Manuel's Power Hitting Cleanup Hitter Not Enough to Beat Cards
The Recap: Mets 3, Cards 5
The Mets dropped their 4th straight series when Adam Wainwright settled down after the 2nd inning to allow just 1 hit for the rest of the game. Listening to the insane drivel from Joe Morgan on Sunday night's ESPN telecast didn't h
elp either.
THE GOOD: You'd have to search deep to find any good in this game, but perhaps Tobi Stoner's performance out of the bullpen wasn't horrific, even though he did take the loss. And at this point, if you're going to tell me the Mets would get 5 innings and 3 runs from John Maine for the rest of the season, we'll take it I'm sure. Let's not forget Angel Pagan with 2 hits and 2 rbis in the game, raising his average above .300. He's certainly no Carlos Beltran, but Mets fans are beginning to like this guy.
THE BAD: Well, just about everything was bad about this game. Jeff Francoeur looks like he's slumping. David Wright looks way overmatched against good pitching. Jose Reyes looks rusty. And of course no one can figure out why Omar picked up Gary Matthews Jr who (along with the benched Jason Bay) is striking out every game at an alarming rate. At least Bay has some power, we think.
THE UGLY: You can't get much uglier than the Mets starting lineup with Frank Catalanotto (he of the 3 homeruns total in the past 3 years) inexplicably batting cleanup. Here's what I want you to do: tomorrow, go to work and purposely screw up in your job really badly and see what happens to you. How Jerry Manuel continues to have his job is beyond us all...
THE PULSE of the GAME
The Mets dropped their 4th straight series when Adam Wainwright settled down after the 2nd inning to allow just 1 hit for the rest of the game. Listening to the insane drivel from Joe Morgan on Sunday night's ESPN telecast didn't h
elp either.THE GOOD: You'd have to search deep to find any good in this game, but perhaps Tobi Stoner's performance out of the bullpen wasn't horrific, even though he did take the loss. And at this point, if you're going to tell me the Mets would get 5 innings and 3 runs from John Maine for the rest of the season, we'll take it I'm sure. Let's not forget Angel Pagan with 2 hits and 2 rbis in the game, raising his average above .300. He's certainly no Carlos Beltran, but Mets fans are beginning to like this guy.
THE BAD: Well, just about everything was bad about this game. Jeff Francoeur looks like he's slumping. David Wright looks way overmatched against good pitching. Jose Reyes looks rusty. And of course no one can figure out why Omar picked up Gary Matthews Jr who (along with the benched Jason Bay) is striking out every game at an alarming rate. At least Bay has some power, we think.
THE UGLY: You can't get much uglier than the Mets starting lineup with Frank Catalanotto (he of the 3 homeruns total in the past 3 years) inexplicably batting cleanup. Here's what I want you to do: tomorrow, go to work and purposely screw up in your job really badly and see what happens to you. How Jerry Manuel continues to have his job is beyond us all...
THE PULSE of the GAME
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