Born Under a Bad Sign?
QUAKING....SHAKING....BUT SOMEHOW STILL INTACT
Maybe it is just me, but it seems like the Mets over the years have been prone to sudden collapse mode. Stuff like the back to back seasons about 15 years back when the Mets coughed up seemingly insurmountable leads to the Phillies and just crumbled.
It's just happened a lot to the Mets - you can list more if you like.
The Mets this season had miraculously danced through a minefield of injuries, but still sauntered into the All Star Break with a 3.5 game lead, and virtually everyone back from injury or just about back, except Thor, and he should not be too far off.
They open the post-All Star period against the weak Bucs and lose a classic first Mets game. 8 walks, 3 hits, 1 run. Familiar ineptitude. And of course, an IL stint for the hot Francisco Lindor. So much for "everyone back."
Then JD Davis shows why he should have been in the 1 run line up on Friday, when he hits 2 HRs and knocks in 4 on Saturday.
Then Tylor Megill screws up - he only gives them 6 shutout innings. C'mon Tylor...we've seen that story before. We needed you to go 9 (just being facetious here, but I've seen Mets bullpens over the years, haven't you readers?)
Leading 6-0 after 7, the crumbling was soon to start, only were weren't watching that. We we watching a laugher.
Previously, it was reported that Jake deGrom had forearm tightness and that maybe a full two weeks off might be needed - or more - gulp - was that a minor tremor, or just our imaginations?
Then, Seth Lugo throws a hanger that begged to be hit out of the park...out of the park it went...and 6-2 became 6-5. Crumbling in progress.
Mets, however, add a run, and it's 7-5 Mets, bottom 9, and Edwin Diaz hits the first guy with the first pitch! Crumbling like that Washington Lats game in 2019.
He loads them up and Stallings somehow hit not a great pitch, but it was 100 and inside off the inside corner, for a game winning walk off Bucs grand slam.
A season shaking fiercely.
Mets' players post-game are tough in their mental resolve. Me? I called a good shrink.
Again, just to be clear, Megill giving us 6 shutout innings and the pen surrendering 9 runs in 3 innings is not a formula for success.
Then on Sunday, the Mets are down 6-0 quicker than an eyelash, in part due to a bizarre swinging roller play. More quaking.
But then, somehow, Mets baseball kicks in. Travis Blankenhorn, just called up, jacks a 3 run shot to get them within 6-4. Moving along, it's 6-5 in the 9th, and being THATCLOSE to a sweep by Pittsburgh, and Michael Conforto hits just his 4th HR in 55 games, but his biggest hit of the season, to put them ahead 7-6. And Trevor May, not Diaz, comes in to close and gets the save.
To offset the good news, Jake goes on the IL, right after Lindor went on the IL. Will the crumbling be unstoppable without those two sources?
Where the heck is Cookie? I need comfort food. Fast.
11 comments:
I only wish comfort food would help but as Met fans and in life the best joys usually come after pain but it just seems were exposed to more pain than most and can we say uncertain as far as what the hell's gonna happen the rest of the way. We must be masochistic because boy did Sat. game hurt but lets face it we've been throught this 1000's of times before and were still here which says alot about us doesn't it.
It's been a crazy year. No question about it. Hard to make sense of anything.
Gary, so true. A week ago, optimism reigned as the near-term return of Carrasco, and probably Thor in 6 weeks, made you feel you can bridge this chasm.
The Mets have already used 27 pitchers and 2 position players pitching. In 1969 and 1986, both seasons, just 15 pitchers the whole year. Crazy.
Ray, it has been a bewildering blur of injuries. Case in point was what I just wrote above: The Mets have already used 27 pitchers and 2 position players pitching. In 1969 and 1986, both seasons, just 15 pitchers the whole year. Crazy.
Is it the darkest before dawn? Or did the sun just set? We'll soon find out.
You sound like Reese today. LOL. At least being a Mets fan doesn't automatically make one Jets fan-Ooops a lot of Mets fans are Jets fans as well. Yesterday I finally said I've had enough of this s--- and went out for a bit. When I got back to my car Conforto had just hit his homer. Good thing I don't have a heart problem. Ooops again, I DO have a heart problem. Maybe I should just stop watching-Nah.
Holmer, I don't have a heart problem, but I do have an aggravation threshold that is low. I find I turn off games a lot. Once Edwin hit the first hitter, I shut it off. Horror movies are not my favorite.
If Jake is not right, and misses significant time, I don't know how they survive - I guess we'll find out.
Ninety-seven people died on that condo at the last count.
Families devastated. Heartbreak and suffering.
This headline showed a woeful lapse in taste and decency.
So unnecessary. Using that tragedy in a post whining about a first-place baseball team.
You are better than that.
Jimmy
JIMMY, YOU ARE RIGHT.
SO THE HEADLINE I WIL CHANGE.
There’s a British curse sometimes attributed to the Chinese..
“May you live in interesting times”
Our’s could be: May you root for an interesting team.
Rick from Albany
Rick, this team is no doubt "interesting."
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