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NYM (6-7)1102000004111
STL (9-5)00004002X6110
W: Jason Motte (1-1, 6.75)
L: JJ Putz (1-1, 3.37)
S: Ryan Franklin (3, 0.00)

Boxscore

The response to Daniel Murphy’s 8th inning error which eventually led to two runs is laughably predictable in the New York media today. Everything from “he’s not ready to be a big league player” to “this is a win-now team that can’t afford to have a guy learning on the job.”

The thing I don’t understand — how can you look at the box score of this game and lay the game at Murphy’s feet? First, Oliver Perez was given a four-run lead going in to the bottom of the fourth inning and proceeded to walk the bases full in consecutive innings and squandering a four-run lead before finally getting the hook after 4.66. Or how about his reliever walking in the tying run? Following that, Both Carlos Beltran and Luis Castillo are to blame for Beltran’s having a free run at home plate and deciding that keeping his uniform clean was more important than getting down and scoring. And why is no one asking where the hell Luis Castillo, the on-deck batter, was when he should have been standing near the plate telling Beltran GET DOWN.

But yeah, a hard-hit ball that Murphy charged and slipped on wet grass is totally the entire problem. It’s amazing what this fanbase decided