IGT 07/15 - WAS @ NYM - Corey On My Wayward Son

[bmfc1]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: We watched this in person. I wish we hadn't done that.

Ugh. Sorry LWFS.

[ashie62]

Years like this I enjoy the all star break.

[Edgy MD]

Well, it takes desperate times to launch Kansas on an IGT.

[Lefty Specialist]

bmfc1 wrote: I wouldn't take out a pitcher in the 5th who is rolling for a batter who is "struggling" but that's just me. I also wouldn't take out a pitcher after only one good inning when that pitcher is capable of pitching multiple innings and then bringing in a "struggling" pitcher just to give him work before the break.

I was furious about this. Dammit, you've got a kid who's rolling and you take him out after 59 pitches? They probably would have lost the game anyway but I would have liked to have seen what he could have done. And jeez, Reyes could have stolen home just by taking a 70-foot lead off third base (which they were giving him). The minute the catcher releases the ball back to the pitcher, you go. Nobody could throw you out.

[Edgy MD]

That's maddening. Do that once, successfully bunt two or three times, and the shift is seriously curtailed. Take what they give you.

The gentelmanliness of the game is seriously corroding it. There's way too much fraternity, and gentlemen's understandings.

[Fman99]

Glad to have missed 100% of this game, napping and then swimming with Fboy and Fgirl at the local park pool.

[Lefty Specialist]

I'm convinced that one of the reasons that the Mets runs scored and batting average is so low is that they refuse to do this. You have guys who hit into the shift over and over without ever thinking of changing their approach even occasionally.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cast your vote!

[Centerfield]

Lefty Specialist wrote: I'm convinced that one of the reasons that the Mets runs scored and batting average is so low is that they refuse to do this. You have guys who hit into the shift over and over without ever thinking of changing their approach even occasionally.

And as I mentioned in the other thread, you have guys who come to the bigs with this ability, and suddenly all they do when they get here is roll over into the shift. I really think this is an organizational philosophy. And a failing one.