Niese isn't nearly as good as we made him look yesterday. He's 10-6 with a 3.49 ERA. Also, Jackson pitched a tremendous game yesterday and the Mets still won so it's possible to go up against a pitcher who's having a great outing and still win. Add to that, Francisco pitched the 9th and he's flat out awful and we still couldn't get a runner on base even with our 3-4-5 hitters coming up. That's actually a bigger indictment than what we did against Niese.
This was a very, very bad offensive performance by the Nationals.
