At about 11:30 this morning I got an e-mail titled “We Want You Back”. Yup, a Mets season ticket representative … on the morning after the biggest win of the year … perpetrated the hustle to try to sell some tickets. I hope that his efforts to win some people back worked in the eight hours that followed. Because if somebody saw that e-mail say, now? They’d laugh.
I was afraid of this. The comedown from an electrifying three games against the Yankees which had bragging rights at stake to a series against the Cardinals with about half the fans (officially) and nothing at stake except, oh … the playoffs? It’s real, my friends. It’s real. I discuss the Joel Pineiro game a lot. With the score 3-0 in the 7th, just as the final was in 2007, it brought back some strange feelings, for sure. Late in a flailing pennant race against the Cardinals? Tastes like bird shit.
Of course, the Mets were simply flat in that game in ’07. It felt flat on Monday too, but with a hint of hard luck. Adam Wainwright, who was good but not great, loaded the bases in the first and faced Jeff McNeil. He threw two curveballs and a changeup to strike out McNeil with the bases loaded. Does that sound familiar? It sure as hell sounded familiar to Wainwright.
You ever ask us what we wanted, Adam? Did you ever think to do that? No, you just assume. You’re inconsiderate, and you’ve been inconsiderate for 15 years.
In the fifth after the Cards built a three run lead on a single by Dylan Carlson, a single by Paul Goldschmidt, and a homer by Paul Goldschmidt (all off Rich Hill), James McCann was robbed by Edmundo Sosa on a hard line drive. Then after Dom Smith doubled, took third on a passed ball, and Francisco Lindor walked, Michael Conforto hit one on the button, but right to Goldschmidt at first to end the threat. Then as the Mets were budding a rally in the 7th, Jonathan Villar lined out hard to second, where Tommy Edman then doubled off J.D. Davis off first base.
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