Saturday, January 31, 2009

Amazins' beat up on former NY'ers...

Game 1. Jim Hearn opened the season against Bobby Jones. Hearn scattered just four hits but allowed three runs including a homer to Carl Everett. Meanwhile Jones kept the Giants off balance scattering 7 hits and winning 4-3

Game 2 Ruben Gomez allowed only one base runner through the first seven innings and that was a walk. However, Edgardo Alfonzo led off the bottom of the 8th with a triple. Gomez bore down and stranded him, then mowing through the Mets in the ninth. Gomez through a one hitter and won 5-0

Game 3. The Mets pounded starter Jim Jensen and sent in to the showers after only two innings. Mlicki started for the Mets, pitched 7 innings and won 11-2

Game 4. Pete Harnish and Sal Maglie locked up in a pitchers duel. Edgardo Alfonzo continued to be a pain the Giants side by driving in he first run of the game in the third. The Giants tied it up in the 5th, but Jeff Kent scored in the 7h on an error by Hank Thompson at third and the Mets took the game 2-1 and the series 3-1. --submitted by Tom Davis--

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