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Plus, it was a good opportunity to give some of the kids extra playing time.

It was a lineup of Jefferson, Tuffle, Magadan, Mitchell, Heap, Hojo, Hearn, and Elster who took the field.

Sid Fernandez got the start, and he was opposed by Kevin Gross, who stymied the Mets last week.

After three scoreless innings, the Mets got on the board in the fourth, when Tuffle doubled, advanced to third, and scored in a Mitchell sack fly.

But before Wilson could be tagged out to end the inning, Mike Schmidt scored, increasing the Philly lead to 4-1.

Kevin Gross was still pitching, and he entered the ninth inning going for his second complete game win against the Mets in a week.

But Gross allowed four singles to Tuffle, Magadan, Heap, and Hojo that plated two more runs.

It's now 4-3, and the Mets had a tying and winning runs on base.

So they go with Backman at second, Johnson at third, Hernandez at first, Carter behind the hay plate.

Heap is playing center field tonight.

Heap has not been in center field since October of 83.

Foster in left, he had the night off last night.

Hurdle in right, Santana at short on the left-hander, Tom Gorman, making only his second start of the year.

The Mets missed Strawberry.

I don't think there's any doubt about that.

Danny Heap has picked up some slack for them, but Strawberry is one of those intimidating hitters.

Somebody is going to request a ballot this month under rules that were still being argued about this month.

Heap, you read the register.

I did, because it's the only way to know what a government did, rather than what it said.

Presidential documents mentioning Iran, published since the 19th of August, still zero.