So you might wonder why it says game 1. Well i feel thats what today really is, game 1. After that day off in spring, its time to finalize that roster and get into season mode. Like Willie said, its time to tighten up. Its time to start playing for real, in game settings and have starts make long starts. Its time for the bullpen to act like one. And its time to get hits when it matters, not just scattered throughtout the game
That being said, the Mets, get this, ACTUALLY DID THAT TONIGHT. Seriously, the played for real and it was great. They beat the Orioles (good day tommorow coming) 6-1.
Lets start tonight's game review with pitching. Pelfry, who with a win could lock up a rotation spot, had some good points and some bad points tongiht. The good points is that he went 5 innings, which is huge, allowed one run, and a walk. The bad news is he allowed 7 hits, but he was able to get his way out of those hits without damage, which is good. His spring ERA is now 1.29
In a strange way, Im happy to see him have all those hits. Generally when u allow 7 hits, u have more than one walk and way more than one run allowed. This shows that he can work under pressure, which is good. I say this puts him in the rotation.
After that, Adkins, Felicino, Smith, and Schowneis, went 4 innings with no hits. Feliciono stuck out the side. As Smith had a strkout like Schownwies. There were also no walks in these four innings.
This is huge cause all of these guys, besides adkins, will be in the Mets bullpen come April 1st. Smith is the most important cause now he is racing agianst Burgos and probably moving past him.
So now for the bats:
The Duke had a big night tonight going 2-3 with 2 doubles, thank god, and he scored a run…so now he is back
Reyes had a triple…no surprise. Jose Valetine had a triple….JOSE VALETINE! thats just nuts.
And that centerfielder, well he had his 3 rd homerun of the spring.
Green, Valtine, Beltran, and Hernandez all had RBI, whichi is good.
In my opinion, more importat was when the Mets were winnig by a score of 4-1, they were outhit 6-7, this showed they were getting clutch hits. 3 of their 6 runs were scored with 2 outs. This is important because thats how the mets won games last year
