Mets vs Brewers

My high school friend called with seats four boxes behind the visitor’s dugout. I dropped any possible plans (sorry, Dor!) and subway’d it to Shea Stadium. Good game. The Brewers kept it close for 6 innings behind Ben Sheets and then Jorge De La Rosa and Jose Capellan did not. Mets win, 9-3. Some game notes:

Brian Bannister… might need some time in the minors. For a control pitcher, getting up to 112 pitches and for most of the game going 50/50 on balls/ strikes is NOT a good idea. The walks, the bases loaded moments… there’s careful and then there is crazy. Bannister says he’s not sweating enough. He did improve in the later innings, hitting his spots and pitching more crisply after getting some Pedro Martinez advice.

Another high school friend made fun of Geoff Jenkins’ and Carlos Lee’s goatees, talking about how Carlos’ goatee was mediocre, and how Geoff can’t spell his name right and is a poor man’s Jeff Bagwell (with his number, and his name, and his power).

Carlos Delgado seemed to mail in innings 2-7, with the awful strikeouts and the errant throw on a possible double play. He threw from 1B to near-second, and the ball skipped into left field. And then, he beat the laces off the ball.

Securing the victory.

The Met fans howled when mop-up guy Jorge Julio (and his 19.00 ERA) came in, with some yelling “bring back Benson,” referring to mediocre pitcher Kris Benson, whose wife Anna Benson (site is NOT WORK SAFE) is often near-naked and outrageous. I’ll miss her rants on Omar Minaya latining up the team and on Michael Moore.

Here is a gratuitous picture of a failed Brewer pitcher.


The rest of the photo set.