Mets vs. Braves - Box Score - May 20, 2008

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And That Happened
Published 5/21/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (Craig Calcaterra) at ShysterBall
... didn't work. After speaking to the official scorer after the game to tell his side, the play was changed from an error to a hit."There's nothing I can do about losing the ball in the lights," Brown said. I have no idea if players think about this stuff, but his lobbying act added half a run to Joey Devine's ERA. If that half a run ends up being the difference between an end-of-season ERA of, say, 2.45 instead of 1.95, that will cost Devine a lot of money, won't it? Braves 6, Mets 1/Braves 6, Mets 2: Think the Mets are finally getting wise to that whole ...

Braves 6, Mets 1; Braves 6, Mets 2; Rinse and Repeat
Published 5/21/2008 by Alex Remington at Chop-n-Change
Braves 6, Mets 1 Braves 6, Mets 2 These games were about as similar as the scores would indicate: we eked out an early lead against the Mets, our junkballer kept their bats off balance with six innings of slop, then we cemented the lead with a late homer by one of our lefty bats and used Boyer and Acosta to mop up. (I’m happy with everything that we did in both games other than Bobby’s serial, inexplicable overuse of Boyer and Acosta.) After a characteristically shaky first, with a homer to Luis Castillo of all people, ...