When the Mets are behind, Keith Raad likes to convey the score to those of us listening on the radio or some radio-adjacent audio product by informing us that they're chasing whatever the deficit is... I can feel a vein throb in my temple every time I hear it - because I'm hearing it so often these days.
On Tuesday night I heard it over and over again: 'chasing three.' That was the score the Mets fell behind by in the third... The Mets chased down two of those runs in the fifth, courtesy of a Mark Vientos homer and a flurry of hits that drove fill-in starter Xzavion Curry from the game.
Curry was replaced by Nick Sandlin, whom I never want to see again: Much as he did on Monday night, Sandlin walked the first enemy batter but then went to work, fanning Brandon Nimmo with the bases loaded... Chasing one ... except Houser gave up a two-run homer to Jose Ramirez, and the Mets were immediately chasing three again.
But in the sixth Houser gave up a leadoff single and was replaced by Jake Diekman, who gave up a homer to Cleveland supersub David Fry... And so the Mets were ... that's right, chasing three again.
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