September 24, 2007

The Real "Show" Arrives?

With the bullpen in complete disarray and games being lost after early leads were established. The club was looking for somebody, anybody to step up and help out Wagner, Heilman and Sosa. It came from the most unlikely of characters, No; Mota didn't find his 06 form, Feliciano is still looking like a LOOGY and the intriguing names like Smith and Collazo still don't look ready. So then who is the mystery guess, none other then Scott Schoeneweis, Yes; the same pitcher we killed Omar for signing and begged to cut may have made the biggest save of the season on Friday night. The Mets had a three run lead in the eighth but with Wagner unavailable Schoeneweis was asked to do what a tired Sosa couldn't do the night before close out the game. With the Phillies already winning, the lead down to 1.5 in the division and six losses in their last seven games, another devastating loss could have been the season. "Show" worked the bottom of the eighth and ninth, striking out three for his first save as a Met. He followed that up today by getting the last out in a one run game in extra innings for his second save. Schoeneweis has quietly had an effective second half, since August first in 27 games he's given up eight earned runs and only two were multiple run games ( Phillies-3runs/Nats-2runs). He was working through a knee injury to start the year, maybe he found his groove and nobody realized it or maybe he's a veteran that knows how to step-up. When he was traded to Cincy last year and they were playing for the wild card he ha quite a run, maybe he's a big game pitcher.....

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

well you cant be bad all of the time

Anonymous said...

yeah you can andhe escaped that one