On one side of the building, the Braves' Brian Snitker said he was glad his team would be continuing the season, even as he prepared for a cross-country flight, then paused. "What a rollercoaster," he said.
Across the way, Mets manager Carlos Mendoza was hitting a similar note, shaking his head: "This (day) was like our season. Lots of ups and downs ... What a rollercoaster."
For Snitker, the tumult began a little more than an hour before the first pitch, when Chris Sale -- the likely Cy Young Award winner in the NL this year -- came to his office to inform Snitker that his ailing back was going to prevent him from pitching the second game of Monday's doubleheader.
Sale seemed to have been injured in his last start, in Cincinnati, with his velocity dipping noticeably. As he received treatment in recent days, there were times when he thought he was making progress. But he knows how back trouble goes: You just never know.
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