Turning the birds into their bitches, the Mets continued their opening day dominance. In 46 official “Opening Day” games, the Mets are 29 and 17 for a .630 percentage which is the best in Major League Baseball.

“As good as Opening Day game as you’re probably going to see,” is how Tom Glavine assessed it. “I don’t recall seeing so many quality defensive plays in a first game. We made some special plays, didn’t we?”

Glavine was the beneficiary. He gained the 291st victory of his career, on the strength of four double plays — two turned in his six innings — a brilliant throw to the plate by Carlos Beltran and a sprawling catch by Moises Alou, both in the sixth. Take your pick.

Manager Willie Randolph made his mark as a player turning double plays. So, to him, the score of this one read like something borrowed from Wimbledon — Mets won 5-4-3, 6-4-3, 6-4-3, 4-6-3.

“Love those twin killings,” the old second baseman said.

But the Mets did more “good stuff” as Aaron Heilman called it.

“We played a very good game all-around,” he said.

4 double-bangers? Wow… That really hurts ya…

via NYMets.com

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