Absent some ole fashioned Mets Magic, this game ain't lookin' good. Plenty of goat horns to go around:
1) Glav - With a rookie making his 1st ML start tomorrow, we really needed Glav to go deep into today's game and save the pen (plus keep us in the game). Instead it was batting practice for the NL's worst offense, yet again. 4 HR's and another 4 deep fly balls that mercifully went foul.
2) Reyes - Where to start? Leads of the game with a solo HR with us already down 4, a nice start but obviously not a pressure situation. With a chance to tie the game in his 2nd AB with 2 RISP and 2 outs, gets to a 2-0 count. The opposing pitcher has already walked one hitter on 4 pitches, and seems crazy wild. Jose proceeds to swing at two straight balls, limply hitting a lazy fly to LF. In his 3rd AB, he has a runner on 2nd base with 0 outs. A base hit tacks on a run. Even a productive out gets the runner to 3rd with 1 out. Instead, more wild swings and another lazy pop to CF, no runner advance. The kicker is his mental error fielding in the 7th which would have ended the inning, instead leading to two runs and turning a 3 run deficit to a seemingly insurmountable 5 run deficit.
3) Willie - As Gary Cohen laid out ad nauseum, curious move to bring out Muniz for a second inning. More curious to wait until he's walked to batters to start warming a right-hander. And more curious yet to not bring on the lefty, who was long-since warmed up, to face the lone lefty in Nats lineup.
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Well, Reyes partially redeemed with a 3-run HoHo in the 9th.
How bad are the Mets?
Let's look at this fact: over the past month, they are 15-15 including two 5-game consecutive losses. Now, if we had Steve Trachsel and his 4.74 ERA (or even 4.97 last year with Mets) pitching a complete game for us in every one of those games, we would be one game better at 16-14. That is pathetic, when 5 Steve Trachsels would pitch BETTER than your rotation.
BTW, you can stop worrying about the Phils and officially start worrying about the Braves winning the division. We really needed the Phils to win last night in an ironic twist, b/c I'm pretty sure the braves will win the next two against phils w/smoltz and hudson. Assuming mets lose their next two (and why should I assume otherwise?), then the braves and phils are tied and both 2 games back.
If the Mets lose the division I'm done with this team until someone gets fired and the pitching rotation gets gutted, and if they lose it to the braves i'm probably done with baseball altogether.
There are only two players on this team who have done anything when it counts: Wright and Alou. I'm hesitant to sing Alou's praises too much b/c his injury didn't help, but you can't argue with his complete dominance when he's been healthy. I'd also consider Beltran. The rest of this team completely folded like the house of cards they are when it came to crunch time and they needed to step up. It is an absolute embarrassment and speaks volumes about their lack of pride.
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