No Heart

What should have been one of the Mets biggest victories of the year turned into one of their most disappointing. I was amazed to learn that the Mets are the only team this season which has not come back from a three run deficit or more. That stat, in and of itself, is shocking. Here is a team who a couple of years ago was able to rely on late inning magic when they needed it. With largely the same group of hitters, now they can do NOTHING!

Yesterday they had a chance to put that behind them. The Mets down four-nothing after one inning, came back to tie it at four-four. Naturally Met pitching, in this case Pedro but it has been the MO all year, allowed St. Louis to take the lead again, 5-4. But then in the seventh the Mets scored three runs to take a 7-5 lead. It was a good feeling. All the Mets had to do was hold them for three innings and they would now have a victory this season after being down by more than two runs.

Heilman got them through the seventh but Feliciano gave up a two run homerun in the eighth, allowing the Cardinals to tie the game. Then with two out in the ninth, Muniz gave up a solo shot to Troy Glaus and St. Louis had a walk off victory. The Mets had lost 8-7.

Obviously a lot can be said about how someone can say a team has no heart when they are losing but when they are winning they are playing with heart. One can easily fall into that trap. Still, when you have a team that has played more than half of its games and they have yet to win a game after being down by three runs, to me it shows a lack of heart. They are not playing well because they are not good and they just don’t care, no heart!