Against a quality opponent like the Braves, I’ll take two of three every time. You can’t be too greedy, especially on the road.
On Friday we had a great pitching matchup. Pedro Martinez went head to head against John Smoltz, and between the two of them they had 379 wins. Pedro was Pedro though, and he came out on top. In the process, he improved to 5-0 on the season. He gave up two runs on four hits and one walk with five strikeouts in seven innings. His one blemish was a two run homerun by Chipper Jones in the sixth inning. On the hitting side, David Wright got it done again. He homered twice and drove in three runs in the 5-2 win.. Jose Reyes singled, tripled, drove in a run and scored twice.
Yesterday, it was Tom Glavine getting a little revenge against his old team. He threw seven shutout innings and struck out one. Aaron Heilman and Billy Wagner each threw an inning to finish the 1-0 shutout. The only run of the game came on Paul Lo Duca’s first homerun of the season.
This afternoon, Steve Trachsel ran into a buzzsaw. By the end of the fourth, he had given up six runs on eight hits and FIVE walks. The Mets tried to put together a rally in the eighth inning when they were down 8-4, and despite loading up the bases, they could only score one run to cut it to 8-5. Carlos Beltran hit a two run homerun and Endy Chavez went deep for his first homerun of the season.
So with the loss, we now have a six game lead over the Braves. The Mets have 16 wins and are eight games over .500 in a division where the next closest team is four games below .500. And to make things even more fun, we have the Washington Nationals (bad team) and the Pittsburgh Pirates (even worse team) each coming to Shea for two game series before we host the Braves next weekend.
