I watched the Mets put up eight runs in an inning last night. I wasn’t dreaming. It wasn’t a video game. And it wasn’t a Mets Classic.
The New York Mets, with this lineup, put up eight runs in an inning.
The bottom of the 4th inning saw 10 hits, the most in franchise history in one inning. Gary Sheffield and Luis Castillo each picked up two hits, driving in two runs a piece. Jeff Francoeur, Fernando Tatis, Anderson Hernandez and Angel Pagan each drove in one.
Who woulda thunk it?
And Oliver Perez, forever the enigma, threw 81 pitches over five innings. He let up two home runs, accounting for the four runs. Perez walked one and struck out four.
Jerry Manuel later said that he removed Perez from the game due to pain behind his knee, the same knee that landed him on the DL earlier in the season.
An eight-run inning and possibly losing another player to injury. Something so rare and something so common. Oh, 2009.