Three Days in May
Baseball’s a funny game. For 3 days the Mets and Yankees fought tooth and nail through 29 innings. When it was over, the Mets had scored 15 runs and the Yankees 14.
On Friday the Mets erased a 4-run deficit and beat the Yankees’ prized closer.
On Saturday the Yankees erased a 4-run deficit against the Mets’ prized closer.
On Saturday the Yankees won a game they had every reason to lose. On Sunday the Mets won a game they had every reason to lose, or at least 15 reasons to lose – 15 being the number of runners Yankee batters left on base.
So go figure all of that. Somehow when all was said and done the Mets had taken 2 out of 3.
It’s tempting now to say that we should have won all 3. Resist that urge. Resist that urge no matter how devastating Saturday’s loss was when it happened.
After the game on Saturday I wrote the following:
In the end, we decide how heavily this loss will weigh on us. The decision is ours, not the Yankees', not their fans'. Ours.
And you know what? It's just one loss. Today is just one day. Tomorrow we wake and the season begins again.
I was proud of how the team played yesterday. I don’t think there’s one player you could point to on our roster and say that he played well. Glavine? Gutsy, sure, but not well – this wasn’t vintage Glavine.
I’m emotionally drained right now, just totally exhausted after 3 days of gut-wrenching baseball. I’ll try and get something a bit more coherent up later in the day today, but for now that’s all I got. For now, I dream the dreams of a happy Mets fan.
- A.F.O.M.G.
posted by A Friend of Mr. Glass' at 12:10 AM
2 Comments:
Fart! I thought you were going last night... the sense i got from good old left field was that it was not a particularly well played game, though it had its moments (particularly ones involving Reyes picking it - golly he has his flashes) and it was mostly long stretches of frustration and boredom punctuated by terror and/or joy, which is to say, it was similar to my sense of warfare as informed by the motion picture Jarhead. The Seaver throwback is 2-0. Eat a dick, Arod.
Kazmir pitched 8 innings, giving up no runs, 4 hits and 1 walk while striking out 11 to pick up his 7th win of the season. He is the youngest player to reach 7 wins this early in the season in my lifetime.
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