Jeff Franoeur can’t get here fast enough from Colorado, the Mets could sure use some offense. Before the game, I could almost guarantee you the Mets would get shut down tonight. Why? Because Bronson Arroyo was coming off three straight disastrous starts. The right-hander was 0-3 with a 10.29 ERA over that span, with opponents hitting .426 against him, including six home runs in 14 innings. So you knew the Mets would make him look like Cy Young as he hurled a complete game shutout. The Mets have been shut out for third time in less than a week. In a word, gross.

Fernando Nieve kept the Mets in the game but once again the Mets could not muster any offense. Nieve was one of the only Mets to get a hit. The Reds though made CitiField look small, they hit two homeruns, one by Joey Votto who’s destroyed the Mets and one by Lance Nix.

Really? Bronson Arroyo? At least it was a relatively quick game unlike the slower torture we’ve become accustomed to. Remember take my free fantasy baseball advice and pick up any starting pitching playing against the Mets and odds are you will get a quality performance. Hopefully Frenchy can help us because the offense is simply putrid. Philly won again so the Mets are now five games under .500 and 6 1/2 behind the Phillies, things are spiraling downward, quickly.  Even Matt Cerrone is sounding a little annoyed in his recap of tonight’s game, in his least you should know about the game  section, he writes Bronson Arroyo pitched a complete game shutout…that’s all you need to know. The Mets are literally crawling and limping their way to the all star break which most Mets fans wish was longer than just three days. It can’t come fast enough.

Notes: One positive note, the crowd at CitiField set the record for people all eating a potato chip at once. Everyone was given a bag of Wise chips and in the second inning the record was set. According to Danny Girton Jr., the adjudication manager on-site from Guinness, there was a definite crunch sound from all over the ballpark and, based upon both the audible and visual evidence, Mr. Girton certified the world record.