His team in a tailspin, and Brewers' ace Yovani Gallardo primed to complete a sweep at Miller Park, Jerry manuel's sense of timing seemed off in calling for a postgame meeting late Tuesday night. For a guy who is known to read the writings of MLK and Gandhi, this was not out of the Manager's Handbook.
"I don't know if anything really works," Manuel said. "Normally what people do is they don't wait until they face the No. 1 starter - they wait until their No. 1 starter is pitching and then have a meeting."
But after Johan Santana was rocked on Tuesday, that wasn't an option. Good thing Mike Pelfrey, technically the Mets' No. 2, picked the right spot for one of his best starts of the season. Pelfrey pitched 7 2/3 scoreless innings to outduel Gallardo, who had a career-high 12 strikeouts, and Ryan Church's RBI single in the sixth was the difference in the Mets' 1-0 win Wednesday. Continue
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