Interleague play in baseball is finally over, and apart from the local derbies like A's-Giants, Yankees-Mets, and Dodgers-Angels, it's mostly just a bunch of games by teams from opposite leagues with no history between them, with a few exceptions, like the just completed San Francisco versus New York serieses.
This weekend our Bay Area teams played against their New York counterparts in a couple of World Series rematches, Yankees-Giants (from 1962) and A's-Mets (1973). The A's were finally swept in a three game series this year, but the Giants took two of three from the Yankees, reversing the results from the two World Series.
The A's - Mets series was one where the pitching matchups just weren't there for Oakland, and the Mets went to town against bottom-feeding lefthanders DiNardo and Kennedy, and wasted a great effort by Joe Blanton yesterday by not breaking through against El Duque. It was just one of those series where the breaks were beating the boys. The Giants did win two of three from the Yankees, so there is that. It's always great when the Yankees lose!
I think the Giants should play home-and-home with the A's each year, plus one or two other series, but a whole month of interleague is overkill, and provides some unfair setups, like the A's having to play the Mets in Flushing while the Angels get three games against Pittsburgh. I guess it all evens out in the end, but interleague play seems like an unnecessary diversion all in all. Anyway, no more interleague nonsense until next year. Back to real baseball tomorrow.
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