23 April 2009

This one was all Carpenter. He pitched a gem! The offense still has me a little concerned. We had some opportunities, but were unable to deliver. In fact, we seem to have a hard time scoring runs except when an HR is involved. Many of our outs are long fly balls. We've got too many players swinging for the fences with every at bat when a base hit would be more useful. Too bad I can't instruct some of these players the way that Whitey coached Ozzie. Whitey told Ozzie that for every ball hit in the air, Ozzie owed him $$. For every ground ball, he owed Ozzie $$. After about a month, Whitey called off the agreement because he owed Ozzie too much $$.

Strat-O-Matic Report

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BOXSCORE: 2009 New York (NL) Mets At 2009 St. Louis Cardinals       4/23/2009
 
  Mets               AB  R  H RBI AVG     Cardinals          AB  R  H RBI AVG
  A.Pagan CF          4  0  0  0 .367     S.Schumaker 2B      4  0  1  0 .300  
  A.Hernandez 2B      3  0  0  0 .150     R.Ludwick RF        3  0  1  0 .270  
  D.Wright 3B         3  0  0  0 .304     A.Pujols 1B         4  0  2  0 .348  
  G.Sheffield LF      3  0  1  0 .250     M.Holliday LF       3  0  0  0 .308  
  J.Francoeur RF      3  0  1  0 .341     C.Rasmus CF         4  0  0  0 .239  
  D.Murphy 1B         3  0  0  0 .328     Y.Molina C          2  0  0  0 .183  
  B.Schneider C       3  0  0  0 .136     J.Thurston 3B       3  0  1  0 .220  
  S.Green P           0  0  0  0 .000     B.Ryan SS           3  1  1  1 .327  
  A.Cora SS           3  0  2  0 .417     C.Carpenter P       3  0  0  0 .200  
  T.Redding P         1  0  0  0 .200                                          
A-O.Santos C          1  0  0  0 .231                                          
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         Totals      27  0  4  0                 Totals      29  1  6  1
 
A-Subbed Defensively (C ) For Redding In 8th Inning
 
Mets............ 0 0 0  0 0 0  0 0 0  -  0  4  0
Cardinals....... 0 0 0  0 0 0  1 0    -  1  6  0
 
Mets (8-7)               IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA  SCORESHEET
T.Redding LOSS(1-2)       7       6   1   1   3   3   1  98   3.98  A1 D2
S.Green                   1       0   0   0   0   1   0  11   0.00  D3
Totals                    8       6   1   1   3   4   1
 
Cardinals (12-5)         IP       H   R  ER  BB  SO  HR  PC    ERA  SCORESHEET
C.Carpenter WIN(2-0)      9       4   0   0   0   4   0  90   1.50  A1
Totals                    9       4   0   0   0   4   0
 
ATTENDANCE- 45,816 DATE- Thursday, April 23rd 2009 TIME- Day WEATHER- Good
UMPIRES- Gary Cederstrom, Brian O'Nora, Fieldin Culbreth, Jim Wolf
T- 2:30
LEFT ON BASE- Mets: 1  Cardinals: 7
DOUBLE PLAYS- Mets: 1  Cardinals: 3
HOME RUNS- B.Ryan(1st)
SACRIFICE HITS- T.Redding
WALKS- R.Ludwick, M.Holliday, Y.Molina
STRIKE OUTS- A.Pagan-2, A.Hernandez, D.Murphy, A.Pujols, J.Thurston,
             C.Carpenter-2
GIDP- J.Francoeur, D.Murphy, O.Santos, A.Pujols
WILD PITCHES- T.Redding
WEB GEMS- Top 7th: Brendan Ryan robbed David Wright of a base hit.
 
Chris Carpenter pitched 9 strong innings at Busch Stadium where the St. Louis
Cardinals beat the New York (NL) Mets by the score of 1 to 0.
 
Carpenter(2-0) pitched one of his finer games as he simply was too much for
the New York (NL) batters.  He allowed just 4 hits and no walks in 9 innings
improving his ERA from 2.14 to 1.50.  New York (NL) made it exciting in the
9th, but they were unable to push the needed runs across.  
 
Tim Redding(1-2) suffered the loss.  'We didn't have a whole lot of chances
today,' Jerry Manuel said.  'Carpenter just was too much for our guys.'

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