Mets Thrown for a Loop-er
The Mets played a very good game yesterday. The bullet points are as follows:
- Pedro Martinez was shaky for the first few batters but then settled down and had a great outing the rest of the way.
- Carlos Beltran showed us why he’s making the big bucks by hitting a homer in his Mets debut.
- Kazuo Matsui homered in his first at bat of the season for the second year in a row.
- Braden Looper blew the game in the ninth inning by allowing 3 runs including 2 homers.
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The bullpen has been fingered as the Mets weakness by all who have been paying attention during the off season and spring training. But yesterday was different than the kind of bullpen meltdown I would have expected. Manny Aybar (2 Hits, 1 ER, 2 SO) didn’t pitch very well in his inning but Dae-Sung Koo (2 SO) did. The big surprise was Looper. I wasn’t a big fan of his when the Mets acquired him to be their closer last year but he proved me wrong and had a great year. I’m still questioning whether he can be a dominant closer on a dominant team but this is one of only two relievers guaranteed to make the team out of spring training (the other was Mike DeJean). I’m not going to jump on Looper yet (it’s only one game). Instead I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt that it was opening day jitters. I only hope that he can shake those jitters off otherwise it’s going to be another very long summer.
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