IGT 05/19 - Diamondbacks at Mets - Weekend .500 [2]

[Centerfield]

Justine Ward is cuter than Steve Gelbs.

[Edgy MD]

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[Guest 41Forever]

And Thor on the hill tomorrow!

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Damn, gameday. I saw single for Cabrera and thought it was over, after I post it shows it was a bunt single.

Walk of
Free sac fly, I’ll take it. Hey, BIFW (at least tonight). Big win.

[Frayed Knot]

Braves won, Marlins lost (played the Braves), Phils won (scored 2 in the 8th), Nats lost the first of two but are winning the 2nd (4-3 in the 8th) but the Dodgers have runners on


... and as I'm typing Puig hits into an inning-ending GiDP with the tying run on 3rd !!!
4-3 Nats, heading for bottom 8

and this is/was a Scherzer game too, so if the Trolley Dodgers could pull this one off ...

[Centerfield]

A few notes. Pitch to Murphy the first time, I get it. The second time, that mistake is on Callaway.

Stupid.

Don’t see why they pulled Matz. Seemed like a bit of a panic move.

Amazing what a little production from the catcher makes.

Let’s never play Reyes again.

[Centerfield]

And Dyson was absolutely fucking out.

[Frayed Knot]

Centerfield wrote: Pitch to Murphy the first time, I get it. The second time, that mistake is on Callaway.

Once the SB created the open base, it was already a 1-2 count to a backup catcher with 400 ML ABs spread over pieces of six seasons, a career 630 OPS during that time, and a .259 OBA for this season (prior to tonight).
I didn't have a problem pitching to him. Especially seeing as how it was still just the 4th inning, I don't like to go adding baserunners to chase outs that early.

Edited May 20, 2018 by Guest

[Frayed Knot]

Centerfield wrote: And Dyson was absolutely fucking out.

I usually don't get bent out of shape over close replay calls that don't get overturned.
But this time it showed -- particularly via one of the several angles but really on al of them -- that Dyson's leading arm was CLEARLY forced sideways by the force of 'Drubal's tag before his hand was anchored to the base which c/would have prevented that.
I was shocked at that one.

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: ... and as I'm typing Puig hits into an inning-ending GiDP with the tying run on 3rd !!! 4-3 Nats, heading for bottom 8 and this is/was a Scherzer game too, so if the Trolley Dodgers could pull this one off ...

Dodgers have scored twice in the 9th to take the lead as Nats' closer Doolittle has definitely done little: single, single, double (the revitalized Matt Kemp) and has yet to record an out
(OK, now he has)

5-4 LAD, runner on 2nd, 1 out

[Fman99]

Missed all of this one while out at a party. Glad to see it ended well.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Centerfield wrote: Pitch to Murphy the first time, I get it. The second time, that mistake is on Callaway. Once the SB created the open base, it was already a 1-2 count to a backup catcher with 400 ML ABs spread over pieces of six seasons, a career 630 OPS during that time, and a .259 OBA for this season (prior to tonight). I didn't have a problem pitching to him. Especially seeing as how it was still just the 4th inning, I don't like to go adding baserunners to chase outs that early.

I'm agreeing here. Throwing a 1-2 count in the trash didn't make sense to him. The failure was Matz's for giving him a nice popover to eat.

[Centerfield]

Got it. I didn’t realize he already had a 2 strike count. That makes sense. Then yes, Matz has to make him chase one there.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cast your vote!

[Frayed Knot]

I don't want to go around automatically handing out free passes to 8th place hitters almost regardless of the count. Hell, it was the 4th inning in a tie game with 2 outs and one runner aboard, hardly a critical situation.
Terry used to do that almost as a reflex and what you wind up doing is turning over the lineup more often and assuring that the opposition starts the next inning with the top of the lineup instead of the pitcher,
something which likely increases their chances of scoring the next inning at least as much as you might decrease it with the IW - although once you toss in that Corbin was actually out-hitting Murphy going
into the game (Corbin = .263 and hit over .300 in 2016) even the best case scenario is hardly a given.

More than one runner on? OK. Later in the game? Sure (although then they'd likely PH). Facing a better 8th place hitter? Yeah maybe.
But unless the count were already 3-0 (or maybe 3-1) after the SB, I'm not going to want to make a habit of running from the JR Murphys of the world, a guy who essentially is Anthony Recker* w/half the HR rate



* Recker, btw, is current hitting quite well for AAA Reno [.327/.431/.673 over 55 ABs] in the Arizona system - so he and Murphy are essentially battling for end of the bench jobs in Phoenix

[Benjamin Grimm]