Sorry, this one's on me.
After wondering if I even wanted to watch this one, I decided to allow for the possibility and set myself on MLBN to watch the pregame show. I paused the video so I wouldn't have to watch the ads, and fed the cat, started my own dinner, did some other things, and eventually had my dinner and sat back down to watch the game.
This was at 7:25 and I noticed that the pregame show was scheduled to last until. 8 PM. This struck me as being wrong, and I soon recalled that the game was actually on Big FOX, not cable. I switched over, just after Marte had hit the double to put the Mets up 4-0 and said, "of course, they score when I miss it. Typical."
And then Mets made 23 consecutive outs (counting Squirrel immediately lining into the inning-ending DP).
David Peterson (7.43 ERA in his 6 prior starts) had three good innings, which is apparently what this staff is built for. The bullpen continues to suck balls (it will be interesting to look back one day and see how many All-Stars we traded away to get this pile of poo) and, as Larry Merchant once wrote, "Good teams find a way to win; bad teams find a way to lose."
Go Blind Squirrels! Make my Grandpa Max (who was gifted one share of Giants stock by Horace Stoneham in the 1930s, and sold it when the team moved west) proud!
Quote:
"Official extinction descended the following week in Pittsburgh, where the Mets dropped three more games, each by one-run margins. In the seven key games against the Pirates, the Mets had batted into sixteen double plays and stranded no fewer than sixty-six baserunners, which is the mark of an old, old ball team"
—Roger Angell, "The Baltimore Vermeers" (1970)
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55 years later, it's the other side of Pennsylvania, and the Mets actually won the games in New York and don't get that many runners on base these days, but still…"
Plus ça change, plus ça même chose", as Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr would probably wish he had never written, were he to know how many pretentious twits would quote it, down the road.