Atlanta is carrying 17 position players, so with everything clinched it would have been strictly guess work for me as to who would have played both games.

As it turns out, DeRosa didn't get a start, so Chipper is playing both games at 3B, and Thomas both in the OF.

With Hidalgo, Cameron, and Floyd all out, and the Mets with only six outfielders, Diaz, Valent, and G. Williams pretty much had to play two. I don't think ESPN is even listing Diaz, and I probably would have gambled that A. Jones would start both games and taken him over Williams.

Who knows?

But I absolutely would have had Atlanta's PS. I wasn't kidding when I offered DB 30 points and tonight's scores wouldn't count.

Meanwhile, Wright just got hit on the leg with a line drive, and left the game in the third.


"Difficult....not impossible"