Observations- 3-7-ST Game

        -Loved the lineup… it’s time to start playing the ‘real’ team and letting these guys get used to playing and hitting next to each other

        -Dice-K opened the game… shaky start… Jhonny Peralta entered this game hitting .429 (ugh)… 7.71 ERA after 0.2-IP… Mejia fans doing the wave… give Ruben Tejada his defensive kudos this inning… great range… Daniel Murphy’s error in the second didn’t help the cause and resulted in 2^nd run… lot’ of ‘extra outs’ in inning due to Murph, Grandy, and ball hitting umpire… escapes bases loaded with Peralta fly-out… 0-2 (1-ER) after 2.0-IP…

        -John Lannan continues to make a strong case for both the SP5 slot, but also a lefty coming out of the pen

        -Two more errors (Andrew Brown, Ruben Tejada) creates two more unearned runs for Rafael Montero… Tejada having a rough first game, sort of like Murph today… let’s give this 5-6 games to settle in and not panic.

        -Rafael Montero keeps impressing…

        -Another quality inning (3-K) from Steven Matz, though it was against the opponent’s ‘B’ lineup.

        The game ended 5-5 because the Mets scrubs played better than their counterparts, but the game was lost because of lousy ‘D’ from rusty regulars. Is this a problem on 3-7 when your 3Bman and 2Bman played their first game and your SS is just back from an injury?

        Let me put it this way… it WILL be a problem if it happens on 4-1.