The Mets got on the board first in this one. Reyes lead off the bottom of the first with a single on a weak dribbler to third. Two pitches later, Pagan tripled in Reyes to make it 1-0. David Wright plated Pagan with a sac fly to make it 2-0. That RBI gave Wright 54 on the season, 615 for his career, and pushed him out of a tie with Ed Kranepool for fourth on the Mets' all time list.
The Mets continued their scoring in the bottom of the third when Wright walked to lead off the inning, Ike knocked him over to third with a single and then Bay drove him in with a double to make it 3-0. Then came the rain and the tarp.
After a nearly one hour rain delay, played resumed with runners on second and third. Rookie Jay Sborz, in his major league debut, hit Barajas with a pitch to load the bases and then proceeded to hit the next batter, Franceour, to force in a run and make it 4-0. Rough. Ruben Tejada followed with a hard, one hop liner to Inge, who then threw wild to home, allowing Bay to score and make it 5-0. Reyes ripped a two-out single to left to score Franceour and make it 6-0. Reyes promptly stole second base and Pagan drove both runners in with a single to make it 8-0. After a pitching change, Ike Davis crushed one off the left field wall (really should have been caught) that landed for a double, driving in Pagan and Wright to make it 10-0.
In the top of the fourth, Detroit finally got in on the scoring when Brennan Boesch launched a two run bomb over the 415 mark in right center to make it 10-2. I'm sorry, no reason why Niese should have been back out there. He was obviously off after coming back from the rain delay and long inning. There's just no point.
After the Mets added a run on an RBI double by Pagan to make it 11-2, the Tigers came back in the top of the fifth to close the gap just a bit more. Austin Jackson doubled in a run to make it 11-3 and Laird singled him in to make it 11-4. Laird would then be singled in with two outs to make it 11-5. Just a flat out terrible decision by Manuel to leave Niese in after the delay and then again after he got roughed up. That's how you drain a young pitcher of his confidence. Yelling at my TV now. Worth finished the scoring with a single off Nieve to make it 11-6.
But the Mets' offense kept going in the bottom of the sixth. Reyes reached on a strikeout that got away, Pagan singled to go 4-4 on the day and Wright doubled in Reyes to make it 12-6. Davis singled in Pagan to make it 13-6 and then Bay hit a sac fly to plate Wright and make it 14-6.
Welcome back Bobby Parnell, who pitched a scoreless eighth and stuck out two. In an unrelated note, I'm trying to shorten up these postgames for you guys, but it's hard when there's so much going on.
Post Game 6/22/10 Mets 14 - Detroit 6
