The first game of the 2012 Subway Series started with a bang, unfortunately in the other direction. Johan Santana took the hill exactly one week after recording the first no-hitter in Mets history, but his hopes at a 2nd were quickly erased in the 2nd inning when he gave up a 2 run homerun to Robinson Cano.
Santana would then give up back to back to back homeruns in the 3rd inning, starting with Cano hitting his 2nd, the Swisher hitting his 9th of the year, and Andrew Jones hitting his 6th of the year.
There was a no-hitter taken into the 6th inning of tonights game, but it was Hiroki Kuroda of the Yankees who had no-hit the Mets through 5.2 innings before Omar Quintanilla lined one to left center for the Mets first hit of the game. It would be the only hit allowed by Kuroda and just 1 of 2 hits the Mets would record in the game.
The question tonight is what caused Santana to be so off today. Was it the fact that he threw 134 pitches last week in the no-hitter? Or was it the 2 additional days off he was given to recoup?
Tonight was just not a good night for the Mets and they will get back at it tomorrow for game 2 of the subway series.
