The Mets basically looked their problems in the eye tonight and just fought through them. Part of the problems they have been facing stems from Luis Castillo getting off to an extremely slow start. He came out in a big way tonight with a four hit night (at one point it was five hits until it was overruled) and just about all of his hits were important. The Mets tonight did a much better job of bringing runners home and moving them over, as the scoreboard shows with their 8 runs scored. David Wright also got his first RBI of the season. Hopefully now that he has his first one out of the way, he will start to hit the ball better and keep this lineup going. With as much praise that Castillo should be getting tonight, Delgado and Reyes deserve some because they had nice games too.
Of course you can't talk about players that had good games, and not talk about Livan Hernandez. He went farther than any pitcher on the Mets staff tonight and he did a pretty good job of it only giving up two runs in 6.2, and those runs came at the end of the game. If he can always pitch like that, then he can really solidifly this rotation (its amazing how we can feel so much better about this rotation after back to back good starts by Maine and Hernandez). O'day had a very good 8th inning, after a really tough week for him, and although he struggled in the ninth, he has the stuff to become a force in the pen, he just has to build that confidence.
Finally I just want to mention Church. He handled the whole platoon with Tatis then platoon with Sheff thing well in words, but now he is using his bat to show that he should have that spot every day. His .533 AVG is amazing and if he keeps this up, I can't see Sheff getting many starts over him.
