So it’s not live and it’s actually kind of late - but we had to get up a post about one of the most exciting games we’ve seen this season.

In between games, we killed time outside Shea (not an easy thing to do) and tried to pick up our energy for another game. Our good friend, host and David Wright fan, Rachel, was gracious enough to agree to attending the day-night double header. That’s a lot of baseball for the casual fan but she had a blast (I hope).

We headed in to the same section — lower level left field, right above the bullpen and decided to watch Joel Hanrahan warm up. Oddly, Nick Johnson also hung out in the bullpen for the beginning of the game. Hanrahan looked great so we stopped worrying about his spring training games and tried to have some heart.

. And what could be better than watching him start his Major League career with a triple! He helped us to finish the third with a 3 run lead.

Over the course of the game, he gave up three runs and four hits, struck out seven and walked one. One of those was, of course, Carlos Delgado’s devastating home-run. The game was tied after the 6th.

Then things got crazy. Manny brought in King and Rauch in the 7th. Okay - Fine.

Manny let Rauch bat in the top of the eighth….in the midst of this rally…Rauch struck out, of course.

We scored 3 more runs in the top of the eighth. Mets fans were angry and frustrated, but unpredictable Ryan Langerhans came through to bring in our 6th run.

Then, Rauch pitched a horrible eighth. He gave up 4 hits and 2 runs bringing the score to 6-5. We were nervous - Chief, after all, likes to make things exciting. Apparantly, Rauch and Manny do too. Bad decision. He still gets credit for the win.

But the whole game was full of odd decisions…

Tom Glavine pinch hit in the ninth inning…We were surprised, Mets fans weren’t. It didn’t matter - he grounded out.

Also odd? Tony Batista was intentionally walked. Hey, we’ll take it.

Chief pitched a perfect ninth, the Nats hung on to win it 6-5 on a special Saturday night in New York City.

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