The Mets lineup built a lead that even Taylor Buchholz couldn’t blow.
Maybe it was reverting to the black undergarments and caps from spring training that did the trick. It’s a little disconcerting that for Game 19 we’ve already reverted to superstition. There was no lineup switches or shakeups or roster moves that we could have tried? The Mets have run out of ideas already? How long before we see “lineup out of a hat” or the Pedro Cerrano special: “Sacrificing a Kentucky Fried Chicken”? Or maybe have Dennis Haysbert throw out the first pitch one of these days?
Maybe it was Terry Collins getting ejected. Yeah! Maybe he should do that every game. If ever there was an ejection that screamed “please Eddings, I beg of you, toss me”, that was it. (If you don’t believe me, watch it again.) Collins probably knows he should have gotten tossed the last time he went out to argue on the Bill Hall transfer play. So this was the make up toss. Collins probably thought the fans in the building wouldn’t let him return to the dugout without an ejections, or Eddings’ head on a Mex Burger.
More likely, it was Chris Capuano going seven stellar innings along with the Mets finally being able to hit. When Mike Nickeas hits a home run, that’s all the omen I need that things are going to go the home team’s way for one night. Nickeas joined David Wright and Ike Davis in the dinger parade, and Jason Bay got himself a “little league home run” in his grand return when Hunter Pence was acting out Scott Hairston in his own demented game of charades that he was playing in his head. Yeah, the same Scott Hairston we could be seeing more of now that Angel Pagan is out with an upper body injury (NHL playoff references are just fine from April until June, thank you.) And there’s your 9-1 win, folks. We might be seeing spring training all season with these black uniforms.
A few more losses though, and we might be seeing a spring training roster all season too.
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