Mike Jacobs

the last two years, we can’t forget some of the brilliant transactions he’s made.  Mike Jacobs, Yusmeiro Petit and Grant Psomas (who?) for Carlos Delgado and cash?  Ingenious.  Kris (and Anna) Benson for John Maine and Jorge Julio?  Highway robbery.  And the Johan Santana trade?  Brilliant.

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e sixth, Carlos Muniz threw a wild pitch that Brian Schneider should have handled.  It allowed Mike Jacobs to advance into scoring position with two outs, and he came around to score the tying run on Cody Ross' single.  Florida's trademark hideous defense was marked by two defensive lapses in the eighth, the first of which allowed David Wright to scamper from first to third on a Delgado grounder.  He then score the go-ahead run on Fernando Tatis' grounder to short, which may have been an inning-ending double play had Hanley Ramirez not thrown errantly to first.  In the bottom of the eighth, after the Marlins scored two to go ahead 4-3, Scott Schoenweis threw a wild pitch with the bases loaded, scoring one, and then to add insult to injury, gave up a two-run double on the next pitch to put the game out of reach.

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ams offensively with five players in Hanley Ramirez, Dan Uggla, Josh Willingham, Jeremy Hermida and Mike Jacobs who are capable of potentially hitting 25 home runs each this season.

New York Mets

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