Mets Tickets Available

I just received an email from the Mets in regards to tickets. Tickets for the Mets game on Friday, May 11, 2007 are available at http://www.metsman.com. This is a game you can go to for fairly cheap, tickets start at only $9 a ticket.

From the email:

"The Mets, winners of four of their past five games, took three games out of four from the Diamondbacks over the weekend. Beginning Monday, the Mets take on the Giants to close out its road trip, then take a day off on Thursday before retuning home to Shea Stadium."

Mets take on the Giants

If you've secured your Mets tickets for tonight your bound to see a great game as will see Oliver Perez pitching for the mets and Barry Zito for the giants. Barry Bonds will also be playing at tonight's game that has a scheduled start time of 10:15 PM ET. The below is from Mets.com


Their trip out West is already a qualified success, and the Mets move on to the City by the Bay and the ballpark by the Cove and, for at least one night, the Barry by the Barry.

They face Barry Zito, the pitcher they didn't sign in the offseason, Monday night. And for two games and perhaps a third, they will play the role of the obstacle in Barry Bonds' pursuit of the career home run record.

Oliver Perez, Tom Glavine and John Maine are to start for the Mets in the three-game series. Perez has retired Bonds six times, walked him once and allowed him one single. And Maine never has faced him. Glavine knows him well, though. He has faced Bonds 97 times, and those confrontations have produced: 80 at-bats, 15 walks, 26 hits, three home runs, two triples, six doubles, 10 strikeouts and a .325 average for Bonds.

Glavine has walked Bonds four times in Bonds' last six plate appearances against him. The last two walk were intentional. They came in the Mets' 6-2 loss to the Giants in San Francisco April 24, 2006. Neither had the desired effect. A three-run home run followed the first walk in the first inning, a two-run single inning followed the second, six innings later.

The home run and single were the work of Moises Alou, no longer on the other side.

Glavine now enjoys Alou's support and, even more, that he need not face Alou. "It was feast or famine against Moises," he said in March. "Either he'd wear me out, or he'd a line drive at some one."

Glavine's perspective of Alou has changed as much as Alou's point of view regarding Bonds' pursuits, though the Mets left fielder still anticipates Bonds eclipsing Henry Aaron's runs record. "I like it when people achieve something that looks like it's out of reach," he said Sunday.

Alou came to know Bonds during his brief tenure with the Pirates in the early nineties and enjoyed playing with him with the Giants the last two years. "I was kind of disappointed that he didn't do it while I was there."