It was an excellent first shabbat of the season for the Mets at Temple Jerr-Emanuel as we witnessed Mike Pelfrey give the blessing over the kool-aid in the Mets' 3rd quality start out of 4 in this young season.
Pelfrey went 6 strong innings giving up just 2 runs on 4 hits with 4 Ks and 4 walks. The biggest question mark of the spring is giving us hope and leaving us with a superb dose of kool-aid. If the Mets rotation can continue to perform at this level, and if Maine and Ollie are able to work out some of their early season issues, there's no reason they can't be contending for a playoff spot come fall.
And, "Why is this?" you say. The Mets have shown that 0-16 stretch with runners in scoring position was just a fluke as they brought out the big bats tonight with not one but two players going deep twice in this win. Rod Barajas continues the trend of Mets success with offensive production at catcher that this blog has been touting all year. Jeff Francoeur early in the season continues to show flashes of greatness at the plate. After his two jacks tonight, he, for the first time in his career, has more home runs than strikeouts at any point in a season only having one K on the year through the first four. Again the Mets show that from top to bottom everyone is a threat to make a play offensively and every inning is a scoring opportunity.
Fernando Nieve has provided Mets fans with a nice shot to the pitcher of kool-aid we need filled out in the bullpen at CitiField. KRod and Feliciano were the trusted arms out there coming into the season, but Nieve is showing he can potentially be the workhorse the Mets need to come and gets out for them in the middle of games.
That's right, the Mets are looking good. Things are getting exciting, but we haven't even gotten the best part yet - the spoon that's stirring our pitcher of kool-aid on this first weekend of the season. The soccer cheers won't have to wait until the World Cup in a few months as Citi Field will be booming with chants of "Jose-Jose-Jose" tomorrow as #7 returns to the Mets lineup against Washington for the first time since May 20th of last year. The catalyst will be back terrorizing pitchers and catchers alike on the basepaths and providing that spark that Mets fans have come to love. I can't wait.
Things are on the up and up and our cups are full. Drink up Mets fans because if Ollie can pull a shocker tomorrow and give us even more hope for a comeback season in 2010, you're going to need room in those cups, because there will be kool-aid for everyone.
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