The Mets won yesterday and looked very good in doing so. Honestly, after the Mets lost the first game of the series, I was concerned about an Atlanta sweep. Yes, we could have handled that but I really did not want to see it. Now, even with a loss today, the Mets will have a 3.5 game lead over the Braves when they leave town. A Met win makes it 5.5 and that would be real sweet but it is not crucial.
El Duque was on his game yesterday and for a while I thought a 1-0 lead (on a Reyes manufactured run) might hold up. The Braves did come back with three runs of there own to take a 3-1 lead. At this point, I was ready to concede the game to the Braves. Fortunately the Mets were not and went on to win in “Atlanta-esque” form.
When the Mets had the bases loaded with one out in the seventh, and Jose Reyes coming to bat, I could just feel the momentum from hundreds of miles away. Unfortunately Reyes could not bring a run home. At this point I wrote of the Mets. It is crucial to get a run in when you have a runner on third and less than two outs, and they could not do it. Castillo had yet to really come through for the Mets, but yesterday he did, BIG TIME. A single bringing home two was huge. When David Wright made the third out of the inning and failed to bring home the go ahead run, I found Orlando Hernandez’s reaction very interesting. He looked frustrated that he would be unable to get the win (as he had been removed for a pinch hitter in that inning with the Mets trailing).
Moises Alou, the man who has been hitting into a number of double plays lately, came up big for the Mets and hit a homerun to give the Mets a lead. Wagner did everything in his power to give it back to the Braves. He let Atlanta load the bases against him in the top of the ninth, with no outs. How many Met fans thought, “Uh-oh, here come the Braves”? How many Met fans would have been thrilled to get out of that inning with the score tied? Certainly these were my thoughts. Then, Wagner bared down. A grounder to third got the lead run at the plate and then a 4-6-3 double play ended the game and gave the Mets the victory.
This is the type of thing the Braves had done to the Mets all year (and for the past number of years). It felt go to see the Mets do it back to the Braves. Hopefully, with the momentum they now have, the Mets will be able to win today’s game.
No mater what, they will be in first place and have at least a 3.5 game lead over the Braves. That makes me happy!
Let’s Go Mets!
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