The Mets defeated the Giants tonight by a score of 9-6 to go a game above .500. For a full box score, visit SNY.tv.

For those of you who didn’t stay awake to see this one, it wasn’t as close as the score may indicate.

The big story of course, was the return of Pedro Martinez. Pedro pitched well, despite the cold weather, and earned the win tonight in his first start since April 1st. Pedro surrendered a run in the first and then settled down for the next few innings before giving up 2 more in the fifth. Then, to the amazement of everyone, came out and pitched the sixth inning as well with an 8 run lead. In the sixth, he pitched himself in and out of a first and third no out jam. He finished the night with 6 IP, 7 hits, 3 ER, 3BB and 3K on 109 pitches. He was also 2-for-3 at the plate with a run and an rbi. It was his first multi-hit game since 1997. Joe Smith and Feliciano each pitched perfect innings in relief. Show came in to pitch the ninth and gave up 3 runs on 2 walks and 2 hits before being rescued by Wags who came in and got 3 outs on 2 pitches for the save. Show has been pretty consistent this year and if he was due for a bad outing, I’m glad it happened when we had a 6 run lead.

Barry Zito was awful as usual and I’m sure Met fans were more than happy to see him wasting San Francisco’s money and not ours. The Mets struggled early, getting men on base but not capitalizing on those opportunities. Then came the fifth inning. In that inning the Mets finally got a hold of Zito, sending 12 men to the plate and scoring 8 runs. The inning was capped off by a Damion Easley double with the bases loaded. They were helped by the Giants defense which continues to look awful, committing 3 errors and a bone head play in the field by veteran Omar Vizquel on a routine ground ball to short. The 8 runs are the most in an inning by The Mets this season, and their largest total since putting up 11 against the Cubs in July of 2006.

Rubber game of this series is tomorrow afternoon as John Maine takes the mound versus Matt Cain.

Good to see the Mets finally break through offensively in this series. I’ll chalk Monday’s game up to the travel and you know what we have to do tomorrow. Pedro tonight was huge on so many levels. Tons of talk around town about his presence in the clubhouse as well as his performance on the field. He’s absolutely a huge factor in the success of this team and lets hope he continues to pitch well and stay healthy.