Now this is the way things are supposed to work. The Mets swept the Athletics in impressive fashion and then they took care of the Cardinals in a 2-1, eleven inning pitcher’s duel. The end result is, as of 11:30 EDT, the Mets have a 3 1/2 game lead over the Phillies (yeah, the Phillies passed the Braves).
Mets pitchers gave up just three runs in their three game series against the Athletics. The most impressive outing was the 1-0 win on Saturday with Orlando Hernandez throwing seven shutout frames. The lone run of the game came on an RBI double by the still hot David Wright. He hasn’t hit a homerun in a while, and his seven game hitting streak ended tonight but he’s put together some nice games in this most recent four game winning streak.
Tonight, it was Jorge Sosa who had an impressive start. He gave up just one run on six hits and two walks with five strikeouts in six innings. The game winner was a walk off solo homerun by Shawn Green in the bottom of the eleventh. In all, the Mets managed just three hits in eleven innings yet they still won the game.
Tomorrow it’ll be Oliver Perez going up against Todd Wellemeyer. Perez has dropped three of his last four but in only one of those starts has he been horrible. One odd thing about Perez is, he’s almost always gotten a decision one way or the other. He’s 7-6 and it’s in only 14 starts.
