Mets cough up early lead in crushing loss to rival Phillies
NY Post
PHILADELPHIA — The first rule of playing the Phillies, especially in their ballpark, is don’t get lulled to sleep after building an early lead.
Minus Francisco Lindor, the Mets still appeared in a comfortable place Saturday after jumping to a four-run advantage in the third inning.
But that was all for the Mets’ scoring, and the Phillies stormed through a door left ajar.
Reed Garrett got a tough out in the seventh inning, but couldn’t finish the job, surrendering a double to Cal Stevenson that scored the tying and go-ahead runs in the Mets’ 6-4 loss to the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park.
With the Yankees on an impressive run of mostly correct decisions, there’s some reason to leave them alone and just let the best team in the American League continue to roll. But they did raise serious doubt and leave room for suggestions (and even ridicule) following maybe the most inexplicable decision of this season, or any season.
The Giants have never been 0-2 under Brian Daboll, until now. They were 2-0 and flying high in 2022 and 1-1 after a rousing comeback in Arizona in 2023. So, this represents a low point as far as early-season difficulties for Daboll and the Giants. They had no business beating the Vikings in the opener and no business losing to the Commanders in Week 2. But here they are.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Harrison Butker kept making a lonely walk to midfield after each quarter Sunday to check on the direction of the wind, which tends to swirl inside Arrowhead Stadium. He did it one last time during the 2-minute warning, when his Chiefs were trailing the Bengals by two and trying to give him a winning field-goal attempt.