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Abreu 4.0 Colon 3.5 Duda 1.0 Black 0.5 Teagarden 0.5 den Dekker 0.5

Takin' on...these guys: Will Venable, cf Everth Cabrera, ss Seth Smith, rf Carlos Quentin, lf Chase Headley, 3b Yonder Alonso, 1b Rene Rivera, c Alexi Amarista, 2b Andrew Cashner, rhp [youtube:1uab68w0]V8dJlvSbAf8[/youtube:1uab68w0]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: G-Fafif wrote: Word is the Padres suck. Yeah! Just like the Cubs! No, no, this is totally different. I'm sure it is.

Word is the Padres suck. So let's take advantage. [youtube:3mxh29mf]qvVvN0QvzTk[/youtube:3mxh29mf]

At 29-37, first time precisely 8 below since last August 20 (58-66).

Niese 4.5 Familia 1.0 Murphy 1.0 Germen 1.0 Abreu 1.0

deGrom 1.5 Torres 1.0 Edgin 0.5 Eveland 0.5 Black 0.5 Tejada 0.5 Granderson 0.5

Lutz rhymed with nuts, not boots. There's a town just north of Tampa by the same name that rhymes with boots. I instinctively assumed Zach Lutz was pronounced the same because I got so used to that Lutz when I was in college. Had a good game in Colorado last June when David was given a breather in that mile high air.

Teagarden 4.0 Matsuzaka 3.0 Murphy 3.0

Met relief menu to include Gonzalez Germen, with Scott Rice available only at Las Vegas buffet.

Papa Murph faces the nation. http://espn.go.com/new-york/mlb/story/_/id/11057605/daniel-murphy-new-york-mets-speaks-white-house-summit

Heckuva party thus far!

New low-water mark for season at 7 under .500 (28-35). First time since 8/11/2013 (54-61).

Granderson 3.5 Murphy 2.5 Eveland 1.0 Edgin 0.5

Sir Taylor of Teagarden shall don numeral 23 on his Metropolitan vestments.

The Mets, the Mets, they continue to drown Teagarden's up, d'Arnaud's been sent down

Familia 2.5 Colon 2.0 CYoung 1.0 Recker 0.5

Niese 4.0 Murphy 2.0 Tejada 1.5 den Dekker 0.5

The remote control landed on Antenna TV and unearthed the following: Season 3, Episode 10 of The Patty Duke Show, �Sick In Bed� (11/17/1965): A Mets pennant, in which the silhouette of a player is illustrated batting in the middle of the skyline logo, is displayed prominently on the bookshelf of Patty Lane�s bedroom.

Centerfield wrote: I'll forever associate Zimmer with the Cubs. I know what you mean.

Benjamin Grimm wrote: G-Fafif wrote: The UMDB box score for 9/15/2013 doesn't reflect Quintanilla's two innings at third, thus Omar is not listed on UMDB's 3B page, but should be. And his family feels just awful about it. The Ultimate Mets Database apologizes to the family of Omar Quintanilla. The data has been fixed. We do regret any inconvenience that this may have caused. The Quintanillas are relieved even if among them they still can't hit a lick.

Brown 2.0 Flores 1.0 Edgin 0.5

By moving across the diamond after David Wright was double-switched out of last night's game, Eric Campbell became the Mets' 153rd third baseman, one night after the very first, Don Zimmer, was double-switched out this world. Zimmer, of course, began the hot corner merry-go-round that used to be tracked pretty regularly, at least until Mets 3B No. 129 -- Wright -- came along ten years ago next month. FYI to UMDB: Omar Quintanilla became the Mets' 152 third baseman in the top of the eleventh inning last September 15 after entering in the bottom of the tenth as a pinch-runner for Mets 3B No. 151 Wilmer Flores. METS 10TH: DUNN REPLACED RAMOS (PITCHING); Murphy flied to left; Duda grounded out (shortstop to first); Flores singled to center; BROWN BATTED FOR DEN DEKKER; QUINTANILLA RAN FOR FLORES; Brown struck out; 0 R, 1 H, 0 E, 1 LOB. Marlins 0, Mets 0. MARLINS 11TH: LAGARES CHANGED POSITIONS (PLAYING CF); QUINTANILLA STAYED IN GAME (PLAYING 3B); BROWN STAYED IN GAME (PLAYING RF); Ruggiano was called out on strikes; Hechavarria struck out; Lucas singled to left; Hill struck out; 0 R, 1 H, 0 E, 1 LOB. Marlins 0, Mets 0. The UMDB box score for 9/15/2013 doesn't reflect Quintanilla's two innings at third, thus Omar is not listed on UMDB's 3B page, but should be. And his family feels just awful about it. MET 3B DEBUTS SINCE 7/22/2004 153. Eric Campbell 06/05/2014 152. Omar Quintanilla 09/15/2013 151. Wilmer Flores 08/06/2013 150. Zach Lutz 06/27/2013 149. Vinny Rottino 05/28/2012 148. Ronny Cede�o 04/10/2012 147. Josh Satin 09/28/2011 146. Nick Evans 07/17/2011 145. Daniel Murphy 05/31/2011 144. Willie Harris 05/12/2011 143. Luis Hernandez 08/31/2010 142. Mike Hessman 07/29/2010 141. Justin Turner 07/19/2010 140. Wilson Valdez 08/25/2009 139. Andy Green 08/19/2009 138. Fernando Tatis 06/17/2008 137. David Newhan 09/29/2007 136. Ruben Gotay 09/07/2007 135. Damion Easley 04/19/2007 134. Julio Franco 09/10/2006 133. Eli Marrero 07/02/2006 132. Jose Valentin 05/26/2006 131. Miguel Cairo 04/21/2005 130. Chris Woodward 04/13/2005 129. David Wright 07/21/2004

Angell on Zimmer: Don Zimmer, who died yesterday at eighty-three, was an original Met and an original sweetie pie. His sixty-six years in baseball were scripted by Disney and produced by Ken Burns. (Grainy black-and-white early footage, tinkly piano, as he marries for life at local home plate in bushy, front-porchy Elmira, New York; smiling baggy-pants young teammates raise bats to form arch.) As a stubby, earnest third baseman and utility infielder, he compiled a .235 batting average over twelve seasons for six teams, including the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, the Chicago Cubs, those 1962 ur-Mets, and the Washington Senators. In the off-seasons, he played ball in Puerto Rico and Cuba and Mexico. Turning coach, he was hired eleven times by eight different teams (there were three separate stints with the Yankees) and along the way managed the Padres, Red Sox, Rangers, and Cubs. Two championship rings as a player with the Dodgers, four as a coach with the Yanks. He finished up with the Rays, in his home-town Tampa: a coach, then a local presence. But never mind Disney: only baseball could have produced a C.V. like this, and it�s not likely to happen again. I think Zim is best remembered as the guy right next to manager Joe Torre on the right-hand side of the Yankees dugout in the good years: a motionless thick, short figure, heavily swathed in Yankee formals. The bulky dark warmup jacket and the initialled cap neatly and monastically framed his layered white moon-face, within which his tiny, half-hidden eyes remained alive and moving. He could also run and yell, of course. Boston fans�no, fans everywhere�will not forget the night he charged Pedro Martinez on the mound in that Fenway Park playoff fracas in 2003�and instantly wound up on his back, like a topped-over windup toy. Zim burned hard, and the hoots and yells and laughter that ran through the fiercely partisan Back Bay stands were familial and affectionate. Zim sitting is the way he comes back to mind, for me. Like a few other old coaches, he had converted clubhouse silence and immobility�elbows on knees, hands folded, head aimed forward and downward, lips zipped�into something like a regional religious practice. If he caught your gaze as you walked past the coaches� little anteroom on your way to Joe Torre�s office after another late game�he was down to sweats and clogs by now�he might manage an infinitesimal nod of recognition. Yep � same old. Our universal affection for Zim is complicated, beginning as it does with our childlike joy in his bald cannonball head and stumpy bod and jack-o�-lantern grin, but encompassing as well, I think, a deep trust in and respect for his decades of exemplary competitive service, without stardom or contemporary distraction. He was a baseball figure from an earlier time: enchantingly familiar, tough and enduring, stuffed with plays and at-bats and statistics and anecdotes and wisdom accrued from tens of thousands of innings. Baseball stays on and on, unchanged, or so we used to think as kids, and Zimmer, sitting there, seemed to be telling us yes, you�re right, and see you tomorrow.

Tejada 1.5 Duda 1.0 Murphy 1.0 Granderson 0.5 Carlyle 0.5 Torres 0.5