I was hoping to be proved wrong with the way I closed yesterday's post, but to no avail. Johan Santana lowered his ERA to 0.78 last night and now also leads the majors with 60 K's. Despite a superb effort in which he kept his team in the game without his best stuff, the Mets failed to eek out more than one run. To add insult to injury, the left side of the infield was responsible for 2 errors that led to 5 unearned runs which gave Johan a loss.After the game David Wright said "He's facing aces. It seems like every year, no matter what team, there's always that one guy that you fight for, you go out there and try to give him good run support and you just can't do it. I think it's a combination this year of he's kind of been unlucky in that way, but also he's going against some pretty good pitchers, too. Just off the top of my head, it's Josh Johnson twice, it's Gallardo, it's Derek Lowe, Chan Ho when he threw a great game. So it's a combination of both being unlucky and going up against some pretty good pitchers." I can't believe he had the nerve to mention Chan Ho Park.
This loss isn't just on the offense though. Jerry should have never left Feliciano in there to face Diaz. There is no reason to leave a LOOGY in the game to face a righty after the bases were just loaded on an error. To top it off, it had been mentioned throughout the broadcast that Diaz rakes off of lefties. I'm sure they had a copy of the scouting report somewhere in the dugout right? Where was Stokes then? After that hit plated two I shut the game off in disgust.
This kind of loss can be deflating to the psyche. It makes the fan forget about the 7 straight just rattled off. It makes you say "oh but it was just the Pirates." Let's hope these guys pick it back up for Pelfrey tonight. Last night was just disgraceful.
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