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 7th. 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 6th 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 8th 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 3rd. Struck out, looking, with two on in the ninth. And, oh yeah, an error in the 4th 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.
