Take 2 Roundup: Games of Sat, 2/16/08

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[size=24:fc8ea22a60][b:fc8ea22a60]HEY OJEDA[/b:fc8ea22a60][/size:fc8ea22a60]
[size=18:fc8ea22a60][b:fc8ea22a60]Pitching Pulls Mets Back to Within 1 Game of 1st[/b:fc8ea22a60][/size:fc8ea22a60]

<img src="http://fantasygames.sportingnews.com/images/baseball/stratomatic/1986/story_photos/bob_ojeda_1_150x200.jpg " align="left" border="1" width="150" height="200" style="margin-right: 10px;" /> Don't look now! But the formerly free-falling Mets are playing some inspired ball these days; witness Bobby Ojeda's 8 shutout innings in [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=1180]New York's 2-0 win over the Astros[/url] on Saturday night. Ojeda did not walk a batter, while Darryl Strawberry provided the muscle with his 22nd homerun of the year.

With the win, the Mets creep back to within 1 game of the NL East-leading Cardinals, who blew a late 7-3 lead and [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=1178]lost 11-7 to the Dodgers[/url]. New York had been recently all the way back in 4th place, but thanks to a 6-1 mini-surge, are suddenly relevant again... although [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=334087]this[/url] will probably be at the back of their minds until the end of the season.

[b:fc8ea22a60]Meanwhile, the Tigers[/b:fc8ea22a60], who have been on the heels of the AL East-leading Blue Jays for seemingly forever now, [url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/1986/scores/boxscore.php?id=1183]lost their 6th game in a row[/url], 7-3 to the Rangers. Somehow they have managed to stay within 3.5 games of Toronto, but they're desperately holding on to a precarious .5 game lead over the third place Yanks.

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