And just when you thought things were going well
What a brutal 36 hours after an incredible week and a half. As good as you felt on Friday night, you have to be very discouraged after the 21-5 beatdown the Mets have received the last two days.
Mike Pelfrey and Johan Santana were not good the past two days and the most upsetting part is they both gave up monster innings when the damage should have been severely limited.
Pelfrey had some bad luck contribute to his poor inning yesterday. But Santana only has himself to blame. The Phillies scored nine runs with two outs in the fourth inning. Nine!!! And the pitcher came up and walked. Simply inexcusable. Johan has been such a stud this year but come on. You can’t blow up like that.
Equally as upsetting was the complete lack of fight the Mets showed once they fell behind the last two days. Doing nothing against Roy Halladay is acceptable, but how did they only manage one baserunner over the last five innings tonight? That’s really pathetic. I’m sorry. But good teams do their best in the next at-bat after their opposition scores. The Phillies did that twice tonight. The Mets fell asleep. Not a good sign.
No question the clubhouse is more cohesive and the team is playing harder and smarter than they have in the past. But you still have to wonder if there’s some sort of mental block that hangs over this team. It will be really interesting to see what happens in Cincinnati. The Reds are a tough team so if the Mets can win a road series, I think they will have moved on from this disastrous weekend. If the Reds steamroll through the Mets, then it’s time to be concerned again.
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Drew Toucher May 3rd at 7:43 am
Agreed Mike, the Cincinatti series will be important for our pshyche. We need to get out of there with a couple of wins.
I still can’t believe what I saw last night. Santana walking the 8 and 9 hitters to set up a monster inning. I was yelling for Jerry to leave him out there. If he was embarrassed, he deserved it. In the end, I’m sure Jerry made the right move. You’ve got to protect your ace. But in the moment, I was pretty upset with him. I even went so far as to tell my wife that the Phillies had beaten the Mets ace… last night. It was my snarky little way of suggesting that Pelf is now the ace. Johann has lost a few mph on the fastball, and I’m hoping that this outing isn’t indicative of what he’s going to give us the rest of the way. Oh well… gotta shrug this one off and get ready for Cincy. Thank goodness there’s no off day today!