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Cavernous dimensions and artificial turf have been a big help through the years, making what Ruben did additionally impressive (and what befell Domonic Brown additionally frightening).

That fine young man Matt Wisler -- his mom is Wisler's mother -- goes for OTOFT, the Atlanta Braves, a unit that's clearly been saving its strength for the task ahead. Opening the series for the Beltway Benighteds is Jordan Zimmermann and his superfluous extra 'n'. First pitch at Nots Park, 7:05 PM. Skip Caray, Pete Van Wieren and Ernie Johnson should have the call on the Superstation...but won't.

A dash around the bases with the 25 Mets who have hit the franchise's 27 inside-the-park home runs here.

Tejada 3.0 Harvey 2.5 Conforto 2.0 Cespedes 1.0 Wright 0.5 Johnson 0.5 Gilmartin 0.5

Edgy MD wrote: I like that this thread started with some irony in the title and now is fully in earnest. Maybe a touch, but I figured with the walls pulled in, the balls would start flying (that's what she said). Murphy, should he be heading out via free agency, has 13 home games to catch Ike Davis (who he has now preceded and succeeded at first). Now that would be a surge. (Do we count post-season homers? It's never come up!) I think I'd prefer separate Citi Field All-Time Postseason Home Run Leadership totals be kept. I've been rubbed the wrong way by smashing together regular and post since the MFYs claimed a 125-win 1998. Plus what a fun list it will be to start and add to!

Yoenis Cespedes's third Citi Field HR as a Met pushed him into a seven-way tie for 27th place on the all-time Citi Field Power Surge list. By belting No. 3, he grabbed a spot alongside Josh Satin, Ronny Cede�o, Josh Thole, Jason Pridie, Brian Schneider and Carlos Delgado.

Cespedes 2.5 Conforto 2.0 Johnson 1.0 Gilmartin 0.5 Goeddel 0.5 Reed 0.5

Yeah, I imagined it said Mets because it would have been cooler if it had. "Never mind," as Ms. Litella advised.

Curtis Granderson � RF Yoenis Cespedes � CF Daniel Murphy � 2B David Wright � 3B Michael Conforto � LF Michael Cuddyer � 1B Travis d�Arnaud � C Ruben Tejada � SS Jonathon Niese � LHP

F*ck T#m Gl@v!ne. F*ck September 13 to September 30, 2007. Long live right f*cking now and (provisionally, hopefully, confidently) whatever comes next (unless it f*cks us over, in which case, f*ck that). (But it's not gonna.)

After the legendary penultimate series of 1985 in St. Louis, the Mets' fading hopes rested on the Chicago Cubs rising from the dead for 48 hours and beating the Cardinals (while the Mets presumably took it to Montreal). I hated the Cubs from 1984. I hated the Cubs from 1969 and 1970 and pretty much every year. But until it was no longer useful, I rooted for the Cubs. It wasn't very useful, but this was and is Do What Ya Gotta Do time. The Mets are taking care of their end. Would be lacking in due diligence to not help them out with whatever negative energy we can send the Nationals' way.

In the Pearls Before Swine comic strip of August 29, 2015, Pig asks Rat, “Want to go to the Mets game with me? It’s gonna be terrific.” Rat goes on to disabuse Pig of that notion, given the $45 apiece for tickets plus $20 for parking. They watch the game at home instead. (h/t Ceetar, by way of Mets Police blog) OE: Met-a culpa. I see "Mets" everywhere, even where it doesn't appear. And in this case, the word doesn't appear. Consider this Mets Pop Culture Sighting a mirage.

If the first-place Nats led the second-place Mets by 6 1/2 games as September dawned, only a few hardy souls would believe the Mets weren't dead. The first-place Mets lead the second-place Nats by 6 1/2 games as September dawns. Draw your own conclusions.

Hypothetically, the road to ultimate Met triumph runs through Utley and Rollins. Kind of appropriate. A little offputting. But, obviously, eff (or eph) them.

The Cardinals are OTOFT until further notice. Or Thursday. And if you've learned to love the Cardinals for their 8-5 heartbreaking of the Nationals, you'll truly embrace the Atlanta Braves all weekend long!

Colon 5.0 Granderson 2.5 Conforto 2.5

Cuddyer 3.0 Uribe 2.5 Syndergaard 2.0 Clippard 1.5 Familia 1.0

Go Cardinals!

Old Man Nimmo is back in the Vegas lineup after having missed a few games as the result of (per Rubin) taking a ball off the nose in the cage. Went 2-for-3 in his return. The eventual promotion of Nimmo should coincide with the acquisition of the White Sox' shortstop Ramirez. Imagine the high jinks that will ensue when Brandon and Alexei arrive at Citi Field and meet Branden and Alexa. Yeah, just imagine...

deGrom 3.5 Uribe 1.0 Colon 0.5 Johnson 0.5 Granderson 0.5

Thanks for nuttin, Tom Kola.

Harvey 4.0 Wright 1.0 Cuddyer 1.0 d'Arnaud 1.0 Clippard 0.5 Familia 0.5 Flores 0.5

Carlos Torres led off an extra inning, singled and scored the go-ahead and eventual winning run last night. No other Met reliever had ever done exactly that. The last Met reliever to score in extra innings was Roger McDowell, 27 years ago in what was a very big series for late June. On 6/29/1988, McDowell, with one out in the top of the eleventh, doubled and came around to score the go-ahead and eventual winning run on Kevin McReyolds's single. McDowell became the first Met reliever to get a hit and score a run in extras. Torres is the second -- and the first to be the de facto top-of-the-order catalyst. Met relievers have scored either five or six runs in extra innings. The discrepancy comes from this weekend's bobblehead-honoree Jesse Orosco, who scored twice: once in 1984 as a reliever for sure, once in 1986 as a reliever who had been shifted to right and was in fact the right fielder when he walked and scored against Cincinnati (the ejections, fight, Dave Parker dropping the ball, Gary Carter at third, Keith charging on the bunt, HoJo homer game of 7/22/1986). Besides Orosco, McDowell and Torres, the other runs to cross home plate in extra innings via reliever: Dale Murray in 1978, Paul Siebert in 1977. All told, Met relievers have scored 88 runs in franchise history (as relievers, not as pinch-runners). No Met reliever scored any runs in 2015 until this week. Then two scored in Philadelphia: Sean Gilmartin on Monday, Carlos Torres on Thursday. The last Met reliever before them to score was Robert Carson, early in 2014. The last Met reliever to score twice in a single season was Darren Oliver, 2006. The Met reliever with the most runs scored in a Met career: Tug McGraw, with five, including a home run. The only other Met reliever with a home run? Skip Lockwood. (All props to Baseball Reference's Play Index.)

Centerfield wrote: There haven't been enough Schaefer points to go around this month. Might need to dilute the formula.

Murphy 2.0 CTorres 1.5 d'Arnaud 1.0 Cespedes 1.0 Johnson 1.0 Gilmartin 1.0 Granderson 1.0 Wright 0.5 Robles 0.5 Verrett 0.5