After last night's extra inning heartbreak, the Mets bounced back in fine style with a 13-0 thrashing of the hapless Marlins, a game in which almost everything bounced the Mets way.
The defense picked the Mets up in the bottom of the first, as Ryan Church made his presence known by perfectly playing the carom of a Hanley Ramirez hit off of the wall, quickly getting the ball into second to get Ramirez out as he tried to stretch the hit into a double. Church then followed up that with a 2-run homer to right field in the top of the second to spark the onslaught of the young Marlins pitching staff. Church's home run was the first for the Mets this year.
All of the Mets starting position players had at least one hit, and all of them, excepting second baseman Luis Castillo, drove in at least one run, an excellent showing of the potential of this line-up. In left field, Angel Pagan continued to impress with his overall game, and continued his timely hitting shown throughout this series.
Starting for the Mets, Oliver Perez scattered five singles over six innings and kept the Marlins in check for most of his impressive stint, while the rest of the Mets bullpen allowed just one more single to complete the shutout.
Going back to the RBI's, both Carlos Beltran and Carlos Delgado drove in their first runs of the year.
David Wright had a monster game, delivering the Mets second home run in the sixth with a tremendous blast to center field that brought in three runs as the Mets blew the game wide open. In Wright's previous at bat in the fifth inning, he drilled a ball to left center field that most certainly would have been a home run in most other parks, but the tall score board there stood in the way and the result was a ground rule double.
The only thing that did not bounce the Mets way came in the previous inning, when Beltran's home run was ruled a ground rule double, even though replays showed that the ball clearly bounced off of the metal railing behind the fence rather than the fence itself. Marlins manager Fredi Gonzalez came out to argue the point, and winning the argument was the high point of the game for the Marlins.
There were also some fine defensive plays for the Mets as well; besides Church's play, Wright also made a couple of tough diving stops on the line to get the Marlins batter out, and Castillo also made an acrobatic leap over a Marlin in the fourth inning on a double play to end their turn at bat. However, Castillo did get charged for an error in the next inning when he dropped a line drive on purpose in an attempt to get another double play, getting the error when he threw the ball wide of Jose Reyes on second base. That was about the low point of the game for the Mets.
Now it's on the Atlanta to face the Braves for a key weekend series. Let's Go Mets!
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