The Milwaukee Brewers and New York Mets met this evening in a winner-take-all elimination game, the only game three of any of the Wild Card series. It was a game that non-partisan fans will surely call a classic, a pitcher’s duel between unlikely forces (the rookie Tobias Myers and the 35-year-old Jose Quintana) with unlikely heroes.
But for Brewer fans, this game will go down in infamy; a game in which they held the Mets for eight innings, in which they played perfect, dramatic baseball up until the very last moment, before a meltdown from one of the franchise’s icons handed the fanbase one of the most painful losses in team history.