Twins 9 Our Lady of the Blind 0 Anyone watching the Mets recently could see this was a bad thing coming — a putrid offense going up against the best pitcher in baseball. Johan Santana’s record belied his effectiveness, and that was all the more certain after flooring the boys from Flushing. Santana struck out … Read more
Mets 8 Twins 1 Wow … where did that come from? For the first time since Halley’s Comet was last seen, the Mets combined great pitching and great hitting to win a baseball game. John Maine provided the hurling heroics, pitching into the eighth and allowing only four hits, two walks, and one run to … Read more
Yankees 8 Mets 2 The Mets lost by six, but it felt like eleven. They were completely unable to get anything going against Chien-Ming Wang, and couldn’t stop the steamroller that is the Yankees. The entire game, from start to finish, was a complete downer for Mets fans. Wang did his best Bugs Bunny impression: … Read more
Yankees 11 Mets 8 If only the Mets had relieved Tom Glavine in, say, the second inning, they may have had a chance to win. Because by then it was apparent that Tommy was not going to get a corner on either end of the plate. In fact, he wasn’t going to get pitches that … Read more
Mets 2 Yankees 0 Jose Reyes may have provided all the offense, but the hero of the game, hands-down, was Oliver Perez. Ollie threw seven and one-third innings of shutout ball, allowing five hits and three walks and striking out six. He rose to the occasion, and established himself once again as the Mets’ stopper … Read more
Dodgers 9 Mets 1 The sky is falling, the sky is falling! For a while, it looked as though Jorge “The Stopper” Sosa would indeed put an end to the Mets’ slump. He was pitching masterfully through four innings, shutting out the Dodgers and breezing along with a 1-0 lead provided by a David Wright … Read more
Dodgers 4 Mets 1 Here’s the official recap: In the top of the second, Carlos Delgado singled in David Wright to put the Mets ahead one-zip. In the bottom of the second, the Dodgers hit three consecutive homeruns to go ahead 3-1 and completely deflate the Mets. The Dodgers added an insurance run in the … Read more
Dodgers 5 Mets 3 In seven of the last eight games, the Mets have lost in every way possible. They’ve had games where they received good pitching without offensive support. There have been games where they hit well but the pitching was battered. They’ve been on the wrong end of laughers and lost close games. … Read more
