The 1st ever Subway series game at the New Yankee Stadium will be a hard one to forget for Met fans, this one will rank right up there as one of the worst ever regular season games in Mets history, this one is just as bad as the 2 last day of the season loses that had knocked the Mets out of contention for the last two seasons. This was bad cause it was against the damm Yankees!Last night devastation of a lost to the hands of the crosstown rivals was like a hard punch to the stomach, or getting hit in the head blindsided, you just didn't see it coming. Seeing Alex Rodriguez and the rest of the Yankees in celebration MODE as if A-ROD had just gotten a game winning triple made me want to punch little Louie right in the face.
We kind of got a gift tonight, said Yankee manager Joe Girardi, Kind of? As I was watching Castillo back peddling after Alex Rodriguez lazy pop fly, something inside of me was beginning to turn. Castillo called for the ball as if he had it under control so you felt good, but then he had ways to go from the point where he made his I got it call, that's when your started to realize that we had a problem here. The ball glanced off his glove as a disoriented Castillo picked up the ball and instead of throwing for home he threw the ball to the 2nd basemen Alex Cora as if Castillo didn't even realize the situation. Texiera scored all the way from 1st and the Yankee celebration had begun.
All this happened after the Mets had just taken the lead off of Mariano Rivera when Joe Girardi brought in Mo with the game tied at 7, with 2 outs and nobody on to face Carlos Beltran. Beltran walked and David Wright then doubled in Beltran who was running with the pitch to score and give the Mets the lead 8-7 as Mariano Rivera was left grimacing on the mound. After a quick 1, 2, 3 for the Mets and Pedro Feliciano in the bottom of the 8th, Jerry Manuel called for his ace reliever Francisco Rodriguez with his perfect record with a chance to close the door on the Yankees.
K-ROD got Brett Gardner to pop up for the 1st out, then gave up a hit to Derek Jeter as the tying run was now on, Girardi then pinch hit with Johnny Damon who came in for Nick Swisher, Damon took K-ROD to a full count and was fouling several pitches off until succumbing to K-ROD's changeup for the strike out and out #2, Derek Jeter who was running with the pitch stole 2nd, then after falling to a 3-0 count, K-ROD then intentionally walked Mark Texiera who was now on 1st with the winning run setting up a K-ROD vs A-ROD confrontation. Everything was on the line, K-ROD looking for his 17th consecutive save to open up his Met career, the count was now at 3 and 1 in favor of A-ROD, K-ROD then grooved a low fastball that A-ROD got under for the pop up that looked like the final out of the game, but that's when Luis Castillo would find himself in no mans land trying to make a one-handed all-star catch instead of the two handed more secured try, ball hits the glove, falls to the ground, and instead of a big Met win it was the Yankees who had just come from behind for the 21st time this season thanks to the early XMAS gift from Luis Castillo.
Give Mark Texiera credit, because I know that if this was Carlos Delgago who was running on 1st for the Mets in that same situation, I could see Delgado, and many others in baseball, not running hard in that same play. One thing about Texiera is that he is old school and I already given him his praises in my article on him just this week because of the way he stands out and for his play of late. It was a hard one to swallow for suffering Mets fans who have now seen the Mets give away 3 consecutive games, what else could go wrong?
Seeing Luis Castillo who after the game did showed himself to reporters, was even harder to see, it was painful to see Castillo trying to described the scenario that had just made him the goat, I just didn't want to make that error, in his Dominican accent, Castillo tried but failed miserably, once again even to the reporters.
Once again Luis Castillo has put himself against all Mets fans who were beginning to except him back. Last season Castillo was public enemy #1 to all Mets fans who wanted to see Omar Minaya trade him for a bag of peanuts because the guy just didn't do the job. This season he has played well but after this gasp, his days as a Met are numbered.
The look on the faces from both sides spoke volumes, K-ROD pumping his fist after thinking he had just doomed the Yankees for his 17th save, then the look on face when he saw Castillo drop the ball, jaw opened, hands on his head with the face of disbelief, A-ROD breaking his bat halfway to 1st in frustration thinking the Yankees had just lost 4 in a row, then in celebration after winning the game on the weirdest walkoff win of the season. No pie in the face for A-ROD but this one is still a win, just not your average win.
2 comments:
Very fitting that the NY Mets get assed out of a victory. Its usually the other way around.
Fitting? you always say that the Mets are an assy team, when in reality all teams get breaks, but this one right here is the assiest of all time. What makes it even more assy is seeing Fucking A-ROD get bailed out, if not we would be talking about how he could not come through again, instead we have to see him jumping for joy with the rest of his teammates slapping him around as if he just gotten a game winning HR. that's the assy part of the whole scene.
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