Wright’s tough error hurts Mets in loss to Padres

The third-place Mets fell three games behind first-place Philadelphia, which beat the Marlins, 5-0.

Martinez went 61/3 innings—his longest outing of the season—and allowed three runs (two earned) on four hits. He walked three and struck out three. The state of the Mets’ bullpen without injured closer Billy Wagner likely had a lot to do with Manuel’s decision to let Martinez bat and stay in for the seventh.

Martinez had earlier given up a pair of solo homers. Gerut hit the first pitch of the game out to right-center. One batter later, Giles also homered to give the Padres a 2-0 lead.

Martinez had given up three solo home runs in his previous outing on Friday in Houston, including one to leadoff man Kaz Matsui. Martinez has allowed 13 homers in 56 innings.

Pedro’s last 4 starts:

20.2 ip, 3.05 era, 7 ER, 15 H, 17/11 K/BB, 1.26 WHIP.

Those numbers actually are surprisingly good other than the high walk rate. However, he has allowed 7 home runs which means that the last 7 earned runs he has allowed have come on solo homers. That’s an amazingly high hr/9 of 3.05.