Yesterday I mention how Pedro Martinez must now start to show the Mets a little something of his old form, well, as PEDRO threw his 1st pitch, it was quickly launch over the left field wall for a leadoff HR off the bat of Jody Gerut. This was clearly not the Pedro I was looking for as 2 batters later Pedro gave up another long ball, this time to Brain Giles. Martinez pitched into the 7th inning, and wound up giving up 3 runs, but to me it is clear that Martinez was pitching very carefully and this to a last place team that does not feature much of a scare with the lineup they have, I mean the only guy you get scared of is Adrain Gonzalez and he ain't all that scary. I can not see Pedro doing the job against a Phillies or Marlins lineup that features a bunch of guys that can take you deep, and I don't want to even imagine Pedro vs. a good American league team like Sox or Angels or a potent Yankee lineup.
The Mets went on to lose the game 4-2 and fall back 3 games back, and again must win tonight's game to at least take the series against the lowly last place Padres. The Mets David Wright gets the goat of the game in this one as he made 2 big mistakes.
1st in the 5th inning, Wright was on 1st base with the rookie Daniel Murphy on 2nd with 1 out, when Carlos Beltran drove one deep to right only to get caught by Giles when Wright simply forgot how many outs they were and had taken the METS out of the inning by his blunder. Then in the 7th, Wright made an error on 3rd which was eventually the go ahead run for the Padres.
The Mets will now give the ball to Johan Santana this afternoon, and hopefully he can go all 9.
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You know its pretty sad for the Mets when you have to hope that Johan goes all 9.
Well he has only done it once, and if I was him I will try to do it all the time, with the way the bullpen has blown like 5 wins this season already.
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