Mets 8 Braves 7

What a game! These are the games that championship teams have to win, especially against their rivals.

Great comeback in the 7th inning. The Mets of the past two years never would have pulled that off. Floyd and Matsui even got big hits to keep it going.

Speaking of Cliff Floyd, he had a really helter skelter game last night. Gary Cohen keeps saying that every big hit he gets will break him out of his slump.
Third inning: Bases loaded one out, he grounds into a double play.
Seventh inning: First and third one out, he singles the run home.
Eighth inning: Bases loaded two outs, he strikes out.
Eleventh inning: Leading off the inning, trailing by one, he homers to tie the game.
twelfth inning: Bases loaded two outs, pops out to second.

He's credited with leaving 8 men on base, three times with the bases loaded minus one guy who was out on the double play. But he's still a semi-hero for hitting that homer.

Floyd wasn't the only one as once again the Mets are being haunted by that elusive sacrifice fly. Three hitters in the 7th and 8th had a chance to give the Mets a 7-6 lead with a fly ball. Franco hit into a double play, LoDuca hit one six inches, and Delgado pooped (combining popped and looped) out to short.

Trachsel pitched his normal game, give up some hits, give up some runs, but keep the game close.

A tough appearance for Bradford. He's been adequate this year, just had a rough night.

Heilman looked great, Duaner Sanchez is the best player ever, even Julio looked good in his one inning. His first appearance in a pressure situation since he imploded in the second game of the season.

But I am really worried about Billy Wagner. So far he has been zero improvement over Braden Looper. The fact that the team has improved has helped us win 3 of the 4 games in which he's sucked. If he has a finger injury that lasts all season like Beltran's injury last year, they should just DL him and let Duaner close.

Reyes was on base 6 times last night, but only scored twice. Gary Cohen is furious.

Carlos Beltran is starting to find his groove, he's got three homers in a week.

David Wright is also breaking out of his slump. I'm glad he was the one who got the walkoff hit.

Four wins in the five games of this homestand, 3 of them on walkoffs. Very exciting.