Watching baseball die by its own hands, a TV-side vigil:
It’s a slow, steady death by institutional neglect. Game-changing failures of fundamental forethought have become routine at the highest-paid level of The Game, now in desperate disrepair.
Between Wednesday’s local teams’ games of easily preventable failures, perhaps the most ridiculous scene came when time was called, although it went unspoken by SNY’s Gary Cohen, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez.
With the Nats up 3-2, bases loaded, the Mets’ on-mound strategy conference included third baseman Jose Bautista — as if Bautista wanted in on the winning plan.