Brewers 8 Mets 2

Sometimes you have games like this. It's the reason why almost every team in baseball wins at least 50 games and loses at least 50 games. It's not a big deal but it makes tomorrow's game a little more meaningful because it would be bad to lose a series to an inferior team at home especially with the Braves coming in.

Trachsel wasn't terrible, he was just Trachsel.

Tomo Ohka pitched a great game. I had the perception that he always gives the Mets trouble but over the past 3 years he is only 2-4 with a 3.92 ERA against the Mets, not including today. He also contributed with the bat hitting a double over Nady's head in the fourth inning to give the Brewers the lead. What's unusual about that is that it came after Ron Darling said he wants his outfielders to play shallow against the pitcher, and if he gets it over his head than that's his fault.

J.J. Hardy hit a grounder down the line in left field, which a fan picked up before Cliff Floyd could get there. Gary Cohen thinks Floyd would have had a play on Hardy at second (I don't) but I can't understand why that fan wasn't ejected. There should be a rule in every major league park, if you reach onto the field to grab a ball that's in play you are ejected from the game.

I love Ramon Castro. He hit a double and a sacrifice fly today. I think LoDuca is great but I also believe that Castro would be a very good catcher for some team if he got the chance to play 100 to 110 games.

I've been very laudatory of the Mets' ability to hit sacrifice flies so far this season. Today two sacrifice flies accounted for the only runs of the game.

Jorge Julio was terrible again. His ERA is 19.64. He has appeared in four games, allowed runs in all four and home runs in three of them. I'd love to hear Minaya tell us that the team is better off with him than with Bell or Padilla or Santiago or Feliciano or Ring. They should just admit we acquired him to get rid of Benson, but cut our losses and not force Willie to keep him and bring him into games that are still within reach. That has happened twice so far.

Happy Jackie Robinson Day!