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(by Brett Kahn)
The good news: Johan Santana gave the Mets another quality start giving up only one run through seven innings. The bad news: He was credited with a loss because the Mets offense only mustered one run in a 3-1 loss courtesy of a Ryan Church double in the ninth inning.
Atlanta's John Smoltz was sensational, allowing no runs through five innings and striking out six. He left after the fifth and the Braves never looked back.
Are people attributing this to some sort of fall-out from last season? It's possible, and the players in the clubhouse know they are better than 2-3. Those players include 3B David Wright and C Brian Schneider, both of whom have made their thoughts clear on newyorkmets.com today.
The Mets now have a day off before entering their very anticipated match up with the Philadelphia Phillies. Oliver Perez will look to duplicate his first start of the season in which he allowed no runs over six innings, while striking out eight.
Top 9th- NEW PITCHER RAFAEL SORIANO. Wright walked. Beltran struck out looking. Delgado flied out to RF. CHURCH DOUBLED TO RF AND WRIGHT SCORED. Pagan walked. Schneider grounded out to diving 1B Teixteira to end game.
1 run 1 hit 1 LOB
BRAVES WIN 3-1
W- Smoltz
L- Santana
S- Soriano
Top 8th- NEW PITCHER PETER MOYLAN. Scheider singles to RF. MARLON ANDERSON PINCH HIT FOR P SANTANA. Schneider out at 2B on FC by Anderson. Reyes flied out on first pitch to LF. Anderson stole 2B. Castillo grounded out to 1B.
0 runs 1 hit 1 LOB
Bottom 8th- NEW PITCHER AARON HEILMAN. Johnson flied out to RF. Escobar struck out swinging. Jones walked on four pitches. TEIXTEIRA HOMERED TO RF. (JONES SCORED) Francoeur grounded out to 3B.
2 runs 2 hits 0 LOB BRAVES LEAD 3-0
Top 7th- NEW P OHMAN. Beltran flied out to deep LF. Delgado singled to RF. Delgado advanced to 2B on Church ground out to SS. Pagan flied out to CF.
0 runs 1 hit 1 LOB
Bottom 7th- Diaz grounded out to 3B. McCann doubled to rCF. Kotsay flied out CF. BRAYAN PENA PINCH HIT FOR OHMAN. Pena grounded out to diving 3B Wright.
0 runs 1 hit 1 LOB.
Top 6th- Reyes grounded out to 2B. NEW P BOYER struck out Castillo looking. Wright struck out looking.
0 runs 0 hits 0 LOB
Bottom 6th- Jones struck out swinging. Teixteira flied out to deep lCF. Francoeur flied out to RF.
0 runs 0 hits 0 LOB
Top 5th- Pagan struck out swinging on a breaking ball. Scheider grounded out on first pitch to P Smoltz. Santana flied out deep to RF.
0 runs 0 hits 0 LOB
Bottom 5th- Kotsay grounded out to SS Reyes. Gotay pinch hit for P Smoltz. Gotay struck out looking. Johnson singled to RF. Johnson out at 2nd on FC by Escobar.
0 runs 1 hit 0 LOB
Top 4th- Beltran struck out swinging on a high fastball. Delgado singled to rCF. Church flied out to CF and Delgado was doubled up at 1B.
0 runs 1 hit 0 LOB
Bottom 4th- Teixteira grounded out to SS Reyes. Francoeur doubles on a dropped pop-up by Reyes in LF. Diaz singled off P Santana's foot. McCann grounds into 4-6-3 double play.
0 runs 2 hits 0 LOB
(by Brett Kahn)
