Wainwright the Best Opponent for the Mets Tonight?
Maybe Adam Wainwright is the perfect pitcher for the Mets to face tonight. It’s the perfect matchup of “Something’s got to give”. The Mets haven’t scored in ages, and Wainwright hasn’t given up any runs in ages. It’s mathematically improbable for both of these to continue for another nine innings, and that should bode well for the Mets. Maybe they rise to occasion of fighting a top pitcher, start scoring some runs, and give Johan Santana some help in the July Pitcher of the Month competition.
If we’re getting poetic about it, I’m going to predict that the deciding runs of this game are scored via a grand slam home run by Carlos Beltran off of an Adam Wainwright curveball.
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July 27th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
I hope your right… Mets are scoreless through 16 innings and wainwright hasn’t given up a run in 25…. like you said “something’s got to give”….
July 28th, 2010 at 8:14 am
I would have like to have seen the odds on the Mets winning this game because you know no one had them coming out on top. So what do they do? Beat up Wainwright who hadn’t given up a run in 26 innings, for 6 runs and tack on 2 more against their BP.
If they can hit Wainwright, they should be able to hit just about anyone – right?
I don’t know what this offense is doing different, what the mindset is, on the road. I’m not buying the ‘last at bat’ theory some have, especially since I believe we only have 3 walk off wins this year.
Whatever it is on the road vs. at home, they need to figure it out and fast…