There Is No Way to Describe It: The Mets Lose a Tough One to The Yankees

To say this loss was a tough one is a huge understatement, this picture says it all.

The day started off with such promise, I got to the ballpark in the Bronx almost three and a half hours before the game, was the first one into the stadium at Gate 6, and was able to sit in the most comfortable seats in right field (for batting practice at least).

My friend (although a Yankees fan), caught one of two balls thrown up by the Ryan Church before security kicked everyone out who didn't have seats on field level.

I was able to go into Monument Park for the first time ever (I had never been in the old one across the street) and saw plaques of the only Yankees players that I can honestly say I like.

I was going to see two pitchers in Livan Hernandez and Joba Chamberlain that I had never seen pitch live before.

Then the game started.

After not allowing a hit to the first four batters, Robinson Cano hit a long homerun to right field, 1-0. It was homerun No. 6 that I have seen at the New Yankee Stadium (through 11 innings at that point).

Ok, so we're down one run, going in not expecting to win, I could deal with a one run deficit.

Then, there was hope.

Chamberlain forgot where the plate was, and the Mets scored 2 runs in the top of the third without getting a hit.

How short lived that lead was.

The very next half inning, Mark Teixeira destroyed the offering from Livan for a long 2-run homerun to right field (Number 7).

The fourth inning had no scoring by either side, one of only two full innings of no scoring by either team.

Down 3-2, ok, we can deal with that, we're in it.

Then the fifth, what better way to get the maybe 10,000 Mets fans rocking, then a homerun by the ex-Yankee Gary Sheffield. The Mets added two more runs in the inning, knocking out Brett Tomko along the way.

6-3, could we pull this off? Can the Mets use their anger over losing two straight to the Phillies and overtake the Yankees?

Not if the Yankee Captain had anything to say about it.

Bottom 5, Jeter went yard (No. 9) with one out to pull the Yankees within two.

And then the Mets wripped our hearts out again, with help from Jon Switzer, a 30-year-old lefty that could not get the job done as Hideki Matsui, on his 35th birthday, went deep for a three run jack (No. 10), and those damn Yankees regained the lead at 7-6.

Good G-d, who the hell is this guy?

A former Tampa Bay Ray, Switzer is a lifetime 2-4 with an ERA of over 6 in 67 innings pitched.

However, Jon got two outs in the inning, and we went to the seventh inning.

Sheff led off the seventh inning with a double, and then Daniel Murphy (who was left in the game to play first and made two beautiful diving stops) singled putting runners on the corners with nobody out.

Now we're cooking.

Faint chants of Let's Go Mets began to pop up throughout the stadium, as every Mets fan was trying to will this team to tie the game.

And who better to do it, then Fernando Tatis, pinch hitting for Brian Schneider.

Well, he got the job done, sort of at least, grounding into a double play, Sheffield scoring the tying run but two outs now in the inning. Castillo grounded out to the end the inning.

TIE BALL GAME BABY!!!

Then Jerry tried to give us all heart attacks.

Now pitching for the New York Mets, No. 50, Sean Green...

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