Your New York Sports Blog: Mets v. Diamondbacks 5-3 (W)

Thursday, June 12, 2008

WOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWW! What a game that was. It seemed as though it was over once Wagner gave up that 3-run home run in the top of the 9th. It felt as though you were watching the game down 20-1 in the 3rd inning just waiting for the horror to end, but the Mets came through with a BIG BIG BIG BIG win to end their losing streak.

FINAL in 13th	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	R	H	E
Diamondbacks	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	3	10	2
Mets	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	9	0

W: Vargas (3-2) L: Gonzalez (1-3)

HR » ARI: M. Reynolds (15) - NYM: C. Beltran (7)

The real story of the night is my boy Michael Pelfrey. Boy was he on tonight and his fastball moving. His fastball was sitting at 94 mph and moving making himself look more like Brandon Webb than Brandon Webb did. It was just blazing up there and dropping off the table resulting in 8 strikeouts. He also managed the running game extremely well giving up

no steals and picked Young of first in the 1st inning. He himself gave up no runs and should have had a chance for a shutout, but when Billy Wagner came in he gave up one run for Pelfrey and blew the save for himself.
Right after the announcers said '...the Mets catch a break with that call' referring to when it appeared Mark Reynolds was hit on the foot and the ump said he was not hit and did not award him first base Wagner throws a fastball high and over the middle and Reynolds crushes it to deep left to tie the game and crush Pelfrey's hopes and the Mets spirits. You had a feeling like the Mets had already lost, but Carlos Beltran felt differently.

Up until the 13th the Mets had only scored three runs, two driven in by a Beltran single and one by a Marlon Anderson force out. After Luis Castillo got on because of a Reynolds error David Wright continued his struggles by popping out to first base leaving Beltran to get Castillo in from first with two outs. Well Beltran did even better absolutely crushing the no doubter to right center something the Mets needed to have any shot at doing anything this year. One of those games that you think would put the team on a nice little streak and bringing back memories of the 2006 team.

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