Thanks to the Mets vomiting all over the field in both halves of last night’s 11th inning, Philly was allowed to move into a tie for first. Or, more accurately, the Mets dropped out of sole possession of, and into a tie for, first place.

Thanks to the Phils having an earlier start time than the Mets did tonight, when they won their game, they moved up half a game, and now sit alone atop the NL East.

I think we’re all pretty sick of looking at the Phillies’ nasty, crusty mudflaps.

What I do like seeing, though, is when we wind up on the happy side of an inning prolonged by an error, and when we have nine players coming off the field after a bases-loaded, nobody out jam which ends with nobody scoring, instead of the usual four.
So let’s see if we can hang on to win this one, finish the day still in first, and tear the heads off of the Sawx this weekend!

There’s just no other explanation. Right from when Church allegedly missed third.

Either that or Joe Torre has something going with the 3rd base ump. I mean really, you’re in a hole in the ground- how do you even see that from the dugout? From the steps, sure, but down in the pit? He had to have been reading Church’s face. I mean whichever Dodger was covering 3B watched him round the bag and had to be told to appeal the play… Whatever.

They almost got out of that inning, too. A clean throw and who knows?

That was painful.

Oh, well, at least Redding did decently. And Pagan, too, other than that bailout at the end of what should have been a routine flyout. Hopefully they got this junk out of their systems for a while.