Murphy's Dinger Gives Mets "Edge"

The Mets responded well to comments by Omar Minaya about the team lacking an edge to win by beating the hated Phillies 7-4 in Philadelphia. Of course Minaya backed down from his comments, but Mets manager Jerry Manuel feels good about how the Mets approached the game.

Daniel Murphy hit an early 2-run shot and Mike Pelfrey pitched 5 1/3 effective innings to put the Mets in a position to win. Then Jose Feliciano and J.J. Putz "held" the game, and K-Rod finished it off for his 5th save of the season. (We won't get into how ridiculous the save stat is when you win 7-4)

Pelfrey (3-0) was also a hitting star in the game. His 2 rbis matched his career total. Fernando Tatis and David Wright each had 2 hits in the game as the Mets raised their record to 10-12 while Chan Ho Park took the loss. Park was washed up when he wore a Met uniform awhile back once again proving the adage, if you want to make it in baseball, become a pitcher. How is this guy still in the majors?!? And on a World Series winning team at that?

Carlos Beltran led off the fifth with a double, extending his hitting streak to 13 games and the Mets scored 3 of their 7 runs on sacrifice flies. I'm not sure whether that's good or bad. And speaking of good or bad, Ollie Perez makes his "do or die" start tomorrow against the ageless Jamie Moyer. It's anyone's guess what to expect, but I'll be watching!