A win streak?! No way!!

That's right, our Mets actually have a win streak going! Mike Pelfrey showed no ill effects from his stint as a reliever, tossing seven scoreless innings against the Cubs last night and lowering his ERA to 0.86. He has now thrown 19 consecutive scoreless innings. He looks like an entirely different person from last year and I love it. Did anyone see this coming??

For the first time last night, Jose Reyes appeared to be ready to play baseball again. After a day off on Monday, Reyes picked up 4 hits including a 2 RBI triple. It was good to see Jose running without looking like he was afraid of tweaking something. Other than that, it's a good thing Pelfrey was able to dominate the Cubs because the middle of the batting order - David Wright, Jason Bay, Jeff Francoeur, and Ike Davis - combined to go 0-13 with seven strikeouts. Francoeur seems to have lost some of the plate discipline we saw him exhibit over the first week and a half of the season, which would explain his recent cold streak. And as nice as it would have been, Davis was not going to continue to hit .500 at this level. But oh man, what is going on with Wright and Bay?? I said yesterday I felt there was something just off about David's swing and whole approach, but it's really standing out at this point. I know Bay is a streaky hitter, and he did have a couple of hits on Monday, so I'm just waiting for things to click with him. We really need him to step up and be the power hitter Omar signed.

For now, I'm adopting a "glass half full" mentality and giving the line up some time to click. I mean, the construction really only started making sense within the last two games. And quite honestly, while we're winning games I don't see the need to harp on the negatives (key words - "while we're winning games"...).