Tuesday, July 06, 2004
Phillies 6, Mets 5
I suppose we should have expected this. The Mets’ offense finally gave Tom Glavine a little bit of run supporting, putting three on the board in the top of the first inning, and the Phillies came out smacking line drive en route to scoring more runs against the Mets’ ace than any team had all season. Of course, he settled down after two innings and the offense nearly completed the comeback, but in the end it was just another case of Tom Glavine and the Mets narrowly avoiding victory.
It seemed at the start like the Mets’ bats were picking up where they left off in the weekend series against the Yankees. Kazou Matsui reached on an error and then Cliff Floyd smacked one over the right field wall only to be followed immediately by Richard Hidalgo’s daily home run, a long bomb to left. The Met rightfielder has now homered in a team record five consecutive games and has twice as many homers with the Mets as he did with the Astros, giving both he and Floyd twelve on the season.
Glavine got a combination of uninspiring play by his corner infielders and a couple of surprisingly tough catches from Floyd in the midst of some hard hit balls on his way to giving up ten hits, including four doubles, in six plus innings. But after the rough first two innings, he did what he’s done all year and shut the opposition down through the middle innings, winding up with just six runs on the board. He walked two and struck out three while his ERA rose all the way to 2.49. The Mets got their final two runs on a single from Floyd, who had an all-around terrific game, but couldn’t get anything done against the Philly bullpen in the later innings and Glavine wound up taking the loss to drop to a deceptive 7-6 on the season.
Scott Erickson had another halfway decent start for Norfolk, going five innings and allowing just one run on six hits and two walks while striking out four. David Wright continued the recent minor downturn in his hitting, managing just a walk in his four plate appearances, dropping his batting average all the way to .307. Scott Kazmir had another solid start, going six scoreless innings allowing five hits and one walk while striking out three in a game that St. Lucie wound up winning 2-0 in nineteen innings. Scott Strickland pitched one scoreless inning in the game. The Mets’ bullpen is getting to the point where I’m almost looking forward to seeing him back in the majors.
Tomorrow the second place Mets try to salvage their hopes of earning a tie for first place in this series by sending Al Leiter (4-2, 2.12) to the mound against Randy Wolf (3-3, 3.08). ¶ joe | 12:31 AM |
I suppose we should have expected this. The Mets’ offense finally gave Tom Glavine a little bit of run supporting, putting three on the board in the top of the first inning, and the Phillies came out smacking line drive en route to scoring more runs against the Mets’ ace than any team had all season. Of course, he settled down after two innings and the offense nearly completed the comeback, but in the end it was just another case of Tom Glavine and the Mets narrowly avoiding victory.
It seemed at the start like the Mets’ bats were picking up where they left off in the weekend series against the Yankees. Kazou Matsui reached on an error and then Cliff Floyd smacked one over the right field wall only to be followed immediately by Richard Hidalgo’s daily home run, a long bomb to left. The Met rightfielder has now homered in a team record five consecutive games and has twice as many homers with the Mets as he did with the Astros, giving both he and Floyd twelve on the season.
Glavine got a combination of uninspiring play by his corner infielders and a couple of surprisingly tough catches from Floyd in the midst of some hard hit balls on his way to giving up ten hits, including four doubles, in six plus innings. But after the rough first two innings, he did what he’s done all year and shut the opposition down through the middle innings, winding up with just six runs on the board. He walked two and struck out three while his ERA rose all the way to 2.49. The Mets got their final two runs on a single from Floyd, who had an all-around terrific game, but couldn’t get anything done against the Philly bullpen in the later innings and Glavine wound up taking the loss to drop to a deceptive 7-6 on the season.
Scott Erickson had another halfway decent start for Norfolk, going five innings and allowing just one run on six hits and two walks while striking out four. David Wright continued the recent minor downturn in his hitting, managing just a walk in his four plate appearances, dropping his batting average all the way to .307. Scott Kazmir had another solid start, going six scoreless innings allowing five hits and one walk while striking out three in a game that St. Lucie wound up winning 2-0 in nineteen innings. Scott Strickland pitched one scoreless inning in the game. The Mets’ bullpen is getting to the point where I’m almost looking forward to seeing him back in the majors.
Tomorrow the second place Mets try to salvage their hopes of earning a tie for first place in this series by sending Al Leiter (4-2, 2.12) to the mound against Randy Wolf (3-3, 3.08). ¶ joe | 12:31 AM |
