This past weekend, the New York Mets hosted the San Fransico Giants in a best of three series. Everything was set up to go the Giants way in this series because they had one of their future stars pitching and surely they could not lose the game Tim Lincecum was pitching. The Mets shocked baseball with two rare ways to win the game, which made this series worthwhile. In the series opener, it was Mike Pelfrey versus Jonathan Sanchez. Pelfrey, who early on has shown he could be the Mets number two starter, came into the game with a poor performance against the Philidelphia Phillies at Citizens Bank Park. Sanchez, who is future star of the Giants' rotation, came into the game with a poor performance against the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park. Clearly to the viewers, Pelfrey had a win, as he pitched 7.1 innings and gave his slim lead to the bullpen. Let's jump to the top of the ninth, where Mets closer K-rod does his job. This game proved wrong as K-rod gave up the game tieing run and sent the game into the bottom of the ninth. All of the sudden, it is Rod Barajas's at-bat, the Mets' turn in the bottom half of the inning. Sergio Romo is the relief pitcher to shut down the Mets in the ninth. On a pitch with bad location, Barajas crushed in to left field, ensuring the Mets victory in the opener. The very next game, poised the same results. Except this time it was the Mets' other catcher, Henry Blanco. Unfortunately, Romo didn't pitch the bottom of the final inning to Barajas, who is the team's home run leader. The ex-New York Met Guillermo Mota gave up the walk off. Also, Blanco was the leadoff man and he hit the homer on a 1-0 count. Similarly, it was hit in the same area and the first time in Major League Baseball's history that two different catchers hit back to back walk-off homers in two straight games. This type of win was very exciting because this is extremely rare for the Mets.
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