5/29/14

May 29th 2014 -- Mets 4, Phillies 1

Thursday night in Philadelphia, Chris Young broke out of his funk and Zach Wheeler was throwing pellets as the Mets beat the Phillies 4-1. Behind Wheeler the Mets chipped away at Philly starter David Buchanan. In the 2nd Lucas Duda defied the shift against him and bunted down the thirdbase line for a hit. Chris Young and Wilmer Flores then singled to load the bases and Duda came home with the first run when Travis d’Arnaud hit into a double play. In the 4th after Curtis Granderson walked, Young clubbed a 2 run homer (4) to make it 3-0 Mets.  In 5th the Mets had a chance to break the game open against Buchanan. They loaded the bases with 1 out.  Granderson walked to make it 4-0, but Duda struck out swinging and Young flew out to end the threat.  In the 7th Wheeler was humming along and retired 13 straight, but former Met Marlon Byrd snapped that streak with one out with an homer to right field to make it 4-1. Wheeler went 6 1/3 allowing 4 hits, the one run (earned) he walked none and struck out 9. He picks up the win improving to 2-5. Scott Rice and Vic Black each retired a Phillie to end the 7th. Black pitched a scoreless 8th as well. Black went 1 1/3 innings striking out 3 of 4.  Jenrry Mejia threw the 9th and recorded his 5th save striking out the side as the Mets pitchers strike out 15 on the night. With the win the Mets stand at 25-28 and now 12-11 on the road. Friday night is game two of this five games series, Rafael Montero (0-2 4.96) goes for the Mets, A.J. Burnett (3-4  3.51) goes for the Phils.  

1 comment:

Tom Brennan said...

The hitting is still a big question mark, but the pitching is far better than a few weeks ago, and first place not that far off. We live in interesting times.