Tough walking around New York with all that smoke wafting down from Canadian wildfires. To take our minds off the ominous skies, let’s enjoy some Mets highlights from Wednesday night in Atlanta!
All of New York can see how great its Mets are doing.
No delay — the game starts on time!
A first-inning run — and none allowed!
The rookie catcher starts — and belts a home run!
A two-run lead!
The emergency pinch-runner stays in — and whacks a two-run homer!
A three-run lead!
The starting pitcher strikes out ten!
The starting pitcher walks nobody!
The first reliever out of the bullpen strands his inherited runner!
The bases loaded in the top of the seventh…a wallop to deepest right field — RBI!
Two relievers in the bottom of the seventh — a perfect inning!
FIVE RUNS SCORED — the most since the trip to Colorado!
An important x-ray announced as negative!
That’s gotta be the only element of this ballgame you could call negative — right? I mean, what a bunch of great things in the Mets game versus the Braves! And a hundred more games of Mets baseball potentially just like it remain!
The final score from Wednesday night? Air quality being what it is, I can’t make it out through Mets-colored glasses. What with all those overwhelming positive developments, though, I’ll just assume everything worked out fine.
On National League Town this week, we empty out our 2023 Mets Hall of Fame notebook and fill the 2024 ceremonies with a quartet of nominees. Listen here!
GKR almost make it a joke (or is that dark humor) that the Mets lead the league in HBPs. But it’s not funny, and it’s only a matter of time before someone gets seriously hurt. I almost thought that happened last night, but Pete got lucky.
Wow, What a Win!
Keep it up, Guys!
Great highlights. I feel oddly refreshed.
—Well, we’ll see this offseason: Does Steve Cohen finally surrender the GM’s chair, or does employing Billy to be his front continue? The jig, obvious as it was, was given up in toto when Eppler acknowledged he had to go to Cohen even to dispense with the inexpensive Ruf.
The desperate lunges for big talent such as Lindor, Bauer (as grisly as the 2021 season was, imagine it with Bauer in the fold), Scherzer, Verlander, Correa… evincing no plan beyond another belated ‘omigod! we’re 5 wins short!!’ either stops, or we’ll be treated to a continuation of this exercise in muddled excess, resembling nothing so much as George Steinbrenner at his preposterous, profligate worst.