FRED WILPON IS THE DEVIL!!!!!

i'm not going to say the "pedro and four days of prayers" rotation looks to be kicking into full gear now, but there are signs to be concerned about.

kaz "the girl with a twirl" ishii was very, very bad tonight. the plate was moving on him from the get-go, and the usual recipe for a mets loss was established:

1) the mets were buried immediately in the 1st inning (down a quick 2-0).

2) the opposing starter (randy wolf) kept the mets bats in slumber.

3) ishii burned through his pitches in 5 innings, giving up the requisite 5 earned runs (on 6 hits and 6 walks) before hitting the showers.

4) wolf pitched deep into the game, not letting the mets tee off against the phils bullpen until it was too late.

the phils tried to nail the coffin shut by letting wolf complete the 9th, but the comeback mets eventually did get to him to make it interesting. the big shot came once wolf was finally knocked out of the game. cliffy floyd decided to play tonight and hit a 3-run homer off todd worrell to get the mets within 1 run, 5-4. that's how it ended.

so where are we?

• the mets record fell to 6-7.

• jose reyes continues to show he is not a major league leadoff hitter. his obp is now down to .276. he is now walkless in 58 at bats.

• the entire team struck out 7 times vs. 0 walks tonight. the season's totals so far is 100 k's/35 bb's. the mets obp is .312. they are batting 34 points higher as a team than their opponents, but are getting on base at a lower clip. they have 18 more hits and 26 more total bases, but have scored 3 less runs.

• kaz matsui and mike piazza both went 2-4 to raise their averages a bit. cliffy leads the team in ribbies with 9. carlos beltran added one tonight to raise his season total to 8.

• felix heredia hurt his hand again and left the game.

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