So, after seeing two nice wins bracketed around the Mets blowing a 5-run lead for a league-high 4th time and dropping 2 out of 3 to the Oakland Pathetics, I completely whiff on the start time for today's game, and tune in for "Mets Pregame", only to discover the game is over and Severino has just thrown the team's first complete game since 2021 and first shutout* since Godzilla-Knows-When?
Typical.
Now I get to sleep until 3pm Monday, when Leicester City kick off their return to the EPL. That's…a lot of sleep. Oh, well.
(*There's a stupid graphic calling this the "Mets' 5th shutout of the season." That's a Severe No, right there. Luis did something
on his own that no Met had done since…whenever. I don't want to hear any **** about bullpen games and combined no-hitters and that sort of crap. Go away.)
ETA: First shutout since
April 23, 2021, when Jacob de Grom not only shutout the Gnats, but went 2-4 with an RBI double off of Erick Fedde, pushing his OPS on the young season to 1.182. (He also scored two runs.)
Jake batted 8th in the lineup that day, ahead of Nido. On merit.
(I'm amazed the Rojas-Bot conceived of such an idea. Must have been a glitch in the programming.)