postGame: Rockies 6 Mets 5

by Mike Nichols on May 24th, 2008 at 1:46 am

The Mets (22-24) lost to the Rockies (19-29) by a score of 6 to 5 in 13 innings tonight at Coors Field. The Mets have lost five consecutive games.

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

• Oh Billy, Bill, Billy, that was a biggie. That was not the time to be giving up your first earned run of the season on a Matt Holliday homerun in the bottom of the ninth and blowing your second save of the season. I don’t know, but I think there is a reason for the closer to be interviewed tonight after the game.
• Oliver Perez was all over the place tonight, walking eight through five innings. Despite having below average stuff tonight, Perez was able to battle and keep the Mets in the ballgame until he was pulled in the sixth.
• Joe Smith was asked to clean up Perez’s mess in the sixth, but was unable to strand two inherited runners. Smith has been excellent stranding runners up to this point, only allowing three of 18 to score.
• If Endy Chavez hamstring injury from a year ago is any indication, we won’t be seeing Marlon Anderson anytime soon. Val Pascucci anyone?
• It was all for naught, but nice to see the Mets fight to regain the lead in the top of seventh after the Rockies tied it up in the bottom half of the previous inning. However, and I know it’s nitpicking because he did get the run home on a sac fly, but it irritates me that Jose Reyes went up and swung at the first pitch and popped it up.
• Speaking of Reyes, he legs out a hustle double in the top half of the tenth, but then proceeded to get picked off second by the pitcher. Nothing is going right for this team and their lack of focus on the base paths continue. In the words of Gary Cohen, “What else!”
• Also, I know a manager being ejected is overrated and not something in Willie’s personality, but after Reyes struck out on a borderline strike I would have liked to have seen Willie Randolph argue a bit on Reyes’ behalf. Of course, typical of Randolph, he said a few words and marched himself back to the dugout. Who knows maybe seeing their manager get ejected for defending his players may light a fire under this team. Hell, It’s worth a try at this point.
• What a bizarre game. We can only hope this is rock bottom and Mets start to fight their way out of this mess.

The Mets continue their three-game series with the Rockies tomorrow with Claudio Vargas on the mound, game time at 3:55.

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