It was only a matter of time. We knew it would come, we just did not know when. Most felt it would come in a heartbreaking way, when it was really needed. Of course, that is how it happened.
Earlier in the day, both the Nationals and Marlins won their respective games. The pressure was on for New York to keep up with their rivals. The task of defeating the Cardinals was not an easy one but it was in grasp thanks to a Yoenis Cespedes blast which seemed to save the game.
This though would be the night, Jeurys Familia showed us he was human. Manager, Terry Collins, seeming quite somber after the game explained it as such.
“This is a tough one to take,” Collins said. “You come back on Adam Wainwright and have a chance to have a pretty big night and to have your closer, who been lights out, give up two, it’s tougher to take.”
“We were behind the whole game, came back late and suddenly the whole game got set up in our favor to where you’ve got the eighth and ninth inning set up pretty good.” (NY Post)
A tough one to take indeed. The Cards of course are also another team the Mets are fighting for that second Wild Card spot. It was a very inopportune time for the streak to end. How fitting that Yadier Molina would kill it as well. The ghosts of 2006 past had seemed to come back to haunt the Metropolitans.
“I just tried to get a ground ball,” Familia said. “I left it a little bit in the middle and he had a good swing.”
He always seems to get a good swing against the Mets, no matter how much he may age. The team now will have to regroup and fast as they open up a four-game set against the Colorado Rockies this afternoon. They now have a prime opportunity to get back on track against a lesser team.
It was a horrible loss, one that could put a team down. There is no time for sulking though as this team needs to pick themselves up and get right back at it. Its “crunch time” as Collins says.
