After two breakout games for the offense, the Mets bats went back to the hole they have been hiding in today, spoiling Santana's complete game performance. This makes three straight complete game efforts by Santana in a row and he has now lost the last two of them. Last time out he allowed 4 ER over 8 innings this time he allowed only 2 ER over 8 innings as he received only one run of support.
For the most part today the Mets offense just wasn't there. Runners would get on, and then the Mets would do nothing with it. The ninth inning is a great example. Ike Davis got a lead off single, and he never moved off of first base. Not only did no one else get hits, no one else was even able to move him into a scoring position. Ike gave the Mets a chance but the bats couldn't do anything with that chance.
This was of course frustrating for the same reason all month. As a fan, you cannot ask for better pitching than the Mets have recieved this month. If this pitching was around in the latter half of 2007 or 2008, with the offense those years, you could argue that the collapse wouldn't happen. Also adding to the frustration is at the start of the season, it was the bats that was supposed to be the nonissue with the pitching to be the main worry.
Well frustrartions mount while the season slips away. The 2010 Mets.
