The Alternate Universe: Giants at Mets 7-2-2020
By metstradamus | July 2, 2020 9:06 pm
We’ve all been depressed about what’s going on in the world regarding the COVID-19 outbreak, and baseball has become collateral damage. The 2020 baseball season is set to begin in late July. Until then, you can read this blog in the alternate: the one where global pandemics were a myth and baseball was around no matter what. We’re imagining the 2020 Mets season as if everything was normal. Enjoy these works of fiction.
Today’s game, a getaway day with two Sunday lineups, showed you how fun baseball can be when it is falling in line with our wishes for better “pace of play”. Michael Wacha gave up a ringing double to Evan Longoria in the fourth followed by a typical Hunter Pence single off the end of the bat into right field to drive Longoria in. But that was it in seven innings. Johnny Cueto, moved up in the rotation because he’s better in day games (and no doubt to give me agita over Game 2 of the 2015 World Series), was stellar through his first six innings of work, scattering four hits and walking nobody in what was shaping up to be his best work of the season. And with a lot of first pitch swinging (and popping up) taking place, We got to the bottom of the 7th at 2:55 PM, which is phenomenal for “pace of play” purposes.
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