Many baseball pundits wrote Bartolo Colon off as a full-time starter for a playoff contender years ago. The 42-year-old former Anaheim Angel and New York Yankee has had a lengthy and successful career, and passed former Met Pedro Martinez early last week for second on the all-time list for major league wins by a Dominican-born player. Last night’s milestone might have been even sweeter.
With a man on base, Colon, who has admittedly diligently worked on his swing since he began playing in the National League–for many years, Colon played in the American League, where pitchers are not required to bat–stepped up to the plate, and unleashed a massive swing that connected, and sent the pitch flying into the depths over the left-field wall in San Diego, pushing Mets announcer Gary Cohen to the brink of hysteria. Listen to his amazing call below.
A documentary short on the argument against the NL DH, starring Bartolo Colon. https://t.co/2WwDqPYb52 #Mets #MLBhttps://t.co/ibFE0YAXA1
— New York Mets (@Mets) May 8, 2016
Colon is the second-oldest Met to ever homer in a game–a 48-year-old Julio Franco is the only man ahead of him–and as it happens, Colon’s two-run shot was key, as the Mets clung to a 4-3 lead for much of the game, eventually pulling away in the 9th inning for a 6-3 victory. What a week for #BigSexy.
