Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
August 29, 2007
What a Way to Lose

The Mets' Marlon Anderson makes a huge mistake that costs the Mets a game. Down 3-2 in the top of the ninth, the Mets have men on first and third, Anderson on first. Green hits a slow roller to short. Rollins flips to Iguchi at second, and Anderson slides to the infield side of the bag, then uses his hands to push Iguchi. C.B. Bucknor calls interference on the play, and even the Mets announcers agree on the call. The ball was hit so slowly, however, there's no way the Phillies could turn the DP, so the tying run would have scored. Instead, the game ends, and the Phillies take the first three games of the series and cut the Mets lead in the east to three. They go for the sweep tomorrow afternoon.


Posted by David Pinto at 09:59 PM | Games | TrackBack (0)
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Bonehead move by Anderson, but the real problem is scoring 2 runs per game against a middling-at-best pitching staff in a bandbox park, including losing for the second time in 4 days to a 44 year old soft tosser who'd been getting the crap kicked out of him prior to facing the Mets (Wells on Sunday, then Moyer tonight).

I'm laughing bitterly to keep from crying at this point.

Posted by: mikeski at August 29, 2007 10:17 PM

The really funny thing on the play was that Rollins was clearly conceding the run with a slow toss to Iguchi. Somehow, Anderson missed everything that screamed "no DP". He should have stayed nine miles away from Iguchi, who by the way did a terrific falling-down-and-rolling-over act.

Really, this may be the first serious stroke of bad luck the Mets have had all season. They're no better than the Phillies, as the run diffs show. But the one-run contests have broken New York's way to a ridiculous extent: 18-10 for the Mets, 10-20 for the Phils. Okay, some of that "luck" is Wagner.

Oh, the Philadelphia ballpark really isn't a "bandbox" any more. Baseball-reference gives it 103/103 ratings boith this year and last, after the left field fence was pushed back. In other words, the park only slightly favors the hitters. But once a park gets a reputation, it takes forever to erase it.

Posted by: Casey Abell at August 30, 2007 08:35 AM
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