postGame: Mets 5 Nationals 2

by Mike Nichols on April 16th, 2008 at 10:37 pm

The Mets (7–6) defeated the Nationals (4–11) by the score of 5 to 2 at Shea Stadium tonight.For a recap and boxscore, go to SNY.tv.

…well so much for the Mets early season power outage…Ryan Church connected on the first of the Mets three homeruns tonight in the bottom of the first…church has shown some early success hitting lefties, especially on mediocre breaking balls from southpaws…

…Jose Reyes hit his first homerun of the season in the fifth to tie the game at 2…nice to see jose getting into a groove…the smiling, fun-loving reyes seems to be back…welcome back, jose…and the old adage of how reyes goes, so goes the Mets is becoming more true with every game, even the folks at SNY put up a telling graphic providing the statistical proof…

…the big blow came in the fifth with a three-run bomb from Carlos Beltran off the tiring Matt Chico…carlos is locked in from the right side of the plate…even after the game beltran, speaking with SNY’s Kevin Burkhardt, admitting to feeling more comfortable from the right side so far this season…

…on the pitching side, John Maine certainly looked better than he had in his previous two outings, but he doesn’t seem to be comfortable just yet…he is looking more like the john main of 2006 than 2007 with his fastball riding high away from batters and when he did get the ball down it was in the heart of the plate…he battled and looked quite annoyed that he was unable to get through the seventh…you can see signs he is coming around and look forward to seeing a more dominate maine in the very near future…

…give a game ball to Joe Smith for coming in and bailing out maine in the seventh and getting a big double play after hitting Lasting Milledge with a pitch in the eighth…

…oh, and Chad Cordero, it looks as if a visit to Dr. James Andrews is in your future…just saying…

…another good win tonight in which the Mets looked crisp in all phases…keep it rolling, guys, keep it rolling…

Tomorrow, the Mets continue their series against the Nationals, with Nelson Figueroa facing John Lannan, starting at 7:10 pm.

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