Unlucky

Unlucky just about describes Pedro Martinez (in regard to a certain thing), in that he received a no-decision as compensation for his great outing today. (I can't call the guy unlucky - he'd pulled in over $134 million in baseball contracts coming into this year, according to this.)

Once again, the bullpen blew it. Joe Smith, Pedro Feliciano and Aaron Heilman each contributed to today's debacle, combining to give up 6 runs in an inning-plus. Especially distressing (at least to me) was Heilman's reverting to his old ways after two positive outings.

As you may recall (from the last paragraph of this), I have supported Aaron Heilman as the second-in-line closer (i.e. closer when, like now, Billy Wagner is unavailable). I still do support him, but I must admit that his inconsistency is really getting distressing. The step after that is depressing.

However, even after today's loss, the Mets are just 2.5 games out of the division lead. There's plenty of baseball, yet. All is not lost.

Yankees Update: The Yankees, in serious trouble at 8.5 games behind the Rays and 4 behind wild-card leading Boston, are currently losing to the Twins. Boston, too, is currently losing.

Poll Update: Apparently, consensus is that the Mets' biggest problem is their relief pitching. After today's game, I think it'd be hard to argue against that.

New Poll: Coming soon.