Beltran and Pedro, Sittin’ In a Tree
I planned to look this stat up myself, but Marty Noble of MLB.com beat me to it, noting, “Beltran has four home runs and 17 runs batted in; all four of the homers and all but four of his RBI have come in Martinez’s five starts. Martinez has three victories now; Beltran has driven in three runs in each.”…
“I wish he would pitch every other day, but that’s not going to happen,” Beltran told reporters following last night’s game…
…hmm…i don’t blame you…if he did, carlos, you’d apparently hit 124 homers in a season…not bad…
For those young Mets fans, check out Noble’s article, it draws a nice comparison between Pedro and Beltran to other joined-at-the-hip combos in Mets history, such as Seaver-n-Buddy and Doc-n-Darryl, which subsequently were the names of my two cats when I was a kid…
