Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Mets 9, Phillies 7
I really do not like this ballpark in Philadelphia. It's a nice place to watch a game, or at least it would have been had it not rained every time I went. But the way every single fly ball seems likely to go over the wall is not my sort of baseball. There were eight home runs in this game, five of them by the Phillies, but the Mets won anyway.
Tom Glavine gave up four of those home runs in his second consecutive bad start. He lasted just four and one-third innings and gave up seven hits and three walks while striking out just one. But all four of the home runs were solo shots and so he allowed just four runs, not nearly enough to overcome the Mets' prodigious offense.
Every starter aside from Glavine had at least one hit. Four of them had at least two. Carlos Beltran homered in the third to tie team leader Carlos Delgado with eighteen on the season. But, as he did over the weekend, Delgado quickly regained the lead, hitting his nineteenth immediately after Beltran's blast. Delgado also led the team with three hits in the game. David Wright hit his twelfth home run. Endy Chavez hit two doubles. Jose Reyes had a double, a single, a stolen base and three walks, two of which were intentional, to give him 29 walks on the season as compared to the 27 he drew all of last year.
The Mets took a 9-4 lead in the sixth with the aid of three Phillies errors. Chad Bradford and Pedro Feliciano combined to pitch two and two-thirds scoreless innings in relief of Glavine. But Aaron Heilman entered in the eighth and struggled again. He gave up three hits, including a three-run home run, and one walk before Billy Wagner had to come in and bail him out. Wagner got out of the eighth with a strike out/caught stealing double play. He walked the first batter of the ninth and then Pat Burrell hit a ball hard down the third base line. But Wright made a great stop to start a double play. Wagner gave up another hit, but struck out Aaron Rowand to end the game and earn his first save against his former team.
Some runs will probably be scored tomorrow as well. Orlando Hernandez (4-5, 5.48) will start for the Mets and, one great start aside, he seems unlikely to flourish in this environment. Brett Myers (4-2, 3.44) is the one will have to tangle with the Mets' bats. ¶ joe | 11:27 PM |
I really do not like this ballpark in Philadelphia. It's a nice place to watch a game, or at least it would have been had it not rained every time I went. But the way every single fly ball seems likely to go over the wall is not my sort of baseball. There were eight home runs in this game, five of them by the Phillies, but the Mets won anyway.
Tom Glavine gave up four of those home runs in his second consecutive bad start. He lasted just four and one-third innings and gave up seven hits and three walks while striking out just one. But all four of the home runs were solo shots and so he allowed just four runs, not nearly enough to overcome the Mets' prodigious offense.
Every starter aside from Glavine had at least one hit. Four of them had at least two. Carlos Beltran homered in the third to tie team leader Carlos Delgado with eighteen on the season. But, as he did over the weekend, Delgado quickly regained the lead, hitting his nineteenth immediately after Beltran's blast. Delgado also led the team with three hits in the game. David Wright hit his twelfth home run. Endy Chavez hit two doubles. Jose Reyes had a double, a single, a stolen base and three walks, two of which were intentional, to give him 29 walks on the season as compared to the 27 he drew all of last year.
The Mets took a 9-4 lead in the sixth with the aid of three Phillies errors. Chad Bradford and Pedro Feliciano combined to pitch two and two-thirds scoreless innings in relief of Glavine. But Aaron Heilman entered in the eighth and struggled again. He gave up three hits, including a three-run home run, and one walk before Billy Wagner had to come in and bail him out. Wagner got out of the eighth with a strike out/caught stealing double play. He walked the first batter of the ninth and then Pat Burrell hit a ball hard down the third base line. But Wright made a great stop to start a double play. Wagner gave up another hit, but struck out Aaron Rowand to end the game and earn his first save against his former team.
Some runs will probably be scored tomorrow as well. Orlando Hernandez (4-5, 5.48) will start for the Mets and, one great start aside, he seems unlikely to flourish in this environment. Brett Myers (4-2, 3.44) is the one will have to tangle with the Mets' bats. ¶ joe | 11:27 PM |
