Carlos Delgado’s bat delivered all of the offense the Mets needed yesterday as Tom Glavine turned in a commanding pitching performance, shutting the powerful Phillies offense down in their own park. Pedro Feliciano, Aaron Heilman, and Billy Wagner held the lead in spite of an eighth-inning lead-off home run by Jimmy Rollins and a throwing error by Paul Lo Duca that allowed the tying run to get as far as third base in the eighth. The Mets are now 6 games in front of both the Braves and the Phillies, with only 31 games to play. There is very little chance that they can be caught. In spite of all of the season’s disappointments, I guess we can finally put it in the books.
