This lefty makes it look Niese and Easy
Mets 7 - Pirates 3
Despite shoddy defense being played behind him John Niese’s first outing of 2009 was impressive, 6-IP, 2-R, 5-K, 0-BB. John faced a lineup tailor made for lefty starter success as virtually all of Pittsburgh’s offense is generated from the left side of the plate, but you got to execute and John went right after hitters pitching to big part of the ballpark and looking every bit of that 36 million dollars we just donated to that other lefty. Bobby Ojeda mentioned that while pitching for Buffalo John was working on his cutter and slider which was the #1 reason for his poor AAA numbers, and although Gary and Ron mentioned that this wasn’t a good game to gage Niese’s stuff it sure does look like he’s major league ready. I’m definitely looking forward to his next start in Atlanta and am exited about what this kid brings to the table.
What else can you say about Carlos Delgado, the guy’s got 103 RBI’s in his last 108 games and virtually all of them have been huge. Tonight our T-Rex racked up 5 more RBI’s on 3 big hits highlighted by a Ruthian blast to deep rightcenter which cleared the 415-FT marker with plenty of room to spare. Carlos’ monster jack gave the slugging first basemen 1512 career RBI’s which eclipses Mickey Mantle for 48th on the all time list. The other Carlos remains locked in, his RBI single in the 8th proved to be the game winner and set the stage for Delgado’s dramatic blast.
Bobby Parnell came on in the 8th and was characteristically phenomenal. The Mets flame throwing righty struck out 2 on his way to setting down Pittsburgh 1-2-3 and collected his first major league victory in the process. J.J. Putz entered in the 9th and yielded a run on a couple of 2 out hits and a BB but eventually slammed the door on the Buccos sealing the Mets 5th straight victory.