It wasn't the Mets who brashly identified themselves as the team to beat in the offseason. It wasn't the first-place team in the National League East that beat up the second-place team and inflicted two late summer sweeps. In each instance, it was the Phillies. And yet, it has been the Phillies who have played most of this season with a chip on their collective shoulder, as if they had been wronged by the Mets. And now, to the absolute horror of the Mets, it is the Phillies who have gotten even.
The teams are equals on Thursday night, tied for first place in the NL East, because the Phillies overcame John Smoltz and the Braves in Philadelphia, and the Mets lost yet again, this time to the Cardinals. With Joel Pineiro reprising the role Jeff Suppan played in the NL Championship Series in 2006, the Cardinals dealt the Mets the most damaging of their 72 losses. Continue
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