Happy Recap: Mets 7 Giants 0
What a game by Mike Pelfrey. I'm so impressed with him lately but I want to point out what impressed me much. So much went wrong for him in the first inning (Easley's error, bad no-call by the umpire when Lewis ran out of the baseline on what should have been called a doubleplay, hitting Molina with an 0-2 pitch) but he didn't get rattled. He kept throwing his pitches and got out of the inning with no runs.
His ERA is now below 4, his record is above .500 and I'm sure his confidence is at an all-time high.
In his last 8 starts (a significant stretch amounting to about a quarter of the season), he is 5-0 with a 2.62 ERA.
He's getting more groundball outs, more strikeouts, fewer walks, everything about Pelfrey has been wonderful.
He has given up only one home run in his last 12 starts (78 1/3 innings), and only 4 all season.
And the offense is pounding the ball as well racking up another huge night with 14 more hits.
Carlos Beltran hit an early 3-run homer which I think was huge because when the Mets were struggling it seemed if they got down early they felt like they would lose. Now if they get an early lead, they feel like they are going to keep adding on, and hold on to it (as evidenced by the 10-9 win, they did hold on). That attitude reminds me of the 2006 team.
There have been false starts for this team before but this is now the longest winning streak since April, and there are many underlying reasons to be encouraged.
Other offensive stars in this game included Jose Reyes (now batting above .300), Damion Easley (continues his hitting streak in lieu of Castillo), Carlos Delgado (16 homers, on pace for 30) and Fernando Tatis (his third homer).
Weird statistical note: The first 7 players in the Giants lineup (excluding Omar Vizquel) are all batting between .279 and .299. Pretty decent batting averages for a team that is 14th in the league in runs scored. Their team batting average is actually 6th in the NL but they are 13th in OPS because they have only 57 homers, last in the league. Three teams have more than twice that many.
His ERA is now below 4, his record is above .500 and I'm sure his confidence is at an all-time high.
In his last 8 starts (a significant stretch amounting to about a quarter of the season), he is 5-0 with a 2.62 ERA.
He's getting more groundball outs, more strikeouts, fewer walks, everything about Pelfrey has been wonderful.
He has given up only one home run in his last 12 starts (78 1/3 innings), and only 4 all season.
And the offense is pounding the ball as well racking up another huge night with 14 more hits.
Carlos Beltran hit an early 3-run homer which I think was huge because when the Mets were struggling it seemed if they got down early they felt like they would lose. Now if they get an early lead, they feel like they are going to keep adding on, and hold on to it (as evidenced by the 10-9 win, they did hold on). That attitude reminds me of the 2006 team.
There have been false starts for this team before but this is now the longest winning streak since April, and there are many underlying reasons to be encouraged.
Other offensive stars in this game included Jose Reyes (now batting above .300), Damion Easley (continues his hitting streak in lieu of Castillo), Carlos Delgado (16 homers, on pace for 30) and Fernando Tatis (his third homer).
Weird statistical note: The first 7 players in the Giants lineup (excluding Omar Vizquel) are all batting between .279 and .299. Pretty decent batting averages for a team that is 14th in the league in runs scored. Their team batting average is actually 6th in the NL but they are 13th in OPS because they have only 57 homers, last in the league. Three teams have more than twice that many.
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