For all you completists in the crowd, it’s our privilege to report a final final score: Mets 1 Marlins 0 [1] in eight rain-shortened innings last Thursday [2], ensuring the Mets were 75-87 in 2023, rather than whatever it appeared they were when the tarp went on; no resumption was attempted; and nobody from MLB told us for absolute certain what the hell was supposed to happen vis-à-vis the W-L-T columns of the standings. Hopefully, Buck Showalter has a lucrative bonus clause that kicks in as a result of his having managed this extra win whose conclusion was delayed by a mere 132 hours.
Also, let us not overlook that this was an additional loss pinned on the Marlins the morning after they dropped Game One of their Wild Card Series versus the Phillies, and the morning before they were about to be blown out of Game Two in that best-of-three, ending their postseason in two flops of a fish’s tail. Hey, if they wanna swing by Citi Field to take care of that ninth inning now that we have nice weather and they have nothing else to do…nah, they probably don’t. But they’ll always have the memory of taking a lead that no longer exists, not to mention the hits and runs that have been wiped away by a slowly but surely applied rule that, truthfully, is kind of stupid. But so were all alternatives.
So we lost our last game [3] of 2023, on Sunday, but we came away victorious with our final result, on Wednesday. Nothing like going into winter on a quasi-winning streak of one with an asterisk.
Plus a new episode of a new episode of National League Town [4]!