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Last Night's Action: Sweep!

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Photograph of family leaving CitiField after the rain-shortened game by Kathy Willens/AP

  • Mets 1 Atlanta 0 (Six Innings): Give an assist to the rain, but it counts like any other win and that's all the Mets care about right now. New York sent a message to their division rival over the weekend and took advantage of a Chipper Jones' error to win this game. (How sweet it is!) Mike Pelfrey improved to 4-0 on a night where he was wild, but didn't take any damage.
  • Angels 8 Yankees 4: Remember that ALCS game when Joe Girardi overmanaged the Yankees by pulling an effective David Robertson? Well, this had similar overtones and the worst part is Girardi knew better this time. Kendry Morales kills the Yankees, so when he came up with runners on in the 7th, Girardi held up four fingers to issue the intentional walk. But after one pitch he decided to change his mind and the result was predictable- a three-run homer. That bad decision coupled with another bad start from Javier Vazquez led the Yankees to their first series loss of the year.
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  • FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

    I doubt the geriatrics will win the superbowl again. Let's Go Mets!!!!!

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  • jaycjay

    "when he came up with runners on in the 7th, Girardi held up four fingers to issue the intentional walk. But after one pitch he decided to change his mind and the result was predictable- a three-run homer."

    Facile oversimplification. What really happened: Girardi called for the IBB. First pitch went that way. Then he changed his mind... which is odd, but what's odd about it isn't that the call was taken off but that it was ever made in the first place. First base wasn't open (runners were on first and second), it was the original call for an intentional walk that was questionable, not the revised call to pitch to Morales.

    The next two pitches were balls, but unintentional. With a 3-0 count, Morales got what most hitters get in that situation: a fastball down the middle. Usually a batter is told to simply take that pitch looking for a walk (in this case, loading the bases), which is why 95% they see exactly the batting-practice pitch that was seen here -- but Morales this time had the green light to swing... and crushed it for a home run.

    You can not even pretend that had Girardi called for an intentional walk at 3-0, advancing the runners and loading the bases, people wouldn't be second guessing that call. That, you know if you actually do know anything about baseball, is not done in the majors. Ever. By anyone.

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