Mets Leaky Pen Bearly Holds On

METS 6

PADRES 5

This much is clear, the Mets just are not that good. I don't care that they are just two games back of the Phillies, when you sleepwalk through an entire ballgame and still manage to win, you don't deserve to go to the playoffs.

If it weren't for Fernando Tatis, the Mets would have lost this ballgame BIG TIME!!!

With Billy Wagner out for two weeks due to a shoulder injury, the Mets had no choice but to go deep into the bullpen to get this one under raps, and it wasn't easy. The Mets were up 6-2; in some games this would seem like enough to win, but not with the Mets who find ways to make the impossible...possible.

Aaron Heilman came into the ninth to close it out and he couldn't do anything. He walked Nick Hundley on four pitches; gave up a single to Luis Rodriguez ( I know who are these guys) and finally gave up a three run jack to Jody Greut to get San Diego to within one, 6-5.

Joe Smith came in and quickly did away with Tadhadito Iguchi for the second out. Finally, Scott Schoenwies came in and got Brian Giles to fly out to deep deep center field, at the warning track in fact, to end it.

Still, there are concerns. This team can ill afford to blow these games at this time of the year, and if this poor pitching continues; if this poor baserunning continues; if Carlos Beltran and David Wright and Jose Reyes continue to fail at the plate - this Mets ball club will go nowhere fast.

Star of the Game: Fernando Tatis, who hit two homeruns and accounted for four of the Mets six runs. He hit a solo homerun into the bleachers in left, and hit a homerun down the left field line into the louge area to give the Mets a 4-2 lead. On the second homerun, Tatis was seen waving the ball fair, a la Carliton Fisk.