"Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels bowed his head in disgust for his exit stage left late Saturday afternoon, a fifth-inning hook that ended one of his worst outings ever.

His slow walk from the Citi Field mound to the third-base dugout became music to the ears of Mets fans, who serenaded the All-Star left-hander with the same word that he infamously dubbed their team after New York's 2008 NL East collapse.

"Choke, choke, choke, choke, choke."

This wasn't that, just another loss to the ballclub that Hamels struggles most against, this one an 11-2 Mets clobbering of the Phillies on national television.

These season-high seven runs Hamels allowed over 4 1/3 innings raised his 15-start career ERA against the Mets to 4.69.

His record against them is ugly, 3 wins and 10 losses.

Against everyone else, Hamels is 68-40.

"If he's on, he's pretty tough on anybody," manager Charlie Manuel said. "But at the same time, usually in baseball seems like one team always gets you."

Hamels is unfazed.

"Let's see, most of those (losses) were all from my first three years," he said. "That's when I was trying to figure out everything. The past couple of years, I felt like I did really well."

Actually, Hamels' two worst starts this season, his only two bad ones, were ugly losses to the Mets. In his season debut, he was bombed by New York, allowing six runs over 2 2/3 innings in a 7-1 Mets win at Citizens Bank Park."