It's A One-Game Winning Streak! IGT vs CHC 5/31

[Edgy MD]

Look at that defense. All Bruce needs to do is bunt. He'd be safe nine times out of 10.

He's not in a big slump. Everybody's flooding into the right centerfield gap where he hits it.

[Centerfield]

Edgy MD wrote: Look at that defense. All Bruce needs to do is bunt. He'd be safe nine times out of 10.

Simply infuriating. He’d rather roll one over to second or fly out for the 177th time in this game.

[bmfc1]

Centerfield wrote: I think that my opinion of Callaway has fallen from “not the genius he was made out to be” to “dumb”.

Let's hope that he's learning on the job and these mistakes will help him in the future.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Miserable way to start a tough homestand so far.

[Centerfield]

You know, the Mets are just a miserable team to watch.

I’m finding I really don’t enjoy these games at all. Frustration. Disgust. I honestly don’t know why I watch.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I watch because it's what I do. I'm not miserable, the way this game is
going is quite miserable though. #lgm #ygb #bbbyyy

[Centerfield]

Oh right. That’s why I watch. I love this kid.

[nymr83]

Centerfield wrote: Oh right. That’s why I watch. I love this kid.

it only took two injuries to get him regular playing time!

[Centerfield]

For now.

In other news, Bautista not good.

[Centerfield]

Does he literally not have another pitch?

[Centerfield]

And as I type, he throws a flat slider.

[bmfc1]

G. Bautista should be in AA or AAA learning how to pitch.

[ashie62]

1. Play Nimmo everyday

2. Have faith that Noah, Jake etal will as a group will be ok

3. We are not as bad as we look now, or as good as we looked earlier

4. Be hopeful Ces plays more games than not

5. Most teams in the NL are just not very good, so there is that.

[Fman99]

Boy this game went to shit.

Robles has given up 16 HRs in 71 innings since the start of 2017. So, that sucks.

[Centerfield]

So if the plan was for Lugo to only go 4 innings, then you have to have someone ready to step in and pitch multiple innings to follow. That someone can’t be Hansel Robles.

Leadoff walk. A 2 run HR. So predictable.

You look at the arms in that Cub bullpen and it’s disheartening. We are not on the same planet as these guys.

And we get Wheeler tomorrow. It never ends.

[MFS62]

Fman99 wrote: Boy this game went to shit. Robles has given up 16 HRs in 71 innings since the start of 2017. So, that sucks.

And the relief pitchers in the minors might be a little too arm weary to bring up. Binghamton lost 11-10 last night and Las Vegas lost 20-3.
Actually, they might just be too weary - period.
Think of all the running they did to back up third.

Later

[seawolf17]

MFS62 wrote: Binghamton lost 11-10 last night and Las Vegas lost 20-3.

Crikey.

[metirish]

Centerfield wrote: You know, the Mets are just a miserable team to watch. I’m finding I really don’t enjoy these games at all. Frustration. Disgust. I honestly don’t know why I watch.

Yeah, awful to watch, Nimmo is fun to watch, Jake when he starts ...not much else

[bmfc1]

Fman99 wrote: Robles has given up 16 HRs in 71 innings since the start of 2017. So, that sucks.

And yet Sandy keeps him on the roster when he should be given away for what he is worth which is nothing. Did anyone think that he'd pitch a scoreless inning? Of course not. Yet Sandy ("8 and 8 is great") Alderson does nothing but add players that have been discarded by other teams and recycle the same players in and out of the bullpen.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Well, Robles did pitch three scoreless innings the other day, so a scoreless inning from him isn't nearly as impossible as you suggest. And I'd hardly say that we're exclusively seeing the same people come and go from the bullpen. There's been a long string of unfamiliar names appearing in relief for the Mets recently.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cast your vote!

[seawolf17]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I'd hardly say that we're exclusively seeing the same people come and go from the bullpen. There's been a long string of unfamiliar names appearing in relief for the Mets recently.

The record is 40 pitchers in a season. We're a third of the way through the season and we're already at 22.

[Edgy MD]

I don't particularly have a concern for the bullpen. Pulling a pitcher after four innings when he's throwing a shutout against the second-best-hitting team in the league and replacing him with a succession of pitchers from the back end of your staff is a losing strategy all day, every day.

As is insisting on hitting into the shift, and not telling Rosario a strike when you're down four in the bottom of the ninth with two outs, and the tying run is on deck.

[Benjamin Grimm]