Mets 7 Diamondbacks 1

The story of this game was all El Duque. He pitched great. He pitched the second complete game of the season for the Mets. The first one was when Trachsel pitched 4 innings in that rain shortened game against the Phillies. It was only 4 innings, but it was complete, so it counted. Anyway, El Duque allowed only three hits to his former team. And Willie kept him in the game to throw 114 pitches. He would have had a shutout, but gave up a meaningless run in the 9th.

The Mets got an early 1-0 lead, I'd like to see a stat, with the record of teams that score in the top of the first inning.

Then Beltran hit another home run in the third. He has driven in 18 runs in the last 19 games he's played. And he is one shy of matching his home run mark for all of last year.

Endy Chavez continues to play well, driving in three runs. Valentin also had an RBI.

Lastings Milledge got another hit, and made SportsCenter's Top Plays with his ridiculous catch after the ball bounced off his glove. So it was actually a bad play, that he saved and made look good.

The last time through the rotation Pedro and Glavine got killed (12 runs in 10 1/3 innings, 10.45 ERA) but El Duque, Soler and Trachsel gave up 3 runs in 23 innings for a 1.17 ERA.