The first inning was a disaster for Florida and showed why young teams don't win many games. Two infield singles, a third that should have been handled by Jacobs but rolled to right field and an error on Ramirez. The Mets barely hit the ball out of the infield and got four runs.
El Duque quickly squandered that lead allowing two walks and a home run. Overall, he looked pretty good, sort of in a Brian Bannister walk a lot of guys, pitch out of trouble and only have enough to go five innings way. He was good enough to win today but if he is going to be in the rotation the rest of the year the Mets are going to need for him to be more effective.
Heath Bell did a nice mop up job to save the bullpen.
Beltran hit another homer. He is on fire, 87.5% of the way to last year's total already.
So the second base job is up in the air and will be split between Matsui, Woodward and Valentin. Evidently, Anderson Hernandez won't get another crack at it anytime soon. As I mentioned previously the bench is pretty well set and bringing him up would mean getting rid of someone else. I'd like to see Woodie step up and take the job.
Best news I heard all season: Rey Ordonez was in the Mets locker room before the game, speaking improved English and indicating that he hopes to be able to play for someone next season.
Cliff Floyd and Ed Coleman both went to last night's Heat-Pistons game. Not together though.
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