Coming into the fifth game of the season the Florida Marlins hadn't lost a game; that was until they faced Livan Hernandez of the Mets. Livan Hernandez won the fifth spot in the Mets rotation coming into the season and he showed why Jerry Manuel made a great decision. Livan had an easy first inning but in the second after he let up back to back base hits to Dan Uggla and Jeremy Hermida. Livan settled down getting Cody Ross to pop up to short center, Cameron Maybin to strike out and Ricky Nolasko to strike out. The game remained scoreless until the top of the third when Jose Reyes delivered an RBI double to drive in Luis Castillo who was 4-5 on the day. Livan kept putting up zeros and in the fifth the Mets started to pull away. During that inning, Jose Reyes came through again with a his first home run of the season, a two run home run and then in the same inning Carlos Delgado hit an RBI double to score Daniel Murphy. That gave the Mets a 4-0 lead through five innings. After the Marlins got two runs back in the seventh, the Mets broke the game wide open on a sacrifice by Murphy and a base hit by Delgado. The Mets hung on to win and hand the Marlins their first loss of 2009, 8-4.
On Sunday, The Mets will have their Ace Johan Santana who is 1-0 with a 1.59 ERA in his one start in 09. He hasn’t lost a start since June 28th of last season. The Marlins will counter with an up an coming starter, Josh Johnson. He is 1-0 with a 0.00 ERA in his one start in 09. He will try to out duel one of the best pitchers in baseball. Both teams will try to win their second straight series to open the season.
Josh Jakers
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