The Mets have turned what should have been a cakewalk to the NL East title into a nail biter. Terrible bullpen work mixed with some shaky starting pitching has reduced their lead over the Phillies to just one game. Their "Magic Number" stands at four with just four games to play.
Last night they took a respectable offensive performance (Beltran had two home runs and Alou another as both went 2-for-4 and the team had 10 hits) jumping out to a five run lead over the Nationals only to blow the entire thing 9-6.
Rookie Phil Humber made his major league debut and pitched four decent innings. Unfortunately, he came out to pitch in the fifth. He was finally charged with five earned runs but only because Joe Smith was totally ineffective in relief, allowing inherited runners to score and giving up two earned runs of his own without getting an out in the fifth. Pedro Feliciano also permitted one of Smith's base runners to score and earned the blown save with which he was "credited."
With the score 7-6 in the ninth, Mets' closer Billy Wagner threw gasoline on the fire giving up two more earned runs.
I'm glad I wasn't watching this on TV, I would have thrown something at the screen for sure and I can't afford to go out and buy a new TV right now.
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