NEW YORK(AP) Aaron Rowand homered and had four hits, Joe Martinez won close to home and the San Francisco Giants routed a makeshift New York Mets team 10-1 on Monday night to split their four-game series.
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Via Faith and Fear
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August 16, 2009
If the Mets win in a forest and I don't hear the Giants fall, did it still happen?
Sure it did. But the Mets winning in a walkoff usually creates a great big resonant sound in my Sunday as long as I'm near a TV or a radio carrying the broadcast. And I was — I was inches from the clock radio whose alarm I presumably semi-consciously shut off prior to gametime and then left...
Via The Musings and Prophecies of Metstradamus
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August 19, 2009
I hope for Alexi Panos' sake that she's not still doing "Beer Money" when she's 45 years old.But if she is, she'll have that ace question in the hole where she'll ask the contestant du jour to name as many players who got a hit during the inning where they set a club record with ten. She could even tell them that the year was 2009. And the guesses will...
Via Tom Seaver Fan Club
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August 16, 2009
Just when it appeared things could not get worse for the 2009 New York Mets, we have the ugly incident involving the one remaining healthy Mets superstar, 3B David Wright. Baseball wise, quite simply this current roster cannot compete without # 5. It was bad enough without a Reyes, Beltran and Delgado, now you have [...]
Via Baseball Musings
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August 17, 2009
Alex Cora needs surgery on both his thumbs and will miss the rest of the season.
Via Bleacher Report
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August 19, 2009
This time last year the Giants didn't have a whole lot to cheer about. The team was 17 games under .500, and looking pretty lost. A huge deal to a mechanically unsound Barry Zito proved to be a giant mistake, and outside of a phenomenal performance by young ace, Tim Lincecum, there didn't appear to be a whole lot of hope for the club.
Flash forward to 2009. The Giants have the...
Via ESPN
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August 16, 2009
Mets third baseman David Wright was discharged Sunday from a hospital in New York a day after suffering a concussion when he was struck in the head by a pitch from San Francisco Giants starter Matt Cain.
Via metsonline.wordpress.com
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August 16, 2009
A rundown of the 11 players currently on the disabled list for the Mets
and a listing of others who have spent time on the DL this year for the
club.
Via Sacbee
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August 19, 2009
TONY TRIBBLE Associated Press
Ryan Garko, left, who hit a two-run double in the 10th, gets a fist bump from first-base coach Roberto Kelly.
Via Inside Bay Area
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August 17, 2009
The San Francisco Giants beat the deadline for signing draft picks by agreeing to a $3.3 million deal with right-hander Zack Wheeler.
The Giants had a 9 p.
Via Walkoff Walk
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August 19, 2009
New York Mets owner Fred Wilpon lost hundreds of millions of dollars when Bernie Madoff's super-awesome investment firm proved to be nothing more than a bundle of twenties stuffed in a shoebox underneath Bernie's twenty-four carat gold bed. But there was no way that Wilpon's empty pockets could possibly affect the Mets in a negative way, right? Via Metsblog presented...
Via NJ.com
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August 17, 2009
Henry Ray Abrams/Associated PressThe Mets' David Wright speaks during a press conference at Citi Field Monday. He was hit square on the helmet by a 94 mph fastball from the Giants' Matt Cain Saturday. David Wright said he felt better...
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