There’s nothing like home cooking, The Met offense which has struggled to score 4 runs over the past nine games exploded for 4 runs alone in the bottom of the first inning at Citi Field Monday night as the Mets beat up on the Phillies 7-1. The Mets jumped out to the lead in the 1st off A.J. Burnett with an RBI double by Daniel Murphy an RBI single by Lucas Duda and a two run double by Juan Lagares. In the 5th Travis d’Arnaud clubbed a long 3 run homer to make it 7-0, for d’Arnaud his 7th on the year. Bartolo Colon started for the Mets and had his second consecutive dominant outing. Colon was blanking the Phillies till 2 outs in the 8th when Carlos Ruiz doubled home Domonic Brown with the Phils only run. Colon went 7 2/3 allowing 10 hits the 1 run he walked 1 and struck out 6. He gets the win improving to 10-8. Josh Edgin relieved Colon and closed out the 8th, Dana Eveland started the 9th and after giving up a single got hit on the elbow with a liner and left the game. Vic Black came in and finished up. d’Arnaud wen t 3 for 4 with two doubles and the three run homer, Murphy and Lagares each had 2 hits apiece to lead the Mets. Ruiz went 4 for4; Marlon Byrd went 4 for 5 for the Phillies who tallied 13 hits in the loss. With the win the Mets improve to 51-55 on the year and are now 26-23 at home on the year. Tuesday night it’s game two of the series, Dillon Gee (4-3 3.49) goes for the Mets, lefty Cole Hamels (5-5 2.72) goes for Philly.
Went to game last night. Nice to have an early lead and chill. Listening to joe and Evan this AM on way to LIRR, and they said all the talk about fences is just that when team shows it can hit homers where they are. Nonsense. D'Arnaud homered, but he and Murphy both also hit balls that hit off the wall in deep spots that should have been homers. Move fences in...wind and weather make homer hitting difficult in Citi, it really needs to be compensated for. Conforto will be here soon...one more reason to bring fences in several feet.
ReplyDeleteFat Dude can pitch...let's keep him for 10 more years!
d'Arnaud and Duda have been carrying this team. If Sandy can get a legit cleanup hitter, you can push them both to the second half of the order at 5 & 6 and our lineup will be dangerous 1-6 (at least).
ReplyDeleteGood days are ahead.