NY Daily News · Jul 24, 2015
Martino: Mets have no quick fix for this embarrassment
Try as he might, Terry Collins wears his frustration on his face Thursday night.“Embarrassed” was the buzzword of the afternoon at Citi Field, after Terry Collins volunteered that he was “not embarrassed” by the lineup he had to run out there on Thursday. Classy of Collins to say that, but we doubt he’d have passed a polygraph.
How embarrassing for the Mets was this 3-0 loss to the Dodgers? Let us count the ways.
It was embarrassing to attempt a major-league game with John Mayberry Jr. (“hitting one f-----g 70,” as one teammate put it) batting cleanup, and Eric Campbell (.176 after going 0-for-3) batting fifth.