According to Adam Rubin's "Surfin the Mets" blog at the Daily News, Joe Smith will be sent down so the Mets can call-up Adam Bostick or Willie Collazo from New Orleans to start Wednesday's game against the Nats. This, despite the fact that Sosa is now best-suited to throwing batting practice to Gulf Coast Leaguers, while Smith is the team's second most-effective reliever behind Wagner.
Sosa pitched a putrid sixth inning last night, giving up four runs, all earned, while Smith struck out the side in his one inning of work. Yet because Smith has minor league options, he's going down. So the Mets will be without Smith's services for ten days are two weeks or whatever the rule says.
Of course, Sosa should never have even been in the game last night, given that it was still in reach at 6-3, but Willie Randolph stubbornly ran him out there, confident that last night was the night he'd start pitching like a major leaguer. Willie was wrong. Surprise. And Willie left him in until the Nationals--THE NATIONALS, for chrissakes!--had put the game out of reach.
Yeah, but we're still in first place! Oh wait, that was last year's battle cry...
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