Put the fork back in please: Diamondbacks 3, Mets 2

Well I don’t know what happened during the five-game streak where I didn’t watch a single minute of any game, but the Mets of the last two nights have looked exactly the same as when I last saw them.  They can’t hit at all and they make terrible plays that cost them the game.  Tonight was no different.

Doug Davis walked six guys and gave up four hits in six innings, yet the only runs the Mets could muster were off two solo bombs.  Why can’t they execute with runners on base?  I don’t get this.  Was the thought of possibly making the postseason too much for these guys to handle?  Looks like their beards will be around to stay for a while.

Really the play of the game has to be Sean Green’s disgusting wild pitch right after Daniel Murphy turns a huge double play.  He loads the bases with no one out and gets a terrific DP.  And right as that happened, I was still convinced Green going was to blow it.  I knew it.  And one pitch later he did just that.  I can handle losing on a hit, but to lose on a wild pitch is so nauseating.

Then the ninth inning was comical.  Mark Reynolds did his best Luis Castillo impersonation.  He was desperately trying to give back this game.  I mean there’s a reason the Diamondbacks are 13 games under .500.  But Angel Pagan refused to take Reynolds’ gift, doing what the Mets do best with runners on…grounding into a double play to end the game.

So this easy 20-game stretch gets off to an 0-1 start and how many more games can the Mets afford to simply give away?  As I wrote earlier today, they certainly have a chance to win the Wild Card, but how many chances are they going to just throw away this season?  Unfortunately, I really don’t think it’s meant to be in 2009.  Maybe the only hope the team has is that I stop watching again.