Baseball is Magic

If you don't follow baseball, you might not understand, but the Mets just beat the Phillies by 24-4.

The kicker? This score includes Eleven unearned runs:

The New York Mets are the greatest baseball team of the past two days. Following up on a 16-5 drubbing of the Orioles on Wednesday night, one of the biggest laughingstocks in baseball took down the Phillies this afternoon by a staggeringly competent score of 24-4. Those 24 runs today are a Mets franchise record.

The Phillies, meanwhile, paid tribute to the slapstick Mets we all remember from, uh, last week, by running down some of their greatest hits. Were there throwing errors? Reader, there were throwing errors, part of four total miscues by the Phillies that led to eleven(!) unearned runs.

The kicker is that this was a double header, and the Phillies won the 2^nd game.

This is remarkable