It was the type of tense spot that gave the Mets their daily dose of pennant fever.
For such losses often lead an organization prone to the worst elements of pennant fever to make moves that years later look rash.
The tiny crowds at County Stadium do not make it feel like pennant fever has afflicted this city.
You can have someone, in the heat of battle, pennant fever or whatever, get into arguments.
Cub fans are so crazy for their team that if the Cubbies win two straight, there is pennant fever.
So the stumbling Yankees went from talking pennant fever to talking about frustration.
Just like that, Saberhagen went from a last-place team building for the future to a first-place team in the midst of pennant fever.
Once again, there will not be pennant fever in the American League East.
In baseball's battleground state, where every game is a turf war and a test of survival, pennant fever has boiled into rage.
Other signs of pennant fever surfaced in the clubhouse.