IGT 07/13 - WAS @ NYM - Thor Returns!

[bmfc1]

I'll start this one: Noah Syndergaard returns and just in time to save the Mets season! (Unimportant to you but I traded for him in fantasy four days before he went on the DL! Smart!!!). It's also a game against the team that I despise most of all in baseball. Plus, it's All-Star Weekend in Washington which means that there's room for activities that the local fans won't care about (it's hot out!) or understand (they stupid!). Did you know that Nationals season ticket holders who want to go to the ASG had to buy tickets to everything else this week? That means the Fan Fest, the Futures Game and the Home Run Derby. That might be why you can purchase a ticket for the Futures Game on Stub Hub for as little as $6. I'm going to the Fan Fest today but unfortunately, Ryan Church won't be there when I'm there (he's currently trying to find third base).

Back to tonight's matchup: it's Noah Syndergaard (4-1, 3.06, 1.18 WHIP) against Tanner Roark (3-11, 4.76, 1.37 WHIP) who the locals want to impeach. The only National that has homered against Noah is Anthony Rendon (he's 7 for 20). Murphy is 3 for 14 (2 doubles) and Harper is 5 for 18). Against Roark, Nimmo, Conforto and Cabrera (4 for 13, 2 doubles) have homered. Roark has faced the Mets twice this year, way back in April when the world was bright and people were gay: on April 8, Roark pitched 5 innings, 5 ER; on April 17, 7 innings, 2 ER (the Mets won both of those games). His last two outings have been less than stellar: http://www.espn.com/mlb/player/gamelog/_/id/31593/tanner-roark. Washington has been lucky enough to miss Noah all season (and let's not think about what happened to him last year in Washington).

[Guest cooby]

Ha! I traded for him right after and thought I was a nutcase when it dragged on and on.!

Happy to have him back

[G-Fafif]

the team that I despise most of all in baseball

Bob Carpenter and F.P. Santangelo presumably on the call for MASN.

[bmfc1]

G-Fafif wrote: the team that I despise most of all in baseball Bob Carpenter and F.P. Santangelo presumably on the call for MASN.

True. Last night (side note: syncing between Howie & Josh via mlb.com and MASN is very difficult and when I've tried to watch MASN on mute I miss the cues to look back at the screen from my other screens), Bob Carpenter (whose best attribute as a broadcaster is that he made a useful scorebook) and F.P. (Mitchell Report) Santangelo kept crowing about how Daniel Murphy "kills" the Mets. It's true but STFU.

[Edgy MD]

I'm guessing Syndergaard will be on a strict 40-pitch count or something?

[Guest 41Forever]

Did you know that Nationals season ticket holders who want to go to the ASG had to buy tickets to everything else this week? That means the Fan Fest, the Futures Game and the Home Run Derby. That might be why you can purchase a ticket for the Futures Game on Stub Hub for as little as $6. I'm going to the Fan Fest today but unfortunately, Ryan Church won't be there when I'm there (he's currently trying to find third base).

This is actually an MLB thing for a while -- at least when the game was in Detroit in 2005. Kind of sucks.

Enjoy the FanFest. I've attended a number of them and they are a lot of fun!!!

[Ceetar]

41Forever wrote: Did you know that Nationals season ticket holders who want to go to the ASG had to buy tickets to everything else this week? That means the Fan Fest, the Futures Game and the Home Run Derby. That might be why you can purchase a ticket for the Futures Game on Stub Hub for as little as $6. I'm going to the Fan Fest today but unfortunately, Ryan Church won't be there when I'm there (he's currently trying to find third base). This is actually an MLB thing for a while -- at least when the game was in Detroit in 2005. Kind of sucks. Enjoy the FanFest. I've attended a number of them and they are a lot of fun!!!

yup, was the same in 2013 and 2006. I've actually never made it to the Fan Fest.

The futures game/celebrity softball thing is kinda fun though. I mean, it's all fun in a "BASEBALL!" way, but for just a chill day at the park, the futures thing is fun. I wish in 2006 it hadn't been a last minute (like sunday evening) decision to go. I'd entered the lottery and 'won' and bought tickets back in like April thinking it might be a neat thing and probably easy to sell for like 2x but no one really buys ASG tickets so I couldn't find a buyer even for $190 SRO strips. So me and my friend drove out Monday morning and missed the futures stuff.

Got in trouble at work for calling in sick.

[HahnSolo]

Fanfest is a lot of fun. If you can go you should check it out.

[bmfc1]

HahnSolo wrote: Fanfest is a lot of fun. If you can go you should check it out.

I have a pass for 4 PM today. I'll be wearing my Mets cap.

[bmfc1]

Welcome to DC!
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[G-Fafif]

Nimmo RF
Cabrera 2B
Bautista 3B
Conforto LF
Flores 1B
Mesoraco C
den Dekker CF
Rosario SS
Syndergaard P

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

the lunchmam will be excelsioring it tonight

[Frayed Knot]

bmfc1 wrote: Did you know that Nationals season ticket holders who want to go to the ASG had to buy tickets to everything else this week? That means the Fan Fest, the Futures Game and the Home Run Derby.

Now we know how the new Supreme Court nominee went broke!

[Frayed Knot]

If Friday the 13th were to be the source of bad luck coming down on the Mets, how would fans know?

[Guest 41Forever]

I know they still lost last night, but the team seems a little more fired up since the Nimmo walk-off. This was a good inning!

[Frayed Knot]

4 hits!?!?!! Isn't that like our quota for nine?

[Frayed Knot]

Now THAT's an ominous stat: the one about the Mets scoring three or more runs in the 1st inning this season three times prior to tonight ... and then losing the game all three times!

But now it's four and the Ro-ark is taking on water.

[Guest 41Forever]

Nice DP gets Thor out of a jam. Booth all over Harper for not running that out!

[Frayed Knot]

We're going to get burned by this leadoff runner on thing before too long.

[Guest 41Forever]

Rosario on fire!

[Frayed Knot]

Four hard-hit ones off of Gsellman -- that inning could have been a whole lot worse.


One run since the 1st, no runs since the second. That, and bad bullpenning, is how you jump out to 3-run leads in the 1st inning 3 times and not win any of those.
Gotta get through one more frame not to make this the fourth such disaster.

[Edgy MD]

I probably open the ninth with Gsellie and lift him after one baserunner.

[Edgy MD]

ZIMMO!!! BOOKS!!!

[Guest 41Forever]

Nimmo. American hero.

[Frayed Knot]

Q: The only thing better than a Mets win?
A: A Mets win where you quickly click over to the Yanx game and see the last out of their loss 5 seconds later.

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: Q: The only thing better than a Mets win? A: A Mets win where you quickly click over to the Yanx game and see the last out of their loss 5 seconds later.

damn garbage AL. even with that loss they're like 8.5 up on the As, the only other team making a pass at the playoffs.

[Fman99]

Good stuff abounds.

[Frayed Knot]

The problem with the AL is that everyone is beating up on the Royals & Orioles who are both on near-historic bad seasons so the league standings are very 'strung out' as opposed to the NL which is more 'compact'.
The AL is also, for the first time in something like 15 years, losing the overall inter-league series to the NL - although it's still close enough to turn around (96-82)


What's funny about the AL East race is that, the Sawx & Yanx play each other 6 times in the final 13 games including the final three.
So, assuming the winner posts the best record in the league (not a given with Houston in the running) they could play the final three, then, following the WC play-in game, play each other all
over again in Round 1 of the playoff making it up to 8 times head-to-head in 9 games, or 11 times in a 19 game span across late September/early October.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Enjoyed watching the Mets victory with my son while sampling the beer at Heartland Brewery. Now enjoying some beer on the rooftop bar at Beer Authority.

LGM!