After making some really nice defensive plays in the opener, Bonilla flat out dropped a fly ball in the first inning, though the wind may have been a contributing factor. Still, he took his time getting the ball back into the infield, which allowed Dante Bichette to get all the way to the third base. Bonilla was rightly booed for the blunder, but he seemed to take it in stride when he acknowledged the crowd after they mockingly cheered for him making a routine catch later in the game. Speaking of bad defense, Tony Fernandez committed 2 errors in the game, the first multi-error game by the 4-time Gold Glover since 1988. Watching these games back, announcers fawned over this guy and were certain he'd be the reason the Mets bounced back in 1993, and they couldn't have been more wrong. Meanwhile, Bichette entered the record books as the first Rockies player to score a run and hit a homer when he connected for a no-doubter in the 7th.

During the broadcast, the crew brought up Ron Hunt's record of 50 HBPs in 1971. That just boggles my mind. For comparison's sake, Mark Canha just set the Mets record in 2022 with 28 HBPs. He was barely halfway to the record! Meanwhile, what WWOR telecast wouldn't be complete without a Kinerism. When talking about Vince Coleman, he said the outfielder took up "taekwondu" over the offseason. I guess for him that's a pretty mild gaffe, but I still got a chuckle out of it.