Mets On A Little Roll

The Mets pulled out a hard fought win last night over the home standing Phillies 9-5 in extra innings with 4 runs in the top of the 10th. The Mets pounded the Phillies for 14 hits on their way to their 3rd win in row. The boys from Flushing showed character with the win, coming back from a 4 -1 deficit as Ryan Howard accounted for all the runs with a grand slam off of Chris Young. DWright was in the middle of the Mets scoring outburst with 2 Hits, 2 Runs and 2 RBI. The first five batters in the Mets line up accounted for 10 of the teams 14 hits.
The Mets bull pen led by Bobby Parnell who was lights out, gave the Mets the chance to stay in the game with 4 scoreless innings of work.

Tonight young Matt Harvey goes for his 3rd win against 3 losses against Tyler Cloyd who was 15 - 1 at AAA and who is making his major league debut. Lets see is the Mets can keep the train moving forward with 4 in a row.

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So What About the Jets

I watched the Jets preseason game this past Saturday and came away shaking my head wondering just who will score for the Green and White this season. Mark Sanchez looked like Mark Sanchez and there lays the problem.

Sanchez took the Jets to the playoffs his first two years with the team because of a fabulous defense and an offense that ran the ball and ran the ball eating the clock and the time the other team's offense had to spend on the field. Saturday their was no rhyme or reason for what ever the Jets did on offense. There was no flow, no rhythm and the Jets went another half with the starters getting shut out of the end zone again by the Panthers defense.

The once heralded ground game never got going as Shaun Green needs huge holes to get to daylight and the offensive line just does not provide that. Without a running game Sanchez and the Jets are going nowhere fast. There just is not enough scoring power on an anemic offense to generate a sustained drive for the NY Jets.

LGJ

Mets Go For 3 in a Row

Jeremy Hefner pitched well enough to win yesterday at Citi Field and if not for a managerial brain freeze and a subsequent misadventure by Lucas Duda he would have. Terry Collins could have replaced the clogging Duda with a much better outfielder in Jason Bay, but it seems that thought slipped the skippers mind. The Mets won on the second homer of the day for Ike Davis a walk off in the bottom of the ninth.
The Mets starters have a era hovering around 2.0 but sadly, timely hitting has vaporized into thin air and the Mets scoring continues to be an issue for the struggling team. Tomorrow the Mets open a 3 game series against the Phillies with Chris Young going against the now 3rd place team from Philadelphia.

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