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A Train Wreck for Mets in the First Game of Subway Series

Bernalda — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:18:00 +0000

The Mets had this one in their hands and then it popped right out of Luis Castillo’s glove. I know errors are part of the game, but this guy is so unlikable and never plays hard that this one is even harder to swallow. The sad part is, this could have been avoided if he did what every little leaguer is told to do-use two hands. It is a good thing that Castillo’s teammates are backing him up, because he is not going to get any sympathy from Mets fans; I don’t care how much he cries.

So, the silver lining, even after the debacle earlier this week is that the Mets remain just four games behind the Phillies as they lost to the Red Sox in extra innings. But, after losing to the Yankees like the Mets did last night, it is hard to believe that the Mets will be in any race much longer. I don’t want to hang on the fact that the Mets have have too many injuries, but they do. The Mets, no matter how they try, have not been able to replace Carlos Delgado’s bat with Gary Scheffield, and they miss Jose Reyes. Two-fifths of the Mets starting rotation is out; John Maine’s arm is so tired because he has been throwing since December and apparently Oliver Perez has defected because there seems to be no news about what is going on with him. The point I guess is two fold, the Mets are not out of it even though they really could be, but the Phillies, who are really their main competition, haven’t played much better. The other part of this is that the Mets are the walking wounded. How long can they go out there with a pieced together line up night after night hoping to stay in any race. I’m also worried that this game will be the beginning of the Mets decline.

I know that Omar is getting a lot of heat here on sports talk radio. I do know that the Mets have to make some moves but do they even have anything to give up in exchange. Would you give up Fernando Martinez (and whatever else for Matt Holiday?)

So, if last night wasn’t bad enough, the Mets send Fernando Nieve to the mound to face Yankees’ starter Andy Pettitte; this will be Nieve’s first big league start. Saturday’s game is the Fox game of the week. I will be interested if Ken Rosenthal comments on his article where he made comments that the players don’t really like Jerry Manual.

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Mets Drop Four straight on the West Coast

Bernalda — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:43:57 +0000

The Mets were stellar in the first three games against the Giants, they stole a ton of bases (7 in one game), they hit with runners in scoring position and they even played defense. Even though Carlos Delgado was placed on the DL (he is expected to be out until July at the earliest), they had plenty offense and were able to win the first three of a four game series. However, the Mets lost the final game of the series and as of last night, were swept three straight by the Dodgers.

The losses against the Dodgers may not have been so bad if the Mets had not played so bad. The Mets looked like buffoons; in game one alone the Mets committed five errors. It was also in that game that we got some insight into the true relationship between Ryan Church and Jerry Manual. Church made the biggest base running blunder of the season when he completely missed third base the Mets would have taken the lead in the top of the 11^th and would have handed the ball off to Frankie Rodriguez, but instead the Dodgers appealed at third and Church was called out. Manual totally threw Church under the bus, he didn’t bother to even argue the call, instead he literally turned his back on him. I for one like Church, but now I feel he probably has to move on considering the relationship between he and the manager.

Lets be honest though, the Mets didn’t just lose that game and the series because Church missed third, the Mets committed a ton of errors and have failed to hit a home run in 60 innings. In the Dodger series the Mets left 26 men on base and were 3-27 with RISP. Suddenly the bats are dead. Not only did the Mets not hit, they also didn’t play defense well either-the committed seven errors in the series, five in one game.

The Mets are in trouble. Manya has said that they will not go out to trade for a first baseman and feels that that position can be filled by who they have on the team right now, but after watching Jeremy Reed there, it is nearly impossible to believe that Omar is watching the same team we are because as FANS we can see that this little experiment isn’t going to work. Daniel Murphy had the opportunity to play first and actually didn’t look as bad there as he does in the outfield, but suddenly this guy’s bat has been very cold.

Not only is first base a concern but so is Sean Green and JJ Putz. Putz gave up the winning run in the last game of the Dodger series. I really don’t want to hear about adrenaline or lack thereof, you are being paid to do a job and if you are asked to pitch in the second or the eighth you better do what you are supposed to do, short of the fact that you arm is falling off, I don’t want to hear excuses. On that note, Sean Green stinks and I think the Mets need to chuck him, he is a nightmare out there, he can’t get anyone out. Look, I love the Putz and Green deal, for nothing more than it got Aaron Heilman out of town but if they can’t get anyone out, they’ll get the Heilman reception from the crowd.

If the Mets are going to throw in the towel, then do so. Let Murphy play first, bring up Fernando Martinez, add one of the young pitchers from Triple A, and play out the season, but don’t feed us a line of bull and try to make us believe that the Mets can win now with what they’ve got, because they can’t. Now…not only is Delgado on the DL, Jose Reyes seems headed there too with a calf injury. Also, I’m not making excuses for the Mets because of injuries, every team has injuries; I’m just questioning who is going to step it up. I do think it is interesting that with Delgado departing, David Wright heated up…

The Mets will wrap up their road trip with three in Boston over the weekend. Interestingly, this weekend the Mets and Yankees have the opportunity to help each other out this weekend as the Yankees will host the Phillies for three…wow, I might have to root for the Yankees (ugh!)

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Mets Drop Two of Three to Braves

Bernalda — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:54:45 +0000

Game 1: Braves 8 Mets 3 After a three game sweep against the Pirates, the Mets faltered against the Braves. It is no secret that the Mets have always struggled against the Braves and I was hoping the would not lose momentum especially in the first match up between Johan Santana and Derek Lowe. The game was a nightmare. Pitching, outside of Santana was terrible, the bats were dead and the defense was dreadful. I know that when Santana is on the mound the Mets don’t score a lot of runs, I don’t know why that is; but I do think it is worth noting that when Santana is on the mound the Mets face the other team’s ace as well. Plus, it seems that everyone steps it up a notch against Santana, of the two runs that scored with Santana on the mound, none were earned; actually of the eight runs the Braves scored, only three of them were earned. David Wright and Jose Reyes have got to step up their defense-they have had periods of times where they have played well, but too often they make errors in big spots they have caused the Mets some games. The Mets were without Carlos Delgado who sat because of a sore hip.

Game 2: Mets 4 Braves 3 (10 innings) Mike Pelfrey pitched seven strong innings, he allowed just two runs on six hits, he walked only one. JJ Putz came into the game in the eight and stunk up the joint-he allowed one run on one hit while walking two. Amazingly, after saying in spring training that he had no problem being the set up man Putz has changed his tune; apparently, he has admitted that he is having trouble getting excited to pitch the eighth inning-the adrenaline isn’t there! This is the kind of crap that annoys me to all hell. Seriously, just shut up and do your job-by the way-I think it is worth noting that when you did have some adrenaline last year in Seattle you still weren’t all that great. He claims that he is healthy but that, I believe will remain to be seen. This was a great extra innings game; the Mets had not scored a run until they scored two in the bottom of the eighth off a Jose Reyes double-too bad Reyes was thrown out at third trying to stretch it into a triple. In the ninth, the Mets tied the game, Carlos Beltran hit a double and with one out stole third-Chipper Jones was very unhappy with the call-but early in the game David Wright thrown out at second on stolen base attempt earlier in the game (and he was clearly safe) so I guess the game sometime hinges on bad calls, Chipper. Oh and by the way, he was safe. Anyway, Beltran scored on a sac fly by Luis Castillo. In the bottom of the 10^th the Mets loaded the bases on a single by Reyes who stole second, Alex Cora was intentionally walked, Ramon Castro walked to load the based. Carlos Beltran came to bat with the bases loaded, Braves reliever Jeff Bennett walked him which scored the winning run. For a second straight night, Delgado was not in the lineup.

Game 3: Braves 8 Mets 7 (12 innings) This was a classic Mets Braves battle. The Mets had Jonathan Niese on the mound and lets just say, he didn’t pitch as well as the Mets would have liked. The Braves put up a two spot in the top of the first, but, the Mets came back and scored two in the bottom of the inning. The Braves would take the lead to make it 4-2 but in the bottom of fourth, Fernando Tatis hit a Grand Slam to put the Mets ahead 6-4. The Braves scored the go ahead run in the top of the eighth but the Mets fought back and tied the game in the bottom of the eighth on a homerun by Gary Sheffield. The game went into extra innings but in the end the Mets couldn’t pull it off. Ken Takahashi gave up a solo homer to Martin Prado to lead of the 12^th. The Mets had a chance, Reyes lead off with a double and Castillo moved him over with a sac bunt, but with a guy on third, both Beltran and Sheffield stuck out to end the game.

The worst part about dropping two of three to the Braves is that the Mets could have won all three of these games. I think Jose Reyes had the worst series of his life. His defense, his base running, his show boating…this kid needs to get his head on straight.

Also worth nothing, for a third straight game, the Mets were without Carlos Delgado. The Mets have come out and said that if Delgado isn’t feeling better by Friday they will put him on the DL. This could spell trouble for the Mets. Delgado’s power can’t be replaced by a platoon at first; as much as I like Tatis, I would be remiss to believe that he could take over for Delgado.

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Mets Sweep Bucs, Run Winning Srteak to 7

Bernalda — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:53:40 +0000

Game 1 Mets 7 Pirates 3 Carlos Delgado knocked in 5 runs to pace the home team in a 7-3 win over Pittsburgh. Jonathon Niese started for the first time this year in place of Oliver Perez and looked good. Niese tossed a solid six , only giving up two earned. In fact, he shouldn’t have even given up those two. The Mets looked like they were playing with iron gloves early on as balls ricocheted off of Reyes, Wright, Beltran and Reyes again. Can’t anybody catch? Beltran and Church also lost a McLouth pop-up in the lights resulting in a run scoring double. The Mets pulled away late with 5 in the eighth to to earn Bobby Parnell his first big league win.

Game 2 Mets 10 Pirates 1 Jerry Manuel served a one game suspension but his managerial expertise wasn’t needed today. The Mets set a season high with 17 hits and cruised to a 10 -1 win. John Maine gave up only one run in six but it annoyed him. Know why? Because Pirate pitcher Pat Maholm took Maine deep. The look of disgust on Maine’s face afterward was plain to see. It’s alright John. Everybody gets lucky sometime. Jeez..even YOU have a HR. Speaking of HR’s Beltran became the first player to reach the second deck in LF. A BOMB. Manuel was suspended one game by MLB for making contact with Bill Welke over the Victorino incident. It’s not like he chest-bumped him or anything. The bill of Manuel’s cap touched Welke’s nose. Sandy Alomar Sr. had control of the team and obviously, the only decision he had to make was where to eat after this laugher.

Game 3 Mets 8 Pirates 4 With Livian Hernandez on the hill the Mets fell behind early 2-0. Livian had loads of trouble early and couldn’t locate his pitches well. But he managed the game, never let an inning get away from him. The Mets took the lead in the bottom of the fourth on a run scoring single by Wright and a two run single by Omir Santos. Santos has played well and shouldn’t be sent down. When Brian Schneider comes back, the team will have a decision to make. The Mets blew it open with a single run in the seventh and four more in the eighth. This is what the Mets are supposed to look like. Score early, pile on late and beat up the teams you’re supposed to. With Mets now at 17-13 and in first place let’s hope they stay there.

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Mets Complete mini-sweep of Phillies

Bernalda — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:48:28 +0000

Game 2 Mets 7 Phillies 5 Mike Pelfrey tossed 7 strong innings as the Mets sent Jamie Moyer to the showers in the third to finish up a two game sweep of the Phills. Two run homers in the first by Carlos Beltran and David Wright gave the Mets a 4-1 lead after one. Another homer from Jose Reyes in the second and a two run double by Ramon Castro in the third put the Mets up 7-1 and chased Moyer. Pelfrey had given up a run in the first on a double to Howard but limited the damage. This is what good pitchers do, not let innings get away from them. Remember when I told you to keep an eye on Pelfrey’s groundball to flyball ratio? Are you paying attention? When Mike is on, the ratio is 2 (gournders) to 1 (fly) or higher, Mike’s ration was 14-7 in his last game and 16-8 on Thursday against the Phills. There you go. The Phils scored single runs in the 4th and 6th to close the gap. However, in the eighth things started to heat up a bit. Pedro Feliciano was on the hill, he got Shane Victorino to swing and miss to strike out; only too bad for the Mets as our good friend, home plate ump, Angel Hernandez (who has a long, contentious history with the Mets) didn’t think so; he ruled the third strike on Victorino a foul tip, replays clearly showed otherwise. Jerry Manuel discussed it with Hernandez but,of course, to no avail. Victorino then ends up reaching on a slow roller to third. Here is where things get really interesting; Chase Utley grounds to Luis Castillo, who throws to first to get the out and hang up Victorino in a rundown. Throws go back and forth and then Victorino clearly goes out of his way to make contact with Reyes throwing a forearm shiver. It was so blatant that I expected Terry Fraser to give him two minutes for elbowing, sending the Mets on the powerplay. But again, our friends the umps, disagreed. This time it was Bill Welke at first that ruled Reyes interfered. This time Manuel got his money’s worth and was ejected. In the course of the argument the bill of Jerry’s cap hit Welke in the nose. We’ll see if that becomes an issue. As for Victorino, that was a dirty play and the next time he comes to bat, well let’s just say don’t get too comfortable.

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Santana Masters Phillies 1-0

Bernalda — Tue, 12 May 2009 23:46:59 +0000

Game 1 Mets 1 Phillies 0 The Johan Show continues. A masterful 7 inning, 3 hit, O run, 10 K performance. Don’t mess with the Johan. (sidebar: “Don’t Mess with the Zohan” was one of the most horrible pieces of cinematic crap ever put to film. Even my 10 yr old nephew turned it off. Couldn’t take it.) Santana was matched pitch for pitch by Chan Ho Park, who tossed 6 scoreless. Wasn’t it me who stated last week that Park looked like he should have retired four years ago? It’s amazing what a little motivation will do for you as Park had been told this may well be his last appearance unless he looked better. VOILA!! Transformed into Chan Ho Park circa 2000. ( He was 18-10 with LA that year for you noobs )

My husband said to me as it was scoreless into the sixth ..”don’t you feel as if the Mets will do something dumb in the field to cost them the game?” HA! WRONG! For it was the Phils who made the crucial mistake. With Carlos Delgado on first via a walk, Fernando Tatis pinch hit for Jeremy Reed. Durbin, now pitching for Philly, broke Tatis’ bat resulting in a slow roller down third. Pedro Feliz scooped it up and tried to throw on the run. Uh..bad job. The throw was so wide of first that Elastic Man from the Fantastic 4 couldn’t have made the play. Delgado kept running as the throw rolled into right field. As Delgado rounded third, Jayson Werth picked up the errant throw and promptly had brain freeze. Werth held the ball, triple pumped and finally let go as Delgado scored the only run of the game.

You know, you hear guys are good all the time but until you see them everyday, you don’t realize just HOW good they really are. And that’s the story with Santana. This guy is the GOODS. I would find it hard to believe that Halladay is better. A great pitcher, no doubt, but better? No way! Against Santana, batters are hitting, I believe, .048 with runners in scoring position that is 1 for 21; he really bears down with runners on and THAT is what makes a great pitcher.

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Mets Split Pair with Phils

Bernalda — Wed, 06 May 2009 20:25:14 +0000

Game 1 Mets 7 Phillies 4 The Mets took an early lead on a Daniel Murphy HR in the first and never looked back. Chan Ho Park started for Phillies and looked like he should have retired four years ago. The real story was Mike Pelfrey who pitched better than his line indicated. He only went 5 1/3 giving up 3 earned but it’s deceiving. He had a minor meltdown in the 3^rd giving up all 3 runs but threw the ball well otherwise. What you need to look for with Pelfrey is groundballs. His groundball to flyball ratio tonite was 2-1. 10 grounders to 5 balls in the air. That shows you he’s got good stuff that particular game. Mike also knocked in 2 runs with a sac fly and a single.

Game 2 Phillies 6 Mets 5 (10 innings) This is a game the Mets could have/should have won. In spite of the dreadful performance by Ollie Perez the Mets had a one run lead in the sixth but the Phils tied it on a HR by Raul Ibanez. This guys hitting like he’s Ty Cobb re-incarnate. Pedro Feliciano gave up HR’s to Ibanez and Utley in the two games. Now Pedro’s job is to get lefty’s out, if he’s not doing that, well…. In fairness to Feliciano, giving up a HR in this bandbox is not hard to do. Murphy hit two HR’s here, if that don’t tell you something, I don’t what will. MLB should look into what a joke this place is. No wonder the Phillies have three MVP candidates, all stats are inflated playing 81 games in this whiffle ball stadium. The Mets battled today though. After Perez had them behind the eight ball early I thought they were in trouble with Jamie Moyer on the hill for Philadelphia. But the Mets chipped away and went ahead in the sixth on back to back HR’s by Murphy and Castro and a single from Castillo which scored Alex Cora. Let me take a moment to say how impressed I am with Cora. What a heady, fundamentally sound player. A great addition. The Phils tied it on the aforementioned HR by Ibanez in the bottom of the inning. The Mets almost took the lead back in the eighth but Jason Werth threw out Omir Santos at the plate. JJ Putz looked as good as I’ve seen him so far tossing a scoreless eighth and ninth. Sean Green came in for the tenth (Was Rodriguez unavailable?) and promptly became the pitching version of Rick Ankiel. A slow roller down to third for an infield hit seemed to unnerve Green. Two walks and a hit batter and it was the Mets walking off losers of a game they could have taken.

Game 3 Rained Out..No make up announced yet.

What to do with Ollie Perez? On Saturday after his brutal performance (9.97 ERA for the season) Ollie said he was embarrassed and would accept a minor league assignment to work on his pitching or lack thereof. By Sunday he had though better of this and had cooled to the idea. But now, all of a sudden, according to him his knee hurts and has been hurting since spring training. Hmmmm. Can you say DL? Kinda like Wang of the crosstown evil empire. He went on the DL and is working it out in the Yanks minor league facility in Tampa. Ollie is only 1/3 as bad as Wang was. Wang’s ERA is, like, 34.50 or something. Ollie’s giving up 24 less runs per game than that. But what’s the difference if you accept a minor league assignment or go on the DL and go work out at the minor league facility? Perception? Whatever lets these high strung prima donnas sleep at night I guess.

Met’s New and Improved Bullpen drops 2 of 3 to Marlins‏

Bernalda — Fri, 01 May 2009 18:44:05 +0000

Game1 Mets 7 Marlins 1 The Mets got 6 in the first off Anibel Sanchez and that was the ballgame. Omir Santos, starting over Castro, again, slugged a grand slam for his first career homer. John Maine was able to over come the dropped routine fly to left by Gary Sheffield in the first inning going on to pitch his best game of the year. Sheffield reemed himself in the bottom of the first hitting an RBI single to tie the game. Maine looked sharp and was able to put hitters away when he got ahead. Six strong innings, allowing only one hit. Nice job John. Also, hitting Hanley Ramirez on the hand in the first? Knocking him out for the remainder of the series? That WAS an accident, right?

What is it with LF in Citifield? We already know about Murphy’s misadventures out there and now Sheff drops a can of corn. And Hermida almost let one get over his head too. Lights? Wind currents? Ghosts of leftfielders past? Stay tuned.

Game 2 Marlins 7 Mets 4 Mets had 3-0 and 4-2 leads before Sean Green came in to pour gasoline on the fire, giving up 4 runs in the 7^th. Green is now sportin’ a stellar 8.49 ERA. Nice. This makes four games so far where the Mets have had leads of at least 3 runs and lost the game. Not only was the bullpen to blame, remember the 4-0 lead over the cards that Ollie gave up? Sheesh. On the positive side, nobody can get Beltran out right now. I hope he keeps it up. And how about Bobby Parnell? Looking very good. Maybe he needs an increased role in the grand scheme of things.

Game 3 Marlins 4 Mets Another installment of the Johan show. After giving up two in the first on a triple by Maybin and a homer by Cantu, Johan shut the Fish down for the rest of the day. The Mets chipped away and went ahead in the 6^th on Fernando Tatis’ first HR of the year. In fact, the first video review for Citifield. And lo and behold, the umps had it right the whole time. And remember when we diagrammed the so called “chalkboard game”? Well, JJ Putz busted the chalkboard over his head blowing the lead in the 8^th after walking the first two hitters he faced. Are you kidding me?? It kills me when relievers come in and walk guys like that. Kills me.

I’m sure Johan ain’t feelin’ it either. Mets should have swept this series and now are 9-12. Uh-oh. David Wright had a particularly tough day. Struck out in the first with a runner at second, two out. Grounded into DP with runners on first and third and one out in the 3^rd. Struck out, looking, with two on in the ninth. And, oh yeah, an error in the 4^th after which Johan had to pitch his ass off to get out of the jam. And speaking of asses, Wright better get his head outta his.

Side note. Have you ever seen more triples in your life? There’s, like, two a game. Gonna tire out these guys.

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Mets Drop 2 of 3 Against Marlins

Bernalda — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 01:19:20 +0000

Game 1 Marlins 5 Mets 4. The Mets wasted a great pitching effort by John Maine. Maine who hadn’t pitched since the end of August, was great in his return. In five innings he allowed two runs on two hits (both homers) walked one and stuck out five, retiring 12 of the last 13 hitters he faced. In all, the Mets stranded 14 base runners. It was a ninth inning pinch hit single by Jeremy Reed that tied the game at four; when Reed came to the plate, the Mets had gone 0-10 with runners in scoring position. In all, the Mets would strand 14 runners finishing the game 1-12 with runners in scoring position. Luis Castillo was a nightmare, at the end of the game, he was hitting .100 and had stranded six runners. While we can say all we want about it being early in the season; this is a problem of not hitting with runners in scoring postion (both for Castillo and the rest of the Mets) dates back to last season. The bullpen didn’t actually hold up their end of the bargain either. Sean Green, Bobby Parnell each allowed a run, and Darren O’Day allowed an inherited run to score (a guy Pedro Felicano left on base).

Game 2 Mets 8 Marlins 4. This game was closer than it needed to be. Livan Hernandez made his Mets debut, he looked good. Hernandez pitched six and two thirds innings allowing two runs on six hits, he walked three and struck out four. Darren O’Day worked a scoreless eight inning but ran into some trouble when David Wright made a throwing error in the bottom of the ninth, O’Day faced one more hitter before Frankie Rodriguez came in to finish out the game. I don’t know what is up with David Wright; we’ve seen him do some nice work with the glove but for whatever reason he can’t seem to throw to first. As far as offense goes, Jose Reyes was 2-5 with an RBI double and a two run homer. What is even more amazing, Luis Castillo was 4-4 with one RBI and three runs scored, he started the night hitting .100 at the end of the game his average went up to .375 (gotta love what the early season can do for the batting average). Jerry Manual told Castillo that he needs to be more aggressive at the plate and for at least one night that worked. Oh-David Wright did have an RBI in the game, but it was off the brick that Dan Uggla uses as a glove, and it came when the game was 6-2.

Game 3 Mets 1 Marlins 2. Not much to tell here. Johan pitched his ass off; but Josh Johnson pitched better. Johnson owns the Mets and now has a 5-0 record against the Mets. The hitters couldn’t get much going; they finally scored a run in the top of the ninth inning but fell short when Ryan Church flied out to end the game. The bigger part of all of this is that Daniel Murphy dropped a fly ball with two out in the second; one run to scored and then Ronnie Paulino hit a single to drive in the second unearned run. The New York press is making a big deal because Johan commented after the game that the differences in the game was the error. There has been a lot of back and forth about what Johan said, personally I read the quotes in the paper and watch the post game interview and my opinion is…his comments weren’t a big deal.

The Padres come to town for three games and the opening of Citi Field. The Mets will have Pelfrey, Perez and Maine pitching against the Padres.

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Mets top Reds 2-1, New Bullpen Perfect in Debut

Bernalda — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:43:53 +0000

Opening day-this is what we’ve been waiting for since the Marlins beat the Mets to end their horrid 2008 season. It is hard to figure out what the story is here. The Mets win 2-1, Santana has a strong start-he wasn’t exactly dominant battling the cold and the rain, but the bullpen worked just like Omar drew it up Green, Putz, and KRod-who looked unhittable. Daniel Murphy hit a homer and had two RBI.

I don’t know what happened to David Wright; didn’t I just write yesterday that he needed to have a big season? Well, I hope yesterday was not an indication of things to come. I know, I know, it is one game but it is more like a continuation of the past season. Wright had the opportunity to quiet some of his critics but failed to do so when in the first inning he struck out with a runner on third and less than two out. If that wasn’t bad enough, he was thrown out at home and to finish out the day, the was picked off first in the top of the ninth with a one run lead. Am I being too picky, after all they did win the game. At the end of the day, the Mets are 1-0 the Phillies are 0-1, what’s our magic number?

On a side note-Gary, Keith and Ron are the best booth guys in the business. Yesterday, Keith Hernandez shared a story about playing in a minor league game where tarantulas covered the field-Keith’s a funny guy!

The Mets will play again on Wednesday night. Mike Pelfrey will be on the mound and the Reds send Edinson Volquesz (17-6 with 3.21 era in 2008) to the hill. Game time is 7:10 p.m.

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