Glavine gets win number 292 ATL

The Mets beat the Phillies yesterday 5 to 3. In the beginning it seemed these two 40+ year old pitchers were in for an early exit walking batters early, but both Glavine and Moyer got out of early trouble and pitched well.

Tom Glavine started the game for the Mets and I really can not believe he went 6 innings after the first and second inning he had. Glavine looked like Oliver Perez out there early on but after walking 3 batters in the first inning did not walk a batter for the next 5 innings. All Glavine's runs were due to two homeruns by Jimmy Rollins. His final line was 6 innings 4 hits 3 ER 3 walks. ERA for the season 3.12

Jose Reyes is on fire. Reyes had 2 more clutch RBI'S yesterday giving him 11 already this season. Reyes on the season is now batting a .351

Moises Alou was 3 for 4 yesterday with an RBI, and finally some of these hard hit balls he is hitting are starting to drop. (.343 average)

David Wright kept alive his 21 game hitting streak with a triple on a ball he hit deep to right field last night.

Joe Smith has not been fazed by the change from spring training to the regular season, Smith has now thrown 6 scoreless innings this year and striking out 5 while doing so. Smith's slider is one of the nastiest pitches if seen from such a young kid all I want to say is a reliever never wins the rookie of the year award but I really think this kid could have a chance.

Scott Schoeneweis looked solid last night and was able to pitch a complete 8th inning giving Heilman an extra day off.

Billy Wagner made it a little interesting as usually but didn't give up a run, and got his second save of the season.


The Nationals beat the Atlanta Braves yesterday, yes the Nationals beat the Braves. The Nationals and Phillies are now tied in wins.

John Smoltz started the game for Atlanta and got the loss though pitching 8 innings giving up just 2 runs.

The Braves had only 2 hits all night and those hits came from Chipper and Andruw Jones.

Jason Bergmann finally gave The Nationals a chance to win pitching 6 scoreless innings while striking out 8 to cool down the hot Braves.

Chad Cordero made it interesting by getting the bases loaded in the 9th but eventually got Brian McCann to strike out to end the game.

Ronnie Belliard is making it a mission to make teams second guess not signing him this off-season. If you remember nobody signed Ronnie Belliard until the Nationals came to him this spring with a minor league offer. Belliard with an RBI last night is now hitting .406 on the year

The Marlins were off yesterday.


Today the Mets will start a 3 game series with the Nationals at home as youngster Mike Pelfrey got the call up today and will make his first start of the season.


Standings

Team	W	L		GB
Atlanta	7	2		-
NY Mets	6	3		1.0
Florida	5	4		2.0
Philadelphia	2	7		5.0
Washington	2	8		5.5

Interesting Notes

Fernando Martinez's homerun the other day in AA was in the 8th inning of a tie game off of a left handed specialist.

The Indians gave a 3 year deal to Jake Westbrook so I guess you could cross him off the list of possible mid-season trades to the Mets.

The Phillies the team to "Beat" have the same amount of wins as The Washington Nationals who are expected to lose 120 games this year.

Lastings Milledge was sent down today to make room for Mike Pelfrey. Milledge had only 3 at bats during his time in the majors and will go down to AAA and start every game in either left or center field.