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Big Bats

The Mets big bats came through yesterday en route to their third straight victory. Aside from Piazza's record-breaking homerun, SaberMets man crush #2 Shane Spencer hit a three-run bomb in the eighth, following two batters later by Mike Cameron's two-run dinger, robbing Braden Looper of a save opportunity.

The Mets bullpen was strong again, pitching 4.2 innings of no-hit ball (one walk, four strikeouts) in relief of Jae Seo, who split the fingernail on his right middle finger. Seo suffered a similar injury in this game against the Marlins last season. The Fish managed only one hit against the Mets, a Juan Encarnacion single that was quickly erased when he was thrown out stealing second. For the first time in franchise history, the Mets faced the minimum 27 batters in beating Florida 5-0.

Tangent aside, Seo pitched terribly following the injury in 2003. At the time, June 17th, Seo's ERA was 2.66. After his start on August 16th, roughly two months later, Seo's ERA had soared to 4.32, giving up four or more runs in 7-of-10 games during that span. We'll see how serious the injury is this time around, but we can only hope he fares better than last season.