MLB: Padres 6, Mets 5, San Diego debut of bitter Citi Field
April 14, 2009 by bumeral
Filed under Sport stories
NEW YORK (AP) – A balk and error that cost three bases plotted on Monday for the opening gala that made the New York Mets in their new stadium ended with a bitter defeat 6-5 at the San Diego Padres.
Jody Gerut was responsible for the resplandenciente christen Citi Field with a home run to the third release of the game, while Mexico’s Adrian Gonzalez also disappeared to guide the Padres to their fifth victory in a row.
The Mets, however, dug his own grave in the sixth when reliever Pedro Feliciano allowed Puerto career win with a balk, then an error of law outfielder Ryan Church.
After David Wright evened the game 5-5 in the fifth with a home run in three races over the Padres did not allow more freedoms.
Dominican Duane Sanchez and Heath Bell, former Mets, led the task for the Padres, who surprisingly held 6-2 mark after the start of the year set for completion in the last Division of the National League West. Venezuelan Edwin Moreno also highlighted the baton with two blank.
Brian Stokes (0-1) on the mound, the Venezuelan Luis Rodriguez connected with a high depth of the right and the ball ricocheted into the glove of the Church to torpedo reached the anteroom. Two outs later, Feliciano Rodriguez committed the balk and scored for the 6-5 final.
Second day followed by an error of a gardener plunged a defeat of the Mets. On Sunday, Daniel Murphy fildeó bad for a high to the left of the Florida Marlins entered the races meant a 2-1 victory in Venezuela’s Johan Santana.
The victory went to Edward Mujica (1-1), who retired just one batter in the fifth. Mujica earned his first match in the National League after Cleveland scored three wins with last year.
After the home run in the opener of Gerut Mike Pelfrey, the Padres were off 4-0 in the second inning with four hits followed outs including a double producer of two of David Eckstein.
The second home run in the campaign Gonzalez set 5-1 in the top of the fifth.
Luis Castillo twice a discounted one for the Mets on Entada second, while Wright hit a home run three races to match 5-5 in the fifth episode in which Murphy towed to another easy.
The batazo Wright was 3-2 with regard to Walter Silva, the Mexican rookie that opened 32 years for the Padres.
Silva was a strike to meet the minimum five innings to prove his first victory in the biggest, but they had to go to the showers. Tolerated five notes and five hits in four and two thirds innings.
The game was briefly interrupted in the fourth inning, when Brown broke a cat on the ground. But it was not the color of the famous black cat that appeared in the old stadium during a game between the Mets and Cubs in the bid for the division pennant in 1969.
The Mets lost their first match when they played in the Polo Grounds by 6-2 to Pittsburgh in 1962. The Pirates also went successful after two years in the opening match of the Shea.
For parents, Adrian Gonzalez of Mexico 4-1 with a solo home run, Edgar Gonzalez 1-0, 2-1 and Silva, one scored. Venezuelan Luis Rodriguez 3-0, one scored. The Nicaraguan Everth Cabrera 1-0.
For the Mets, José Reyes of the Dominican Republic 4-1, an annotated, 3-1 Luis Castillo, a towed, and Fernando tatis 1-0. Puerto Ricans Carlos Beltran and Carlos Delgado 4-1 of 4-0.
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San Diego 130 011 000_6 9 0
New York 010 040 000_5 7 1
Silva, Mujica (5), Moreno (6), Sanchez (8), Bell (9) and Hundley; Pelfrey, Stokes (6), Feliciano (6), Green (7), Putz (8), Rodriguez (9) and Schneider. G_Mujica 1-1. P_Stokes 0-1. Sv_Bell (4). Jrs_San Diego, Gerut (1), Gonzalez (2). New York, Wright (1).
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