The Mets welcomed the Boston Red Sox to Tradition field, and settled for a 1-1 tie after 10 innings of baseball.
Johan Santana had an absolutely stellar start. Santana went 4 innings, allowing 2 hits (helped out by a misplay by Brady Clark being called an error), walked none and struck out 4 batters. Santana topped out around 91-92 mph and just looked on today.
This was easily Santana's best start of the spring as he was just mowing people down with his changeup.
Matt Wise put together 2 scoreless innings of work. Wise allowed two hits, while walking none. Pedro Feliciano and Willie Collazo each pitched a scoreless and hitless inning each. Brian Stokes allowed the only run for the Mets, allowing a run to score in the top of the 9th inning. He only allowed one hit, a double, but the runner advanced on a ground ball and scored on a sac fly.
Just a stellar performance from the Mets staff today. Stokes struggled a bit, but to only allow one run over 10 innings is pretty darn good to me.
Clark atoned for his error in the field, going 2-3 on the day with two singles. Angel Pagan doubled for his only hit in the bottom of the 8th inning, moved to third on a Robinson Cancel poke to first base, and scored on a Argenis Reyes groundout to first, when Kevin Youklis couldn't get the ball out of his glove. David Wright and Anderson Hernandez each picked up a single in the game. Jose Reyes and Jose Valentin each walked once as well.
The offense struggled a bit as both teams pitchers had amazing days. Pagan is really impressing. If he doesn't win the LF job, I will be amazed.
