Monday, June 27, 2011

Mets beat first place Texas Rangers again.

The Mets with there dink and dunk lineup beat the powerhouse Rangers for the second day in a row by the score of 8-5.  The Mets didnt have any home runs against the Rangers but amassed another huge hit attack with 14 hits . Jose Reyes had another great game with 4 hits including his 14th triple of the year.   His average now is at .341.  

Dillon Gee didn't have great stuff again but was able to limit the Rangers to 3 runs over 6 innings. Of course K Rod had to make it interesting in the 9th by allowing the first couple of hitters to smack him around for 2 runs.  Beato,Byrdak and Izzy pitched 2 innings combined of no run no hit ball. 

Every starter had a hit except for MR Masher jason Bay who went 0-5 with a RBI.  Daniel Murphy had a real good game with 3 hits and Beltran had a 2 rbi day. 

The Mets head to Detroit at .500 with 6 teams ahead of them in the wild card race. The Mets are 4.5 against the Braves.  7 teams are within 5 games of the Braves lead.

Mets box score

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