By metstradamus | April 23, 2021 1:46 am
It’s rare that the Mets get swept and evoke a different mode of feeling from each loss. Tuesday they just bored you to death. Wednesday just made you mad because they kicked the ball around the yard. And Thursday they ripped your heart out and showed it to you. Because Thursday was the game that looked like it could have been, and should have been a victory.
They got down 3-0 early in large part because Joey Lucchesi walked the opposing pitcher, But Pete Alonso got two runs back with another laser beam headed to Waveland Ave. (we might have to grow some ivy when we get back), and then a kid from Guam came in and threw three scoreless innings to give the Mets and their fans a really good feeling about this game. (Yes, Sean Reid-Foley is from Guam, and we got him in the Steven Matz trade.)
J.D. Davis came on to pinch hit for Reid-Foley in the 7th after getting a day off, possibly, to clear his head. He crushed an RBI double to tie the game at 3-3, and now you really felt this was ours, and that everything would be okay. The bottom of the 7th happened without incident, and then after a leadoff triple in the eighth by old friend Jake Marisnick, Aaron Loup got a pop-up and a huge strikeout of Ian Happ before Miguel Castro came in to strike out Willson Contreras.
Edwin Diaz came in for the bottom of the 9th to face the middle of the Cubs order, and it was the right move.
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