Beyond Crazy

The Mets just got swept in Houston in embarassing fashion. On a day when they had 9 hits and 4 walks they cashed in for a depressing 0 runs.

Oliver Perez pitched pretty badly, overall, but he only gave up 4 runs in 6 innings. The Mets had the opportunity to do something today, and the offense blew it.

Robinson Cancel made a big base-running blunder in the 3rd inning, getting caught stealing at third base for the third out with David Wright at the plate. Gary Cohen was jumping all over him for that dumb play, but I didn't think that it was so crazy. The very fact that it was a stupid play might catch the Astros off guard, he probably thought. In fact, Robinson had already caught them off-guard once in the inning with his bunt single.

On the bright side of things, Nick Evans had two asssist in leftfield (both at second base), Reyes, Beltran and Delgado each had multi-hit games (3 for Carlos D.), and Eddie Kunz, in his major-leauge debut, pitched a scoreless, if not uneventful, 7th inning.

I believe that at this point, Carlos Delgado should be instated as the number 3 hitter (which would shift David Wright down to fourth). Besides the fact that Carlos is currently hitting better than David, Jose Reyes is hot, too, so by batting Carlos 3rd, you'd be bunching together the consistent hitters.

Oh, to all you batting-average watchers out there, Carlos Delgado (.268) has raised his batting average above that of Carlos Beltran (.266).