Everyone was happy last night since the Mets beat up on a team they should have beaten up. The Mets scored 3 in the first against Jeff Karstens who has not won a game since June.
"We feel very good that we can do [this]," manager Jerry Manuel said after watching the Mets amass 15 hits. "It just never manifested itself until tonight."
The Mets battered former Yankee Jeff Karstens (2-10) for seven runs on 11 hits (nine of them were singles) over 3 1/3 innings, while Pelfrey who was not feeling well battles through 8 innings as the Mets won 7-2.
Now of course to get excited about winning a game against a team that already has 82 losses really is just doing something that is expected. For once though the Mets did the expected. Everyone in the lineup was able to tee off against Karstens who looks done. Of course once he was lifted the Mets didnt do much against the likes of Gallagher,Ledezma,Resop and former Met Chan Ho Park. The Mets only had 4 hits in the last 5 plus innings against a team that has a ERA of just over 5.00.
Everone except Tejada and &Pelf had a hit in the starting lineup. Beltran was the only 1 who had just 1 hit while cleanup hitter Carter had 2 hits and 2 rbi's including a solo shot in the 3rd against Karstens. Maybe Carter will be in the cleanup spot tonight against lefty Zach Duke but does that mean Frenchy will sit?
It was the first time in a month that the Mets amassed that type of production . The Pirates now have 18 straight years of losing records.
Pelfrey must have felt honored to get that type of run support and of course now they will score 1 run for Jon Niese who goes to the mound tonight.
Check out the box score and game summary here
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