Well, maybe not literally, but yesterday, after I had praised the defense of the Mets this year for killing rallies and snuffing out runs, it all comes falling down to the ground like a dropped baseball. Two Met errors, their first of the season, and both dropped balls, one by first baseman Carlos Delgado and the second by right fielder Shawn Green, led to three unearned Brave runs that proved to be the difference. (I thought I was gonna be able to watch this one, but instead we got stuck with the Dodgers and Giants for the game of the week).
If this "jinx" thing of my ideas works, then I'll go boldly out on a limb and declare that this year's Met team has absolutely no chance to win anything at all, and will wind up losing 110 games, and we'll all be wondering if it might be Lima-time once again come September.
Actually, the Mets, who trailed for most of the game, another first in this season, kept battling to stay in the game the entire way, and in fact had runners on second and third with two out in the top of the ninth when Green had a rifle shot snagged by Braves first baseman Craig Wilson, robbing Green of the RBI's and thus ending the game.
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