Mets At Astros 5/14 live blog

1st Inning: Before last night's game, I would have told you that this game is already over. 4-0 Astro's. The entire line-up came to the plate. The Mets had displayed a glass jaw during the first weeks of the season. getting leads and then seeming to fold the second the other team came back. Last night, however, the Mets seemed lifeless and beaten until the 8th inning. This is also the first time this season that J.A. Happ, the Astro's starter hasn't given up the first run of the game- can he pitch with a lead?

2nd Inning: Bottom of the order for the Mets and we had a Fernando Martinez sighting- Can you hear the drums? He hit double with 2 outs and the pitcher up next- Oh well. Dickey cut his ERA for this game in half.

3rd Inning: A Reyes lead-off double leads to the Mets getting one back. Dickey has another calm inning. Surprising that a ball hit off his glove still got to Reyes in time for him to make the throw to first.

4th Inning: Murphy parks one. I love this kid. Three years ago he has a good call-up. Two years ago they ask him to fill the hole in Left Field- a position he never played, and he was an adventure, which is a euphemism for liability. With Delgado out they had a hole at first so they move him there and he's better. Last season he was injured and Ike Davis arrived to take first base. This spring he was in the 2nd base competition which was won essentially by default by rule 5 draftee Brad Emaus. That didn't work out well, and Murphy got the job hitting well and playing defense at a level that exceeded expectations. Ike Davis goes down for a couple of weeks after colliding with David Wright and Murphy moves to first playing well in the field and for today providing some pop.

5th Inning: Okay, I wasn't expecting the Mets to score a run every inning for the rest of the game.

6th Inning: Nothing to talk about offensively. Dickey gave up 2 solo shots prompting me to do a shot. People wondering why he was still in the game- He hadn't given up a run since the first inning. the first solo HR you say stuff happens- the second, its the 6th inning and its time to go.

7th Inning: At 7-2 I'm ready to color this game over. Unless something noteworthy happens this i my last post of the game. A friend told me earlier that the Mets needed to win this game and I said they didn't. They won yesterday, they can try to win tomorrow. They don't absolutely need to win today. It reminded me of the Abbot and Costello bit where Costello is boxing and Abbot says, "give 'em the old 1-3, 1-3" Costello asks what happened to 2? 2 you get.