Major credit to David Peterson because not only did he have that little sequence of retiring 11 in a row he does it right after the Mets give him the three runs.

We call that a shutdown inning. We call that the anti-Kami

Glavin. And not only does David Peterson deliver a shut-down inning. He does it without barely breaking a sweat.

He throws seven pitches. Just really good solid performance by David Peterson, who has earned remaining in this rotation I'll give

him that look his last start against the Yankees it wasn't a bad start and he

showed a lot of guts getting out of that early jam that he got out of bases loaded nobody out but what was

disappointing about that start I mentioned it on the drive home that night even though I

was very preoccupied with other things going on is that you got to go more than four and a third. You got to go deeper in a

games. One of the ways at least I'm going to judge starting pitching on this met team right now is not just the runs allowed of

course that matters of course that's very important but how deep in a game can you

go like would you rather have four and a third innings one run or six and two thirds

innings two runs. I mean to me pitch into the seventh inning.

Look, if that's not enough because your offense can't score,

then you lost because of your offense.

And that's the way I looked at this game

until the Mets actually scored runs.

If the Mets didn't score runs,

I wasn't gonna look at David Peterson's two runs

and give up in the third inning and say,

gee, he sucked.

It was going to be the offense didn't do enough.

And in this case, David Peterson pitching into the seventh inning and

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