A dramatic ninth-inning home run help lift Philadelphia to a 6-3 come-from-behind victory, and helped hand the Mets their season-high fourth straight defeat. Naturally, it came off the bat of Pat Burrell.
Other than Fred Wilpon, no man has made a better living off the Mets that Burrell. He’s strafed them for 37 home runs, few bigger than last night’s game-tying solo shot off a full-count Billy Wagner fastball.
Is Burrell a Mets killer?
“I wouldn’t go that far. [He has] that swing, and I threw it right in his path,” Wagner said of Burrell, who is tied with Chipper Jones for second-most career homers vs. the Mets, one behind Barry Bonds. He has 18 homers at Shea.
“Wow. I don’t know [why]. It’s just one of those things. I can’t explain it. I wish we played here more often,” said Burrell, who also had a great view of David Wright’s sixth-inning shot off the Wise Snacks sign in left-center that was originally ruled a triple then changed to a homer after Willie Randolph asked for help.
“I heard it hit the yellow [sign]. I saw it hit it. I heard it, so we knew [it was a homer],” Burrell said. “The unfortunate thing is replay played a big part. I don’t think they’re supposed to show stuff like that on the replay.”
Acting crew chief Jerry Layne said “Manuel . . . said you got the call right but they can’t look at the replay and then come out. But I have yet to see what they showed on the board because I didn’t see it. The replay has nothing to do with the reversal of the call, absolutely zero.”
