Speed kills, thrills
Through five innings, at least, Roger Clemens has had a tough time keeping pace with the Mets' sparkplug youth. Speedster Carlos Gomez singled and stole second to open the third inning against Clemens, and Major League steals leader Jose Reyes followed with a two-strike single to center that brought home the Mets' first run.
Reyes again reached Clemens with one out in the fifth, drilling his third home run of the season – and the first allowed by Clemens since he returned to the Yankees – into the right-field seats, extending the Mets' lead to two runs.
Gomez also helped keep the Yankees off the board in the fourth, as the left fielder leapt at the wall to snare a deep Miguel Cairo drive, taking away a potential extra-base hit. Gomez then threw on to second to complete a double play, nabbing Hideki Matsui and ending the inning.
Torre said the game situation will dictate how long they allow Clemens to go, but he's at 91 pitches through five innings. Could be a six-and-out, which the Yankees would take if Clemens holds the Mets at two runs.
On edit: Clemens finished after 6 1/3 innings, allowing two runs on seven hits. He walked one and struck out eight in a 108-pitch performance. That's not too bad - actually, he fared better than I'd expected. The Yankees still haven't been able to do anything with Oliver Perez, though, who also has fared better than I expected. Through seven innings, the Yankees' last hit was Miguel Cairo's single with two outs in the second.
On edit #2...: A golden sombrero for Carlos Delgado tonight. We haven't seen one of those in a while... he just looks lost up there right now. Still 2-0 Mets in the top of the eighth.
Just wanted to know 1 thing, why did Joe Torre take out Myers in the 8th inning tonight after he got the first 2 batters out. First he was already pitching great and there was nobody on base with Julio Franco up to bat (nothing personal to Franco, I'm a hugh fan of his, ever since I was a kid), but the bottom line is, KEEP HIM IN THERE to finish the inning, instead of wasting another pitchers time for 1 batter, its pointless, thats why the bullpen was so tired earlier in the season, besides all the injuries too. I have all the respect in the world for Torre, but sometimes he comes across as a manager that doesn't really think about the easier situations, like this one tonight with Myers, Keep Bruney for the 9th inning to stay fresh. Thats all.
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probably a good point, cooking
i'd think about a couple of things here
1)he may have had brian bruney throwing a lot of warmup pitches, and once he'd done that, torre may've figured to go ahead and make use of them and put him in the game
2)he might've just wanted bruney to get a little work...we don't want to overwork the pen, but it's a fine line sometimes because those guys do need work to stay sharp
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It's a good question, cooking, especially after Bruney immediately walked a guy. goff, I think you may be right on both counts. I think Bruney was up throwing twice before he eventually came in, and they might not have wanted to keep sitting him down. It sure is a decent position to be in when we're actually hoping that Bruney, Proctor and others pitch to get some work in, far different from the first several weeks when they had no real rest.
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