Yesterday I made the trek from Baltimore to Shea Stadium for probably my last time seeing the Mets this year at home. Even when the Mets lose at Shea, I have a great time (which I'll talk about in a post later on) but I wanted to focus on Manuel for a little bit. It takes me a while to highly criticize a managing move (in other words, the move made has to be really dumb for to get angry at the Manager) and there was one move by Manuel that made me very, very upset.
Up until the 7th inning, Manuel was doing a very good job, like usual, yesterday. He sent out Perez to bat in the bottom of the sixth, which I was happy with, he wasn't doing too bad yesterday. After the first out yesterday, he took Perez out of the seventh. I know his pitch count was up at the time, but he could have lasted the rest of the inning. The feeling in the section when Manuel came out was a general “Whats going on?”, and that was before we saw Heilman coming out of the pen.
It was a mistake, but it was one mistake, and hopefully the Mets can put it behind them today as they go for the split with the Astros. On another note, this is the second time this year I have seen Heilman make things much worse for Perez before this year, so I was laughing a little in my head because it felt like it was my bad luck. I was at a game in Washington in April where Heilman came on to relieve, and this was when he was terrible this year, and he gave up a grand slam to the Nationals, he only needed to get one out. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the results of today's game.
