Sosa Far, Sosa Good

Great game tonite. Looked like two heavyweight fighters going at it. The Mets struck first and hard in the 4th inning sending 9 guys to the plate. Wright homered again, Beltran beat out a bang, bang play at first and Delgado hit another one out to the opposite field. Follow that with Alou belting a 410 ft. double, Lo Ducca singles him in and it's 4-0 Mets. Milwaukee struck back with a jab in the top of the 5th with Geoff Jenkins bomb. The next strike also came from the Brewers when Prince Fielder hit a 260 mph line drive over the wall nearly knocking over the score board, making it 4-2 Mets. Sosa ran into trouble in the 6th again so with 2 on and 2 out, Feliciano came in and got a huge out.

The Mets punch back hard in the 7th with "Mr. Clutch" Damion Easley's bomb to make it 5-2. On to the 8th inning and Aaron Heilman. By the way, is it just me, or does Heilman always look like a 300lb bully punched him in his jugular and took his lunch money? Anyway, in comes Heilman, and after a tough to handle comebacker (sarcasm) he gives up a 2 run uppercut bomb to make it a one run game. He escaped the inning with no more damage and handed the game over to Billy Wagner who got the Brewers to go 1-2-3 in the 9th to seal the win.

Observations

The Brewers are for real. Anyone thinking that it's just because they play in the weak Central are just fooling themselves. They have enough young talent in J.J. Hardy, Billy Young and Prince Fielder to score on anyone. Their pitching staff is outstanding as well. As long as Ben Sheets stays healthy, no one will want to play them in a 5 game series come playoff time. Mark it down, the Brewers aren't going anywhere.

This was a good test for the Mets. After going 2-4 against better competition in the braves, they needed this win to establish themselves as contenders and not pretenders getting fat on weaker teams. Will feel alot better if we can pull 2/3 from this team. May take some of the sting away from the losing both early season series' to the braves.

I'm not going to get too excited about Delgado's homerun (it was nice to see him go the other way with the pitch instead of trying to pull it) because every time I think he's coming out of it, he hits another 1-25 skid.

So, round 1 goes to the Mets. Round 2 sets up to be just as much fun.