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Two-out triple by Reyes leads to nothing. The old pessimism is boiling over — have the wheels fallen off? It’s still early but we have to keep the Cards from doing more damage.

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Not a good start at all. Jose Reyes coming up with two outs. Just need baserunners, a run back at a time and Oliver needs to keep things under control.

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Steve Trachsel leaves the game in the second inning with an injury — a line drive banged into his leg — and Darren Oliver takes over.

I think the injury was his pitching itself. When theMets needed a big outing he turned in a big dud, as bad as it really could get on a night that the Mets needed inniings and a rest for their bullpen.

Watching Trachsel pitch on a good day is like watching paint dry. Watching him tonight was like watching a bad horror movie — all scary scenes but no humor.

So now we have to hope that Darren Oliver can contain the damage — two more in already, but now there are two outs. He has to go four.

And we need the offense to get going.

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Ouch. Steve Trachsel’s turn to pick the team up.

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It’s been a while since this has happened to Wagner. He’s been nearly perfect over the second half, but tonight had a meltdown and now the Mets are down three. It is looking pretty bleak for tonight, to say the least.

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