The Big story from the game last night was of course Santana, he finally got to the mound and faced batters. When he left the game in the third inning, he allowed only one run, but then his reliever let his runners on first and second get home, which is why he gave up three innings. He also had two strikeouts. It was nice to see him out there and he said that he felt great. The second story of the night was Tim Redding, but we'll get to that after some box highlights:
The Good:
Evans 2-5, R, 3 RBI, HR, 2B
Church 2-4, R
Reed 1-2, R, RBI, HR
Schneider 1-2, R, 2B
Castillo 1-3, R, 2B, BB
Green 1.0 IP, 3K
Armas 1.0 IP, H, K
The Bad:
Redding 2.0 IP, 8H, 9ER, BB
Stokes 1.0 IP, 4H, 3ER, BB, K
Sullivan 0-4
Before we get to the fifth starter battle, lets go to the bench battle. Thanks to some moves made by the Mets this morning Evans, Sullivan, Reed, etc are battling it out for that last bench spot. Evans continues to pat his resume starting to show off that he can hit the ball hard and same with Reed. Sullivan was a surprise contender for this spot at the start of spring but so far so good, although last night, not at all, and that might hurt him.
The real person though who really hurt himself is Tim Redding. He has pitched himself out of the spot. he gave up five runs over one out to University of Michigan and then last night he somehow gave up 9 runs and three homeruns. How did he do that? This is going to pave the way for Garcia who starts today or Livan Herndandez or someone else.
