TheBloggingACE Guest Blogger: Eric Gerald Elie

The Mets get a much needed win, 11-7 over the Braves

The New York Mets coming into tonight were nine games back in the Wild Card to the Atlanta Braves. Having lost the first game of the series already, the Mets needed a win tonight to have any playoff hopes this year. The Mets were not only able to get that much needed win tonight, but they were also able to also wake up their bats.
Tonight the Mets muscled out four home runs with Justin Turner hitting two, one in the first and one in the fourth. The other two home runs were hit by Jason Bay in the third and Josh Thole in the fourth. Turner was one of several Mets who were having a hard time finding not only their home run swing but any sort of hit. For the past four games, the team gathered a collective batting average of .206 in the month of August before the game tonight.
Bay and Thole were two more Met hitters who have yet to find their stride this season. Jason Bay is barely staying above water hitting .242 before tonight’s game in which he went 2-5 with three rbi’s today. Then you have Josh Thole who after tonight has his batting average up to .259 on the year, both players combining for only ten home runs on the season.
This game overall was a team effort with the Mets having scored eleven runs on sixteen hits having everyone on the starting lineup getting a hit besides the pitcher. This was all on done with Tommy Hanson, the Braves current ace with Jair Jurrjens being placed on the 15-day DL today due to a right knee sprain.
They say that if you want to get to Tommy Hanson, you have to get him early or not at all, and the Mets did just that. Tommy Hanson era in the first is two innings is just over 5.00, then from the third inning on shows-off an era at almost 2.00. The Mets were able to tag Hanson with seven runs on eight hits in only 3.1 innings.
Now with the Mets finding lightning in a bottle with the storms rolling in and out of Citi Field all night, hope to take there hot bats into the last game of the Series tomorrow as the look to take the series from the Braves and in-turn close in on the Wild Card.

Eric Gerald Elie
Arcadia University Junior
Print Media Major and Met FanSoccerACE374@Hotmail.com
Phone: 800-ACE-1670
Blog: http://ericsmetsblog.wordpress.com/

About Eric Gerald Elie...
Eric Gerald Elie is an Arcadia University Junior who is going to study abroad in the Spring semester. He is spending his 2nd term as a Junior in Austrialia and will be covering the Austrailian open exclusivly for TheBloggingACE. Come back to TheBloggingACE in January 2012 to read the inside story of the Austrailian Open from the perspective of an american student studing a broad, I meant abroad...LOL

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