postGame: D’Backs 10 Mets 4
The Mets lost to the D’Backs by the score of 10 to 4 in Arizona.
For a recap and boxscore, go to SNY.
…well, i was happy to see the Mets fight back from down four to bring the game within one run…however, though Jorge Sosa and Aaron Heilman were able slip through two innings without giving up a run, while giving the team’s offense a chance to reclaim the lead, Duaner Sanchez entered the game, put runners all over the bases, which Scott Schoeneweis let cross the plate…it was all down hill after that…
…much like the case last season, the bullpen is just all over the road…guys who were great yesterday, are terrible today…guys who were terrible yesterday, are great today…they all look exhausted and off rhythm, and i can’t help but think they are overworked, which has everything to do with the team’s starting pitchers throwing a million pitches by the fifth inning, leaving Willie Randolph very little wiggle room for the coin he flips in the bullpen…
…it’s not that Jose Reyes isn’t patient enough, it’s that he just doesn’t keep himself compact and hit through the zone and hit the other way…he’s perpetually pull-happy, and it’s clear as day when he faces a pitcher like Brandon Webb…
…speaking of webb, he entered the day regarded as one of – of the not the – best pitcher in baseball, with a 1.98 ERA and having won six of six starts, yet the Mets were able to score four runs off of him…not that you get extra points for this, but it’s worth noting…
…i don’t really care, but it’s a bit much having D’Backs local announcer Mark Grace calling the Mets-D’Backs game on national television…which got me thinking…an interesting option could be to always have one home-town announcer from each team call the game, instead of these generic, uninvolved national announcers like Kenny Albert, Tim McCarver, etc…so, today, it could have been grace and Gary Cohen…or Ron Darling…i think this would be fun…
…i have never seen a catcher have more trouble with his equipment than Raul Casanova has with his…
…speaking of casanova, he capitalized on a fielding error by webb, which allowed a base runner and the inning to continue, by driving in an early run in the second…
…Carlos Delgado got in the way of a ground ball, jogging and lunging and deflecting the ball by Damion Easley, who was in prefect position to field it, and, as such, two runs scored to give arizona it’s first lead of the day…of course, had Mike Pelfrey not walked two batters it would not have been so bad…
…however, delgado sprung to life after that…he hit a big three-run home run to right off of webb, who uncharacteristically left a ball up over the plate, which closed the Mets to within one run…in the bottom of the inning, delgado picked a bad throw from David Wright out of the dirt to end the inning…had the ball gone by delgado, who knows what may have happened…
…speaking of carlos, i have been giving Carlos Beltran the benefit of a lot of doubts, but this is getting to be a bit alarming…it’s May, and he’s batting .208…
…one step forward, one step back…one step forward…one back…
The Mets end their three-game series with the D’Backs at 4 pm EDT pm today in Arizona, with Johan Santana facing Dan Haren.
