Thursday Afternoon
Shea Stadium
All by myself
Just one of those relaxed this is the last baseball game I will ever attend as a single person kind of games. The impossible dream of the Mets contending all season begins to unravel. The Mets looked ugly today. Let me count the ways:
1. The Mets went 0 for 8 with runners in scoring position.
2. Tom Glavine was great again- 1 run in 7 innings for naught.
3. Third base coach Matt Galante was responsible for sending, then not sending Richard Hidalgo home with the score tied at 1 which resulted in him getting caught in a rundown.
4. Art Howe left John Franco in to face Tony Batista with the score knotted at 1 in the 8th, even though right-handers have blistered Franco all season. Batista’s two run homer demoralized the Mets.
5. The Mets lost their 7th out of 10 and fall under .500 again.
I did get to see David Wright’s first major league hit though.
Posted by dan at July 22, 2004 08:54 PM