New York Mets: Can someone get them off this rollercoaster
By Joe Noa
Letting the enemy live to fight again
Let’s hit the rewind button for a second. The Mets had runners on second and third with no outs in the top of the seventh. Earlier in the inning, Amed Rosario hit a home run to left center. The Mets could not finish the annihilation of their hosts and didn’t get those two valuable runs across the plate.
If they had, the complexion of the contest would have changed dramatically. First of all. down by at least seven runs, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts would have started to pull some of his regulars. Secondly, Familia and Diaz (who didn’t have their respective “A” games) wouldn’t have played unless L.A. put together a big rally in the seventh, which they didn’t. Instead of his closing duo, Mets manager Mickey Callaway likely brings in Tylor Bashlor and/or Hector Santiago to mop up against the downtrodden Dodgers.
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Is the loss Callaway’s fault? You be the judge. After all the Mets offense, after Pete Alonso belted a pair of two-run homers, after Carlos Gomez got even by throwing out a Dodger, from the outfield, trying to advance to third, after all moral boosters, how do the Amazins snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?
Is it the “Callaway kumbaya” that did this? Playing to not lose doesn’t work, especially against a cocky powerhouse team like the Dodgers. A prevent defense in football didn’t work against Peyton Manning. It does work in baseball either. The game requires victors to put their foot on the opponent’s throat and finish the job!
A demoralized Mets squad went on to muster only four hits the following night. Hyun-Jin Ryu and Kenley Jansen combined on a 2-0 Los Angeles shutout win.
We can only hope the New York Mets bounce back and make this series the bottom of the coaster and begin to ascend again. After all, the Amazins were no-hit twice in 2015 and they still made it to the World Series. They overcame adversity then and build on it. The Mets of 2019 need to do the same.
In the movie Animal House, John Belushi, in his motivational speech yelled out the question, “Did we quit when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? No!
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The Germans didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor but Bluto was rolling! So will the Mets roll?