Met Moxie! Finally!

What a huge win for the Mets last night. Despite the two losses early in the week, the differences between this team now and this team three weeks ago are staggering. Finally, The Mets are showing a little fight. A little life. A little moxie.


After a disappointing start from Livan Hernandez, the Mets battled back from a 5-1 deficit and got some hits late in the ball game. A major criticism of this team has been their inability to put anything together offensively late in games. That has begun to change. The Mets scored 2 in the 6th, 3 in the 7th, and sealed the win with two in the ninth. This comes a night after the Mets scored three in the ninth inning to steel the first game of the west coast swing. Where was this kind of late production in April?

Another positive from the win: it's not like the rally came soley against the awful Giant bullpen. The late offense started when Tim Lincecum was still in the game. The Mets scratched out 10 hits and five runs against the NL Cy Young winner.


A lot of the recent success has to do with the hot streak of David Wright. Those who read the blog religiously and listen to wcwpsports.com know that I have been critical of Wright in recent weeks. That's because he wasn't doing things like this. Wright was three for five last night with four RBI's and a run scored. In the first game of the series, Wright was 3 for 3 with two walks and 2 RBI's. When David Wright hits, the Mets are a drastically different team. I think his production directly affects wins and losses more then any other player on the team. And yes, I'm including Carlos "The best player on the team" Beltran. But to be fair, Beltran still is hitting .370. Not too shabby.


We talked on Thursday's edition of Sports Talk Live about how important this early season west coast swing was. So far, so good. We've seen in the past that teams can gel after successful west coast trips. Conversely, teams can come home reeling after a bad one.


This afternoon is an interesting match up. Johan Santana vs. Randy Johnson. Johan's era is at 0.78. Randy Johnson has an era over five. It's time for the Mets to reward Johan and maybe score some runs when he's on the hill.

Jordan Lauterbach
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