![]() If there were 17,000 fans in the house, I would be surprised,” he said. The next day on WFAN, a local sports talk radio station, broadcaster Brandon Tierney called out the fans for their apparent lack of enthusiasm during a divisional pennant race. Yet here’s what DiComo tweeted after Tuesday’s rainless, seven-degree-warmer game: “Announced (paid) attendance at Citi Field tonight is 29,067, and the actual crowd looks far less substantial than that.” He added that since Labor Day the Mets have drawn more than 30,000 fans for a home game just twice and one of those was on a bobblehead giveaway night. But by September 27, with the Mets in front of the Atlanta Braves by a single game, their Magic Number had matured and then withered to a single digit of eight. On May 14 a Mets Magic Number to clinch the division was a specter so distant it hadn’t come close to materializing. This past Tuesday, it was jacket weather once again at Citi Field as the Mets welcomed division foe the Miami Marlins (who also wear a shade of green sometimes). In spite of the lingering chill and mist, Mets beat reporter Anthony DiComo tweeted at 11:48 pm that the 37,140-strong Citi Field crowd was “ electric.” I was there with centerfield-stand superfans The 7 Line Army - and it was. Edwin Díaz, before gaining national attention for his powerful, trumpet-laden introduction hype song, closed the contest out with three K’s in the ninth, giving the Mets the win and placing them atop the National League East division by 5.5 games. ![]() (They even wore green.) And after opposing left fielder Jesse Winker knotted up the game with a three-run homer in the top of the seventh inning, Mazeika put himself back into Mets fans’ good graces by slamming an unlikely home run of his own in the bottom of the frame. When Mets pitcher Chris Bassitt couldn’t get on the same pitch-selection page with fill-in catcher Patrick Mazeika, helping swell the eventual time-of-game to an Odyssean three hours and 30 minutes, the home fans at Citi Field booed their own battery.īut the offense put up runs in three of the first five innings, giving the Mets a 4-0 lead over the alien American League Westerners known as the Seattle Mariners. The on-again, off-again rain rendered baseball game conditions impossible for more than an hour and made things unsavory as the evening wore on. It was still jacket weather on May 14 in Flushing, New York.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |