I witness the most incredible blunder in Baseball History by the METS!

billymach4 · #1 (**permalink**) 05-19-2009, 03:13 PM

Unbelievable.

I was sitting in Right Field overlooking Homeplate. I am screaming like a crazy met fan thinking they broke the tie. Only to find out it did not count. I saw Church touch home plate.

Mets-stake-prone: Based on the highlights of this one, it appears all of the Mets had their frontal lobes removed before the first pitch. They committed five errors, including two crucial ones in the bottom of the 11th that the Dodgers used to win the game. And let's not overlook Ryan Church's baserunning FAIL in the top of the 11th that cost the Mets at least the go-ahead run and would've been counted as the game's biggest error, if missed bases were actually counted as errors.
Missin' Church: Here's what happened — In the top of the 11th, Angel Pagan (right) appeared to give the Mets a lead with an RBI triple into the gap. But Dodgers manager Joe Torre appealed that Church missed the third-base bag on his way home. The Dodgers threw over to third and the umpire agreed. Turns out that everyone but Church was paying attention. Afterward, even homeboy Vin Scully was laughing at Church's misstep (watch it here) and the Dodgers announcer even let out a Marv Throneberry reference after Jeremy Reed's (notes) wild throw that ended the game. Throneberry was the Mets' first baseman in their archetypal '62 season, when they went 40-120.
Church confessional: "I felt like I nicked something, and that's why I kept going," Church said of his miscue. "I was walking back to the dugout and I heard the crowd scream, so I turned around. I mean, what can you do? When they call you out, they call you out. They're not going to reverse it."

Beaglemom3 · #2 (**permalink**) 05-19-2009, 03:17 PM

Uh, I remember something like that, but it involved my home team and the Mets.

katiemack · #3 (**permalink**) 05-19-2009, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by billymach4

Unbelievable.

I was sitting in Right Field overlooking Homeplate. I am screaming like a crazy met fan thinking they broke the tie. Only to find out it did not count. I saw Church touch home plate.

Mets-stake-prone: Based on the highlights of this one, it appears all of the Mets had their frontal lobes removed before the first pitch. They committed five errors, including two crucial ones in the bottom of the 11th that the Dodgers used to win the game. And let's not overlook Ryan Church's baserunning FAIL in the top of the 11th that cost the Mets at least the go-ahead run and would've been counted as the game's biggest error, if missed bases were actually counted as errors.
Missin' Church: Here's what happened — In the top of the 11th, Angel Pagan (right) appeared to give the Mets a lead with an RBI triple into the gap. But Dodgers manager Joe Torre appealed that Church missed the third-base bag on his way home. The Dodgers threw over to third and the umpire agreed. Turns out that everyone but Church was paying attention. Afterward, even homeboy Vin Scully was laughing at Church's misstep (watch it here) and the Dodgers announcer even let out a Marv Throneberry reference after Jeremy Reed's (notes) wild throw that ended the game. Throneberry was the Mets' first baseman in their archetypal '62 season, when they went 40-120.
Church confessional: "I felt like I nicked something, and that's why I kept going," Church said of his miscue. "I was walking back to the dugout and I heard the crowd scream, so I turned around. I mean, what can you do? When they call you out, they call you out. They're not going to reverse it."

Joe Torre knows how to appeal a play, he was the best at that when he led the Yankees...you describe this so well that I felt like I saw this too!