[Previously: “Mets vs. Yankees in World Series (not LAD/TB—Contrary to What You May Have Read Elsewhere).”]
By Grand Rapids Anonymous
Thursday, October 22, 2020 at 1:42:00 A.M. EDT
It had to end sometime—unfortunately, a double perfect game, in an incredible opener of the faux 2020 World Series—but as so often happens in games such as these, they tend to be decided in a breathtaking, quick conclusion, and tonight’s masterpiece was no different, as in the bottom of the 10th inning, a first pitch, line- drive home run by Gary Sanchez, off of Mike Wacha, brought a shocking end to this historic contest.
The sellout crowd, of over 56,000, stood for 20 minutes after the game—cheering and applauding.
Jacob deGrom and Gerrit Cole simply did not allow contact tonight, and in one hour and 28 minutes, nine complete innings were played with zero base runners detected on the field during that time.
There WERE, however, 44 strikeouts observed—23 by Cole, against the feared Mets lineup, while deGrom’s 21 Ks would have been incredible on any other night in Fall Classic history.
Both pitchers asserted, afterwards, that they “had never had better stuff” in their careers.
No one could disagree.
The opener brought festivities and former Yankee greats out for the pregame ceremonies, including Derek Jeter, Don Mattingly, Ron Guidry and Paul O’Neill, with a remembrance for Whitey Ford.
Both teams were allowed guest coaches for the series—and manager Nicholas Stix, for game one, chose Jerry Koosman, while Yanks skipper Joe Torre named Andy Pettitte.
But neither Koosman nor Pettitte (or anyone else) had ever come close to being involved in a game like this one—and the Mets first loss in 12 games left them trailing in this series—with game two scheduled for Thursday night.
Noah Syndergaard (20-9, 2.11 ERA) and Masahiro Tanaka (18-6, 1.95 ERA) are listed for game two, where anything less than perfection will be a letdown to some. --GRA
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"IT TOOK A PERFECT GAME TO BEAT US WEDNESDAY NIGHT"--METS' PLAYERS,WHO COME BACK IN GAME 2 WITH A NEAR PERFECTO OF THEIR OWN--A 4-O YANKEE "WHITE"WASH TO TIE SERIES.
As the New York Times continued to complain about the lack of minority players on the Mets roster,manager Nicholas Stix smiled broadly while holding up the headline on the Times' website:"Mets Whitewash Yankees in game two, 4-0 behind Syndergaard".
"I'll take my White players over any squad the Times would prefer I have.Whitewash?That's an appropriate way to describe it,"he laughed.
Starter Noah Syndergaard outdueled Masahiro Tanaka and toyed with a perfect game of his own for 6 innings before settling for a one hit shutout,while Brandon Nimmo broke a scoreless tie with an RBI triple in the 5th to start the New York Mets on their way to a 4 to 0 victory and enable them to tie the 2020 faux World Series at 1 game apiece.
Back to back to back home runs by Mike Trout,Paul Goldschmidt and Ryan Zimmerman in the 8th inning supplied insurance for the visitors,who outhit the Yankees 8 to 1.
"It took a perfect game to beat us(in game one)said Trout,"the odds were,it wasn't going to happen again."
The confident Mets agreed with that analysis to a man.
A crowd of 55,342 viewed the proceedings on a cool,clear night.
The teams will move to Citifield for the next three games starting Friday night,with Rick Porcello(17-10,3.09 ERA) squaring off against Yankee starter J.A. Happ(18-9,2.95 ERA).
--GRA
Amazing pitching. Tales of the dead ball era, Cy Young, Walter Johnson, etc.
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