The Mets had their best week of the year, winning six out of seven and outscoring the opposition 55-25. They got good pitching from unexpected sources and good hitting from just about everyone. The NL West offered up its two best teams and the Mets proved once again that the East coast is the superior coast.
Tom Glavine and Pedro Martinez had a bit of a rough week, but a couple of other starters stepped up to earn some lopsided wins. Orlando Hernandez pitched the Mets' first real complete game of the season on Friday, allowing just one run. And Alay Soler had two excellent starts, allowing one run in sixteen innings including a complete game shutout on Sunday. One good start doesn't erase all of the bad pitching Hernandez has done this year, but Soler is a different story. He's had one terrible start this year, but otherwise has ranged from solid to excellent. Four major league starts can only tell you so much, but right now he's the closest thing the Mets have had to a legitimate third starter all year.
Of course, concerns about pitching become less important when your offense is scoring nearly eight runs per game, as the Mets did this week. Carlos Beltran and David Wright remain unstoppable. And Carlos Delgado sprang to life, hitting .391/.429/.870 on the week. The Mets temporarily lost Cliff Floyd to a sprained ankle, but so many other hitters had big weeks that he was hardly missed.
The Mets start off this week with a chance to expand their six and a half game lead over the Phillies with a three game series in Philadelphia. Then they'll return home to breathe new life into the heated Mets/Orioles rivalry for three games. It will be nice to see clips of those Tommie Agee catches again.
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