'The guy ran like a scared rabbit'

How a pre-season grudge match between Mike Piazza and Guillermo Mota turned a meaningless exhibition game into one of baseball's most electric mound-charging moments

The Mets were getting plastered, 10-1. But who really cared? It was spring training — the kind of game in Port St. Lucie that exists mostly for journalists to write forgettable notes about who looked good in camp. Nobody would remember this game.