think you are on to something here. With K getting more cranky and stale, and R likely missing more series, give Jerry a few series next year. He may be the only guy on earth that can reel in G on air and give the fans a voice in the booth. Hey, donate the money to charity. It’s a win win.
That 10th draft pick is still in play if they run the table…Luis needs to get creating…maybe eliminate pitch limits and up and downs for guys that won’t be back…or give Conforto some innings so he can market himself as another Otani…
How about starting Almora and Mazeika in all the remaining games and keeping Villar on the bench and bringing him in to pinch run in key spots?
Gut Reaction: This was a meaningless game but it showed much more with the subtle body language from Walker. He was cruising with a one hitter and was allowed pitch the 7th because only threw 70+ pitches. He walked the fist batter and Heffner bolt of the dugout but Walker initially didn’t see him and was surprised. The next batter hit into a DP. Again Walker started the 8th and gave up his second hit, a double. He got the next out on pop off and the next batter was a four pitch walk. He threw 90 pitches. Walker turned his back to the dugout because he knew Rojas was coming . The infielders congratulated and he turned around, gave the ball to Rojas and didn’t look at him.
If this game was important that the moved could be justified, maybe. Walker should have gotten a chance to win or lose is own game. Maybe he had another DP in him. Maybe he had a shutout in him. And maybe he had a three run homer in him and lose. He will never know because Rojas is his manager.
I’m eye to eye with Metsense. Walker deserved to finish the inning if not the game. He’s a big man and was cruising… 90 pitches…so what?
Love his last line: … because Rojas is his manager… brilliant!