there are bad wins and good losses.
ideally, every day is a good win, but no one goes 162-0.
so tonight brings us back to 3-2 (still over .500!), and there was a lot of bad in this loss:
- it was to the philthies.
- big pelf was the opposite of an ace. in a really alarming way. he had no life on his pitches, he didn’t make adjustments, he was assaulted, he didn’t make it to the first out of the third inning.
- blaine boyer – who definitely fell victim to some bad breaks – let the philthies open the game back up immediately after we fought all the way back.
- we didn’t have a second comeback in us.
but what made this a good loss was the fact that we had a comeback in us at all. where a previous version of the mets may have gone through the motions for six innings worth of outs, the 2011 amazins actually clawed their way back from a 7-0 hole to even the score in the fifth. true, we left the bases loaded at the end of the big rally, and true, boyer proceeded to surrender the lead, but the progress still happened. the fight was there.
so while it’ll still show up as a tick in the loss column, as far as losses go, i’ll take it.
now if we can take the rubber game from the philthies, i’ll be on cloud nine by the time the boys roll into the citi for the home opener …
