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The trade would end a brief stint with the Mets for Cameron, who joined the Mets in 2004 with much hope. The Gold Glove center fielder solidified the Mets defense, at least on paper, but he struggled at times in Flushing. Before the 2005 season, the Mets signed Beltran, which caused Cameron to move to right field, where he played most of the season before the season-ending collision. At various points throughout the season, Cameron expressed his interest to return to center field and with this trade, he will get his wish.

In the 5-1 Mets victory, Beltran was 1-2 with 2 walks and a stolen base. His lone hit came on a bunt that he beat to 1st base. Tom Glavine picked up the win for the Mets. Glavine went 7 innings for the win, and the 271st of his career. Glavine is making the slow crawl towards 300 and now ranks 30th in career victories.

Sunday afternoon Mets’ fans were five outs away from something they had never seen before, four pitches later they saw something they have seen far too often. Pedro Martinez took a no-hitter into the eighth inning before surrendering a triple followed by a home run in a 2-1 loss.

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At the start of the season, the Mets had two players that could excel in center field, Carlos Beltran and Mike Cameron. After yesterday's game in San Diego, they've lost both. A collision in the 7th inning between Beltran and Cameron, who has played right field most of the season, sent both players to the hospital.

Luckily for Zambrano and the Mets, who would have dropped below .500 with a loss, they were able to tie the game in the 7th inning and again in the 9th to force extra innings. The tying run in the 9th came on a solo home run from Mike Cameron who was the subject of many of the trade rumors before Sunday.

There must have been something in the air for the Mets to win the way they did. Ramon Castro hit his 3rd home run of the season and Marlon Anderson hit two homers for the first time in his career to help the Mets explode offensively. In the first two games of the series, the Mets only scored 6 runs while Castro and Anderson had 5 RBI all by themselves last night. Anderson was starting in the place of Mike Cameron who was dismal in Tuesday's loss. Carlos Zambrano improved his record to 5-9 in 7 innings of work.

Entering the game, the Mets were 3-9 against the Braves this season, including losing two of three games in their four game series. Martinez, the most well rested All-Star, allowed only two hits in his 6 inning outing that the Mets won 8-1. It didn't hurt that Mike Cameron was 3-5 with 3 RBI and one home run in his return from the DL.

The Yankees got younger on Thursday, but did they get any better? After organizational meetings on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Yankees made their first changes, cutting ties with relievers, Paul Quantrill and Mike Stanton. Both were designated for assignment meaning the Yankees have ten days to trade or release them. Jason Anderson, a former Yankee prospect who was traded to the Mets for Armando Benitez and Wayne Franklin, a 31-year-old lefty specialist, will take their place on the roster for now.

While Gothamist understands that Sheffield wants to be a Yankee, we also wonder if he's thought about the team. Gary, we're not sure if you've looked recently, but your team is old and you don't have a no-trade clause in your contract. Concessions or not, your team needs to get younger and this year, unlike years past, the Yankees might be the team to dump players and not add them. Did you think that they might need to trade you to get better? No, of course not, because it was your first choice to come here. Then again, we wouldn't want to play in Shea Stadium either.

Sean Henn can’t seem to beat the Devil Rays. Summoned from AAA to make a second start against the Rays, Henn produced the same results as the first and the Yankees lost to Tampa 5-4. Henn had been an emergency starter in May and claimed that nervousness led to his poor performance. This time around he had flown into New York on Sunday to prepare, but it made no difference as he walked seven batters in just over four innings and left with the Yankees losing 4-0.

David Wright, who had an error in Sunday's game against the Yankees, potentially cost the Mets with an errant take-out slide in the 8th inning last night. With the bases loaded and Wright at first, Doug Mientkiewicz hit a potential double play ball to first. When the ball was thrown to Furcal, Wright slid wide of the base in an attempt to disrupt the throw back to first base. He succeeded and two runs crossed the plate but the 2nd base umpire ruled that Wright interfered with the throw and ruled it a double play. Potential rally over.

No opponent cures poor play like the Cincinnati Reds. The Mets pounded them 9-2 at Shea Stadium on Monday, getting to former Met Paul Wilson for seven runs. There are two items of good news for the Mets: Kris Benson pitched like he did down the stretch last season and they get to play the Reds two more times this week. The Reds and their non-existent pitching staff are now 10 games under .500, their season-opening sweep of the Mets a distant memory.

While he didn't make his season debut yesterday, it certainly seems like Mike Piazza has been missing all season. Entering yesterday's game Piazza was hitting below the Mendoza Line, but that all changed with a 4-5 performance. One of Piazza's hits was a 3-run home run in the 8th inning, which gave the Mets a healthy cushion they would later need.

The anti-walk machine that is Jose Reyes picked up his first walk of the season! It only took him 118 at bats to get it. Before Saturday, when he was hit by a pitch, his on base percentage and batting average were equal. Now he's got a whole .012 points difference between the two. Not too good for a lead-off man considering Reyes is hitting .280 on the season. With the walk in the 9th inning, Reyes also picked up an RBI> See, Jose, walks be helpful.

Since starting the season 0-5, the Mets have been on fire, winning 10 of 13 games. Their play has lifted them to two games over .500, which generally isn't very good, but when was the last time the Mets were in this position? One area of concern pops up for the Mets despite their record, the starting pitching. Three starting pitchers - Kris Benson, Steve Trachsel, Kaz Ishii - for the Mets are currently on the disabled list, but somehow the Mets are still winning.

Aaron Heilman picked up his first win of the season in game one in six innings of work. Heilman gave up four runs and the Mets offense came alive to take the lead in the sixth inning.

The runs for the Mets came from Eric Valent, David Wright, Mike Cameron, and Jason Phillips. The shutout by the Mets was courtesy of Kris Benson, who pitched six strong innings, Bartolome Fortunato, and Braden Looper. Guess Benson's shoulder is now well rested.

The Mets are 8 games out of first and 8.5 games out of last. They are slightly closer to the wild card than they are to first place. With the trades the Mets made last week, there is still some hope for improvement, but we're wondering if there are any Met fans out there that aren't thinking of next year already.

The Mets offense had a banner day yesterday. Mike Cameron hit two home runs and Eric Valent hit for the cycle in the 10-1 victory for the Mets (box score). With the victory, the Mets "earned" a split with the last place Montreal Expos.

Luckily for Glavine, the Mets had some offense last night. Mike Cameron hit his second home run of the two game series in the 6th inning. The three run shot off Zach Day proved to be the game-winning hit. Glavine's record is now back to .500 at 8-8, but the Mets are still three games below that mark.

Entering the bottom of the ninth, the Mets turned to Braden Looper, the Former Marlin to close the game. Three singles in a row by the Marlins and an error by Mike Cameron led to a tie game. Lenny Harris, a former Met hit a single to take a one-run lead. In the bottom of the inning, Armando Benitez, also a former Met, closed out the game, dropping the Mets back to .500 and into a tie with the Marlins for 3rd. Benitez's performance was something the Mets never saw consistently when he was in Flushing, which was clear when fans booed him when he came onto the field.

"I thought the ball was in the alley," Mets Manager Art Howe said.

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">their sights set on first place in the NL East. Richard hidalgo extended his hitting streak to 10 games, going 1-5 but the offense came early and often from his teammates. Cliff Floyd, Ty Wigginton and Mike Cameron all homered in the 2nd inning off Phillies starter Brett Myers. Cameron added another home run in the 5th inning. Steve Trachsel pitched 7 innings, gave up a solo home run in the 7th inning, and improved his record to 9-6.

The ball hit the side of Cameron's glove, three runs scored on the play, and the Mets went on to lose, 6-2 (box score). Cameron also went 0-4 with 3 strikeouts for the game and was booed by the Shea Stadium crowd of 23,827. After the game, he understood the treatment by the fans, "That just kind of tells you what they expect of you. I've got no problem with it. I botched a play out there - by far one of the toughest plays you have to deal with out there."

The Mets responded by tagging the Cleveland Indians for 14 hits and seven runs and making Don Baylor look like a genius. The most important development was the two out at bat with the bases loaded by Mike Cameron. Cameron came in for his defense and but his hitting has been below average even for him this year. He is hitting .202 with 66 strikeouts in 208 at bats. Last night he showed some grit and battled with a two strike count to drive in two runs, making the score 3-0 and the Mets never looked back.