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Note: The Mets and Baseball Bats

by Matthew Cerrone on August 4th, 2008 at 7:20 am

In yesterday’s loss to the Astros, the Mets left 11 men on base, while leaving the bases loaded in the fourth and fifth inning.

Jerry Manuel, on the team’s lack of production, while talking to reporters following yesterday’s game:

“Yeah, I mean, you know, in a ball park such as this, we definitely had some opportunities and we really didn’t take advantage of them.  I feel very confident, though, that we’re gonna be able to turn this around and start swinging the bats like we’re capable of…

“I’m hoping it’s a bump (in the road), not a hill, you know.  If it’s a bump, we should be okay.  You know, some of the guys, I don’t want to say are pressing, but in those situations where we need to get that hit it’s just not coming right now…We just gotta do better…We need to get back home, get out early, do some work and get our stuff together.”

David Wright, on Sunday’s struggles, following the game:

“It was just poor execution the entire game.  You know, we made some mental mistakes, we couldn’t get anything done with runners in scoring position and we didn’t make the pitches when we needed to make the pitches so, just a poor day of execution all around.”

The Mets have not scored a run in their last 16 innings.