there's my team

Game 69: Athletics 1, Mets 9
39-32 for the season

tonight, the Mets played the way they did in April and June-- not only scoring first, but piling it on, and keeping the opposition to just one run. Glavine pitched like he did at the beginning of the season, going into the 9th inning and holding the A's to just one run. when Willie came out of the dugout after Glavine gave up a single on his first pitch in the top of the 9th, the crowd let him know they weren't happy to be robbed of the opportunity to see a Mets pitcher throw a complete game. Tom didn't mind, though-- I'm sure he quite enjoyed watching the last three outs from the dugout.

Marty Noble had some good coverage of the mood in the dugout after the game was done over at MLB.com:

Glavine had the misfortune of being thrown out at the plate in the sixth inning after his second hit, a single, had produced the final two runs in a five-run rally that all but determined the outcome. He was thrown out while trying to score from first base on a double by Jose Reyes. And he heard about it.

"I think that parachute went out as he came around third," manager Willie Randolph said, "and he started to moonwalk."

Wright was wondering whether Glavine had been carrying Baldwin or a Steinway. (What does a Steinway, anyway?)

And someone compared Glavine's speed to that of backup catcher Ramon Castro, but then suggested that the pitcher would have been thrown out at third if he ran like the thick-legged catcher.

"C'mon," Mets closer Billy Wagner said. "You can't get on him. He's 110 years old."