Incompetent baseball at its finest, thankfully the Mets were just a tad bit better.
Pitching Performance
Well, that stunk. Oliver Perez was staked to a three-run lead, and quickly game it back and then some. Perez lasted only three 1-3 innings, allowing seven earned runs on eight hits. He walked two and struck out three.
What to say...what to say. That was a miserable outing by Perez. That is all.
Nelson Figueroa came in to mop up for Perez, and allowed two runs to score. Luckily for Figueroa, those runs were charged elsewhere.
As I said in a previous game recap, on the days the starting pitching fails to show, the bullpen usually shines. That was the case tonight, as the pen combined to throw five 2-3 innings, allowing only one run charged to them. Brandon Knight was the man to surrender the run.
Joe Smith pitched one 2-3 innings, allowing only one hit, walking one, and striking out one. Thanks to Los Carloses, Smith ended up earning the win. Luis Ayala came in with a two-run lead in the ninth, and worked a perfect inning to close out the win.
Another one to sweat out, but another "eek-out" win by the Mets.
Offensive Output
The Mets needed all the runs they could get tonight, and thankfully the bats came to play.
Damion Easley got it started in the second inning, knocking a two-run double to left, bringing in Carlos Delgado and Fernando Tatis.
Just the beginning of a huge night for Delgado.
In the next inning, the Mets picked up more runs, with Ryan Church blasting a solo home run to deep right. A few batters later, Delgado crushed a two-run home run off the scoreboard in right.
Smell that? Something is on fire, and I think it's Delgado.
In the fourth, a Church ground ball drove in another run, followed by a single by Wright to drive in another.
Down one run, entering the sixth, Los Carloses teed off. Carlos Beltran blasted a two-run home run to left center, followed by another Delgado goner, this one of the solo variety.
Last September, these two were MIA. This time around, they're front and center.
The Rest of the Story
All Mets position players picked up a hit, and only the six, seven and eight hitters were held to one.
The teams combined for 18 runs and 26 hits.
Game Ball: Carlos Delgado
