Santana's shaky but healthy in spring debut

Johan Santana's left elbow held up just fine here last night, and that was all that mattered to the Mets.

Santana hit some rough patches in his spring-training debut, giving up a homer and three runs in 2" innings of an eventual 16-8 loss to the Marlins.

But that was entirely beside the point.

All eyes were on Santana's pitching elbow - which had experienced tightness two weeks ago - but there didn't appear to be any problems there in his first appearance in a game since Oct. 1 knee surgery. Continue