The Mets Meet the Dodgers' Mess
At least last night's game was entertaining, in a way!
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LOS ANGELES — I don’t even know where to begin, but I’ll start here: I’ve been to hundreds of Dodger games in my life. Last night’s tilt against the Mets might have been the weirdest of them all.
I look forward to Dodgers-Mets game all year as they are the two baseball teams I follow most. It was an exciting evening in that there were a lot of homers and things happened at a baseball game that I do not think have ever happened before.
Here was the first, which was kind of cool, if you are into near-disasters that have happy endings:
One batter after Dustin May helicoptered himself into the ground trying (and failing) to cover first base, he made an awful throw to second base that ricocheted off a diving Miguel Rojas’s glove and into the hands of Miguel Vargas, who stepped on second for the forceout. On one hand, it was a nice save by the rookie Vargas, who has had a rough go of it playing out of position at second this season because the Dodgers have no one else. On the other hand, the two Miguels nearly collided, and May’s throw was probably off-line because Vargas was calling for a ball that was not his because he’s been playing second base for five minutes.
Gavin Lux’s injury continues to be the gift that keeps on giving, as Rojas is currently the only player on the Dodgers’ 26-man roster (40-man roster??) who can play shortstop, since Chris Taylor exited the game last night with an injury. Vargas—who never got reps at second base in the minors—looks like he’s playing the position with bees in his pants, as any of us would. But that’s too bad for him, I guess, because with Taylor down for at least the next few games and probably longer, I don’t know who else on the roster could play second either at this point. Maybe Max Muncy? But then who would play third?