{"id":175,"date":"2008-07-18T01:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/?p=175"},"modified":"2008-07-18T01:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T06:39:00","slug":"runaway-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/07\/18\/runaway-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Runaway Train"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_WiYnnqmj-NY\/SIA68sbT_uI\/AAAAAAAABEA\/JNtbhQc4t-Y\/s1600-h\/Runaway+Train+Web+Ready.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_WiYnnqmj-NY\/SIA68sbT_uI\/AAAAAAAABEA\/JNtbhQc4t-Y\/s320\/Runaway+Train+Web+Ready.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5224240382142054114\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><meta equiv=\"CONTENT-TYPE\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><title><\/title><meta name=\"GENERATOR\" content=\"OpenOffice.org 2.2  (Win32)\"><meta name=\"AUTHOR\" content=\"Michael Donato\"><meta name=\"CREATED\" content=\"20080703;7014846\"><meta name=\"CHANGED\" content=\"16010101;0\"><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> \t<!-- \t\t@page { size: 8.5in 11in; margin: 0.79in } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in } \t--> \t<\/style>\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">10 in a row, and this was certainly a game you could&#8217;ve thought the Mets would lose when Santana proved to not be up to the task today and the bullpen was iffy.  But the Mets kept battling, even in the top of the 9th, and came out on top.  Good to see, good to win a game like that, but lets not make a habit of it.  David Wright comes through with a clutch hit, a home run that if this was two weeks ago you would&#8217;ve been sure was going to be caught.  This is probably a good question for <a href=\"http:\/\/metswalkoffs.blogspot.com\/\">metswalkoffs<\/a>, but how it seems like David Wright has a crazy amount of walk-off or game-tying hits off of opposing closers.  I guess it&#8217;s logical that these kinds of hits come off of closers, but I may start calling David Wright the Anti-Save anyway.  <\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div id=\":1i1\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial;\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">10! in a row and \ttied for first place.  The Phillies get Joe Blanton and even if that \tmade them feel better, that feeling barely lasted three hours.  The \tMets go for history Friday night, trying to tie the franchise record \tfor wins in a row at 11.  This team has made a complete 180 since \tabout two weeks ago, and I cannot see a catalyst for it.  Players \tjust started playing well, pitchers started pitching, and instead of \tfinding ways to lose, they&#8217;re finding ways to win.  Maybe they just \tflat out ran out of ways to lose games?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 in a row, and this was certainly a game you could&#8217;ve thought the Mets would lose when Santana proved to not be up to the task today and the bullpen was iffy. But the Mets kept battling, even in the top of the 9th, and came out on top. Good to see, good to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/2008\/07\/18\/runaway-train\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Runaway Train&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[290,532,4,49,534,533,531,410],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ceetar.com\/optimisticmetsfan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}