Last night, the Mets were down 8-4 in the 8th inning, and won 9-8 on a walk-off single by Lucas Duda off Heath Bell. David Wright, Jason Bay, and Angel Pagan each homered, and Mike Baxter hit an RBI double in his Mets debut. Mike Pelfrey pitched 6.1 innings, allowed 4 runs on 9 hits, and Tim Stauffer started for the Padres, and pitched 7 innings, allowed 4 runs on 6 hits.
The Mets are back at .500, as they're 57-57. This was game 1 of a 4-game series. Tonights probables are Will LeBlanc and Chris Capuano. Capuano is 9-10 with a 4.44 ERA, and LeBlanc is 0-2 with a 4.98 ERA. The best hope to get the best from their lineup, because they're playing their second game without Daniel Murphy and Jose Reyes, who both on the DL after hurting themselves on Sunday.
I can only think of 3 explanations for the unusually high number of injuries: (1) bad luck, (2) unusually brittle players, (3) someone on the training, conditioning or medical staffs is doing something wrong.
ReplyDeleteThe season is going downhill, but you have to give this team credit. They stayed in there for most the season with not much starting pitching talent, no bullpen (post K rod) and so many injuries.
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