Padres 5 Mets 1 The Mets had several opportunities to push David Wells, but couldn’t move him. All that weight makes him fairly immovable, I guess. Unfortunately, every time they got a bit of a rally going, the Mets had the dumb luck of having the middle of their order up at the plate. It’s … Read more
The Mets travel to the West for a one-week swing on the Left Coast before returning home on July 24. They open today against the San Diego Padres before moving on to Los Angeles to face the Dodgers in what could be their most difficult week of the month. Though they’re currently one game behind … Read more
Mets 5 Reds 2 This was a series the Mets really had to take 3 out of 4 — partially because as a first-place team they need to dominate last-place teams, and also to give them some momentum and confidence going into their West Coast trip against some very tough competition in the Padres and … Read more
Mets 2 Reds 1 There was no way Tom Glavine was losing this game. Tom was terrific, pitching eight innings and allowing only one run — a solo homer by Brandon Phillips. After allowing the Phillips homerun in the second, Glavine retired the next 16 batters in a row, before finally allowing a single to … Read more
Reds 8 Mets 4 Perhaps the reason for John Maine’s loss was that he had no losing streak to stop. The Big Red Machine jumped on John for four runs in the first inning — courtesy of a grand slam by cleanup hitter Brandon Phillips — and added another four before it was all over … Read more
Mets 3 Reds 2 It was a good way to start off the second half of the season — in many respects. First of all, Orlando Hernandez pitched a masterful ballgame, going six complete innings and allowing only two runs on three hits and three walks, while striking out seven. Truth is, the Reds would … Read more
Astros 8 Mets 3 Here is the dry, objective capsule of the game: The Houston Astros rode the arm of All-Star Roy Oswalt for seven solid innings, supporting him with eight runs on eleven hits and six walks in beating the NL East-leading New York Mets 8-3 to close out the first half of the … Read more
Mets 5 Astros 3 It was a long, hard fight, and exactly the kind of game the Mets sorely needed to win. Hard to say who the hero was in this game — the Mets’ bullpen, which shut out the Astros over ten innings, or Carlos Beltran, who had not only the game-winning hit but … Read more
