IGT 4/16/2018: WAS@NYM -- Nat Again

[Fman99]

Gross. Make them earn it, at least, for fuck's sake.

[Piggiestomatoes]

Amazin!

[HahnSolo]

The first Turner AB of this inning is what really hit this shitshow going.

[Guest 41Forever]

de Grom gem wasted.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

PiggiesTomatoes wrote: Amazin!

Not in a good way, either.

[Lefty Specialist]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Don't trust Familia coming in with the bases full.

Runners on base get into his head somehow. I knew that was going to end badly.

[Frayed Knot]

Geez, ya gotta make them earn it.
Yeah they got a bunch of seeing eye hits, but none of them would have mattered without all the free passes and it's not like this is a good lineup right now.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I blame Jerry Blevins

[Zvon]

Well, at least we can say it's been a while since we had to go thru a game like this.

[Lefty Specialist]

Well, we're in lolMets territory now.

[nymr83]

I had forgotten there was going to be actual losing at some point this season.

[Centerfield]

Why the fuck do you go to Ramos there?

Gave Familia no safety net. For a guy who said he wasn’t going to save anyone for the ninth, this was some shitty bullpen management.

[Edgy MD]

Cabrera, in my office.

[ashie62]

Asdrubal???????????????

[nymr83]

Edgy MD wrote: Cabrera, in my office.

bench him tomorrow. that was an absurd baserunning mistake, no excuse. i dont care if the ball bounced 30 feet away, it better be in the fucking stands for you to try and advance there

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Nice double giving the team some life, followed up by pointless, boneheaded baserunning, killing any potential rally.

[Guest 41Forever]

He's had a couple of those this season.

[Centerfield]

I’m sick to my stomach. It takes stupidity to lose like that. Sickening.

[Centerfield]

All those walks. All the mistakes. I can’t believe this game.

[Centerfield]

And again, Ramos sucks and isn’t worth his salary. Gotta stop going with this walk machine.

[Lefty Specialist]

You hope this isn't one of those games where later you say, 'boy, the season turned right there'. Because if the bullpen starts breaking down along with starters that can't get through 6 innings, there's Trouble in River City.

Hopefully they shake it off and go get 'em tonight.

[Guest 86-Dreamer]

with a two run lead, two outs, and a sinkerball pitcher, why did Callaway choose to weaken his infield defense instead of using one of his two available starting outfielders in the double switch?

[Edgy MD]

This was very much a case of the Mets beating the Mets while the Nats stood there.

It's not like the 2018 Mets haven't benefited from that scenario as well.

[Centerfield]

Lefty Specialist wrote: You hope this isn't one of those games where later you say, 'boy, the season turned right there'. Because if the bullpen starts breaking down along with starters that can't get through 6 innings, there's Trouble in River City. Hopefully they shake it off and go get 'em tonight.

Right. One game isn't a big deal in the course of a season. It's what happens afterwards. The bases loaded escape by deGrom was a big deal for that game, but it became more important because the Mets went on to sweep. Win the next two and it will be ok.

It's just that the pitching matchups aren't in our favor as much as it was yesterday.

Ever since I was kid, the Mets will lose a game in April that makes me lose my mind, then remind myself that it's just a game, and that it's a long season and that I should chill the fuck out. Yesterday was that game. Usually it comes much earlier.

[Lefty Specialist]

Last year it was April 30. Thor tears a lat and they get blown out 23-5. Season pretty much ended right there.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cast your vote!

[Benjamin Grimm]

All three tabloids used the same photo on their back page.

Newsday even used the title of this IGT as their back-page headline!

[batmagadanleadoff]

Roger Angell takes the piss on this dreadful shitshow of a Mets loss to the Nats last week. Manchester and Southhampton references, for all you British soccerball fans.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/night-moves

[MFS62]

Roger Angell takes the piss on this dreadful shitshow of a Mets loss to the Nats last week. Manchester and Southhampton references, for all you British soccerball fans. https://www.newyorker.com/news/sporting-scene/night-moves

I'd like to pee in all four corners of the NY Post Sports Department, no matter that Angell doesn't write for them.
And then their editorial room.

Later

[Benjamin Grimm]