With the Mets first victory since the silent rapture, it has been confirmed that the Mets aren’t, in fact, going to hell. This would require that you suspend you’re belief that they’re already there.
Dillon Gee is proving to be not only a good pitcher, but a good luck charm that the Mets sorely need, as the Metropolitan nine is now 6-0 in games where Gee starts. The trick is getting through the first innings, as both against Chicago and Washington Gee had an elevated pitch count in the first inning, but made it through the rest of the way smoothly. The first inning for Gee was much worse on Wednesday, as he spotted the Cubs a three run lead. But Casey Coleman couldn’t do what so many rookies, retreads, and terrible pitchers find it easy to do, and that’s hold the Mets to less than three hits and a run. Coleman gave up 6 hits and seven runs in an inning and a third, helped along Justin Berg’s first career Oliver Perez hat trick: three batters, three walks. Add in a well timed rainstorm and you’ve got a Mets victory.
The comical moment was the umpires preventing the groundscrew putting dirt on the pitchers mound a few pitches before finally delaying the game, and Mike Quade came out to have a WTF discussion with the umpires. Reportedly, while this was going on, Fred Wilpon was in the press box conducting an interview with a columnist from Organic Gardening magazine, where he reportedly called Pete Flynn a very good head groundskeeper. But said that if Flynn thinks he’s getting Joe Mooney money he’s nuts.
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