The crowd was primed for playoff baseball. The Mets did not look ready.
“Let’s Go Mets,” chants rang out before the introductions. There’s nothing better than postseason baseball in New York, even a wild card preliminary, and ever hopeful Mets fans clearly were ready to rock. But the home team did not answer the call in aThe thrill lasted until Max Scherzer’s former Nationals teammate, Josh Bell, laid into a meaty pitch as the fourth batter of the game, drilling one the opposite way over the left-field wall for a two-run lead, an early omen for an ugly evening.
Max Scherzer looks down to the ground after giving up a two-run homer to Josh Bell in the first inning of the Mets’ 7-1 Game 1 loss to the Padres.Both times, the NL RBI king repaired to the dugout shaking his head. It was too early for snapping the wood over his knee, but we know he is capable. A dejected Pete Alonso walks to the dugout after striking out in the fourth inning of the Mets’ Game 1 loss.Nobody tries harder than the Padres, possibly the only team in baseball that outspends its revenue . The Padres laid out $232 million, the sixth most in baseball, and traded half the top dogs in their ultra-rich farm system to try to reverse their long history of frustration — more frustrating than our local nine.
By the end of fifth inning, when Trevor May struck out Bell, the boos grew. Mets fans were calculating, of course, that they shouldn’t have even been in this position, and wouldn’t have been had they just won one game against the Cubs in Citi Field last month, or one at Atlanta in a lost weekend that looked like the low point of otherwise fine season.
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