Last night's game really proved how important good defense is. How many times was Pelfry in trouble after walking a batter or two with less than two outs? Several times it looked as though Washington was about to break the game wide open only to have the Met defense come up with a nice play in the field to turn the double play.

They can talk all they want about Franco's pinch hit winning the game for them ( which of course it did on the scoreboard), but to me the turning of those double plays is what really won it for the Mets.