Good thing the Braves helped us out again (9-2 loss to the Reds). Even so, last night's game was another wasted opportunity to open up a bigger lead in a divisional race that shouldn't even exist to begin with.
Another west coast swing, another...well, it didn't get off to a good start at least.
The Mets fell to the Padres last night, 5-1, making David Wells look about 10 years younger and 100 pounds lighter in the process. Wells pitched 6 innings, giving up just one run while striking out two before letting the Padres bullpen finish shutting down the hapless Mets offense.
Big David Wells poses with big Michael Strahan and some dude from Bon JoviJorge Sosa just about matched Wells; Sosa threw 98 pitches through 6 innings and gave up just a second inning 2-run single for the only runs on his sheet, but despite 7 hits against Wells the Mets were unable to break through, handing Sosa his 4th loss of the season.
Admittedly, I didn't watch most of the game; my boy burnsie fresh and I followed along online and chose to let MLB gameday tell us each time Carlos Beltran left a runner on base. Actually, Lastings Milledge was worse, (4 LOB for L Millz) but he's got more RBIs in 5 big league starts this season (5) than Beltran does in his last 3 series, (4, I think) so he gets a free pass.
Going into action last Thursday night, since June 1 the Mets were 28th in the majors in runs scored, 29th in walks, 29th in on-base percentage, 23rd in number of pitches per plate appearance, and 27th in batting average with runners in scoring position. Given that despite 3 wins in 5 games, the offense hasn't looked terribly rejuvenated since then, those ranks can't have changed much in the past few days.
El Duque and the floundering lineup have got their work cut out for them tonight against NL all-star starter Jake Peavy. Let us pray...
(Picture courtesy www.music-for-all.com. Stats courtesy The New York Times, Friday, July 13, 2007)
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