Mets falter versus Padres 8-3

Written by Mike Mariano | 07 August 2009

Another tough night in a season that’s been full of them for the Mets.  Livan Hernandez struggled from the get-go and it’s hard to believe he lasted five innings with the 7 runs he allowed on eight hits and four walks.  The bullpen was decent even though Tim Redding struggled, but the damage had already been done.  Adrian Gonzalez hit a two-run homer for the Padres in the third inning when they scored the bulk of their runs.

Offensively, the Mets had eight hits as a team but also left 8 men on base.  It’s never good when you strike-out 9 times as a team.  That’s a third of all of your team’s at-bats where you didn’t even put the ball in play.  Not encouraging.

David Wright was hitless in the game, but is still batting .326 on the season.  Angel Berroa was hitless to but that’s something you just come to expect.  In their big scoring inning, the Mets got two quick hits with no outs.  Then on a hit to center they scored a run on an error by the CF.  Another single scores a run and gives first and third.  Then Daniel Murphy hits into a double play to score the third run of the inning.  Good times.

The loss drops the Mets to six games under .500 and 11 back for the division.  That number doesn’t really matter, the 9 games out of the wild card is much more important.  But realistically, neither matter all that much for the Mets this season.  2009 is a season about surviving now.  The GM, the manager, the third basemen, everyone is just trying to survive the season.