IGT - Mets @ Pirates - 7/27/18

[Frayed Knot]

What, youse thought I forgot? Was kidnapped maybe? Incarcerated? (understandable) Had another coronary?
Nope, just busy.

Going for our fourth straight at 7:05 featuring Jason Vargas vs John New (Ivan Nova)
Vargas: 2-6; 8.20 (I don't think that's very good); last pitched on 6/19: 7 runs on 9 hits in 2.1 vs Rockies, but, y'know, it was in Coors.
Former MFY Nova: 6-6; 4.28. HIs 7-run performance was three starts ago vs LAD. Since then he's been better in starts vs MIL & CIN [3 runs on 12 hits in 11-1/3]

Rosario - SS
Cabrera - 2B
Conforto - LF
Flores - 1B
Nimmo - CF
Bautista - RF
NcNeil - 3B
Plawecki - C
Vargas - P


Luplow - LF
Harrison - 2B
Polanco - RF
Diaz - C
(Mr.) Freese - 3B
Bell - 1B
Rodriguez - CF
Mercer - SS
Nova - P

[Guest 41Forever]

Keep the streak going!

[Edgy MD]

Mickey the Hook pulls JV after just 13 outs.

[Edgy MD]

Damn, man.

[Edgy MD]

Mets got burned by the early hook and got burned by using the shift that inning.

[Edgy MD]

BUNTING IS FOR SUPERSTARS!

[Edgy MD]

Plawecki would've done well to bunt also.

[Edgy MD]

Weird way to tie the game, but good hustle by Conforto.

Please tell me Pirates thirdbaseman Colin Moran is related to Lyndon Johnson-era Met Al Moran.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Bashlor killing the buzz...

[Guest d'Kong76]

DP, never mind...

[Edgy MD]

Nice to see the shift giveth back what it tooketh away last inning.

[Edgy MD]

These guys are shirsey heroes.

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[ashie62]

d'Kong76 wrote: Bashlor killing the buzz...

It's the tattoos

[Edgy MD]

We're lucky Plawecki (a) got plunked by that pitch, and ( didn't get called for not trying to elude it.

Sliders are killing him. Like he can't touch them.

[Guest d'Kong76]

On to the bottom of the 9th, 4-4... or sniffle-sniffle, mileage may vary.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Mickey the Hook pulls JV after just 13 outs.

Vargas was fortunate to have lasted as long as he did.

[Guest d'Kong76]

ruh roh

[Edgy MD]

We got Freesed.

[Guest d'Kong76]

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Mickey the Hook pulls JV after just 13 outs. Vargas was fortunate to have lasted as long as he did.

Lucky or not, one out and a runner on first, 84 pitches into your day, hardly seems like the time to cash in your chips.

[Frayed Knot]

If anything, I think it verged on the side of late.
And keeping a starter in on the basis of a low(-ish) pitch count is at least as bad a move as taking one out based on a high count.

[Edgy MD]

I was keeping him in based on the fact that he was succeeding and not in particular trouble, and the sooner you go to your bullpen, the more precipitously you are moving toward the point where you are running out of pitching in a tight game.

Stretch your starters!