Friday night in Pittsburgh, Jordy Mercer singled off
Gonzalez Germen scoring Andrew McCutchen as Pirates beat the Mets 3-2. Jeremy Hefner started for the Mets and
continues to pitch amazing baseball. His only mistake came in the bottom of the
first inning when Pedro Alvarez touched him up for a 2 run homer (#24) to make
it 2-0 Bucs. After that Hefner, only allowed one more hit for the
rest of his outing allowing the Mets to tie it. David Wright came through with
an rbi single in the top of the 6th to cut the lead to 2-1. In the
top of the 7th, Kirk Nieuwenhius hit a solo homer (#3) off Charlie
Morton to tie the game at 2. In the
bottom of the 9th the Pirates had 1st and 3rd
and no outs but the combination of David Aardsma, Scott Rice, Greg Burke and
Josh Edgin got out of the inning to force extra frames. Edgin took the Mets
through 10, then in the 11th rookie Gonzalez Germen came in and with
runners on 1st and 2nd yielded an rbi single to Mercer to
give the Pirates the win. Germen is now 0-1. Hefner went 7 he allowed just 3 hits the 2
runs he walked none and struck out 3.
Hefner’s era drops to a quite tidy 3.33! The Mets now stand at 40 -49 on
the year and 23-22 on the road as their 4 game win streak ends. Saturday night
is game two of the three game weekend series.
Carlos Torres (0-1 0.51)
comes out of the pen to start tomorrow
as the Mets skip Matt Harvey’s turn. AJ
Burnett (4-6 3.05) just off the disabled list goes for
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