Nothing I enjoy more than losing a series to the Braves at The Ted. Good stuff. Seriously.
Especially when the Braves spent all the time before the series talking up the Mets, how good they are, and we'll just have to see how we "the lowly Braves" measure up against the Mighty Mets.
You can't strand 31 runners on base in a 3 game series. And you definitely cannot leave Reyes stranded on 3rd base with 0 outs in the top of the 1st. That's just ridiculous.
One weakness I see in the Mets that carried over from last season: except for LoDuca, they don't really have any guys who keep spoiling a pitcher's best breaking stuff to get the pitch count up and force him to throw the fastball they feast on. It seems like every Mets at bat goes to no more than 4-5 pitches, and they don't have the ability to keep fouling off tough pitches until they get the one they want. Instead, they swing meekly through low inside breaking stuff and whiff. And someone has got to tell Wright to start swinging at the first pitch sometimes - it is so predictable that he takes pitch 1 that everyone just throws him a strike to start him out 0-1 every at bat. Of course, for most of last season he was toughest out in MLB with 2 strike count; if he could recapture that it would be huge.
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Looks like our bats continue to be dead on opening day, stranding 12 on base through 7. And burgos picked up right where he left off last season, blowing leads.
Well, looks like I'll have to eat my comment above.. Mets bats yet again show up in late innings, with wright and delgado stepping up. Of course, so far mets have been very opportunistic against cards, braves, and phils, taking advantage of errors. But man, if you give the mets a 4th out in an inning, watch out. The runs will pile in!
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