Walks in the Park
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- April
- 30
Kevin Devaney with an update from Shea:
Well, this isn’t going well.
Chan Ho Park looked like Roger Clemens through the first eight batters of the game and suddenly has become, well, Chan Ho Park again.
He gave up five runs  all with two outs  in the third inning and served up two solo homers to Alfredo Amezega and Hanley Ramirez in the fourth. The Mets trail the Marlins 7-0.
If you’re watching, who do you blame? Obviously, the two BP home runs are pinned on Park. But during the five-run third, Park gave up a two-out single to the pitcher and then walked two guys on four pitches each… then the defense turned two would-be outs into runs. Can you blame Park? Not completely, I guess. But Park has bad karma if you ask me.
The Mets are in a 7-run hole, by the way, against a guy who can pitch when he wants to. Could be a long night.
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I agree that the defense let Park down, but it was the walks that got him into trouble. He also did not help with the solo HRs to build an even deeper deficit. I’m not looking forward to his next start.
I’ll give him the Olsen hit as he’s a good hitting pitcher, but he then threw 9 straight balls to load them up for Cabrera which has got to spook the fielders though that’s not an excuse. Easley should have had the liner – it certainly should have been scored an error – but Chan Ho set the whole thing up.
Any truth to the rumor Chan Ho Park asked Jose Lima for advice on making spot starts for the Mets?