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Young player left on third

To have a guy at third base, a young player like that, and not to get him in, we’ve got to do a better job.-- Jerry Manuel

So that was the problem. That they left a poor lonely 23 year old on third base. Strange quote.

Regarding Murphy, so he made the error that allowed the tying run, chased ball 4 to strike out in the first, came up with first and third and no out down 1 in the 7th and hit into a double play, and led off the bottom of the ninth of a tie game and couldn't get himself in.

OK, let's try that again. With the gameplan to use up Zambrano's limited pitch count quickly, Murphy had a 7 pitch strikeout and a 7 pitch walk. Made good contact in the fifth, then with first and third down one in the seventh ripped into line drive double play that would have been a go ahead double had the first baseman not been holding the runner on. Tied in the bottom of the ninth, he hit a lead off triple and got stranded. The day before he pinch hit with 2 on and lined a single to right, and then walked in his other at bat. So Murph's looking pretty good again, except for chasing one low and inside pitch and making his first error of the season trying to charge a ball for a play at the plate. Nobody's perfect. Hopefully he'll recover from that incident of being a yound man left on third base.

About Gil Reich

Mets Obsessed since 1977.