Just Amazin'! Mets Shut Down Yankees

METS 4
YANKEES 0

The Mets are the hottest team in Major League Baseball.

Led by brilliant performances by Hisanori Takahasi and Pedro Feliciano the Mets shutout the New York Yankees in the Bronx, Friday.

The Mets held a 1-0 lead for most of the night, as Takahasi walked the tight rope for most of the evening, and still found a way to hold that one run lead through six brilliant innings of work. In that sixth inning, Takahasi got into some big trouble. He gave up singles to Mark Teixeira, and Nick Swisher, then walked Robinson Cano to load the bases for Jorge Posada. Posada had two grand slams this week, could he get a third?

Nope. Takahasi got Posada to ground out to David Wright at third to end the inning. That ground out was the turning point.

Then in the seventh after a lead-off double by Francisco Cervelli, Pedro Feliciano came in and got Curtis Granderson to strike out, Brett Gardner to ground out, and Derek Jeter to ground out to end that threat, and keep it 1-0.

Then the Mets tacked on. A Ruben Tejada walk was followed by a double to right by Jose Reyes to set the table for Angel Pagan. And Pagan didn't disapoint. Pagan laced a double down the left field line to bring in both runners to make it 3-0 Mets.

Fast forward to the ninth, Jerry Manuel elects to bring in Raul Valdez to close the game instead of K-Rod!?! Valdes quickly gave up two singles to make things very interesting, and Manuel had no choice but to bring in K-Rod. Rodriguez got into a heck of a battle with Brett Gardner, but walked him to load the bases for Derek Jeter! K-Rod was able to strike out Jeter on a check swing for the second out, then got Swisher to pop out to Wright for the final out.

No worries about dropped pop ups tonight. Mets win 4-0.