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	Posted:	Jun 4, 2012 - 5:14 PM
	By:	Gary S. (Member)

Hughes goes the distance for the first time in his career and the Yankees take the rubber game 5-1!

Yeah but he beat the Detroit Hudhens. Sorry but the Tigers are woefully pathetic this year. Verlander has now lost 3 in a row.


	Posted:	Jun 4, 2012 - 5:14 PM
	By:	Gary S. (Member)

Hughes goes the distance for the first time in his career and the Yankees take the rubber game 5-1!

Did I mention how badly the Tigers stink?


	Posted:	Jun 4, 2012 - 5:21 PM
	By:	henry (Member)

Hey guys, how about my Twins?


	Posted:	Jun 4, 2012 - 8:23 PM
	By:	ANZALDIMAN (Member)

Johan Santana has done it!

He has just thrown the first no-hitter in New York Mets history!

And he did it in style.

He pitched it against the World Champion St. Louis Cardinals.

Bravo Johan!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArdIy7IQKnc

What a great time for the METS!!!

Great job by Johan, and this team is simply hanging in playing good baseball. That's all a fan should ask for.

I agree.

And I'd add that I think Terry Collins has been doing a great job in managing this particular group.

He came to the Mets with a reputation of being a hothead in his previous managerial jobs and so far I've seen no evidence of that here in New York. Collins has obviously mellowed while still demanding that his players never give up on themselves or the team.

At the time Collins was interviewing for the Mets job after Jerry Manuel was not retained I was pulling for Wally Backman to get it.
GM Sandy Alderson obviously made the right call here, and even if Collins is only a bridge in this time frame between the team finding itself again and being in position to contend for a title I think he was the right choice at the right time.


	Posted:	Jun 8, 2012 - 6:03 PM
	By:	Eric Paddon (Member)

Well, we're getting a different Santana tonight.

Back to back to back!


	Posted:	Jun 8, 2012 - 8:06 PM
	By:	Eric Paddon (Member)

Only blemish on the 9-1 win from the Yankees perspective was the hard shot off Kuroda's foot. X-rays fortunately negative.

Kuroda was starting to get the crowd anxious carrying a no-hitter into the sixth until a solid two out double ended that hope. I don't think there is a documented case of a pitcher throwing a no-hitter and then being on the wrong end of a no-hitter in his next start! (Though in 1968 there were no-hitters on successive nights by the same teams playing each other, with the Cardinals and Giants trading off)


	Posted:	Jun 9, 2012 - 6:16 AM
	By:	ANZALDIMAN (Member)

Well, we're getting a different Santana tonight.

Back to back to back!

Obviously Santana didn't have it last night.

When a quality pitcher like Santana gives up that many home runs in a scenario like that it has a lot to do with his mechanics being screwed up and keep in mind he was pitching off schedule with extra rest after the no-hitter. Not an excuse, but it's obvious what happened.

The Yankees are an experienced team of veteran sluggers who will take full advantage of a pitcher not at his best and that is exactly what happened last night. Santana's pitches were up and the Yankees launched them.

The Yankees are always a playoff team year in and year out, and the Mets are upstarts who will hit a lot of bumps in the road before things smooth out.


	Posted:	Jun 9, 2012 - 12:08 PM
	By:	Gary S. (Member)

The Tigers are consistantly dreadful.


	Posted:	Jun 9, 2012 - 7:50 PM
	By:	Eric Paddon (Member)

A good pitchers duel tonight and we've got a nailbiter going into the 9th with the Yankees holding a 4-2 lead.


	Posted:	Jun 9, 2012 - 8:05 PM
	By:	henry (Member)

My Twins are doing pretty well! Winning 9 out of the last 11 I think.


	Posted:	Jun 9, 2012 - 8:12 PM
	By:	Eric Paddon (Member)

And Soriano holds it in the 9th for the win! His signing which seemed a waste last year is paying a big dividend this year as he's managed to fill in effectively for Rivera.


	Posted:	Jun 9, 2012 - 8:19 PM
	By:	dan the man (Member)

So do you think the tigers will get into the post season , i do, a little bit of nostalgic, it was the summer of 69 , in August, Me and my Dad went to see a doubleheader between the Mets and i can't remember now who, anyway, it was not a big crowd, the mets were way behind the Cubs not doing much, nobody thought anything would really happened, at that time, it would probably be Chicago VS Baltimore in the World series, Well the mets won both games of the doubleheader, so what, who would have known that day was the beginning of a surge for the Mets, well we all know what happened then.Let's wait and see?


	Posted:	Jun 9, 2012 - 8:33 PM
	By:	Eric Paddon (Member)

Going by retrosheet.org, if it was in August, then you saw the San Diego Padres get swept by the Mets on either August 16 or 17.

(they played doubleheaders on consecutive nights, something you will NEVER see happen again).


	Posted:	Jun 9, 2012 - 11:46 PM
	By:	ANZALDIMAN (Member)

It's interesting to see Jimmy Qualls make it back into the news all these years later after the Johan Santana no-hitter last week. He's still alive and kickin'. An interesting character.

Qualls was a young player back in 1969 who never amounted to much in the major leagues during a short career and now he's 65 years old living out his days on a farm in Illinois. But his name has been and forever will be linked to Seaver's in baseball lore.

Qualls broke up Mets Hall of Famer Tom Seaver's bid for a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs all those years ago and he's one of those guys in baseball that if not for that one event would have been long forgotten.

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012-06-02/news/31989873_1_jimmy-qualls-shea-stadium-tom-seaver


	Posted:	Jun 9, 2012 - 11:54 PM
	By:	ANZALDIMAN (Member)

A good pitchers duel tonight and we've got a nailbiter going into the 9th with the Yankees holding a 4-2 lead.

The Yankees have to be pleased with Phil Hughes finally coming around.

He's been pitching well lately and if he can regain his past form the Yankees starting pitching staff looks a whole lot better after Sabathia.


	Posted:	Jun 10, 2012 - 2:16 PM
	By:	Eric Paddon (Member)

The Mets were cruising along through the 7th and then a lot of momentum shifts the rest of the way culminating with Martin's walk-off HR (his second of the game) to give the Yankees the sweep.

Soriano had his first blown save, but Granderson misplayed that leadoff double which opened the door for the Mets to tie.


	Posted:	Jun 10, 2012 - 4:28 PM
	By:	ANZALDIMAN (Member)

This is that critical stretch of games for the Mets against the heavyweights that I knew was coming but was not sure how it would go.

A fine effort by Jonathon Niese goes up in smoke as the David Wright throwing error opened the door for the Yankees to once again go long ball late in the game.

The Mets gave the Yankees a critical extra at bat when the inning should have been over and they paid dearly for it. I saw it coming. Niese's only real mistake all day.
All the Yankees really needed do was get into the Mets bullpen and hope Niese who was pitching a gem would eventually be pulled by Collins due to the pitch count. He was, the bullpen was summoned, and the game was over right there.

Alderson made some moves to "improve" the bullpen in the off season but it is flat out awful. (That's too nice a word for it) Parnell was a problem last season and he's still a problem this year. He can throw a baseball through a wall at 97mph but he throws it straight as an arrow and teams continue to tee off.

The Mets had Pettitte on the ropes early and let him off. Three runs is not enough to cling to all game in that ballpark against that team.
The Mets patchwork lineup has surprised to this point but unless the slumping Davis, Murphy, and Duda pick it up it leaves only David Wright to carry the team offensively once again. And that's not enough.

Jason Bay stinks. He's about as useful as a wet roll of paper towels. When he's not striking out he still can't buy an important hit for this team and should be benched at this point. Better yet, swallow hard and release him. He's clogging up a spot on the roster that could be used for another bat with some hits in it.


	Posted:	Jun 11, 2012 - 9:17 PM
	By:	Eric Paddon (Member)

Ivan Nova throws seven solid shutout innings and the bullpen holds it the rest of the way for a 3-0 Yankees win over the Braves, which puts them into a tie with the Rays for first in the AL East.

And this weekend, for the first time in my life I will be seeing the Yankees in person on the road! My superior in my research work has invited me down to Washington to see the games on Friday night and Saturday afternoon so it'll be a trip on Amtrak Friday, an overnight stay and then after the Saturday game, Amtrak back. Last year, when I was invited to see a Phillies-Nationals game, the crowd was 80% Phillie fans. I think this year, there will be more DC loyalists!


	Posted:	Jun 12, 2012 - 9:30 PM
	By:	Eric Paddon (Member)

Another Yankee comeback victory as they put up a six spot in the 8th inning to beat the Braves 6-4.

History was made as Alex Rodriguez hit the 23rd grand slame home run of his career, tying him with Lou Gehrig. Ironically it came on the 73rd anniversary of Gehrig's last game. After he took himself out of the lineup in May 1939 and after he'd been diagnosed by the Mayo Clinic, he played one last time in an exhibition game against the AA minor league team (but came out when a line drive to first nearly knocked him over).


	Posted:	Jun 12, 2012 - 10:25 PM
	By:	Eric Paddon (Member)

RIP, Dave Boswell who pitched for the Twins, 1964-1971 and was a member of their 1965 pennant winning team.

Also RIP to Warner Fuselle, who for years narrated many of the segments of "This Week In Baseball" and many other documentaries for MLB. His broadcasting career started as the voice of the American Basketball Association's Virginia Squires.

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