Mets Game 149: Nationals

Mets 3 Nationals 2

Some days you have it, some days you don’t.

On this particular afternoon, Tim Redding had it — he brought his “A” game.

Spotting his sinker at the knees, on both corners of the plate, and mixing in a sharp slider and occasionally well-behaving curveball, Redding stymied the Nats bats through seven frames, allowing just one unearned run on four hits and two walks — easily his best outing of the season.

However, it nearly wasn’t enough, because Sean Green did not have “it”.

Green was wild from the moment he entered the game, but Jerry Manuel left him on the mound long enough to let the Nationals score a run to tighten the score to 3-2. Luckily, Everyday Pedro Feliciano came on the save the day, however, and Frankie Fantastik finished up for his 32nd save.

Notes

John Lannan nearly matched Redding’s effort, holding the Mets to 3 runs on 5 hits in 7 innings.

Dan Murphy drove in two of the Mets runs and Jeff Francoeur drove in the other. The big “hits” of the game came in the bottom of the seventh, and were actually errors. David Wright led off with a liner to right field that was grossly misplayed by Ian Desmond, a shortstop who was making his first-ever appearance in the outfield. The official ruling was a double, since Desmond didn’t even get a glove on the ball. A few minutes later, Murphy bounced a grounder that Adam Dunn ole’d to score Francoeur with the Mets’ third run of the game. That’s why the coaches say, “just put the ball in play, you never know what might happen”.

Next Mets Game

The final game of the series occurs on Sunday afternoon at 1:10 PM. John Maine faces Garret Mock.