[Official] Mets @ Astros

Pitchers are really working Wallace inside.

Also, did you know that Wallace already leads the team in HBP with 4? Not that surprising given how he crowds the plate.

 

Filthy curveball from Myers.

 

Pence with another quality AB. Laid off a pitch low and outside that he often swings at. Ends up lining the ball the oppo way right to Francoeur though.

 

I know I should have gotten used to this by now but DAM Myers is good. I hoping for a guy who could go 6 or 7 innings give up 4 runs 8-10 hits and just survive but he seems near dominant at times.

 

CJ's hit a number of balls right at people in the last couple of games. That's the luck element and regression as well as better pitching at work.

 

Hahaha... that was funny.

Wallace body checks Dickey off the base path on a foul bunt.

 

BRETT WALLACE...Very Bagwellish.

 

David Wright sure can play defense...

 

Wright has been phenomenal defensively in this series.

 

I've always wanted a knuckle-ball starter on the Astros. Sadly, it has never happened.

 

Joe Niekro.

 

jared fernandez in 2003...he was awful.

dickey is a crazy story. check out his bio. he's essentially just starting his mlb career at 35.

 

Myers escapes the jam.

Another pitching duel.

This series has been largely about pitching and defense.

And Hunter Pence.

 

Yea, the guy is missing something in his arm and because of it took a massive paycut when he was drafted. If I am as frustrated watching the Stros try to hit this junk, imagine what they must feel like.

 

Amazingly he nearly walked Jeff Francoeur for a 2nd time. That guy walks less than Pedro Feliz.

 

That's always frustrating.

Dickey drives in the first run of the game.

 

yeah, and it was discovered by a doctor seeing a pic of him on a magazine cover or something.

if the guy is truly this good, and extends his career into his mid 40's, there's a hollywood screenplay about his life in his future for sure.

 

I meant in my lifetime.

I remember Jared Fernandez. He was a washout like 2 times before the Astros took a chance on him simply because he had a knuckle ball. Sort of like the baseball version of Eddy Curry. "You can't teach height" except here it is "You can't teach a knuckleball." Never should have expected much from him.

Yeah, I had never heard of Dickey before this game. That is a crazy bio, though you would have thought someone would have realized he was a knuckleball pitcher in his 10 years in the Rangers organization before he finally "perfected" it. I mean can they be that clueless?

I do realize they are rare. Maybe 1 or 2 truly "successful" one in any generation in the majors.

 

pull the pitcher

 

Agonizing... Blum and Sanchez can't turn a patented DP ball. Another run scores.