LOB City

Lucas Duda missed Friday’s game against the Phillies with a stomach ailment which brought him to the hospital. This forced me to ask myself: Lucas Duda has a stomach? Jeez, I thought he had a steel alloy trash compactor which demolished everything that entered it … from McDonald’s to Indian food to small animals. This shocked me.

Well, I know how Lucas feels. I’ve been poisoned by food. I’ve been poisoned by alcohol. And I’ve been poisoned by the baseball team he plays for. I’ve long thought … especially since the 20 inning loss to the Marlins … that I’ve seen this team lose in every possible imaginable way. A dropped pop-up. A missed base. A throw from an outfielder playing first base over the catcher’s head. A hit by pitch. A balk. A pop-up turning into a base hit because it hit a bird.

But I don’t think there has been a game quite like the one they lost to the equally putrid Philadelphia Phillies. And they have to be equally putrid, because you had two teams leave 32 men on base, and play a 3-2 11 inning game in a nice, tidy, four hours and thirty-nine minutes. I’d say that the Mets and Phillies set baseball back twenty years, but more than twenty years ago there was a game that went two hours and fourteen minutes where the final score was 15-5. This game wasn’t from the days of Tim Keefe and Mordecai Brown … this was from 1993! What the f*ck did the Mets do to baseball tonight???!?

The New York Mets LOB party was highlighted by the fifth inning where they had second and third with nobody out and came away with nothing. But they left so many men on base that every inning ended pretty much like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrXEDr7kcIA

Except of course the last inning, which ended quietly after Marlon Byrd won the game with a broken bat double down the left field line … because good pitches can’t just be rewarding for the Mets. No … they have to find a hole for Marlon Byrd who last year had a t-shirt giveaway the night he was traded from the Mets. Ironic that his first game back at Citi he wins the game for the Phillies … on Curtis Granderson t-shirt day.

Kyle Kendrick faces Dillon Gee on Saturday, which means Ryan Howard is salivating heavily. Although that might just be because he’s eating his fifth Subway Philly Cheese steak of the evening.