Santana Amazes, Delgado Races
What an interesting game last night. Johan Santana was his regular, spectacular self allowing only two hits and striking out 10 with three walks over 7 innings. Santana lowered his ERA to 0.91. Opponents are batting .048 against him with runners in scoring position.
But the Mets bats could not wake up, scoring only one run when Pedro Feliz made an ill advised throw to first on a weakly hit ball by Fernando Tatis with Carlos Delgado, who had reached base on a walk, racing from first base. Tatis was clearly going to beat the throw but Feliz rushed a toss anyway. In doing so the ball went into right field where Jayson Werth triple pumped the ball on the way to delivering it to the plate. All the while Delgado was running and beat Werth’s throw home. It took a mistake by the third baseman, a throwing error and a triple pump on the throw to the plate for the Mets to score their only run of the night.
Talk all you want about the Mets taking advantage of an opponents mistakes. They certainly did last night and it was good to see. But you can’t rely on the mistakes of your opponents to score your runs. The Mets bats need to wake up, especially when they’re facing a pitcher like Chan Ho Park, who, like Oliver Perez, was one start away from being banished from the starting rotation. He’s a guy the Mets hit last week in Philadelphia. And he’s a guy they needed to beat up on last night. But they could only manage one hit against him and two the whole game.
While it’s true that if you could pick a night for your bats to be cold it would be when Santana’s pitching (since you know he’ll need little run support to win a game) it still does not bode well for the team. As bad as the starting pitching has been for the Mets it has shown signs lately that it’s turning around. But you’ll know when this team is beginning to take off when they start knocking in some runs. That time has not yet come.
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