{"id":30178,"date":"2020-07-19T06:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/this-game-wasnt-normal-and-that-was-a-good-thing-for-mets\/"},"modified":"2020-07-19T06:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T03:52:00","slug":"this-game-wasnt-normal-and-that-was-a-good-thing-for-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/this-game-wasnt-normal-and-that-was-a-good-thing-for-mets\/","title":{"rendered":"#This game wasn\u2019t normal, and that was a good thing for Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#This game<\/a> wasn\u2019t normal, and that was a good thing for Mets<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 18, 2020 |<\/span> 11:52pm <\/p>\n

\n The Mets got good and hammered Saturday night at Citi Field, the Yankees handing them a 9-3 loss thanks in large part to a ninth inning that looked an awful lot like the fever dreams that haunted their fans most of last year.<\/p>\n

It was exactly the kind of game we\u2019ve seen at Citi Field the past 12 years, and at Shea Stadium for so many years before it, that would elicit the overpowering woe-is-me and woe-are-us reactions that have come to be as essential a part of the franchise soundtrack as \u201cMeet the Mets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Only a funny thing happ<\/a>ened.<\/p>\n

Nobody booed. The veil of dread that sits in storage alongside the batting cages and the tarpaulin wasn\u2019t unwrapped. There was nobody to boo. There was nobody to drag the doom around. And suddenly, we may have discovered the true upside for the Mets \u2014 and, sure, the Yankees, whose own fans can get a little ornery with little provocation \u2014 that will exist all across this odd, strange, surreal season.<\/p>\n

There is no dread to be had.<\/p>\n

This is a good thing for a number of people. Rick Porcello, for instance, who was actually quite effective across five innings of work but hung a slider to Clint Frazier that the Yankees\u2019 Masked Marauder clobbered into the second deck. On a normal Saturday night the moment Frazier\u2019s missile landed in the seats to give the Yankees a lead, that would\u2019ve been the start of the growling and the griping. Maybe Porcello thinks Fenway Park was a rough room; he has no idea.<\/p>\n

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Pete Alonso and the Mets played in front of cardboard cutout fans, but that may have been a break for them after Saturday night\u2019s ugly exhibition loss to the Yankees.<\/span>N.Y. Post: Charles Wenzelberg<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And he still has no idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce I got locked into the game,\u201d Porcello said, \u201cit was pretty normal.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s so adorable because there was nothing normal about it. The ninth inning was a perfect example of that. One of the most important aspects of the Mets\u2019 fortunes this year will be how the bullpen performs, because there is the chance that group could be as good and as deep as any in the league. But as we learned time and again last year, a lot can impact that, not always bad pitching.<\/p>\n

Jeurys Familia pitched well but allowed a run thanks mostly to a temporary third baseman named Max Moroff who seemed determined to decapitate one of the cardboard cutout fans behind first base. Dellin Betances pitched a clean inning but was helped by a nice defensive play by Pete Alonso after a wild pickoff throw, and allowed a few hard-hit balls. Both of those things would have normally turned the anxiety level at She\u2019s to red levels.<\/p>\n

Then there was Edwin Diaz. We tend to forget that, though Diaz wasn\u2019t very good for long stretches of last year and saw a preposterous number of the fly balls he allowed leave the fence (27 percent, to be exact), he also pitched in a lot of bad luck. For one, he was throwing a ball that was clearly juiced. For another, he had an inordinate number of dinks and dunks that helped set him up for one failure after another.<\/p>\n

Diaz had a ninth inning that looked an awful lot like one from July 2019: a soft grounder that was booted by Luis Guillorme. A soft fly ball that fell amid a gaggle of Mets. And a strikeout, that led to Luis Rojas coming to get him. It was only after he left that Daniel Zamora let the floodgates opened, but that wall of shame back to the dugout would\u2019ve been some kind of ugly, and of course Zamora would\u2019ve had to enter witness protection before he ever reached the dugout.<\/p>\n

In normal times.<\/p>\n

But these are not normal times.<\/p>\n

These are times that will allow the illusion of patience; for a full year (or at least 60 games worth) the Mets (and the Yankees, if they have a similarly folly-filled night ahead) will find out what it\u2019s like to play in St. Louis or Kansas City, hyper-polite fan bases who would sooner wear a New York cap at the ballpark than ever boo one of their favored sons. Assuming the players stay off talk radio and steer clear of the occasional news<\/a>paper screed, they might actually experience the most neighborly season they\u2019ve played since the Cape Cod League.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost too weird to believe.<\/p>\n

But then, what isn\u2019t these days? Everything is weird. Everything is strange. Everything is a different kind of experience. The Mets walked off the feel after getting shellacked by their crosstown rivals and that\u2019s supposed to invite a chorus of sadness and scorn they can hear out by the Montauk lighthouse. Not now. Not this year. Better luck next time, boys! Go get \u2019em!<\/p>\n

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