Wow! What a game you saw last night if you had Philadelphia Phillies tickets, when Roy Oswalt threw a no hitter for the WIN_TEAM!! Congratulations to Oswalt as well as the Phillies for an incredible accomplishment. You never know what you will see at a baseball game and if you were at Citi Field yesterday you’ll have a story to tell for the rest of your life! Wow! What a nail biter! This was a pitchers duel that Roy Oswalt and Jonathon Niese will never forget! Fans with Mets tickets saw two fantastic pitchers do battle. You don’t see baseball games as low-scoring as this, and when you do you better appreciate it! Baseball isn’t the only game in town. See what other cheap sports tickets are out there.
Phillies pitcher Roy Oswalt (2.94 ERA) got the win, while Jonathon Niese (3.85 ERA) took the loss for the Mets. Roy Oswalt went 9 solid innings for the Phillies, allowed 4 hits, no home runs and no earned runs with one walk and 6 strikeouts. The Mets’s starter Jonathon Niese went 7 innings, allowed 8 hits, one home run and 3 earned runs with 2 walks and 6 strikeouts. Pedro Feliciano (2.92), Manny Acosta (3.19), and Elmer Dessens (2.09) also pitched for the Mets. With the win, Oswalt’s record goes to 12-13, while Niese is at 9-8.
In addition to the 3 runs, the Phillies scored 9 hits and committed no errors. It wasn’t a huge day for anyone at the plate for the Phillies, as nobody managed more than 2 hits. Ryan Howard had a tough day at the plate, leaving 4 runners on base. The Mets didn’t have anyone with a big night with not one batter getting more than 2 hits. The Mets got no runs, 4 hits and no errors.
Umpiring duties were performed by Jim Wolf, Gary Cederstrom, Field Culbreth and Marty Foster. There were 31,563 Mets ticket holders in attendance at Citi Field.