Defs fail Base running 101 tonight in a sloppy...

sloppy game that they could have actually won anyway with a timely hit or two. Pitching and fielding were pretty sloppy tonight as well; maybe the off day yesterday had something to do with it. The B-Mets take game one of the three game set 4-2 scoring two runs in the top the ninth off reliever Joe Paterson (1-1).
Defs in the game had one runner (Crawford) over slide third base for an out. Two runners were picked off; new comer Mike McBryde (welcome aboard) and Brock Bond. Jackson Williams who lead off the seventh with a double (CT's only extra base hit of their 11 hits tonight), strayed too far off second base on a ground ball to shortstop and ended up being tagged out, short to second. And the cherry on the base blunders cake to end the game, CT loads the bases with no outs and ends the game with what appears to be a one out sac fly but Mike Mooney leaves third to soon and the B-Mets who probably saw Ryan Church called out a 100 times on ESPN in the last 24 hours appeal at third and Mooney is punched for the final out of the game.

Joe Paterson, who had nothing tonight, walking 4 and hitting a batter, sees his record even up at 1-1 and the perfect zero ERA is no more. Waldis Joaquin is an adventure very time out. Daryl Maday scattered 8 hits and gave up two runs in six innings. He wasn't sharp but kept CT in the game.

Fielding was shaky too as the winning run scored on a Brandon Crawford throwing error in the ninth and Jackson Williams was charged with his 8th PB of the season.

Crwaford did make a nice play in the hole for a put out at first and went 4 for 4 in the game. Brett Pill (RBI) and McBryde both had two singles. Mike Mooney had his first RBI in last ten games with a sac fly. Mooney has batted just .091 over that ten game span. The good news for Mike is the team heads up to Portland (AGAIN) this weekend.

Misc notes: When is this team going to score some runs at Dodd? Good to see the newcomers McBryde and Crawford get 6 of the Defs 11 hits tonight but Mooney and Jackson Williams have been killing them with the bat and Boyer is 2 for 12 on this homestand (I'm counting the game winning homer for the susp. April game against NH here). The lack of production just puts too much pressure on the pitchers and the relief corp is not as good as previous editions this season.

And when is it going to get warm? It felt like 40 out there tonight with the wind whipping around. Hondo's right--it's the coldest park around.

Good news is that the new scoreboard graphics are a lot easier to read.

Pic is Mike McBryde, who gets down the first base line pretty fast. Mike was batting .224 (13 for 58) in 15 games at Fresno with one RBI.