postGame: Nationals 5 Mets 3

by Mike Nichols on May 14th, 2008 at 10:17 pm

The Mets (20-18) lost to the Nationals (17-24) by a score of 5 to 3 at Shea Stadium tonight.

For a complete recap and box score, check out SNY.tv.

Oh, Aaron Heilman, I don’t even know what to say anymore. He was an absolute nightmare tonight allowing three runs, not including the stranded runner left by Claudio Vargas with two outs in the seventh. He even had an 0-2 count on Jesus Flores, who opened the flood gates with a RBI single. I’m actually starting to feel bad for the guy.

What’s curious is why Willie Randolph didn’t take out Heilman after Felipe Lopez drove in the Nationals third run of the night. It was obvious Heilman was stuggling and it shouldn’t have been until the fourth run of inning scored before Willie pulled Heilman for Joe Smith, who promptly struck out Ryan Zimmerman on the three pitches. With the way Heilman has pitched this season, he doesn’t deserve that much rope.

As for Vargas, you couldn’t ask for more. He was stellar through the the first six innings, but ran out of gas after getting one out in the seventh. Unfortunately his effort was wasted by Heilman. It’s shame, you pitched well for the win tonight, Claudio. However, welcome abroad. I look forward to your next start.

I know it was a close pitch, but Moises Alou, who was ejected in the fifth for slamming hit bat acrossed homeplate, must do a better job keeping his composure. There was absolutely no reason for that kind of response and he deserved the ejection. Moises, you’re too important of a player on this team to act in such a selfish manner and your actions cost your team a chance to rally in the eighth.

Although they didn’t have many chances against Tim Redding tonight and the got a bit unlucky with a few hard hit balls, the offense still struggled when men on base.

Splitting this four-game series against the Nationals is the last thing this team needed and they can do no better than that with a win tomorrow.

The Mets finish off their four-game series against the Nationals tomorrow afternoon with Mike Pelfrey making the start.

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