Sunday, October 25, 2015

I googled.

Lupica + Agbayani found this gem, and I was right. It's the same article:

"After all the heroes of the Mets season, they needed one to step in now against the Yankees. And so Benny Agbayani did that. He had hit in every single postseason game the Mets had played before last night. He had been the hero of Game 3 against the Giants, in the bottom of the 13th. Now it was him against El Duque, on the night when El Duque was trying to get to 9-0 for his postseason career. It was Benny against El Duque in the bottom of the eighth, Todd Zeile on first, the game tied at 2-2. Benny hit one between David Justice and Bernie Williams, hit one hard in the alley. He is part Hawaiian on his mother's side, part Portuguese, part Irish. His father is part Filipino, Chinese, Spanish. In a Subway Series, he was a perfect New Yorker, a melting pot all by himself, suddenly he was the most important guy in town. Justice and Williams chased the ball, Zeile ran all the way home, and now the Mets were ahead 3-2 in Game 3. Bubba Trammell came on later, Bubba, who tried to be the Met hero of Game 1, hit a sacrifice fly to make it 4-2. This time Armando Benitez, protecting a lead of two runs instead of one, did the job. The Mets got a game off the Yankees last night, at last. Maybe we can get the Series we want, after all. Benny Agbayani, a perfect New Yorker, gave us a shot last night, with a shot up the alley in the eighth.

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But now Zeile worked a walk out of him and then it was once again Benny's turn in the postseason. Another Game 3 for him. He hit a shot past Justice and Williams. All the way to the wall. Mets 3, Yankees 2. ONE HUNDRED AND ONE wins were about to become one hundred and two for Valentine's Mets. Shea made a sound in the night, a minute before midnight, that said it wasn't dead yet. Neither were the Mets. If they can win tonight, they are even with the Yankees."

Root much?


Lupica + Josh Satin doesn't reveal much. In fact, a felzball entry is near the top of the google search.

I distinctly remember Lupica hyping up Satin on the radio. Because I almost drove my car off the road. Maybe not so much in print.






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