And go back to a week and a half ago, you could hardly say our Offense was really carrying this team, They scored just enough runs to win and we had guys like Duda and Davis struggling, Torres hitting below mendoza too.

They were correct that we had a bad offense about two weeks ago!
They just haven’t updated their assesment because they don’t have the resources to get the recent picture. Since they couldn’t possibly miss the pitching effort (remember everyone myself included) concluded that we were pitchin weak!
Santana has been the difference, Dickey has taken it to another level and Gee has avoided those bad innings he used to have recently as well.

I think it says more about where they are in the league and the super hot Beltran than anything else.
Beltran leads the NL in HRs (6th league wide) and they play in the worst division in the NL.

We would have the division if we played in the central right now as would the Marlins.
San Fran would be in 2nd if they played there. Atlanta and Philly would be 2nd or 3rd there.

So it’s no surprise they have the numbers they do playing mostly dregs of the league in thier division matchups.

We are averaging 4.4 RPG when you compare that to someone like the Cards who have a 9.5 RPG average you tend to look at that and say How did they beat them?

The thing is this team scores the runs when it NEEDS to not like the Cards who just put up a lot of runs and wins with offense.

What has them really baffled though is the team ERA of 4.57 which I suspect has a lot to do with the Pen’s numbers. And it’s misleading because we don’t give up a lot of runs everyday but on days we do give up runs we give them up in bunches!

Of our regular rotation (not Including Pelf’s replacement) they have a 3.46 ERA.
Couple it with those 4.4 RPG and you get the picture of why we have won so many games.

Look at the runs scored off the pen and you see it’s almost as many runs given up as the starters!
When we stay away from the Pen we win the game!

Also, remember all those late inning come back wins? All those low scoring close games? That means the startters ahd to get yanked quicker and more work for the pen.

Don’t get me wrong, the pen did not help themselves in most cases, but a lot of that could have been avoided by Ike or Duda finding their groove sooner.

It seems this team just always has a different person stepping up with the bat every night as they fight to win games. If it’s not Baxter it’s Hairston. If it’s not Hairston then it’s Torres. Tonight the Mets got big contributions once again by Capt Kirk.

It has been fun ride so far and I am just going to continue enjoy this for all it’s worth.

Positives has to be Niese and his performance on top of him getting 2 hits as well. Also a hat tip to Torres throwing the runner out at home to end the inning when the game was still close.

Lets go for the sweep today.
LGM!!!

I think the reason the offense has had to “bail out” the pitching is because they haven’t been scoring early in games. At least, not enough. They need their mashers to mash and they weren’t doing that. They’ve scored so many of their runs playing small ball which isn’t going to carry them through a 162 game season. Not in the NL East.

Duda may be coming around now and I think Wright will hit his home runs in spurts, so the runs should be coming in more.

Can you get off your lazy ass and look at some stats once in a while. These three games have been great for pitching but the offense has bailed out the pitching all year. While the pitching is next to last overall the offense is 4th in the league in RS, 5th in BA, 3rd in OBP, 4th in OPS, 3rd in OPS+, 3rd in doubles, all while using the second most players in the league at 37. Can we give some damn credit to Hudgens and the Mets hitters?