The Mets were not first to get the scoring going for a change. In the bottom of the first, Chris Coghlan lead off with a walk and then stole second. Gaby Sanchez bunted him over to third and Hanley Ramirez drove him in on a hard ground ball that Reyes couldn't corral to put them Marlins up 1-0. Reyes was charged with an error on the play. Two batters later, Uggla swung and missed on a pitch, sending his bat flying into the stands. The fan who caught it threw it back onto the field. Interesting.
It didn't take the Mets very long to get it back, though, as Jason Bay hit a one out solo homer to right center, tying the game at one. That raised Bay's homer total to five on the year.
The Marlins kept the runs coming in the bottom of the third when Ricky Nolasco ripped a two strike double over Feliciano's head, Coghlan bunted a single to move him to third and Gaby Sanchez drove them both in with a double into right field to make it 3-1. After a passed ball moved Sanchez to third, Hanley drove him in with a double to make it 4-1. Dickey appeared to be on his way out of the inning but Reyes made another error on a ground ball that should have ended the inning, but instead bounced off his glove into center to score Ramirez and make it 5-1.
In the bottom of the sixth, the Marlins extended their lead again on a solo shot by Cody Ross to pretty much the same spot as Bay to make it 6-1.
Just when it seemed the Mets were dead in the water, David Wright broke up a string of 15 straight batters retired by Nolasco with a single. After an Ike Davis strikeout, Bay hit his second homer of the game to get the Mets back in it, 6-3.
Chris Coghlan did his best in the bottom half to keep the Mets at bay with a solo homer of his own to make it 7-3. Geez. Talk about a bandbox.
In the bottom of the eighth, the Marlins finished things for good when Mike Stanton hit his second ML homer, a three run shot to left to make it 10-3. I'm no longer a fan of the San Juan experiment.
I suppose Dickey had to lose sometime and tonight was the night. He just didn't have his knuckleball going and without that he's not very effective. Hopefully the Mets' pitching staff got it out of their system and will go back to what we've all been used to starting tomorrow.
Post Game 6/28/10 Marlins 10 - Mets 3
