Ladies and Gentlemen, your candidates for Phillies #5 Starter!
V Padilla...3.0 IP, 8 H, 8 R, 8 ER, 1 BB, 3 SO, 5 HR
G Floyd.....3.0 IP, 6 H, 8 R, 8 ER, 3 BB, 1 SO, 2 HR
Yeesh. I hope Ross Perot decides to run again.
Well, that was a mess. I picked it up in the 2nd, with the Mets ahead 3-2. I suppose the fans at the park knew it was going to be a bad night when Jose Reyes led off the game with a homer. I missed the Phillies first opportunity to break the game open, or at least make it a somewhat fair fight. Jim Thome, who is now somewhere between "slow start" and "really bad month", and we hope not on the road to "career-ending collapse", bounced into a 4-6-3 DP with the bases loaded and nobody out to plate the Phils first run. The Mets re-took the lead in the top of the 2nd with another homer, this time by Victor Diaz, whoever he is. Chase Utley made it 3-2 with a homer of his own in the bottom of the 2nd, but then the Phillies stranded the bases loaded when Bob Abreu hit a comebacker to lucky Mets starting pitcher Victor Zambrano to end the inning.
Then the flood gates opened. I especially enjoyed Padilla's sequence of batters with two out in the 4th: Piazza, homer; Floyd, single; Mientkiewicz, homer; Wright, single; Diaz, homer. At least the fans were getting in some good practice hitting the cut-off man. The Mets ended with a team-record seven home runs. Seven! Murph would have been tickled pink. Final score, Mets 16, Phillies 4. Tomorrow is another day.
Next come the Rockies, who have been putting on exhibitions like the Phils did last night on a fairly regular basis. The team ERA sounds like a start time: 7.05. If Thome doesn't break out of it in these two games, he might never break out of it. Cory Lidle faces Jamey Wright, start time...7:05.
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