postGame: Braves 11 Mets 4
The Mets (22-22) lost to the Braves (25-21) by a score of 11 to 4 tonight at Turner Field.
For a complete recap and box score, check out SNY.tv.
Well, that was painful to watch. Keith Hernandez said it best during tonight’s broadcast, the Mets have hit rock bottom and have nowhere to go but up.
Mike Pelfrey had excellent stuff tonight, but he just couldn’t locate any of his pitches, which allowed the Braves hitters to sit on pitches in hitters counts. Pelfrey also got a bit unlucky in the third inning when a two out grounder was poorly played by Luis Castillo that allowed the Braves to score three runs in the inning.
The thing is, I’m not even sure it mattered much that Castillo bobbled the ball as Pelfrey couldn’t locate and it was going to catch up with him sooner or later. And, in the fifth it did, when another three Braves runs crossed the plate.
The bullpen wasn’t much better as the three reliever that followed, Pedro Feliciano, Joe Smith and Scott Schoeneweis proceeded to give up five runs over two innings.
Billy Wagner continued his streak of 18.0 innings not allowing an earned run as he got himself out of a no out base loaded jam in the bottom of the eighth.
Moises Alou left the game in the bottom half of the third inning with a cramp in his left calf. Unreal. Bunions, boots, staph infections and now cramps. What other strange injuries will occur to the Mets this season?
Hate to say this, but I think Chipper Jones might just make a run a hitting .400 this year. I know it’s still May, but he misses just enough games due to injury that he may hit .400 and still qualify with enough at-bats.
Oh, Endy Chavez, where have you gone? Your failing up at the plate and you allowed your first fielding error in three years. You haven’t been the same since your hamstring injury last June.
The Mets can’t get out of their own way and it’s not fun watching this team lately. Once the Braves took the lead in the third I knew it was over and this team wasn’t making a coming back. That’s a shame, I’ve always been pretty optimistic even in their down years, but lately it’s been hard to have that optimistic attitude that I desperately want to have.
On the bright side I can add a new Keithism to my vocabulary. “Stinkowski,” which was used by Keith when describing how the Giants and Padres played in the mid-80′s. However, just as Cerrone said in last night’s postGame, the SNY broadcast crew cannot continue to be the most entertaining part of the game.
The Mets look to avoid the sweep as Johan Santana faces off against Tim Hudson tomorrow night in at Atlanta at 7:10 pm.
