Game Recap: Phillies 6 – Mets 3

Another game, another late-inning, heart-breaking, soul-crushing defeat by the Philadelphia Phillies.

OK, maybe a little bit of an exaggeration, but it sure stung.

The Philadelphia Phillies (35-23) beat the New York Mets (31-27) by a score of 6-3 in 10 innings.

Tim Redding made the start for the Mets and turned out another good performance. Seven innings, six hits and three earned runs for Redding. He walked none and struck out six.

A very good, and surprising start, by Redding.

Pedro Feliciano turned in his third spectacular outing of the series, pitching another hitless inning. Bobby Parnell turned in an easy ninth inning and came out to start the tenth. After one out, Parnell let up a single to Shane Victorino and was removed from the game.

Ken Takahashi, whom lefties were hitting .440 off of entering the game, walked Chase Utley to start his outing. After striking out Ryan Howard for the second out, Raul Ibanez came to the plate. Ibanez parked a Takahashi pitch into the bullpen for a three-run blast, putting the Phillies in the lead for good.

I just don’t get this move. The Mets are sorely lacking a pitcher other than Feliciano who can get out left handed batters at a decent clip.

The Mets put one on the board in the first, third and fifth. All runs were scored by Luis Castillo and he was driven in each time by Carlos Beltran.

Beltran plated Castillo, who went 3-5, in three seperate ways. A groundout scored him in the first, a RBI double in the third and a sac-fly in the fifth.

David Wright went 3-4 on the night.

The Mets didn’t pick up a hit from the sixth inning until Omir Santos singled to lead off the bottom of the 10th.

Another game of score early, then don’t score again for the Mets bats.