I was scoring the Mets-Braves game last night for work. One of the things I love about scoring is that it really makes you pay attention to what is going on. I told my wife the score (18-10), and she asked if that was a slugfest. I said yes, but after sleeping on it, I'm not sure that was correct. It seems to me it was an example of the deadly combination of having a pitching staff that doesn't strike out batters combined with a porous defense. The Braves had 19 hits, but 13 were singles, and only one was a HR. There were any number of balls hit that better fielders would have at least kept on the infield. Wigginton looked particularly bad to me; I kept seeing balls go by him that good third basemen would have dove. Ty seemed frozen on his feet.

I was also more impressed with Kaz Matsui's offense than his defense. He was selective at the plate and looks like a very good hitter. But I expected him to be a wizard with the glove, and last night he looked more like Derek Jeter than Ozzie Smith.

Scoring ten runs was great, but they are going to need to do that quite often if they are going to win regularly with that defense.