Posted on 09/30/2007 1:34:56 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
NY Mets do not make the post-season as the team was mauled by the Marlins 8-1. Phillies win the East...still watching Colorado to see if a playoff game will happen tomorrow against San Diego.
that and global warming, which we all know is Bush's fault.
Glavine worst pitching performance since 1989. With 17 games left and 7 game lead in the division...the METS lose it all.
Can’t believe it was Glavine today....
C’mon out aand beat the Mets.
0-0 Colorado-Arizona bottom of the 6th ...Rockies throwing a no-hitter in Colorado. Brewers about to wipe the Padres out...8th inning up 9-4. One playoff game could be played tomorrow if Rockies win today. It would be San Diego - Colorado in Colorado tomorrow night.
Guaranteed to have a heck of a day...
Sad moment happening on TBS right now...final Braves game being aired on there...30 yrs...it is over. All Braves games go to Fox Sports South now.
Willie Randolph deservers to be fired for his managerial performance this year. Tomorrow morning would not be soon enough.
ESPN and ESPN 2 is going to have some of the best commentary in sports history tomorrow with the way this weekend in sports has gone.
09/30/2007 4:35 PM ET
Big first inning spoils Mets’ hopes
Marlins get to Glavine on decisive final day of season
By Marty Noble / MLB.com
NEW YORK — The process of elimination now is complete. The National League postseason will be staged without the Mets.
The improbable decline that began in the final days of August was completed Sunday when the formerly first-place team was sent home by a riled opponent and the Phillies beat the Nationals.
An unnerving 8-1 loss to the Marlins on Sunday, replete with a seven-run first inning against Tom Glavine, put a stain on the team that began the season as the favorite to the win National League East but lost 12 of its final 17 games and a seven-game lead in the process.
With an 88-74 record, the Mets finished one game behind the Phillies, proclaimed by their shortstop, Jimmy Rollins, as “the team to beat” last winter, and one game behind the Wild Card lead.
Glavine, the most seasoned and accomplished Mets starting pitcher, retired one of the nine batters he faced in the first inning. After he had allowed five hits and two walks, committed a throwing error and hit the opposing pitcher with the bases loaded, he walked off the Shea Stadium field, perhaps for the last time, escorted by loud booing and dashed hopes.
The Mets scored a run in the bottom of the inning against Dontrelle Willis — they lost Carlos Delgado to a broken left hand when he was hit with a pitch during the inning — but left eight runners on base in the first three innings and barely threatened the five Florida relievers who followed Willis. The Mets managed two hits in the last eight innings.
Their greatest threat came when Ramon Castro, starting in place of injured Paul Lo Duca, flied out to deep left with the bases loaded for the final out of the first.
happened 38 years too late....
Hoping to pitch Mets into playoffs, Glavine chased during 7-run first inning
By MIKE FITZPATRICK
AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — When the New York Mets needed a big game, Tom Glavine pitched one of his worst.
The 300-game winner put the Mets in a huge hole Sunday when he was chased in the first inning, charged with all seven of Florida’s early runs. He made a throwing error and hit Marlins lefty Dontrelle Willis with a pitch with the bases loaded, mistakes that symbolized the Mets’ September collapse.
Glavine hoped to pitch the Mets into the playoffs on the final day of the regular season. Instead, he managed only one out in the second-shortest start of his brilliant career.
New York began the day tied for first place in the NL East with the Philadelphia Phillies, who hosted Washington.
The seven runs matched the most Glavine allowed in an inning during his 21-year career, the Elias Sports Bureau said. He also gave up seven to Colorado in 1996.
This flop could end up being Glavine’s final outing on a major league mound if the 41-year-old left-hander decides to retire - or at least his last one for the Mets if he chooses to pitch elsewhere next season. Glavine has a $13 million player option for next year with a $3 million buyout.
The Mets nearly got back in the game right away, though they lost first baseman Carlos Delgado to a broken left hand when he was hit by a pitch.
Glavine got ahead 0-2 on leadoff batter Hanley Ramirez, then threw a pitch that glanced off Ramirez’s forearm. But plate umpire Joe West ruled that Ramirez didn’t attempt to get out of the way, so he wasn’t awarded first base.
Ramirez wound up walking and after Dan Uggla grounded into a force play, Glavine didn’t get another out. Jeremy Hermida singled, Miguel Cabrera hit an RBI single and Cody Ross punched a two-run double to right.
Ross headed for third on the throw home. The ball squirted away from catcher Ramon Castro and Glavine picked it up, but fired wide of third for an error that made it 4-0.
Mike Jacobs looped a single, Matt Treanor walked and Alejandro De Aza singled to load the bases. Glavine then plunked Willis with a 1-2 delivery, forcing home another run.
Glavine, a two-time Cy Young Award winner who earned his 300th win in August, was lifted for Jorge Sosa and booed loudly by the sold-out crowd as he walked off the mound. After striking out Ramirez, Sosa gave up a two-run double to Uggla that made it 7-0.
New York scored in the bottom of the first on Willis’ wild pitch and had the bases loaded when Ramon Castro hit a long drive to left field. Thinking it was gone, Castro raised his index finger in the air. But Ross made the catch on the warning track and let out a deep breath.
Delgado was in obvious pain after he was hit on the left wrist by Willis’ pitch. He stayed in the game to run, then was replaced at first base by Jeff Conine in the second inning.
New York also stranded two in the second and left the bases loaded in the third without scoring.
A wild Willis was pulled after walking five in 2 2-3 innings. He entered 11-3 with a 2.49 ERA in 18 career starts against the Mets - including 5-0 at Shea Stadium.
The Mets were trying to avoid one of the biggest collapses in baseball history. They led the NL East by seven games after play on Sept. 12, but squandered the entire cushion and fell behind Philadelphia by one game with their fifth straight loss Friday night.
New York then bounced back for a 13-0 rout of the Marlins on Saturday and pulled back into a tie for first when the Phillies lost to the Nationals.
A victory Sunday over Florida coupled with a Philadelphia loss would give the Mets consecutive division titles for the first time. But a New York loss and a Phillies win would eliminate New York from the postseason.
The Mets had overcome seven-run deficits to win only twice since their inception in 1962. They rallied past Houston 11-8 after trailing 8-0 in September 1972, and came back to beat Atlanta 11-8 after falling behind 7-0 in June 2000.
Glavine failed to get an out on May 16, 1989, with Atlanta at the Chicago Cubs. He threw only seven pitches in that game, allowing four runs - three earned - and four hits. He departed after spraining his left ankle while covering first base.
The last time the Mets gave up seven runs in the first inning was July 31, 1999, at the Cubs.
Glavine, Mets Complete Stunning Collapse
By MIKE FITZPATRICK
AP Baseball Writer
Glavine, Mets Complete Stunning Collapse
NEW YORK (AP) — The collapse is complete. After blowing a big September lead in the NL East, the New York Mets missed the playoffs Sunday when Tom Glavine was tagged for seven runs during the first inning of an 8-1 loss to the Florida Marlins in the regular-season finale.
New York’s loss coupled with Philadelphia’s 6-1 win over Washington gave the division title to the Phillies and sent the stunned Mets home for the winter wondering how they squandered a seven-game cushion over the final 18 days of an excruciating season.
Now, David Wright, Carlos Beltran, Pedro Martinez and the rest of this talented team will forever be remembered alongside the 1964 Phillies and other famous failures for skidding to one of baseball’s most monumental collapses.
No major league team had owned a lead of seven games or more with 17 to play, or been up by at least seven on Sept. 12 or later, and failed to finish in first place.
New York’s meltdown also matched the blown largest in September. The 1938 Pittsburgh Pirates (Sept. 1) and 1934 New York Giants (Sept. 6) also led by seven games in the final month only to tailspin.
The Mets topped the NL East by seven games after play on Sept. 12 and appeared a lock to wrap up consecutive division titles for the first time in franchise history.
Then everything fell apart.
The Phillies authored a three-game sweep at Shea Stadium from Sept. 14-16 - giving them wins in the final eight meetings between the teams this year - and the Mets never recovered.
Doomed by inadequate starting pitching and a leaky bullpen that looked exhausted down the stretch, New York lost 12 of its last 17 games, committing 21 errors in the process.
Luis Castillo struck out to end New York’s latest lackluster defeat against a second-division club, prompting perhaps the final round of boos at Shea Stadium this year.
Moments later, the final score in Philadelphia was posted on the out-of-town scoreboard and Mets fans filed for the exits, quietly muttering to themselves.
Minaya is the one who assembled that bullpen.
Now if Eli and the Giants can lose tonight to the Awful Uniforms from Philadelphia, it will be a GRAND SLAM.
What a meltdown! It has to be the biggest in MLB.
I feel for Glavin, but I blame more than him: LoDuca with that temper of his cost a big game when his replacement(forgot his name)made a doozie of an error costing us a game just a couple of weeks ago. How about Millage? He should be fined for his attitude on and off the field. And Reyes? Randolph should have had the whip after all of them instead of remaining so calmly steadfast.
Shake-up time?
Go Red Sox go!!
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