Friday, June 19, 2009
STREETS OF BALTIMORE. [6-18-09]
Mets v Orioles
6-18-09, Oriole Park at Camden Yards
“If we don’t win this game,” said the guy sitting behind me, “we don’t deserve to play baseball. Not even just in the American League. Baseball.”
It was the 9th inning. After being shut out for a few innings, and then tying it up, and then giving up a home run to Robert Andino - why are our villians the unlikely ones, always, why are the Mets the ones giving up the big moments, the special home runs, who did not know that Matt Wieters was not going to get his first home run this series? - they had eked themselves out a game. They got on the board. They got ahead. They took the lead.
That’s right, there was a lead at one point in this evening. There was a point in the game where the Mets were playing reasonably good baseball. Luis Castillo contributed. Alex Cora contributed. Daniel Murphy contributed. Good things happened.
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