The Mets play two of the heavy hitters in the American League next week. The Mets get tomorrow off, then they travel to play the Boston Red Sox at Fenway. Then we hop over for a weekend series against the Yankees. It should be a good week to test our mettle. It really shouldn’t matter though. The Phillies keep losing as does the rest of the NL West, and the Mets now have a 11 1/2 game lead in the division.
Most of our winning of late has been because of the impressive play from Jose Reyes. Reyes is now riding a thirteen game hitting streak and he’s been doing it all. On Friday, it was David Wright and Tom Glavine who came through for the Mets though. Wright hit a three run homerun in the top of the third to give the Mets a nice 4-0 lead and then Tom Glavine rode that to his 11th win of the season.
Yesterday was the loss. In a bit of snafu, Willie Randolph was forced to take Orlando Hernandez out of the game because he visited the mound twice after El Duque gave up six runs in the second inning. He took the loss and he’s now 4-7 on the season. Jose Reyes had four hits and two runs in the 7-4 loss.
Today’s score was the same as yesterdays with the teams flipped. The Mets jumped out to a 4-1 lead in the third and never looked back. Jose Reyes had a monster game and he went four for five with a homerun, a stolen base, two RBIs and two runs. Steve Trachsel wasn’t great but he did enough to win. He’s now 6-4 and Wagner walked two in the ninth but picked up his fifteenth save of the season.
Coasting time folks. If the Mets played .500 ball the rest of the way, they’d win 90 games. For the Phillies to tie them, the Phillies would have to go 55-33, and I don’t see either of those things happening.
