After a quick start, the Mets lost a lead and ended up beaten senseless by the DBacks offense. The Mets scored all five runs over the first two innings, including a double by Wright and a two RBI single from Alou on the first pitch he saw. However, the team is once again back to its previous struggles, unable to put anything together after the first few innings.

The Dbacks went the other way, with their scoring coming in the second half of the game, mostly after the non Trax related rain delay. Maine gave up three over five, and then the Backs tied it up against Vargas. Joe Smith gave up his first homerun of the season,and three more runs including another homer got taken off of Dirty. Luckily for him, all the fans had gone home.

This one’s on everyone. While the bullpen clearly came apart last night, the offense has to take some too. Scoring can’t be limited to just the first inning or two. Its great and all that they’ve now gone two games in a row scoring more than one run, but now lets work on scoring runs after the third inning.

They can call it playing it safe all they want, Alou coming out early means he wasn’t ready to come back just yet. Sure, Alou for a half game is better than Fernando Tatis for a full game, but is it worth it if he gets hurt sooner because he didn’t heal all the way? Is Alou ever going to even heal all the way?

If anyone has a Nunez jersey on order, you might want to look into cancelling, he was DFA’ed sometime after the Tornado strike.