The Mets did what they seemingly always do and scored first. Feliciano lead off the game with a single up the middle. Tejada bunted him over to second and after a strikeout by Wright, Ike drove him home with a bloop single over the second baseman's head to make it 1-0. That was only the second first inning run Livan allowed this season.
Santana was cruising through 6.2 with no runs allowed until the Nats finally got to him. Ian Desmond lead off the game with a single, Nieves bunted him over and a wild pitch by Santana (his first of the year) two batters later moved him to third. Nyjer Morgan finished the job with an opposite field single to score Desmond and tie it at one. That would be all Santana allowed, though, as he finished with seven innings, six hits, two walks and seven strikeouts. Santana was regularly throwing in the 90-91 range and was sharp the whole way through. Very encouraging start from Santana.
Unfortunately, Jerry seemed hell bent on not winning this game. After Feliciano got the last two outs in the eighth, Jerry brought him back out for the ninth. After allowing hitters to reach first and second with one out, Jerry left him in to face Christian Guzman, who's was batting .363 right handed. What did he do? Single to load the bases. After Jerry then brought Igarashi in, Zimmerman hit a sac fly to end the game. Just an awful, awful decision to leave Feliciano in. Cost us the game, no doubt about it.
Post Game 7/1/10 Nationals 2 - Mets 1
