i've still got a lot of fight left in me
Since the Mets game didn't start until 9:45 (thank god it was Friday), I was able to watch the Rangers first, and I don't even know how they won that game. Probably the only person more baffled than me was Sergei Bobrovsky, when the Rangers scored three goals in 77 seconds late in the third period. It's good to see Zuccarello back on the ice, given that serious head injury he had last spring.
The thing about hockey is that it's fast, it's always moving, anything can happen, and the past couple of years, I've been reminded about how that ratchets up even more during the playoffs. It's intense and draining, even when you're sitting in your living room watching.
Otoh, as I texted to my brother this morning, I'd forgotten how intense playoff baseball can be, when it's your team in the mix. Baseball is so much slower, but also so much more individual. Unlike hockey or football, where everybody's involved in making a play work (or stopping a play from working), baseball is constant one-on-one battles, and ugh, I had totally forgotten how nerve-wracking it can be, especially in a pitchers' duel like last night was!
But Mets' ace Jacob DeGrom out-dueled Clayton Kershaw (DeGrom's 13 strikeouts matches Tom Seaver's franchise records for Ks in a post-season game) and then David Wright came through in the clutch (that's why they call him Captain America*) and oh, it was SO GOOD even though it was SO TENSE and WHY OH WHY WAS MICHAEL CUDDYER IN LEFT? Two of the hits DeGrom gave up were really Cuddyer misplaying the ball. This is no time to have lesser fielders playing! not when when you're facing a lights-out pitcher like Kershaw! (Though maybe he does get the yips in the playoffs? I don't even know. Prior to last night I would have said it was just that the Cardinals have his number, but he did it to himself last night. I absolutely don't blame Mattingly for taking him out, though I also don't think the Mets were close to solving him, so he might have been able to pitch his way out of it. Given what happened last year, though, I get why they pulled him, especially if they need him to pitch game 5.)
*Okay, that's not why they call him Captain America; he got that nickname playing for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic.
The Mets needed to win one of these games in LA, and now that they have, I feel a whole lot better about their chances to come out of this series. Hopefully Syndergaard can keep up with Greinke, though I would be pleasantly stunned for them to come home with a 2-0 lead in the series.
I haven't stayed up that late in a long time, though, and it took me a while to fall asleep after being so keyed up, so I slept in until 10 this morning for the first time in ages, and I still feel like my sinuses are going to explode.
In other news, I got my flu vaccine yesterday and boy is my arm sore.
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The thing about hockey is that it's fast, it's always moving, anything can happen, and the past couple of years, I've been reminded about how that ratchets up even more during the playoffs. It's intense and draining, even when you're sitting in your living room watching.
Otoh, as I texted to my brother this morning, I'd forgotten how intense playoff baseball can be, when it's your team in the mix. Baseball is so much slower, but also so much more individual. Unlike hockey or football, where everybody's involved in making a play work (or stopping a play from working), baseball is constant one-on-one battles, and ugh, I had totally forgotten how nerve-wracking it can be, especially in a pitchers' duel like last night was!
But Mets' ace Jacob DeGrom out-dueled Clayton Kershaw (DeGrom's 13 strikeouts matches Tom Seaver's franchise records for Ks in a post-season game) and then David Wright came through in the clutch (that's why they call him Captain America*) and oh, it was SO GOOD even though it was SO TENSE and WHY OH WHY WAS MICHAEL CUDDYER IN LEFT? Two of the hits DeGrom gave up were really Cuddyer misplaying the ball. This is no time to have lesser fielders playing! not when when you're facing a lights-out pitcher like Kershaw! (Though maybe he does get the yips in the playoffs? I don't even know. Prior to last night I would have said it was just that the Cardinals have his number, but he did it to himself last night. I absolutely don't blame Mattingly for taking him out, though I also don't think the Mets were close to solving him, so he might have been able to pitch his way out of it. Given what happened last year, though, I get why they pulled him, especially if they need him to pitch game 5.)
*Okay, that's not why they call him Captain America; he got that nickname playing for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic.
The Mets needed to win one of these games in LA, and now that they have, I feel a whole lot better about their chances to come out of this series. Hopefully Syndergaard can keep up with Greinke, though I would be pleasantly stunned for them to come home with a 2-0 lead in the series.
I haven't stayed up that late in a long time, though, and it took me a while to fall asleep after being so keyed up, so I slept in until 10 this morning for the first time in ages, and I still feel like my sinuses are going to explode.
In other news, I got my flu vaccine yesterday and boy is my arm sore.
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