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The official scorer has taken away one of Rosario's hits, from the fifth inning, to reduce his batting average to .257, his OBP to .297 and make whoever was pitching at the time feel incrementally better about himself.

Edgy MD wrote: Will there be an Asdrubal Cabrera highlight video? PLEASEPLEASEYESDOITPLEASE. With Jose Bautista photobombing Asdrubal in at least one shot. Asdrubal still shares his old team's RBI lead with Michael Conforto.

The Mets return home from a winning road trip in quest of a winning homestand, an elusive event in 2018. They are 35-36 away from Citi Field, 28-40 within it. Tasked with facilitating the reversal of this "tsk" of a record is Steven Matz. Matz is the Mets' nominee for the Roberto Clemente Award. He will be opposed by the Phillies lineup as a whole, Aaron Nola more colloquially. Nola is the Phillies' nominee for the Cy Young Award. Do your community a favor, Steven. Make Aaron the interloper look like an also-ran.

The Plaweckis named their son Kasen, presumably after Kase.

Also participating: Pederson LF Verdugo RF Turner 3B Muncy 1B Bellinger CF Grandal C Hernandez SS Dozier 2B Ryu P Ryu reportedly no relation to Doug Rau.

The final West Coast game of the season, the final game of the penultimate road trip, finality clearing its throat in general. Sigh, one supposes. Wheeler for your Metsies. Ryu for those bleeping Utleys. Rosario SS McNeil 2B Flores 1B Frazier 3B Conforto LF Jackson CF Plawecki C Nimmo RF Wheeler P First pitch 7:35 PM EDT, just in case the SuperStation wishes to pick it up.

1,067. Eric Hanhold-- the 55th Met of 2018. That's a franchise record.

Good Quicksteps listening on Good Seats Still Available, a podcast devoted to teams and leagues that forgot to continue existing.

Hanhold listed on mets.com as No. 70, first since Wilfredo Tovar, second overall. Tim Peterson will also be rejoining our ranks.

Andrew McCutchen MFY, for two prospects.

Also a Brave as of today: Rene Rivera, for the second consecutive year a contender's waiver pickup.

They should have called it a tie after eight and put it in the books (in the small-c catholic sense). Jake pitching like that was the game. Wins and losses have never felt less material. But it was suspended from rain in the tenth, the seventh such occasion in Mets history. The others, in case you've forgotten, were the 1977 blackout game, the 1979 Father's Day game when commercial flight concerns led to an agreed upon curfew, the 1979 game in which the final out was registered repeatedly but a protest was upheld, a 1986 darkness situation at Wrigley and two rain games of recent vintage at Citi Field (2013 and 2015). In all but the first two cases, the games were completed the next day, as this one, weather permitting, will be.

I count fourteen players who've been Mets plus at least three other NL East variations in their careers. Read about them here if you like.

We lost Chico just a couple of years ago.

As for actual Memories of Jose Bautista, I'll go with the walkoff grand slam to beat the Rays and sitting behind him in right field last week watching him spend nine innings trying to stay loose and perhaps engaged, as no fly balls were hit his way and it can be a long game when you're all alone out there. Buena suerte, Jose.

If David says, "I can go," then activate him. If David says, "I can't go," then a bridge must be crossed. I trust his honest judgment on his well-being and ability more than I do those who will sign off on it.

I'm of the Nunez-Moyer cohort broadly and Oquendo-Ju. Franco parochially.

Brutal. The highlight at Citi Field this afternoon was one of the Staten Island Little Leaguers going to town at Kiddie Field during the home run challenge promotion. Talk about a ringer.

Bumgarner one day, Gonzalez the next, both at the park where both have been untouchable forever. There oughta be a law!

WOR built a Mets-friendly atmosphere as well as it could, but leaving the radio set at 710 AM after a game and turning it on in a non-Mets daypart was a reminder of just how either nauseating or morose the rest of its schedule is. Pete McCarthy was a real find and I hope he can make the move to the new frequency; he's smart, engaging, knowledgeable -- a latter-day Howie Rose in Mets Extra terms. Same for Wayne Randazzo, who is to announcing and hosting the opposite of what his idiot cousin Tony is to umpiring. Randazzo was a breath of fresh air after the moribund Eddie Coleman. Then again, with the Mets back in the same broadcasting family as WFAN, it's not inconceivable that there'd be a reassignment/reunion. WOR's signal is fairly dismal, WCBS would figure to be an upgrade. When there is breaking news (for example the kind that 'CBS would have carried live on August 8, 1974), I wonder if there'll be an FM companion that will take on the games, perhaps recently rechristened WNEW-FM, part of the same company. Football Giants games used to be rerouted there from WFAN when the Mets held forth. Needless to say, Howie should come with the franchise. Josh, too.

Seventy minutes past high noon: Jake vs Bumgarner. Mets not named Justin Ruggiano don't seem to touch Bumgarner, but this would be a good time to reach out and whack him. Madison, for his part, does not blaspheme deGrom. "It's so close with deGrom, (Max) Scherzer and (Aaron) Nola, too, but if I had a (Cy Young) vote, (deGrom is) probably where I'd go with it," the San Francisco Giants southpaw told MLB.com's Joe Trezza. Will be curious to see if the scalding hot Jeff McNeil gets the start despite behind lefthanded.

Zamora--->Sewald--->Save Fun!

HEY! OVER HERE! I STILL HAVE 37 GAMES LEFT!

Here's an unlikely lineup for your consideration: Bautista RF McNeil 2B Frazier 3B Conforto LF Jackson CF Smith 1B Plawecki C Sydnergaaard P Reinheimer SS over/under on SFG SB is many

Thor defends the East Coast against Pacific interlopers. Mrs. Kelly's boy Casey, who throws with his right hand and arm, toes the rubber for John McGraw's wayward descendants.