The breaking in Flushing 1-2-3
Mid-game post: Mets are 7-0 up on the Cardinals, all is well...or is it?
ONE - Last night Luis Castillo injures himself falling down the dugout steps. People will remember Luis Castillo's 2009 as the year he dropped a pop-up fly to lose a game and the year he injured himself falling down some steps. Rather than the year he had a .400+ OBP in the month of July. This is a shame.
TWO - Jonathon Niese injures himself in the second inning and then injures himself a bit more by trying to throw a warm-up pitch straight afterwards with Manuel and medical staff looking on. Torn hamstring.
THREE - This is probably my favourite, due to the back story. Nelson Figueroa hits Albert Pujols with a pitch. Cardinals reliever Brad Thompson then retaliates by throwing a pitch at David Wright's head which Wright narrowly avoids. The rights and wrongs of these actions are not for me to sum up - I'll leave that to Gary Sheffield.
Sheffield steps in after Wright, takes a couple of pitches then stands at the plate pointing to his head and shouting at Thompson. His point was presumably something along the lines of "you don't throw at a guys head". Sheffield then stands in to bat and hits a single into the gap in left-centre field. Sheffield then leaves the game with a tweaked hamstring. Rumours that he walked off the field saying "my work here is done" are yet to be confirmed.
All in all, it's been a pretty fun game to watch although Niese getting injured is particularly disappointing.
The only logical conclusion any rational person can draw is that this is somehow responsible.
ONE - Last night Luis Castillo injures himself falling down the dugout steps. People will remember Luis Castillo's 2009 as the year he dropped a pop-up fly to lose a game and the year he injured himself falling down some steps. Rather than the year he had a .400+ OBP in the month of July. This is a shame.
TWO - Jonathon Niese injures himself in the second inning and then injures himself a bit more by trying to throw a warm-up pitch straight afterwards with Manuel and medical staff looking on. Torn hamstring.
THREE - This is probably my favourite, due to the back story. Nelson Figueroa hits Albert Pujols with a pitch. Cardinals reliever Brad Thompson then retaliates by throwing a pitch at David Wright's head which Wright narrowly avoids. The rights and wrongs of these actions are not for me to sum up - I'll leave that to Gary Sheffield.
Sheffield steps in after Wright, takes a couple of pitches then stands at the plate pointing to his head and shouting at Thompson. His point was presumably something along the lines of "you don't throw at a guys head". Sheffield then stands in to bat and hits a single into the gap in left-centre field. Sheffield then leaves the game with a tweaked hamstring. Rumours that he walked off the field saying "my work here is done" are yet to be confirmed.
All in all, it's been a pretty fun game to watch although Niese getting injured is particularly disappointing.
The only logical conclusion any rational person can draw is that this is somehow responsible.
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