American League 3, Mets 2

Ever since I was a kid I’ve considered the Major League Baseball All Star Game to be a sacred national holiday. It’s should your patriotic duty as an American to watch the game, and for a Mets
 fan such as myself, to root for the National League. Of course the past decade has been pretty sad for National League fans , with the senior circuit not winning the mid-summer classic since 1996.

What a heartbreaker this year! Just one out away from ending the American League’s nine-year dominance of the game, the American League strung together a single, double, and triple off of the Padres’ Trevor Hoffman to take a 3-2 9th-inning lead. Sure it was an exciting game but it’s still a heartbreaker when you’re on the losing end. Making matters worse than the pride of the National League is the fact that the New York Mets are the league’s best team and hence this loss may come back to haunt my team if they make it to the World Series but without home field advantage.

P.S. Regarding the title of this post, both of the National League’s two runs were manufactured by Mets.

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