Sure to be buried in discussion of their second straight shutout, destined to get less attention than two ridiculousy unnecessary and counterproductive sacrifice bunts, and with the Yankees all the way to third place, tough to crack the papers at all, so thought it’d be worth pointing out the fact that tonight’s starting Mets lineup was 8\/9ths odd:<\/p>\n
7 Jose Reyes, SS That’s the oddest lineup I’d come across since we\u00a0last raised the subject<\/a>\u00a0and found an 8-men odd lineup from May 20, 2004:<\/p>\n 57 Eric Valent, LF Oddly enough (get it?!) the right fielder in both lineups provides the only even number.\u00a0 It’s entirely possible I overlooked an odder starting nine at some point this year — the current personnel leave almost no chance for an even starting squad, but as always if you happen find occurrances such as this — also, all-ascending or all-descending lineups, so rare I’ve found none in 46 years — you know where to send it. Gary Cohen may be aware of the\u00a0two-sixes controversy<\/a>, but it’s not like Big Media is on this story yet.<\/p>\n * * *<\/p>\n Roster move:\u00a0Tony Armas<\/a>\u00a0to the disabled list,\u00a0Carlos Muniz<\/a>\u00a0back up again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sure to be buried in discussion of their second straight shutout, destined to get less attention than two ridiculousy unnecessary and counterproductive sacrifice bunts, and with the Yankees all the way to third place, tough to crack the papers at all, so thought it’d be worth pointing out the fact that tonight’s starting Mets lineup … Continue reading “Oddfellows Local”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[215],"class_list":["post-992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-endy-chavez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n10 Endy Chavez, RF<\/strong>
\n5 David Wright, 3B
\n15 Carlos Beltran, CF
\n3 Damian Easley, 2B
\n21 Carlos Delgado, 1B
\n17 Fernando Tatis, LF
\n11 Ramon Castro, C
\n57 Johan Santana, P<\/p>\n
\n25 Kaz Matsui, SS
\n31 Mike Piazza, 1B
\n43 Shane Spencer, CF
\n20 Karim Garcia, RF<\/strong>
\n23 Jason Phillips, C
\n27 Todd Zeile, 3B
\n9 Ty Wigginton, 2B
\n29 Steve Trachsel, P<\/p>\n