The Giants and Mets were supposed to play a game last night and another one today. Because of rain in New York, they couldn’t play last night, so they were going to play two today. It was still raining when they were ready to start, but they waited two and a half hours to get going, and the Giants came from behind to win, 6-4. The second game was still tied in the eleventh inning when the Mets pushed across a run for a 3-2 win. That’s nineteen innings in one day, and they have to come back and play at least nine more tomorrow (unless it rains). These are two teams with a lot of older players, but the Mets also have several exciting young players, and the Giants won the opener on the first major league hit by catcher Eliezer Alfonzo, a two-run homer.

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"And all it took was feeling as if someone were standing behind me plunging a red hot poker into my back every half hour or so."