There’s no truth to the rumor that the Phillies score a run for every 100 hundred people in the stadium last night as they pummeled the New York Mets, 16-1.
But it was close.
The boxscore lists attendance at CitiField last night as 20,010. That might be tickets sold for the makeup game that got washed out Tuesday night, but there was nowhere near that many people actually in the seats. It looked like 2,000 tops. There were entire sections of the stadium that looked empty.
The Phillies went into the game knowing they had already lost ground to the Cardinals, who finished off a sweep of the Astros earlier in the afternoon.
The Phils seemed to go into the game with a chip on their shoulder - and promptly took it out on the Mets with an offensive explosion.
You can read Dennis Deitch’s gamer here.
This one was over early. The Phils scored eight runs in the first inning, at one point slapping six consecutive hits. The last time they got six straight hits to start a game was back in 1980.
And the last time they scored eight runs in the first inning? Well, for that you have to go back to 1912.
Too bad almost no one saw it, at least in person.
Then again, if you were a Mets fan, you might have been hiding your eyes anyhow.
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