Only one group of Mets is in championship form, and it’s the best three-man booth in baseball. Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling were positively vibrating with rage that their team won a game on Thursday. Just watch:
Michael Conforto, that little scamp, leaned over the plate to get “hit” by Marlins reliever Anthony Bass, forcing in the game-winning run. As replays made clear, the pitch was a strike, and Conforto did not make the required attempt to not get hit by it. But the arbitrary boundaries of what can and can’t be overturned on replay meant that the call on the field stood. Mets win.
Cohen, Hernandez and Darling are not in that class of announcers who openly despise the game they’re supposed to be presenting. They just have a strong sense of justice. The ever-sharp Cohen immediately pointed out that the call wasn’t reviewable, but he was just as agitated as Hernandez and Darling about the ending.
“He stuck his elbow right into that pitch!” Cohen yelped when the replay made that clear. As soon as the umpires ruled that the Mets had won, all three men let out a clearly displeased “Wowwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”
“You’re trying to get it right,” Darling said. “They don’t get it right. So why even have replay?” Good question, as always, Ron.
