Somewhere, Joe West is screaming
So, just to please everybody who’s jumping on the Red-Sox-and-Yankees-take-too-long-to-play bandwagon, the Mets and Fatinals today played for seven goddamn hours, a game the Mets eventually won when the Fatinals ran out of pitchers first and put in a position player in the 19th. In response, the Mets — who were also out of pitchers — put in one of their other starters. Penny-wise and pound-foolish? Perhaps! But the Mets won and the Fatinals didn’t, so it’s all good as far as I’m concerned.
Congratulations to Joe Mather for being the first position player to pick up a loss this season. Also, congratulations to Johan Satana for pitching seven innings of shutout ball and not getting a win for it — K-rod gave up the tying run in the 19th, which means, for some reason, he gets the win instead of Santana. Somebody needs to explain to me why a dude who got three outs and gave up a run should get credit for a win while the dude who got twenty-one outs and didn’t give up a goddamn thing misses out. Alternatively, how about we just agree to get rid of fucking wins?
Also, congratulations to Ubaldo Jimenez, who pitched the first no-hitter of the season, and also the first in Rockies history. Big stuff going on here today.
