Mets Put Forth Another Heartless Effort Against Phillies

PHILLIES 6

METS 3

The weather today felt like late September/early October, and the way this series went against the Philadelphia Phillies, it might as well have been late September/early October.

Yes, it is only June, there is still 2/3 of the season left to play, but the Mets effort, or lack thereof should make many wonder if this season is beginning to slip away from this team.

For the second straight night, the Mets grabbed the early lead and watched the Phillies storm back with clutch hitting, clutch pitching and clutch defense to win 6-3 and take two out of three in this series.

Things began to fall apart in the sixth inning, and for the second straight night, Chase Utley was front and center. Utley's double to right off of Tim Redding, brought home Jimmy Rollins to cut the Mets lead to 3-2. Finally in the seventh, Matt Stairs followed two hits by Pedro Feliz and Chris Coste with an RBI ground out to tie the game at three.

The Phillies are the definition of clutch. They chip away, and chip away, getting into their heads of their opponents and killing them in the end. From the sixth inning through the tenth inning, the Mets offense mustered only two hits. Not exactly something you expect from a team that needs to be clutch at the most crucial points in the game.

In the tenth, with Ken Takahashi on the mound for the Mets, Raul Ibanez blasted a three run home run to the deepest part of the park at the 415 fence in right-center field. The homer gave the Phillies a 6-3 lead. The shell shocked Mets did nothing in the bottom of the tenth against new Phillies closer Ryan Madson, going away quietly into the night.

The Mets are now four games behind the Phillies, and it could only get worse this weekend when the Mets drive down to the Bronx to play a very angry Yankee team that is trying to forget a bad week in Boston.

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