After another dreadful loss on Friday night, the Mets came back swinging today! In more ways than one! John Maine was in his glory this afternoon with a 14 strikeout outing. He flirted with the first no-hitter by a Mets pitcher…EVER! 7 2/3 innings of no hit ball broken up by a swinging bunt by Paul Hoover.

Finally, the Mets showed some spunk during a bench clearing melee. Twice no less. It began with Marlins pitcher Harvey Garcia throwing a ball behind Louis Castillo after Lastings Milledge homered and Jose Reyes doubled. The benches and bullpens cleared. No punches were thrown…YET! After the teams returned to their proper places, Miguel Olivo and Jose Reyes were talking it up. Next thing you know, Olivo is charging Reyes at third, throws a punch which struck Sandy Alomar. Benches and bullpens clear again. Everyhing gets calmed down and play finally resumes. It was ONLY the 5th inning at the time! Final score Mets 13 Florida 0!

Now, in case you got so excited after the game that you had to go mow the lawn or visit a friend, you may not have noticed 2 other important scores. Nationals 4 Phillies 2 and San Diego 3 Milwaukee 4. You know why the Phillies loss is important, but maybe not San Diego’s loss. Here it is:

As you can see by the highlighted teams, the Mets MUST win on Sunday. Their last hope to play in October! The scenario goes like this with a Mets win and Phillies loss the Mets win the division, Phillies win the Mets play the Phillies on Monday for division title. Now, if San Diego loses on Sunday and the Phillies win along with the Mets, there are 3 teams with 89 wins. The first thing is for the Mets to play at Phillie to decide the division winner. The loser would then play San Diego in order to decide the wild card. To make it a little more interesting, if the Mets lose the division in the playoff, they would host San Diego, but if the Phillies lose the division, they would travel to San Diego. Did you get all that? Good….

I really hope I have something worth while to write tomorrow and not some shameless babble by a disappointed Mets fan who is totally ticked off to the seasons end!

GB
Walter Gavurnik

P.S. LET’S GO METS!!!

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