On Wednesday, the New York Mets played the middle game in a three game series against Cincinnati. Mike Pelfrey got the start for New York and had a rough first inning giving back a 2-0 lead the Mets got on a Carlos Delgado homerun in the top of the first. Pelfrey surrendered four runs and threw forty pitches in the first inning capped by a three run home run by Joey Votto. After the first, Pelfrey settled down and left the game after the 5th inning with the Mets leading 5-4. The big hit for the Mets came when Brian Schneider hit a three run double to right field to break the game open, for the time being. Then the Mets turned it over to the bullpen. They were flawless in the opener on Monday. The bullpen was anything but flawless on Wednesday as Cincinnati climbed back into the game and trailed 9-7 headed into the 9th inning. That’s when K-Rod came into the game for the save. Rodriguez started off the 9th walking Brandon Phillips and then got Jay Bruce to pop out. Next up was Edwin Encarnacion, he hit a ground ball to third and David Wright threw the ball to Delgado and instead of just taking the out at first Delgado came off the base before recording the out and threw the ball to third to try to get Brandon Phillips who beat out the throw from Delgado and everyone was safe. The next batter was Ramon Hernandez and K-Rod walked him. The bases were loaded with one out and whether you were watching the game on T.V. or listening in the car, you couldn’t help but think, “Here we go again”. After K-Rod fell behind Alex Gonzalez 2-0, every Met fan had the memories of last years 9th innings in September coming back. But K-Rod settled down and on a 3-2 pitch struck out Alex Gonzalez with a fastball. The last hope for the Reds was Lance Nix, again Rodriguez fell behind 2-0 and Nix hit a fastball to straight away Center field but Carlos Beltran was their to put it away. The Mets escaped game two with a 9-7 victory over the Reds.
The Mets will go for the sweep in the third game of the season later today. The game is scheduled for a 12:35 start and the pitching match up consists of Oliver Perez for the Mets against Bronson Arroyo for the Reds. The big question for this game is which Oliver Perez will we see? The Mets will attempt to correct their bullpen problems and head to Florida with a 3-0 record.
Josh Jakers
NYchalktalk.com
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