Mets Lose to 'Birds 9-4

The Mets lost to the Cardinals today by the score of 9-4 (box score), but that wasn't the worst part.  In fact, today was so bad, I'm not sure I know what the worst part was...

As I mentioned in an earlier post both Murphy and Cora had to leave today's game with injuries, which was dissapointing for obvious reasons, along with Murphy being the only Met with multiple hits today.  Jason Bay did hit a homer to straight-away center, which was some nice news for the Mets.

Oliver Perez was hit hard by the Cardinals and finished throwing 2 innings and 1/3 giving up 7 runs, and 3 homers.  Igarashi and Calero also gave up runs, while only tossing an inning each.  The most impressive Mets pitcher in this game was K-Rod who had a nice ninth-inning to close the game out.  Probably the bright spot of the day...

In even more depressing news, Johan Santana gave up 7 runs in an inning against the Memphis Redbirds in minor league camp action.  But there was some good news when Jose Reyes got some action in the same game.  From the strange camera my father, I mean SNY, had stuck between the chain-linked fence you could watch  a bit of Reyes' at-bats.  Despite the camera angle being awful it wasn't a horrible experience, and was definitely worth seeing Reyes play a bit.

Overall, not a great day.  As Jim Leiland said, "In baseball, you're only as good as the next day's starting pitcher."  I say, good thing Ollie's not throwing tomorrow...