Raise your hand if you enjoyed the hell out of that game last night. Yup, me too. It was a long one at 3 hours and 11 minutes, and it was also quite dramatic and finished with a bang.
A bunch of folks are writing rather disparaging words about Ollie Perez today, but I thought his start was pretty decent. His overall line was 5 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 2 ER, 5 BB and 7 Ks. Not bad.
Yes it took him 112 pitches to get through those 5 innings, but his stuff was there and I thought the ump pinched him on a couple of really good pitches that went for balls.
Since his return Ollie has gone 1-1 in 5 starts and given up 2, 3, 4, 3, 2 earned runs in those outings to lower his ERA by nearly two full runs per game. Right now he has one undoing--walks. In those same 5 starts he has walked 7, 4, 6, 4, 5...terrible.
So with all that said, I truly believe Ollie is on the brink of a few 7+ inning games where he walks 2 or 3....the line is that fine with him right now.
I could write all day about last night's game--the brilliant at bat by Brian Schneider that resulted in a 400 foot double, the gutsy at-bats by Alex Cora, the continued streak of DW, another RBI from Jeff Francoeur, the brilliance of Pedro Feliciano, the wonderful pinch hitting of Omir Santos and Angel Berroa and of course, the 5 RBIs and Grand Slam of Angel Pagan.
It was that kind of game.
Instead, let's look at the Mets stars of this 8 game effort that's produced a 6-2 record.
David Wright:
12 for 27, 9 Runs, 4 Doubles, 2 HR, 6 RBIs
Jeff Francoeur:
7 for 29, 10 RBIs
Angel Pagan:
10 for 35, 6 Runs, 3 Doubles, 2 Triples, 7 RBIs
Daniel Murphy:
10 for 29, 6 Runs
Alex Cora:
9 for 26, 5 Runs
Corey Sullivan:
6 for 20
Luis Castillo:
7 for 25, 7 Runs, 6 Walks
Notice anything? Yup, you got it--no one is going crazy and carrying the team by themselves.
What we have here is a team that is getting hits together, creating runs together, picking each other up. Toss in the occassional longball and the wins keep piling up.
This is what we all said could happen when the stars went down--get enough runs for the pitching staff to do their thing.
The plan now is to keep winning games, get a few more pieces back, and get to September no worse than 3 games back in the wild card. If the Mets keep playing like this, it could even be closer than that.
So enjoy your coffee and root like hell for Big Pelf to keep this thing going....one game at a time.
| Scoreboard |
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
| Arizona (45-59) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 1 |
| N.Y. Mets (50-53) « | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | x | 9 | 12 | 0 |
PLAYER OF THE GAME
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 A. Pagan | AB | 4 |
| R | 1 |
| H | 2 |
| HR | 1 |
| RBI | 5 |
| New York Mets |
| Hitters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | LOB | AVG |
| Angel Pagan, CF | 4 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .295 |
| Luis Castillo, 2B | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .294 |
| David Wright, 3B | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .325 |
| Daniel Murphy, 1B | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .247 |
| Jeff Francoeur, RF | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .257 |
| Cory Sullivan, LF | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .269 |
| a- Fernando Tatis, PH-LF | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .242 |
| Alex Cora, SS | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .253 |
| Brian Schneider, C | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | .212 |
| b- Omir Santos, PH-C | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .263 |
| Oliver Perez, P | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .333 |
| Bobby Parnell, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| c- Jeremy Reed, PH | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .259 |
| Tim Redding, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .077 |
| Pedro Feliciano, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| d- Angel Berroa, PH | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .146 |
| Brian Stokes, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Francisco Rodriguez, P | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Totals | 35 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 6 |
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