I can't really ever feel sorry for professional athletes, especially when one is compensated monetarily as most of the players on the New York Yankees are. Saturday's Yankee debacle at Shea Stadium, then, even had me shaking my head a bit at the action on the field, between the bad luck and the bad baseball.
Some of the former was exhibited when Yankee starting pitcher Darrell Rasner was struck on his pitching hand just nine pitches into the game, subsequently leaving the game after some practice throws. The second bit was David Wright's second two-run home run, the ball of which hit the bottom of center fielder Johnny Damon's glove as he was reaching over the fence for it, bouncing out and over the fence to his dismay.
The bad baseball came in the way of three errors by Yankee second baseman Robinson Cano, who's lucky he wasn't charged with four when he couldn't turn what appeared to be a sure double play. His third error, when he tried to throw the ball to first base after slipping in the rain-soaked grass, but hit his foot instead, is one that's gotta be filed in the "What are you doing??? category.
The best news was that the Mets won though, with starter Tom Glavine getting career win number 295 despite not being his sharpest, though good enough to get out of a bases-loaded, one-out first inning jam allowing just one run. It was then that the Mets took over, with Endy Chavez getting four hits, along with Wright's two home runs the biggest offensive factors in the game.
The Mets got three hits, I think, that weren't hit especially hard, but landed where the defense wasn't, and also were aggressive on the basepaths, steatling five in six attempts to keep the Yankees thinking about more than just the batter, in fact I think Yankee pitcher Mike Myers, who replaced Rasner in the first, was more preoccupied with keeping Chavez at first than pitching to Wright, who blasted a 3-1 pitch into left field to give the Mets the lead that they would not relinquish.
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