Pedro Gets Rocked
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Pedro Martinez suffered his worst outing of the year in last night’s 8-3 loss to the Padres. San Diego is leading the NL West but has an identical record to the Mets. They are one of the teams the Mets must play better against if they want to get into the playoffs (especially if they don’t want to lose in the first round). The Padres are on a bit of a roll, winning 6 of their last 7 games. A streat like that will not go on much longer considering they’re a .500 team (just look at the Mets this year to see an example) so I expect them to rebound from last night’s beating and take tonight’s game as Kris Benson takes on Brian Lawrence.
In other news yesterday, Doug Mientkiewicz was placed on the DL prior to last night’s game to make room for Kazuo Matsui. Matsui will be a utility man and will likely only see late inning work in games that have already been decided. It pretty much looks like Miguel Cairo is the starting second baseman and Willie Randolph has said that Chris Woodward is the backup shortstop so Matsui will see extremely limited playing time and only at second base at least until Randolph and Omar Minaya decide the team is no longer in contention. At which point I’d expect Matsui to get much more playing time as a way of showcasing him for a possible trade.
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