Jorge Sosa was dealing for four innings, but lost it in the fifth. It began with a horrible pitch to Wilson Betemit. Sosa was ahead in the count 0-and-2, but put the next pitch up on a platter. He had been good at finishing off hitters.
Rafael Furcal tripled home the second run and scored on Juan Pierre’s single. The Mets’ offense hasn’t shown many signs tonight it came make this up.
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So, what happened between Green and Penny?
Yet, in an incident replayed several times on television, Penny verbally confronted Green.
After he struck out Green to end the third inning, Penny walked off the mound  not toward the dugout, but toward home plate. The two men exchanged words, without contact.
After the game, Penny said Green had tipped the Mets’ hitters off to pitch locations in the first inning, when Green was on second base.
“When you’re doing that and you have a reputation for doing that, people will be watching you,” Penny said.
Green acknowledged that reputation but denied he was tipping the Mets’ hitters in this case.
“People assume every time I’m on second base, I’m relaying signs,” the former Dodger said. “I’ve been wrongly accused of that more times than I’ve been rightly accused.”
Green called that practice “part of the game” and said the Dodgers had engaged in it Tuesday. When they did, he said, Aaron Heilman simply stepped off the mound, and the Mets changed signs.
“That’s the right way to handle it,” Green said. “To accuse a guy is the wrong way to handle it, especially when it wasn’t taking place.”