The Mets finally woke up offensively, and in a big way, to avoid a sweep at the hands of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Ryan Church continued his hot hitting, stroking three hots, one a solo shot in the 6th inning. The rest of the Mets offense came predominantly from the bottom half of the order with John Maine, Marlon Anderson, Raul Casanova, and Angel Pagan accounted for half of the Mets' runs scored and half of the RBIs. John Maine pitched a beautiful game, which tends to happen when a pitcher is given an early cushion, in this case 4 runs after the 2nd inning, and he carried a shutout into the 9th inning before surrendering the Dodgers' only run of the game. The Mets escaped their long road trip without any ill effects and they return home to Shea still 2 games over .500
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Cliff Lee continues his dominance this season, pitching 7 innings of shutout ball, without surrendering a walk. Wang pitched a fine game, but it nothing would have been enough to out-duel Lee who lowered his ERA to 0.81, I would be a little more upset about the outcome of this came were it not for the fact that I have Cliff Lee on my fantasy team, didn't even draft him, but picked him up off waivers after the second week of the season. The Yankees offensive struggles continued, particularly Robinson Cano, who actually lifted his average to .160 after going 1 for 4. The Yankees have scored only 3 runs against the Indians, after an offensive explosion against the Mariners last week. Hopefully the strong hitting team will appear in tonight's game against the more hittable Paul Byrd.
- Mose
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