What a weird night, last time I checked we were up 10-8 in the 8th, Philly was down 108-8 in the 8th.... Now we won, fantastic, switch over the GameDay thing to the Marlina/Phils, see if Florida can hold on to drop the magic # by 2.

The "old" Oliver Perez showed up last night. I hope he never comes back. Thankfully the offense was a hummin. When both Beltran and Delgado are hitting as they were last night the Mets will win the vast majority of the time.

Four home runs in two games for Carlos Delgado. The MVP talk for Delgado is no joke.

Nope, not at all, I'd have to say he's the frontrunner if he keeps this up to any degree. Heard on the Baseball Tonight podcast on the way in this morning that Delgado became only the 4th lefthanded hitter in the last 50 years to hit 4 HRs in 2 days all of lefthanded pitchers. Hadn't occurred to me. And you could chop those 4 up into about 6 regular HRs if you wanted to get picky. Other 3 were Bonds, Yaz and Geoff Jenkins amazingly.

Looks like we're taking 4 off the magic # in 2 nights if no foolishness ensues. Up 7-1 early.

7-1 becomes 7-5....come on, people, this is Washington!

7-7. So help me, I never want to see Aaron Heilman in a Mets uniform again. How can anyone be 3-8 with an ERA over 5 on this team, especially when you're a reliever and most of the runs you give up are charged to the guy before you anyway??

The pitching really stunk it up against the Nationals. Thankfully we were able to get scoreless inning saves out of former National Luis Ayala. And oh the bats. The kind of offensive muscle we've been seeing lately will make the Mets very hard to beat if it continues.

I'm cautious on being too critical of the starting pitching at this point. Perez and Pelfrey both looked terrible in the series. But they also have had very strong runs lately and it had to end sometime. The bullpen is a mess. So that will continue to be a source of frustration I think.

Even with good starting pitching the bullpen is the reason that the Mets need their bats working more than ever. And they've worked this week. When you have Wright-Beltran-Delgado driving in runs and Jose Reyes getting on base 3 times the Mets are a tough team to outscore.

Fernando Tatis was a factor last night as well. Against all odds Tatis has kept up his productive offense enough to at least take the concerns of left field support off the table. And we've still got Nick Evans and Dan Murphy to add some depth on the bench.

I want to see reyes, church, wright, delgado, beltran, easley, tatis/murphy, schneider, pitcher EVERY SINGLE GAME! if we want to sub castillo for easley against righties to get more speed, fine. when castro's back healtyh, if we want to put him in against lefties, i'm all for it. but barring injuries, i don't want to see the likes of evans, chavez, marlon anderson, or argenis reyes in our staring lineup again this season. we're through with the injury-plagued part of our season (knock on wood)! if that lineup can put up 10 runs and 13 runs in back-to-back days, why differ from it?

and jmy9595, you realize that ESPN's gamecast is much better than mets.com's little logo. mets/coms is almost like watching the actual game. stats, what's happened so far in the game, photo's of the action, scores from other teams, where the ball was just hit, it's all there. mlb.com and yahoo.com have similar things. but mets.com, which you seem to like, is nowhere near as good.