Mets 5 Pirates 1

I didn't see much of last night's game and didn't have time to write about it then due to a bunch of things I had to do last night. So what happened? Well, we scored on a Jason Bay homer in the first and things looked good. Then in the bottom of the first Carlos Beltran scored on a Cliff Floyd single. From first base. Our stellar RF/CF combination of Restovich and Redman (why the hell does this guy ever start, if he's in center at the next game I go to I might leave before a pitch is thrown) couldn't track down a ball in the gap, allowing the debacle. Josh Fogg gave up a couple more runs in the 4th, then got into a jam in the 6th. Salomon Torres game in and did what our bullpen does best, let inherited runners score. We tried to come back, even getting runners on base from time to time, but inevitably choked at every chance we got (especially 2nd and 3rd, no outs in the 8th with Eldred, Doumit, and Castillo due up). We got mostly shut down by Glavine (who's been awful this year) and Aaron Heilman (who isn't exactly a bullpen ace either).

One curious side note from the game. In the fourth inning with Beltran on second and no outs we intentionally walked Cliff Floyd to get to David Wright. Coming into last night's game, Wright was 5-for-6 on the year with 13 RBIs after an intentional walk. He immediately doubled both runners in. So we get to the sixth inning with Cairo on second and Floyd up with one out, and what do we do? We intentionally walk him to get to David Wright. Torres only walks Wright this time, no harm done (until the next batter doubles in two more runs). This strikes me as the kind of thing someone on our coaching staff should know. You know, something like "David Wright takes those intentional walks pretty seriously, he's come up huge after them this year. You might wanna think twice before walking Floyd tonight," instead, he kills us and we lose. Typical Pirate baseball.