Perfect Pitch

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  • GAME 19

    GAME 19

    GAME 19 – May 2, 2024

    Pat La Freida’s
    Chanpion Burger
    Thai iced tea
    with bubbles!
    When your big moment comes in the last movement of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony and involves raising a giant hammer over your head with two hands and forcefully slamming it on a resonant wooden box at several climactic moments, you nervously check
    that your mallet is there at intermission.

    Numerous times.

    Warm, gorgeous weather—afternoon game.
    Shopping City Connect merch and
    trying lobster-topped burger
    and bubble tea. Mets lead
    through six, we depart.
    To Carnegie
    we go for
    Mahler
    VI.

  • GAME 15

    GAME 15

    A walk off from seven rows off the field!

    GAME 15 – April 28, 2024

    A Mets starter going eight innings?
    Quintana’s efforts saved the pen.
    Lindor homered in the sixth,
    but after that:  crickets. 
    But the eleventh?
    A timely hit
    plus homer:
    Walk off
    win!

  • GAME 12

    GAME 12

    GAME 12 – April 17, 2024
    “State of the Art” is how Jack Fisher
    described brand new Shea Stadium. 
    First to take its mound sixty
    years ago today, he
    and second-baseman
    that day, Ron Hunt,
    returned and
    took the
    field.
  • GAME 11

    GAME 11

    GAME 11 – April 16, 2024
    Among the first to play at Shea, they
    talked of Casey Stengel, losing
    seasons, getting plunked, and the
    first All-Star Game in Queens. 
    Recollections from
    sixty years past,
    but vivid
    in their
    minds.
  • GAME 8

    GAME 8

    Pete Alonzo’s sixth-inning home run:
    his second of the game.
    GAME 8 – April 13, 2024

    Hot Mets bats meet K.C. inferno.
    Marte errs, Nimmo helps a ball
    scale outfield wall: all costly.
    Seats near field afforded
    view of Alonzo
    crossing the plate:
    he homers
    not once.
    Twice!

  • GAME 7

    GAME 7

    Brett Baty’s two-run double in the fifth inning.
    GAME 7 – April 12, 2024

    Resuscitated on the road, the
    offense returned home with the team.
    Baty’s bat and defense proved
    especiallly welcome.
    An uplifting sight:
    his confidence,
    new-found, as
    was his
    smile.

  • DOUBLEHEADER – Game 1

    DOUBLEHEADER – Game 1

    GAME 5

    GAME 5 – April 4, 2024

    Tahlequah native Houser did my
    hometown proud in his Mets debut.
    The Mets scored three, Detroit tied
    in the eighth, another
    Mets loss in extras.
    Record now stands
    at Oh-and-
    five. They’re
    sad.

  • GAME 4

    GAME 4

    GAME 4 – April 1, 2024

    Gastronome Canha returned to cheers.
    Starter Manaea’s grand outing
    went for naught. Mets were shut out.
    First game at night featured
    splendid light display.
    But ‘twas a loss
    at the end
    of the
    day.

  • GAME 3

    GAME 3

    GAME 3 – March 31, 2024

    The hot cocoa machine had been fixed:
    one win. A paucity of hits
    mirrored an apparent dearth
    of shrewd ideas for
    between-innings games:
    blind-folded fans
    name cheeses
    by their
    smell?!

    Looking for the good in a dispiriting day and series with the Brewers, upon exiting the ballpark, we reflected on great Mets pitching moments in history that had happened here.

    We also reminded ourselves that at least the hot chocolate maker in the Piazza Club had worked today.

  • GAME 2

    GAME 2

    GAME 2 – March 30, 2024

    Alvarez, Alonzo, and Baty
    go long and make it a game, and
    Dìaz returns with brass band.
    Fans embolden Hoskins.
    Seven rows from field
    courtesy of
    VIP
    of a
    friend.