PREDICTION: Johan Santana Pitches 1st No-Hitter in Mets' History
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Johan Santana Pitches 1st No-Hitter in Mets' History
By MIKE FITZPATRICK | The Associated Press - 1 hour 14 minutes ago
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New York Mets starting pitcher Johan Santana (57) waves to fans after throwing a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals in a baseball game on Friday, June 1, 2012, at Citi Field in New York. The Mets won 8-0. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)
New York Mets starting pitcher Johan Santana (57) waves to fans after throwing a no-hitter against the St. Louis Cardinals in a baseball game on Friday, …
New York Mets starting pitcher Johan Santana (57) throws against the St. Louis Cardinals in the second inning of a baseball game on Friday, June 1, 2012, at Citi Field in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)
New York Mets starting pitcher Johan Santana (57) throws against the St. Louis Cardinals in the second inning of a baseball game on Friday, June 1, 2012, …
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NEW YORK (AP) For more than 50 years, the New York Mets chased that elusive no-hitter. Johan Santana finally finished the job.
Santana pitched the first no-hitter in team history, helped by an umpire's missed call and an outstanding catch in left field in an 8-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Friday night.
After a string of close calls over the last five decades, Santana went all the way in the Mets' 8,020th game.
''Finally, the first one,'' he said. ''That is the greatest feeling ever.''
He needed a couple of key assists to pull it off.
Carlos Beltran, back at Citi Field for the first time since the Mets traded him last July, hit a line drive over third base in the sixth inning that hit the foul line and should have been called fair. But third base umpire Adrian Johnson ruled it foul and the no-hitter was intact - even though a replay clearly showed a mark where the ball landed on the chalk line.
''I saw the ball hitting outside the line, just foul,'' Johnson told a pool reporter.
The umpire acknowledged that he saw the replay afterward but declined to comment.
''It was in front of his face, and he called it foul. I thought it was a fair ball,'' Beltran said. ''At the end of the day, one hit wasn't going to make a difference in the ballgame. We needed to score more runs and we didn't do that.''
Hometown kid Mike Baxter then made a tremendous catch in left field to rob Yadier Molina of extra bases in the seventh. Baxter crashed into the wall, injured his shoulder and left the game.
Making his 11th start since missing last season following shoulder surgery, Santana (3-2) threw a career-high 134 pitches in his second consecutive shutout. Relying on a sneaky fastball and the baffling changeup that's always been his signature, he struck out eight and walked five.
''Amazing,'' Santana said after tossing the majors' third no-hitter this year. ''Coming into this season I was just hoping to come back and stay healthy and help this team, and now I am in this situation in the greatest city for baseball.''
Before the game, Mets manager Terry Collins said he planned to limit Santana to 110-115 pitches all season.
''I just couldn't take him out,'' a choked-up Collins said afterward.
Born in 1962, the Mets have been built on pitching when they've fielded their best teams. But neither Nolan Ryan, Tom Seaver nor Dwight Gooden could throw a no-hitter for the Mets - though all three are among the seven pitchers who tossed one after leaving the team.
Philip Humber is another one. He pitched a perfect game for the Chicago White Sox at Seattle on April 21, and Jered Weaver of the Los Angeles Angels no-hit Minnesota on May 2.
Following the game, Santana addressed his teammates in the clubhouse. He thanked them and said: ''Yeah, baby! Believe it!''
Santana got a warm ovation as he headed out to the mound for the ninth inning, and the two-time Cy Young Award winner quickly retired Matt Holliday and Allen Craig on shallow fly balls.
With the crowd of 27,069 on its feet in a frenzy, World Series MVP David Freese went to a 3-2 count before his foul tip was caught by Josh Thole, just activated from the disabled list earlier in the day.
Santana pumped his left fist and slammed it into his glove as Thole showed the ball to plate umpire Gary Cederstrom and then went running out toward the mound.
''I don't think anybody expected that tonight. Everything came out perfect for him,'' Beltran said. ''It should mean a lot for him after battling last year with the injuries. ... I'm not happy about it, but at the same time he's a good man and I'm happy for him.''
The Mets rushed out of the dugout and mobbed Santana in a raucous dogpile as security tackled a fan who ran onto the field near home plate. Moments later, the pitcher raised his right arm and saluted the crowd, which was chanted his name from the eighth inning on. The big scoreboard in center flashed Santana's picture and read ''No-Han.''
''It was a crazy night - my fastball moving all over the place,'' Santana said. ''I don't think I've ever thrown a no-hitter in video games.''
The Cardinals should have had a hit in the sixth.
Beltran, traded by the Mets to San Francisco last July after 6 1/2 rocky seasons in New York, led off with a low liner over third. Television replays showed the ball nicked the foul line just behind the bag on the dirt, taking a small chunk of chalk with it. But Johnson called it foul immediately and Beltran eventually grounded out.
''It was tough because it happened so quick. I wasn't able to see anything,'' Santana said.
''The umpire made his call and that was the end of it,'' he said.
But with the next batter at the plate, Cardinals third base coach Jose Oquendo twice got in Johnson's face for heated arguments - the two even appeared to bump each other. Rookie manager Mike Matheny also came out to protest, but nobody was ejected.
Almost exactly two years ago - on June 2, 2010 - Armando Galarraga lost a perfect game when first base umpire Jim Joyce admittedly blew a call that should've resulted in the final out. The miss in Detroit instead gave Cleveland's Jason Donald a single with two outs in the ninth.
Major League Baseball had considered expanding replay for this season to review fair-or-foul calls and trapped balls. The change required the approval of MLB and the unions representing the umpires and the players - when there was no agreement, extra replay was postponed until at least 2013.
Santana cruised from there into the seventh, when Molina hit a one-out drive to deep left. Baxter, who grew up rooting for the Mets only 10 minutes from where Citi Field stands, raced back and made a terrific catch before crashing full force into the fence.
Baxter stayed down on the warning track as Mets trainers, players and coaches rushed out to him. Santana crouched in the infield with a couple of teammates and then made a few warmup tosses to stay loose.
Baxter walked off the field under his own power, with trainer Ray Ramirez holding the outfielder's left arm. The Mets said Baxter has a bruised left shoulder and was having more tests.
''When I saw him running back onto the warning track and he made that play, it was amazing. An outstanding play and he saved the game,'' said Santana, traded to the Mets by Minnesota before the 2008 season. ''All these guys, I want to thank them for what we accomplished.''
Lucas Duda hit a three-run homer off Adam Wainwright (4-6) and drove in four runs, tying a career high. Daniel Murphy added three RBIs.
The San Diego Padres, who started play in 1969, are now the only team without a no-hitter.
The Mets' seemingly endless pursuit had become something of a famous quest, with at least one website even dedicated to counting off their total number of games without one each day during the season.
The list of pitchers who have thrown no-hitters after leaving the Mets includes Ryan and Seaver, both Hall of Famers, plus Gooden, David Cone, Mike Scott, Hideo Nomo and Humber.
Seaver came within two outs of a perfect game in 1969 and fell one out shy of a no-hitter in 1975, the previous time a Mets pitcher had made it into the ninth without yielding a hit.
NOTES: Santana's previous career high was 125 pitches. ... It was the eighth no-hitter pitched against St. Louis, which was leading the NL in batting this season, and the first since Fernando Valenzuela for the Los Angeles on June 29, 1990. ... Mets 3B David Wright said in a radio interview on WFAN that he won't talk to the team about a new contract until after the season because he doesn't want his situation to be a distraction for the team. Wright's salary is $15 million this season and New York holds a $16 million option for 2013, which gets voided if he is traded. After that, he can become a free agent. ... Replays showed Cardinals pinch-hitter Shane Robinson was hit on the hand by a pitch in the eighth. He started toward first, but Cederstrom called it a ball.
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Supersized Egg Found by Cookie Smith Has Another Egg Inside (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | By David Moye Posted: 06/01/2012 3:20 pm Updated: 06/01/2012 4:12 pm
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Cookie Smith shows off a normal egg and a "super egg" Wednesday, May 30, 2012, in Abilene, Texas. Cookie Smith went to collect eggs from her three laying hens on Monday afternoon, and discovered one normal egg and one "super egg" in her coop.
These days, supersized foods are quite common, but that didn't stop Cookie Smith from being shocked when she saw the egg one of her hens laid earlier this week.
"I just died laughing when I saw it," Smith told the Abilene Reporter News. "There in the nest was a 'mutant super egg.'"
Although the "super egg" was the same shape and color that Smith is used to seeing from her hens -- which she describes as "just scrawny little things" -- this egg-tremely large egg was an inch longer than normal and weighed slightly more than five ounces, three times more than the normal eggs.
Even more egg-citing was what happened after she cracked open the "Super Mutant Egg." Inside was a large yolk - and another intact normal-sized egg, the Associated Press reported.
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"Oh my word," Smith remarked to the Abilene Reporter News journalist as a complete egg slid out of the cracked shell, along with a bright yellow yolk and slippery white. "Would you look at that?"
Researchers say this kind of "double egg" is relatively rare and forms when "unusual contractions" force a developing egg traveling down an oviduct to move back into the ovary, where it is surrounded by another egg. Then, the concentric eggs are delivered as one, the Austin Statesman reported.
Experts said the eggs were probably safe to eat, but Smith and her husband, Leonard, declined.
"No way. It may be fine, but it's a mutant egg," she told the Abilene Reporter News. "Its DNA may be messed up or something."
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Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe”: Song of Summer 2012?
By Tiffany Lee | The New Now - 10 hours ago
Although plenty of people would wish it so, you'd be hard-pressed to avoid the unbelievably catchy pop phenomenon that is Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe." With a danceable rhythm, lyrics that will sear themselves into your brain, and backing from superstar Justin Bieber (and his powerful friends), it looks like the international chart-topper is positioned to be the song of summer 2012... Maybe?
With the hitch of the entire song being about giving digits, it's surprising to hear that Jepsen has never given a guy her number! But seems she didn't have to as she is currently dating someone from her home in Canada.
[Related: 50 Greatest Summer Songs]
Coming from relative obscurity to having a #2 song on the Billboard Top 100 (but could hit #1 next week), the last six months have been a wild ride for singer/songwriter Carly Rae Jepsen. She initially came into Canadian households by competing on the 2007 season of Canadian Idol, finishing in third place. The singer then moved from the little town of Mission in British Columbia to Vancouver, signed to a small label, and released "Call Me Maybe" as a testing ground song. Making the rounds on Canadian radio, apparently Justin Bieber happened to hear the song while visiting home in Canada for Christmas in 2011. Much like how Usher plucked him from Youtube, Bieber acted quickly to take the 26-year-old singer under his 18-year-old wing.
"Call Me Maybe" became a quick viral hit after Bieber and pals including Selena Gomez, Ashley Tisdale and members of Big Time Rush made a DIY cover video for the song that has at this point surpassed 40 million views. The video not only sparked a flood of fan cover videos, but homemade videos and covers from celebrities like Katy Perry, fun. and even James Franco.
[Related: Katy Perry Is Latest Celeb To Make Carly Rae Jepsen "Call Me Maybe" Cover Video]
Setting aside her powerful advocates, the song itself is a bubbly, adorably angsty teen song that has all the elements that a summer hit should have: A good beat, great melody and catchy lyrics; something you and your friends can belt out in the car while driving to the beach, a party, and pretty much anywhere. And who hasn't given their number and thought something along the lines of, "Hey, I just met you / And this is crazy / But here's my number / So call me, maybe?" It's not love or lust, it's just an innocent crush, a leap of faith and a low-pressure request: The perfect way to start off a summer fling.
Other interesting tidbits about Jepsen:
She wanted to buy Justin Bieber a fake ID for his birthday
Her and her bandmates paid $30 to name a star after Bieber
Owns over 60 unfinished diaries, from which she finds songwriting inspiration
She signed a contract with Bieber's label even before meeting him
Was originally signed to her first label as a folk artist
She does not appear in the Youtube video Bieber and friends made
"Call Me Maybe" co-writer Josh Ramsay ditched everything except the one line when Jepsen brought him the first version of the song
But will Jepsen's bid for becoming summer 2012's song pan out? Could be that she is peaking early. CNN.com pointed out that last year's big summer hit "Moves Like Jagger" didn't come out until late June and she has heavy competition from her boss Justin Bieber's song "Boyfriend." Plus, she is yet to unseat the current #1 "Somebody That I Used To Know" by fellow obscurity-to-superstardom singer/songwriter Gotye, who has the longest running #1 song of the year thus far.
All I know is that I really can't get this song out of my head and sometimes--despite sales figures, competition, or critics--that is all one needs to have a summer jam.
Carly Rae Jepsen's EP "Curiosity" is out now and she is aiming to release a full-length album this fall along with a duet with Justin Bieber "sometime soon."
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