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Mets Bounce Back

After dropping their Spring Training opener yesterday to the Dodgers 13-4, the Mets beat the Cardinals today 4-2. I don't think the game was televised, so I'm relying on the box score to piece together the action. If any of this is incorrect, please feel free to flame me in the comments.

Jason Phillips got the Mets on the board with a solo shot in the top of the first inning. Thanks to the bizarro-world rules of Spring Training, Steve Trachsel got credit for the win after giving up no hits and a walk in the first two innings. For those of you keeping score, a regular season game would require a pitcher to finish the fifth inning of a winning ballgame in order to qualify for the win.

The Mets staff held the Cardinals to two hits through seven innings, those two being surrendered by Grant Roberts. Roberts also walked a batter and struck out two in a couple of innings of work.

Raul Gonzalez had a two-run single and Prentice Redman added an RBI single in a three-run seventh.

Orber Moreno struck out two in his inning, while Dan "The Man" Wheeler got lit up for two runs in the eighth before closing out the game.

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If you haven't done so already, be sure to check out Aaron Gleeman's running diary of yesterday's game. And if you don't visit Aaron's Baseball Blog on a daily basis, you're truly missing out on some of the best baseball writing available anywhere.