You’re telling me Buck Showalter couldn’t return to major league dugouts for three years because team owners and new-age front-officers thought the old-school principal was asking for too much power?
Oh my dear god.
The Queens’ cultural shift has been as dramatic as the Mets’ record change from 77-85 in 2021 to 69-39 (and rising) this year. After an 8-5, 6-2 double header from the Brave He extended his divisional lead to 5 games on Saturday… and with Jacob Degrom on Sunday to close out that five-game group where the home side won three of their first four games.
Last year fans and players booed each other. This year, a mutual love flows from the stands to the field and back, with Mets surpassing 30,500 for the first time since 2006.
“That’s what you play for,” said Max Scherzer after seven courageous rounds in Game 2, in which he scored eleven goals in his 108th season. “We’re playing great baseball.”
Playing an old-school attacking game, the Mets mix just enough swagger and determination to appeal to all generations, those who have been here since Hobie Landrith met the 257-foot-tall Pop. Bottom right at Polo Field with one man and two men in the ninth inning to beat Warren Spahn in April 1962 and those caught when Scherzer signed last December.
They’re playing hard ball, like Pete Alonso did when he headed hard for second base for a double-play break in the third inning of the Cup of the Night. This rush resulted in a throwing foul by Dansby Swanson that led to the third round of the match. It was Alonso who later came into play strongly against Travis Darno and overpowered Austin Riley’s third shot to make it 4-0.
“Donnie wasn’t a guy who ran very well, but he was a great groundrunner,” Showalter said, referring to Don Mattingly. “Just because you don’t win a sprint competition doesn’t mean you can’t be a good lead sprinter.
“He’s very proud of him.”
You are ready and brave The way Louis Gillom took the lead in game five From the second game. The Braves, trailing 3-0, had first- and third-place riders with one out. He returned the field when Iyer Adrianza hit the ball for second place. Rather than making the easy call and conceding a run, Guillerme hit an 88-mile shot for Thomas Nideau, who tagged Darno’s glide cleanly to knock Atlanta off the board.
It is an opportunist, exploiting the failures of the enforced and non-enforced opposition in the way it has done on both ends of that failure. Francisco Lindor, a more relaxed and dynamic sophomore in New York, was lying with two at first base in the third game of the first game as his team led 2-0 when Jake O’Dorrese’s pick-up toss went into the net sailed the spoiled zone, allowing “Lindor to adopt the second rule.
Moments later, Lindor crossed the board into right field on Jeff McNeill’s RBI song and the Mets were 3-0 up On the way to an 8-5 victory. There are no minigames in this game. There are no young players in this team.
Mets can run, they can hit, and they can throw. They scored the third-most rounds in the NL, behind only the last two World Series winners, the Dodgers and Braves. They are third in the league when it comes to average, second in percent based on base and fourth in OPS. Their promotional staff is second only to the Dodgers in the ERA.
The Bulls were exhausted entering Game 2. Edwin Diaz was unavailable after being forced to work in the opening game after the Braves hit three runs in the ninth inning. But Scherzer, as always, handled it and ended the outing with a bang by hitting the side on the seventh.
“Going to seven is my job,” said Sherzer, 9-2 with a 1.98 ERA. “I’m proud of myself for that.”
On Sunday, DeGrom starts back home for the first time since July 7, 2021. Four more games between these teams are scheduled, starting August 15 in Atlanta. The Mets are in an excellent position to claim the division title.
Remember that. The first-placed team will be dismissed in the first round. The runner-up will finish in the top three in the first round, most likely against Padres.
any questions?
Aside from the question, what were all these other teams thinking over the last three years while Showalter was available?
