Mets 1 Marlins 0

With this victory, the Mets have reached a significant milestone: 70 wins on the season! It also puts them one game closer to that elusive and magical .500 mark.

Speaking of wins, the Phillies have 90, and the Braves over 80. But so what?

It’s September, and the Mets are still fighting, despite being out of the playoff hunt.  Case in point: last night’s extra inning victory in which they lost a lead, but still came back to win in the 12th.

The Blogs are also still here:

• Mets Fever believes that what happens to Jose Reyes will affect Angel Pagan’s future on the team, and vice versa.
• Metsmerized bids farewell to the Teal Monster.
• Mets 360 has bespectacled Mets on baseball cards.  Oh, yes.  There will be a Skip Lockwood sighting.
• Metstradamus wonders why a former Mets manager didn’t have clairvoyance enough to play Nick Evans more often.
• Mack’s Mets estimates next year’s payroll.
• Joe Petruccio paints a portrait of clutchness.
• Daily Stache ponders the merits of jumping on the *shudder* Yankees bandwagon.

The season may be winding down, but we’re just gettin’ started.  Keep checking out Mets Today.

Mets 7 Marlins 4

For much of the game, I wasn’t sure whether I was watching two teams that were trying to win, or two teams that were trying to lose.