The streak is over. The Mets won a workday afternoon game with me in attendance.
All it took was one big inning, where there was hit after hit, the highlight coming from Angel Berroa (Angel Berroa!) knocking a double into right center field. With Johan being Johan, that's all the team needed.
The weekdays matinees have been memorable for all the wrong reasons in the last couple of seasons. Up 7-0, with Tim Redding pitching the 9th, and then Alex Cora dropping a toss from David Wright for a force out creating runners on 1st and 2nd with one out, of course I was thinking the worst. Blowing a 7-0 lead with be the cherry on top. A double play by the next batter put all those fears aside.
If you sit on the third base side, it does not take long for the shade to come over you and allow you to enjoy the rest of the game in comfortable fashion. Not quite as fortunate for the noon start time. No sunscreen today. Ouch. And to think I watched the first couple of innings in shaded standing room areas to kill some time to allow the sun to move some. Didn't wait long enough.
The Shake Shake line was just as bad at 11:35am as it is at 6:45pm.
Five in a row, with game 2 of the day-night double dip underway in just a little over two hours.
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