That is what I am telling myself after tonight's ugly, ugly loss. Hopefully you are telling yourself the same thing. Getting back on the right track is as easy as winning tomorrow and retaking the lead in the NL East. But before we can look foward, we must look back just for tonight at what happened, so it won't happen again.
We need to look beyond the pitching woes in the pen right now, because without Wagner, they will not be going away. Another real problem for the Mets tongiht was they had plenty of moments after the pitching failed them to add to their cushion. They left the bases loaded in the sixth and they left runners on the corners in the eighth. The offense needs to score when it gets the opportunity to, especially with this bullpen.
The Mets have the next month to get their act together, to get their offense scoring when it haves to, and most importantly, to protect a lead, especially a 7 run lead. This was a real frustrating loss, but hopefully it was also a wake up call to everyone on the team that they need to perform like the champions that they are. Something positive has to be noted though about Heilman tonight. Although he didn't pitch any clean innings, he did pitch 3 scoreless innings, which was very good to see. They were some of the most stressful innings I have ever followed though.
Now with all of this being said, I can see if I wasn't such a die-hard Mets fan, that this was an extremely entertaining game. You have one team go up 7-0, then another team score 6 runs and then with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, tie the game. Then after a series of great defensive plays, the game is won by a team in the 13th inning. Alas, the Mets fan in me will be able to see how great a game this was after this season is over.
