Mets 10 Diamondbacks 6

The Mets bats are starting to come alive. They've now scored 26 runs in the last 3 games, all of which were victories for the starting pitchers.

The Mets love hitting in Arizona evidently. You might remember the series in late August last year when the Mets swept four games (4-1, 14-1, 18-4 and 3-1). That series was the brief emergence of Mike Jacobs, which allowed us to trade him for Carlos Delgado.

Delgado seems to be breaking out of his slump. His average is still around .250 but his two home runs give him 18, barring injury he should hit 30 again.



Carlos Beltran is also on pace to hit 30 homers. He also hit two last night giving him 17, one more than he had last year. I think having Delgado behind him, instead of Piazza, and being in his second season with the team are contributing factors to his resurgence this year.



David Wright also homered.

Jose Reyes stole his league leading 24th base last night. It was the 116th of his career, tying him with Len Dykstra for fifth on the Mets' all-time list.

Steve Trachsel actually pitched well enough to win (not lose) for once. Though he gave up 6 walks in 5 1/3 innings the Mets had jumped out to such a big early lead he was able to win anyway. I wish that Willie hadn't used Heilman, Sanchez and Wagner. The closest the game got was 3 runs, he could have afforded to give at least one of them 2 days off in a row.

Soler vs. Brandon Webb, this is gonna be a tough one. I can guarantee they won't hit five home runs off Webb's deadly sinker. But hopefully another good outing from Soler can extend the game into the bullpens.