Friday, April 21, 2006
Mets 7, Padres 2
What a preposterous game this was. First you had Kazuo Matsui hitting an inside the park home run in his first at bat of the season. This was the third consecutive year he's homered in his first at bat. That he found a creative way to do it against a good pitcher in a tough home run park just makes it all the more amazing. Aside from that, Jake Peavy basically shut the Mets down for seven innings, as you might expect, even though both Cliff Floyd and Carlos Beltran returned to the starting lineup.
Then Julio Franco found the closest fence in the ballpark and drove a home run over into to give the Mets the lead and himself the record for oldest man to hit a major league home run. That was apparently enough to wake up the Mets' slumbering offense, as they subsequently had some fun with the San Diego bullpen. Altogether they had six hits and a walk in the eighth inning, with Carlos Delgado's sixth home run of the season adding the exclamation point. Floyd revealed himself to be a sloppy typist by adding a 1 after the exclamation point with an RBI single.
Floyd and Beltran each had one hit in their returns, but Beltran had to leave after just two at bats due to hamstring troubles. Delgado and Jose Reyes each had two hits. David Wright and Xavier Nady each hit a double.
It took six Met pitchers to make that offensive outburst hold up, but they got the job done. Steve Trachsel lasted six innings and gave up two runs on six hits and two walks while striking out three. Pedro Feliciano and Duaner Sanchez got the Mets out of a bases loaded, no out jam in the top of the seventh as Feliciano got Geoff Blum to foul out and Sanchez got a double play, nicely turned by Wright and Matsui, from Eric Young. Aaron Heilman pitched a perfect inning with two strikeouts. And if the night wasn't bizarre enough, Jorge Julio did the same.
Tonight, Brian Bannister (2-0, 2.50) looks to continue his year of living dangerously. Woody Williams (1-0, 4.50) will start for the Padres. And it seems rather unlikely that anyone other than Endy Chavez will be playing center field for the Mets. ¶ joe | 6:24 PM |
What a preposterous game this was. First you had Kazuo Matsui hitting an inside the park home run in his first at bat of the season. This was the third consecutive year he's homered in his first at bat. That he found a creative way to do it against a good pitcher in a tough home run park just makes it all the more amazing. Aside from that, Jake Peavy basically shut the Mets down for seven innings, as you might expect, even though both Cliff Floyd and Carlos Beltran returned to the starting lineup.
Then Julio Franco found the closest fence in the ballpark and drove a home run over into to give the Mets the lead and himself the record for oldest man to hit a major league home run. That was apparently enough to wake up the Mets' slumbering offense, as they subsequently had some fun with the San Diego bullpen. Altogether they had six hits and a walk in the eighth inning, with Carlos Delgado's sixth home run of the season adding the exclamation point. Floyd revealed himself to be a sloppy typist by adding a 1 after the exclamation point with an RBI single.
Floyd and Beltran each had one hit in their returns, but Beltran had to leave after just two at bats due to hamstring troubles. Delgado and Jose Reyes each had two hits. David Wright and Xavier Nady each hit a double.
It took six Met pitchers to make that offensive outburst hold up, but they got the job done. Steve Trachsel lasted six innings and gave up two runs on six hits and two walks while striking out three. Pedro Feliciano and Duaner Sanchez got the Mets out of a bases loaded, no out jam in the top of the seventh as Feliciano got Geoff Blum to foul out and Sanchez got a double play, nicely turned by Wright and Matsui, from Eric Young. Aaron Heilman pitched a perfect inning with two strikeouts. And if the night wasn't bizarre enough, Jorge Julio did the same.
Tonight, Brian Bannister (2-0, 2.50) looks to continue his year of living dangerously. Woody Williams (1-0, 4.50) will start for the Padres. And it seems rather unlikely that anyone other than Endy Chavez will be playing center field for the Mets. ¶ joe | 6:24 PM |
