A pitcher's duel that wound up going to extra innings, and eventually a Mets win, thanks to key plays by Mets who usually spend most of their time on the bench.
The efforts between Colorado's Aaron Cook and the Mets' Orlando Hernandez produced a scoreless effort through the seven innings that both starters pitched, while the bullpen of each team gave up critical runs by the main relievers of both staffs, Brian Fuentes of Colorado and New York's Billy Wagner.
The hero for tonight's Mets win were reserve infielder Damion Easley, who hit a two-out, two-strike pitch off of Fuentes in the bottom of the ninth to send the game into extra innings, and outfielder Endy Chavez, who executed an amazing drag bunt between the pitcher's mound and first base, which allowed Shawn Green to score from third, to the utter amazement of just about everybody who was watching. Easley said in the post game interview that he was caught off guard, I know I just about fell off of the chair when I saw that the play was perfectly executed, the futile attempt of Rockies pitcher Ryan Speier to scoop the ball to first base just a tad too late in their attempt to stave off the loss. Helluva game Rockies, sorry you had to lose that one.
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