Mike Pelfrey has had a roller coaster of a season. In terms of a roller coaster, this may have been the peak.
Pelfrey turned in eight spectacular innings, allowing only one earned run against the Chicago Cubs. The Mets rode Pelfrey’s arm and Daniel Murphy’s bat to a 4-2 victory.
The win gave the Mets the series victory over the sinking Chicago Cubs, their first since they took three-out-of-four from the Colorado Rockies July 27-30.
Pelfrey surrendered five hits and one walk while striking out five. Pelfrey needed only 105 pitches to power through the eight innings on the mound. Seventy of those pitches landed for strikes.
As Pelfrey dominated on the mound, Murphy had the Cubs’ pitchers numbers at the plate.
Murphy went 3-4, driving in all four Mets runs.
In the fourth Murphy blasted a solo home run into the Pepsi Porch for his 9th of the season. He is now second on the team in home runs, behind Gary Sheffield.
Murphy drove in one in the next inning with a single to center field. Two innings later, he tripled in two runs, the eventual winning runs, off of beleaguered reliever Kevin Gregg.
Great to see these two guys perform. These are two big question marks for 2010 and both showed their promise today. If only fans could see that all the time.