Eastern League Division Series Game 2:October 10th, 2023
New York Mets -
Montreal Expos @Olympic Stadium
NYM: SP
Hector Tinoco(R, 0-0 5.79)
MON: SP
Marty Murrietta(R, 7-9 3.80)
This is going to be fun… Wild thing on the mound. By the way,
Rich Meilleur is day-to-day with
wrist soreness 5 days, so
Robbie Weltzer gets the nod at short for the rest of the series. He was in the dugout for the first real action of the game as
Benavides got on for the second game in a row as, and
Messer delivered his signature move of getting hit. The big guns however… kept their power dry again as
Grok flew out to
Lemke in center(guy is also a dynamite defender…) and
Perez got doubled up.
The aforementioned
Weltzer got a chance to bat and also got doubled up to end the 2nd, and by that time, pesky
Mario Toscano had homered off
Murrietta to give the
New York Mets a shy 1-0 lead on one hit.
Murrietta wasn’t remotely as sharp as
Griffin was game one and retaliating by hitting
Bernie Castillo to lead off the 4th was certainly one of the dumbest ideas he had in the recent past. Especially if you miss the hip… and hit the head.
Scary minutes later,
Castillo walked off the field on his own, but would leave the game due to the precautionary concussion protocol. Visibly shakened,
Murrietta walked the next batter and
Lemke, the biggest pain in my butt, doubled in a run to make it 2-0 NYM. Hoping to get at least five innings out of
Murrietta, he got our for the 5th… and by the time he left the fifth, the score was 8-0 NYM. Single, BB, BB, 2-run double, RBI-single, 2-run home run.
From there on out… it became a blowout, tho a 2-run homer by
Perez, a couple of RBI-doubles and a run that scored on an error, all in the 6th, at least made the score respectable… kinda…
SP
Marty Murrietta 5IP 6H 8R 8ER 3BB 6K L
LF
Ignacio Benavides 1-4 1R BB DB
RF
Ian Messer 2-4 R RBI DB SB(1)
1B
Dave Grochowski 3-5 R RBI
2B
Fernando Perez 1-5 R 2RBI HR
3B
Julian Hernandez 2-4 DB
C
Gabriel Cervantes 1-2 R 2BB
SS
Robby Weltzer 1-4 RBI
HR NYM:
Toscano(2),
Cutelos(1)
HR MON:
Perez(1)
W:
Hector Tinoco(1-0 6.97) L:
Marty Murrietta(0-1 14.40) SV: none
NYM 11 MON 5(12)
NYM leads ELDS 2-0
To cite future
New York Mets Hall of Famer
Fred Viola from the broadcast booth: “Hitting
Messer, who is trying to get hit here, was one thing. Hitting a star player in the head is a different animal. The
Expos lit a fire under the guys, and got burned. I got the
Mets in three now.
Abel was on fire today!”
NYM CF
Abel Lemke 3-5 3R 6RBI 3DB
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