The last time I got home late and missed pretty much all of the Mets game, I watched the whole thing at 3:30 AM while knowing the final score, and yet still made the conscious decision to torture myself. So this time, after missing pretty much the entire game, I declined to stick a switchblade in my own back. But I did go back and watch the seventh inning, with Greg Burke on the mound, score tied at 2-2.
If Lucas Duda had committed the error on the hard hit line drive by Travis Snider, then I'm not sure I blame him, because he's a Neanderthal with a glove. But Ike Davis has the "defensive wizard" tag, supposedly. And he looked less like Keith Hernandez and more like Red Light Racicot as he was charged with an error as the ball clanged off his glove.
And yet, when he couldn't corral the throw by David Wright to double off Snider and made it tempting for me to kill him for that, I can't. Wright caught a screaming liner and quickly made the throw to first … so quickly in fact, that he probably didn't have the right grip on it, causing the ball to take a dive to the ground like it was a split fingered fastball. Davis, in all honesty, had no shot to catch that. That ball from Wright took such a wicked tumble on it that I wish that he was on the mound in the 11th inning Friday night instead of Gonzalez Germen.
The run proved to be the winner as the Pirates beat the Mets 4-2 on Saturday. But don't be fooled. They didn't lose because of an error by Ike Davis. They lost because they could only score two runs for the second night in a row … thanks in part to Davis' strikeout with second and third in the fifth inning. So I guess you really can blame him. Sorry Ike, I tried to defend you … again. You just make it impossible when you play line drives like you were a bad goalie, and hit like one too.
Boy am I glad I missed this one.
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