Hurting Mets Drop Two

by celtic20 on Jun 2, 2009 11:27 PM EDT Comment 8 comments

The Mets went out to face the Pirates Tuesday Night, the night after they blew a 5-run lead. Once again they were without key players, but they had their ace Johan Santana on the hill. Despite that, the Mets dropped the second game of this four game series to the Pirates 3-1.

Like game one the Mets got out in front 1-0 in the top of the 5th inning, when Luis Castillo hit a sacrifice fly allowing short stop Ramon Martinez to score. However the Mets gave the run right back in the bottom of the inning, and Santana allowed two more in the 6th inning to be charged with the loss, his 3rd of the year.

Unlike game one, where the bullpen pretty much cost the Mets the game, pitchers Sean Green, Ken Takahashi, and Brian Stokes, pitched 2 scoreless innings. The story of this game was the lack of run support for Santana, and the fact he has allowed 3 or more runs in his last four outings.

Early on in the season Santana had this problem, he didn't get much run support, but back then teams were lucky to score a run on him. Lately he has been getting run support, but also allowing runs. Tonight, the injury plagued Mets gave him one run, but he allowed 3 again, and that my friends equals number 3 loss on the year for Mr. Santana.

Now with the blown game last night, and the lost tonight the Mets can only hope for a split of this four game series in Pittsburgh.

Mets vs Pirates boxscore

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Site Bot is lowering its standards?

"He's definitely mixing it into his repertoire. That's French for 'repertoire' " - Keith Hernandez

by Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright on Jun 3, 2009 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

On vaca

Its the summer, after all.

by TBlz on Jun 3, 2009 11:13 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i'm a former reporter

i don’t mean to make it sound like a recap, it is just my thoughts on the game. where i’m from there aren’t many mets fans out here, so i don’t have anyone to talk to about this stuff.
if u want me to stop doing it i will. You can’t really call it a recap since i didn’t watch the game, because my cable provider doesn’t offer SNY. I looked at the box score and scoring plays and that is what i came up with.
if they won i’d probably write something about that too!

by celtic20 on Jun 3, 2009 11:35 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Where did you do your reporting?

You have the old-school “just the facts” style, which I prefer greatly over the tabloid style prevalent in current journalism. If you had said “Mr. Santana” I would have guess the Times.

by Zwill on Jun 3, 2009 11:46 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs