Hey, Hey Bay-Bay Applesauce: Mets Lose to Athletics, Gee Walks Half-Dozen, Bay Wakes Up from the Dead

Dillon Gee had little command as he walked six Athletics in four innings and the Mets offense was mostly silent in a 7-3 loss on Tuesday night. Gee clearly didn't have it and that resulted in his first defeat of the season. The offense, meanwhile, struggled against aptly named pitchers Josh Outman and Grant Balfour among others and managed just three runs. Hideki Matsui unbelievably made a few nice plays in the outfield, too.

The good news of the night was the explosion from Jason Bay's bat. The struggling left fielder went 3-3 with a single, a long home run to left field and a triple that nearly was a home run off of the center field wall (and Coco Crisp's glove). In case you missed the game and you either don't believe me or think I'm on drugs or something, here is actual visual evidence of Bay's home run.

Game two of the series is Wednesday night at 7:10 PM and features Gio Gonzalez up against our hero R.A. Dickey.

The big news prior to Tuesday's game was that Sandy Alderson reached out to Jose Reyes and his agents but the Reyes camp told the Mets that they'd rather wait until after the season to discuss a contract extension. Not much of a surprise if you've been following the Reyes talks since spring training.

Some guy at ESPN New York wrote an awful article about why the Mets should trade Jose Reyes and sighted Mike Hampton as a bad contract on the Mets' ledger. However, he edited out the Hampton quip at 12:12 AM. Don't worry, Rob Parker: Hall of Fame voter and "columnist" at ESPN NY. We all know what you originally wrote.

Ike Davis and David Wright have doctors appointments on Wednesday and Thursday respectively. Wait...who? In all seriousness, this team desperately needs these guys.

Two top prospects were promoted to Double-A Binghamton on Tuesday as two Matts, Harvey and Den Dekker were pushed up following St Lucie's clinching of the division. The 2010 draft picks had excellent first halves in St. Lucie and should at the least make Binghamton more interesting to follow. Reliever Nick Carr and starter Darin Gorski may soon follow, among others.

Around the NL East

The Pujols-less Cardinals had a one run lead before surrendering nine (yes, nine) runs in the 8th inning as the Phillies ripped apart the Cards 10-2.

The Braves beat the Blue Jays 5-1 on the strength of 7 strong innings from Mike Minor. Also helping: Alex Gonzalez's gritty, winning leadership for the Bravos combined with Yunel Escobar's losing mentality and negative non-clubhouse conforming chemistry for the Jays (obviously).

Jack McKeon magically made the losing stop as the Marlins beat the Angels 5-2. Meanwhile, somewhere in South Florida, Jeffrey Loria stares at some art and thinks he's an excellent owner.

Say hello to your 3rd place Nationals. The Nats beat the Mariners 6-5 and overtook our heroes for third place in the NL East. That's 9 wins in 10 games for the Gnats.

Around the Majors

Frank McCourt has issued a warning to Bud Selig after MLB declined the Dodger owner's new money stealing scheme TV deal with the local Fox affiliate.

Which league is better? Dave Schoenfield contends that the American League has been better. It's hard to argue, since the AL houses perennial winners in the Red Sox, Yankees, Angels, Rays, Twins and a few other savvy teams, while the Mets, Dodgers, Cubs and Astros have all been expensive laughingstocks in the NL for a few years now.

There's an internet campaign floating around that lobby Vin Scully announce this year's World Series on Fox. While just about anybody is better than Joe Buck, it would be awesome to hear Scully announce one last World Series.

Roger Clemens is still in court.

Finally, Texas Rangers fans set a Guinness World Record for the most fans wearing sunglasses in the dark. Apparently George W. Bush wears his sunglasses at night.