With Moises Alou and Marlon Anderson on the Disabled List, the Mets desperately reached down to Double-A Binghamton and brought up Nick Evans, the first Met born in 1986, stuck him in left field and he doubled three times in his first game, driving in two runs and making a bunch of catches as the Mets broke a five-game losing streak in Colorado.

Nick Evans has to be back out there tomorrow.

Nick Evans can't be sent down.

Nick Evans has turned Alou into Wally Pipp (except Pipp is healthier).

Nick Evans should be moved to first when Alou comes back.

Nick Evans has to bat higher in the order.

How could they send Nick Evans down?

Will Nick Evans be recalled when they expand the rosters?

Can you believe where Nick Evans finished in the Rookie of the Year voting?

Did you see Nick Evans on Mets Hot Stove?

Did you see Nick Evans in the first exhibition game?

You've got to pencil in Nick Evans for the Opening Day roster.

You've got to put Nick Evans in the Opening Day lineup.

Nick Evans deserves Player of the Week.

Nick Evans deserves Player of the Month.

Can you believe they don't have Nick Evans t-shirts in the clubhouse store?

Can you believe Nick Evans didn't make the All-Star team?

You just hope they can build something around David Wright and Nick Evans.

You just hope they can build something around Nick Evans and David Wright.

It's good to see Nick Evans taking more of a leadership role.

Nick Evans may be the future captain of this team.

Nick Evans was screwed in the MVP voting.

Nick Evans was screwed when they renewed his contract.

I can't believe how many Nick Evans jerseys you see at Citi Field.

I can't believe how many homers Nick Evans has already.

Nick Evans is leading the league in RBI.

Nick Evans is leading all first basemen in All-Star votes.

Nick Evans is leading the Mets in curtain calls.

Thank god they signed Nick Evans to a long-term extension.

Nick Evans is off to a slow start but he'll snap out of it.

Nick Evans is beginning to show signs, but he's not quite there.

I can't believe some idiots actually booed Nick Evans today.

The fans are really on Nick Evans, and at this point I can't blame them.

Is Nick Evans ever going to break out of this slump?

Nick Evans shouldn't have said what he said to reporters, even if he probably had a point there.

I wonder what they can get for Nick Evans.

They've got to think about trading Nick Evans.

Nick Evans is a nice guy and all, but it's becoming painfully obvious he needs a change of scenery.

Nick Evans has got to go.

Hallelujah, we unloaded Nick Evans' contract.

We're better off without Nick Evans.

We haven't been able to replace Nick Evans.

It's hard to look at anybody wearing 6 and not see Nick Evans.

You'd have to say trading Nick Evans was a mistake.

I wonder if we can get Nick Evans back.

Nick Evans is a free agent this offseason — I wouldn't mind signing him again if they can do it on the cheap.

Hooray! We got Nick Evans back!

Man, Nick Evans is not what he used to be.

Releasing Nick Evans was best for all concerned.

Didja hear? Nick Evans retired.

Do you remember Nick Evans? The Mets brought up him up when they were desperate for outfielders in 2008 and he doubled three times, knocked in two runs, played a respectable left and helped the Mets break a losing streak. It was pretty exciting.

Whaddaya suppose ever happened to Nick Evans?

Well, on the plus side Aaron Heilman kept us in it several batters longer than I thought he would.

After we got an HDTV, Emily and I had to deal with a problem: The picture had such hallucinatory clarity that we'd frequently get distracted by fans in the stands. What's that lady keep doing? Did you see that guy's hat? What's that guy reading? Would those kids watch the game already? (As a side effect of this, we went from thinking people on their cellphones waving at the person who can see them on TV should die to thinking they should die slowly.)

We're used to it by now, but during road games Met fans still catch my eye. For us New York folk, road games -- even ones in the mountains far away -- are primarily an oddity of the clock, to be watched from the couch. But for New York expats in those road cities, they're different: They're big nights planned out and awaited for some time -- an evening when you'll get to see your team up close, and when you'll wear your faraway colors defiantly before the home crowd, whether in triumph or in defeat.

I thought of that after Matt Holliday's homer, when SNY's camera caught a guy in a blue Mets t-shirt somewhere on the third-base side behind a fuming Billy Wagner. Holliday had rounded the bases and headed back to the dugout, but that fan was still standing there in mute dismay, apparently too numb to do anything but stare at the field.

I wonder how he managed during everything left to come -- Reyes' half-witting snare of Ryan Spilborghs' hard smash to avoid a loss in regulation; Reyes' round of high-velocity Twister with Clint Barmes; Reyes' erasure at the hands of conspirators Yorvit Torrealba, Brian Fuentes, Omar Quintanilla and, well, Jose Reyes; Heilman's apparent determination to walk Jon Herrera; Heilman's giving up a hit instead; and Holliday, again, sending the Mets to the hotel and us to mutter our way through preparations for bed.

If that poor Met fan was still standing there through all that, I hope he remembered the bars are still open in Denver.