![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That lingering sense that one solid hot streak might propel them into contention vanished in advance of the ninth inning Tuesday night. It’s some year when the Mets are not quite in late July and they’re nowhere near a playoff race. In 2015, it would have been a major inconvenience. That Wacha was approaching his and every starting pitcher’s goal at the expense of the Mets barely bothered me. Or, at the very least, something you hardly see anymore. Wacha suddenly going nine innings without getting relief help or giving up a run wasn’t going to stem the tide of bullpen by force of habit, but it did seem like a blow struck for baseball like it oughta be. There was a time when shutouts were assumed to be complete games. You see so few complete game shutouts these days that we are compelled to identify them by their full name, à la “single-admission doubleheader”. Thus, I rooted for Wacha to, as Eric Carmen would have advised, go all the way. Having observed him and his opposition in varying degrees of action and inaction for eight innings, I calculated as nil the chance the spirit of Steve Henderson would inhabit the batters he was about to face. Michael Wacha was on the verge of a complete game shutout, 24/27ths of the way there Tuesday night. Joe Raposo, “ There Used To Be A Ballpark” And the summer went so quickly this year. ![]()
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