Rosario to Herrera to Smith

The most famed double play trio in Major League history was Joe Tinker, Johnny Evers, and Frank Chance. They were so renown that Franklin Pierce Adams would script a poem about them dubbed Baseball’s Sad Lexicon:

These are the three saddest possible words:

“Tinker to Evers to Chance.”

Trio of bears cubs, and fleeter than birds,

Tinker and Evers and Chance.

Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,

Making a Giant hit into a double –

Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble:

“Tinker to Evers to Chance.”

As we all saw in the Future’s Game, the Mets are developing their own trio of young stars that people will wax poetic about for years to come.

For the first time ever, Amed Rosario, Dilson Herrera, and Dominic Smith took the field at the very same time.  These are the very same three players that the Mets envision to be their own version of Tinker to Evers to Chance.  It was easy to believe this is the future when Mets fans got to see the Future’s Game to watch Rosario make plays like this:

This of course followed Herrera and Rosario helping the World Team put up a crooked number in the top of the ninth.  Herrera hit an RBI single to put the World team ahead 5-3, and Rosario followed him with a single to load the bases.  Both would eventually come home to score  Seeing Herrera and Rosario get back to back base hits and score runs is something Mets fans will start seeing in the very near future.

Smith did his part to help USA win the game.  He was one of the few players on the day that would play the entire game.  As anticipated, he played a good defensive first base.  He also had an RBI, which at the time had put USA up 2-0.

Overall, we saw each future Mets player contribute and help their teams try to win the game.  Within the next few years, they will all take the field at the same time at Citi Field.  Given their offensive capabilities, they will help their pitching staff get a lead in a game.  Given their defense they will be able to turn a double play or two in the game.  There will be excitement amongst the fans at Citi Field while the opposition and their fans will feel dejected as the Mets double play combination will give them “nothing but trouble.”  Everyone else will shudder at the words:

Rosario to Herrera to Smith

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