Amazin’ use of common sense

TERRY Collins was either low on relievers or left his “Book” in the car. In Friday’s eighth, after

Jerry Blevins retired the only two batters he faced — one a strikeout — Collins allowed him to pitch the ninth! Out went the A’s, one, two, three. The Mets won, 7-5.

Afterwards, as seen on SNY, Blevins was interviewed as if he was the latest exhibit in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. The next night, Joe Gi

rardi, removing two reliev- ers after each pitched one three-up/three-down inning, lost another by his “Book.” While it might be a conditioned response to how TV sold Tiger Woods, those who watched golf only on the condition Woods was playing Sunday missed from Jordan Spieth vs. Matt Kuchar what they would have never forgotten. Bubba Watson was on camera, Thursday, when

Bones Mackay, Phil Mick

elson’s now ex-forever caddie who was making his debut as a Golf Channel/NBC on-course reporter, recalled Mickelson visiting and playing with Watson’s University of Georgia team. Although he didn’t say that Mickelson is a famous gambler and infamous loser, Mackay added that he solicited action from the college players.

Reader Paul Schwartz avoided news of Thursday afternoon’s Cards-Mets so he could watch SNY’s replay upon returning home from work. At 1-1, top of the seventh, SNY studio host

Doug Williams invited viewers to later watch highlights from that day’s “Mets’ come-from-behind victory.”

True or False? During Friday’s Yanks-Mariners, YES noted that CC Sa

bathia this season is No. 9 in the AL’s “Softness of Contact” stats? False: Those stats — apparently, not a put-on — list Sabathia at No. 7.