CSTB Mets Fun Quiz! Put on your thinking caps, and read the clues below! Who am I?

-I look terrified.

-I “pitch” righthanded.

-I gave up five hits and three earned runs while getting only three outs tonight.

-My name is Spanish for “George Whythehellissomeoneelsenotpitching”

Yes, tonight’s Mets bullpen suicide hotline attendant, Jorge Sosa, served up a hot plate of awful in Florida en route to blowing a save, and then the game, in the Mets 8-7 loss to the Marlins. There was plenty of baseball played before then — Tom Glavine coughed up a three-run lead in the fifth; Lastings Milledge (above) got gully on the home plate ump in the seventh and earned himself an ejection and likely scolding from Wally Matthews, who never curses or gets angry; the Mets came roaring back against previously untouchable/bespectacled closer Kevin Gregg in the ninth thanks to a Marlon Anderson three-run triple — but what happened after Jorge Sosa came into the game is what mattered most. And man, did it ever suck.

With Billy Wagner unavailable — and not even in the bullpen at the end of the game — the mantle of closer fell first on Pedro Feliciano, then immediately on Jorge Sosa. No one in the bullpen even stirred for the rest of the game. Which was cool, because Sosa was lights out was nightmarish.

It’s kind of academic, at this point, to wonder why the much more accomplished Feliciano was pulled after facing only one batter in the ninth. (The obvious answer — lefty/righty match-up considerations — doesn’t seem satisfactory to me at the moment) Or why Sosa, who pitched two innings yesterday, was the guy Willie Randolph chose to close instead of Aaron Heilman (very effective, in the eighth inning). Or Philip Humber. Or Masato Yoshii or Tim Hamulack or Jaime Cerda or…okay. Okay. Sorry. The story, such as there is one, is what (if anything) is wrong with Billy Wagner. An injury to Wagner would be big news, but there’s no reporting on it yet. SNY announcer Gary Cohen announced that the network was “dispatching” sideline reporter Kevin Burkhardt to find out what was going on, but the game was over before he could report back. The SNY postgame show, as usual, consisted of Lee Mazzilli dispensing hair care tips and then cooking manicotti with guest Rocco DiSpirito. Or maybe not, I don’t know. I was too busy cursing to pay much attention.

Oh, and also: the Phillies win, 7-6. In a dramatic, team-of-destiny sort of way, naturally. Only one and a half games separate the Mets and the Phillies in the National League East.

UPDATE: America’s most trusted news source, Rotoworld.com, reports that Wagner was held out of the game due to back spasms. It also reports that he has a tired arm, which is interesting because his appearance in yesterday’s Mets win was his first in five games.

FURTHER UPDATE: The headline at Faith and Fear in Flushing is “Oh Good God.” Metsblog has a quote from Willie Randolph in which he explains that Wagner’s back spasms were known to him before the game and that Wagner was “too stiff to pitch.” An unusually snarky Matthew Cerrone then adds:

people are e-mailing me all upset that willie didn™t hold back heilman to pitch in the ninth¦i guess because, during the eighth, when heilman stepped to the mound, willie knew he would use his magic wand to get Marlon Anderson that three-run triple

Touche, dude. Although I still don’t get throwing Sosa out there in the tenth.