Long May You Run, Metsies

Game 50 - Mets

Mets 5, Red Sox 1
Record: 30-20

I wagered against my favorite team again last night. I don't feel great about it, but as our friend Dave digs lightly into the phenomenon of betting against your emotional interests -- something ex-MLCer Rob called "psychic hedging," it's a coping mechanism.

Save for a Lindor blast in the 9th, I would have had it exactly... backwards. As Willy Wonka would've put it:

Tylor McGill fanned 10 Sox. In four and a third! Half the batters he faced. It was only a couple of bad breaks in the 5th -- an inning that gets him consistently, which ain't great -- that ruined it for him. Nubbers and grounds just to the right spot, squeezed on a pitch or two. Such is life on the diamond, and he hit the showers in Frame 5 again. But a stalwart outing. 

And Huascar Race Brazoban came in and locked it down. Reed Garrett did his usual "did I make you nervous?" routine while shutting the Sox out in the 8th, and Diaz issued a leadoff walk for consistency before closing it out. 

Meanwhile, Garrett Crochet stitched together a nice looking five-plus innings himself. He left with the game tied at 1, and Liam Hendriks struck out Alonso and Vientos to round out the 6th. That was good Liam.

Fortunately for our camp, bad Liam came out for the 7th. 

Luis Torrens, who'd doubled in a run-scoring 2nd inning earlier, singled to lead off. Torrens is the catalyst, I'm telling you. Más Luis, por favor. No offense, Francisco Alvarez. Well, maybe.

After a Ty Taylor hit and an Acuña infield single, the stage was set for Brett Baty. Again. (He'd singled in one, almost two, in the 2nd.)

The Brett Baty of April would have been helpless, helpless, helpless, but as Neil Young would sing about Baty, "All [his] changes were there." 

Baty came through with another run-scoring single, this time for the deuce. Baty!

He's also made some damn fine plays in the field, meaning Mark Vientos will spend more time at DH. Pete has rebounded from a few games of utter glovedreck with some nice work at first, so he's not jockeying for time there just yet.

Starting pitching is still humming 

Bullpen back under control

This summer Mantos is coming

Manaea, too, get ready to roll

Gotta get down to it

Okay, enough Neil. Except to say to the New York Mets, with a day off and the might Dodgers coming to town tomorrow...

Am I lying to you when I say

That I believe in you?

I believe in you.

Cue the bludgeoning... And yeah, I might still bet against you. But I believe in you. 

LFGM