Familiar Story Dooms Mets Once Again

Bad defense and no clutch hitting.

What do you do with a 3-1 lead on the road? Give it right back. That's what happened in yesterday's lastest botched win for the Mets, as they fell to the Dodgers 5-3 with John Maine taking the loss to even out his record at 3-3.

The Dodgers got the clutch hits in this game. The Mets did not. Casey Blake hit a go-ahead, three-run homer off John Maine in the sixth inning which caused the Mets to face a deficit in the game, meaning another loss was plainly in sight since clutch rbis and timely hitting is becoming more and more a rarity with this team.

5-3 after six innings and you knew the game was over. Pretty pathetic. And by the way, 2 of the Mets runs were driven in by Maine himself. David Wright had the other RBI, a single in the third inning scoring Carlos Beltran which also extended Wright's hitting streak to 11 games.

The Mets continued their poor fielding with another costly error in the first inning when a liner to left glanced off Daniel Murphy's glove. I'm giving Murphy a pass on these errors. Why do we have an infielder playing the outfield and an outfielder playing the infield?!?! Only Jerry "By the Manual" knows...