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Chipper, Kicking Our Butts

seawolf17 May 06 2009 08:52 AM

Seriously? ]What we witnessed on Tuesday night was a baseball rarity. On 7 occasions prior to Tuesday, Larry Jones has come to the plate with the circumstances as follows * Mets beating Braves * 2 outs in the 9th inning * If the Mets get Larry Jones out, the game is over. Of those 7 instances prior to Tuesday, you know how many times the Mets got Larry Jones out? One! It didn't matter if Larry was a rookie or a grizzled vet; if the Braves were down one run, or down 10 runs. The bottom line is that Larry almost never ends games at the plate (though he did end one game on the bases, but I don't remember it, so it's almost as if it didn't happen). In potential ninth-inning "Get Larry out and the game is over" scenarios, Larry reached base on 6 out of 7 occasions (including one intentional walk). That's ridiculous. http://www.metswalkoffs.com/2009/05/mea ... ction.html That's pretty bad. (Or good, if you're Chipper.)

metirish May 06 2009 08:58 AM

WOW , I'm not surprised though with those numbers , as great as they are even . I think Pujols aside Chipper is the hitter that scares the bejaysus out of me most in that spot.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr May 06 2009 12:45 PM

="metirish":142khzvc]WOW , I'm not surprised though with those numbers , as great as they are even . I think Pujols aside Chipper is the hitter that scares the bejaysus out of me most in that spot.[/quote:142khzvc] I'd hazard a guess that Rollins has decent numbers in this department as well. After last weekend-- and considering his career numbers against Santana and Frankie le Closer-- Ibanez has to be something like number 8-9 with a bullet.