(via Depressed Fan)
It wasn't the best looking game in the world, but the Mets ended up on top as they recorded their 7th win in a row, and swept a team for the third time in four chances. The Mets have now added 6 wins to their road record, in other words they increased their road wins so far on this trip by 75%. So how did they get the win this time?
Once again, it was really due to hitting again. They only scored 6 runs, (making it 32 runs scored now over their last 4 games) but they had a lot of hits (again) as they pounded out 14 of them. The only Mets hitter that didn't have a hit tonight was Jeff Francoeur, everyone else had at least one. In fact, five players had multi-hit games (Reyes, Pagan, Davis, Carter, Tejada). David Wright knocked in a run as he extended his streak of games with an RBI and now has a total of 53 on the year.
The pitching wasn't bad either. Dickey had a quality start by the (slightly better than) books allowing 2 ER over 6 innings but as the game went on he got better on the mound. His knuckle ball started to kniuckle more and he ended up racking 7 strikeouts. Feliciano actually gave up the rare ER. Dessens came on for an effective 8th inning as his ERA dropped below 1.00. Krod allowed a hit and struck out the side in order to record his 15th save on the year.
The Mets will now wrap up this road trip starting a set tomorrow night in the Bronx. Both the Mets and the Yankees are better than the last time they faced each other in May. It should be an exciting series as both teams are playing good baseball right now. Before we get hyped up for tomorrow night, we should enjoy the fact the Mets have swept a team on the road again.
