IGT 8/2: ATL@NYM: New York City, I'm Coming Home Again

[Edgy MD]

The Mets limp home from a brutal beating in Washington to take on the second place Atlanta Braves, sitting only a half game out of first. The Mets somehow retain joint possession of fourth place, but remain a discouraging 36 1/2 net games off the division pace.

Worry not, however. The Mets are poised to unleash Jason Vargas. And that's never a pleasant thought for the opposition.

Mike full-tin-EV-ich goes for the Georgians.

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[Fman99]

I'd be frothing like Cujo at the chance to face Vargas, if I were any kind of real MLB hitter. He sucks all the butt.

[Edgy MD]

Also coming home is the Mets' long-lost thirdbaseman.

Well, the other Mets' long-lost thirdbaseman.

1. Ronald Acuna Jr. (R), cf
2. Ozzie Albies (S), 2b
3. Freddie Freeman (L), 1b
4. Nick Markakis (L), rf
5. Adam Duvall (R), lf
6. Johan Camargo (S), 3b
7. Tyler Flowers (R), c
8. Dansby Swanson (R), ss
9. Mike Foltynewicz (R), rhsp

1. Brandon Nimmo (L), cf
2. José Bautista (R), rf
3. Michael Conforto (L), lf
4. Wilmer Flores (R), 1b
5. Todd Frazier, (R) 3b
6. Jeff McNeil (L), 2b
7. Kevin Plawecki, (R) c
8. José Reyes, (S), ss
9. Jason Vargas, (L), lhsp

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[G-Fafif]

Nimmo CF
Bautista RF
Conforto LF
Flores 1B
Frazier 3B
McNeil 2B
Plawecki C
Reyes SS
Vargas P

[Fman99]

Fman99 wrote: I'd be frothing like Cujo at the chance to face Vargas, if I were any kind of real MLB hitter. He sucks all the butt.

I hate being right sometimes.

[Edgy MD]

Slow thread.

Slow team.

Let's go, McNeilio. You ain't in the hit column yet tonight.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Thursday nights are always slow here. Everyone (including me) is down at
the Bedrock Firehouse playing cards and drinking fitty-cent beers. Just wait,
Wilma and Betty are gonna figure out the whole fire department thing when
they realize that Bedrock is made of all stone.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

BuildTheWahl

[Edgy MD]

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Feels like W or L hinges on what bautista does right now

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

strikes out looking

[Edgy MD]

Nice to hear the booth throw the Jeep Pitchcast under the bus.

[Frayed Knot]

This stretch reminds me of how I felt during the 'Nieuwenhuis game' a couple years back.
That bolt out of the blue shocked me so much because, while I knew that a 3R HR was theoretically possible, the odds of it actually happening were so low in my mind that I never considered it.

We've reached the same point now. There have been a half dozen ABs here where a timely hit would have put us right back in the game, but I had ZERO cahnfidence in any of them.
And this goes back to Zimmo's game-ending GiDP yesterday on the first pitch.

[Edgy MD]

Do it for Wahl-E!

[Edgy MD]

Damn, Stu likes the low strike.

[Edgy MD]

Ideally we have a pinch-hitter for McNeil.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Wecky.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

scum

[Edgy MD]

Edgy MD wrote: Ideally we have a pinch-hitter for McNeil.

On the other hand, ideally we have a pinch-hitter for most of the lineup.

[bmfc1]

Nice job staring at a pitch right over the plate, Kevin. Maybe one day the Mets will have a decent catcher again.

[Edgy MD]

Plawecki, my eyeballs, watching the slow-mo replay, the three guys in the booth, Jeep PitchCast, and GameDay all suggest Kevin got screwed.

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When you're going bad, forces align against you.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

guy called a lot of borderline strikes. replay showed it was outside

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: guy called a lot of borderline strikes. replay showed it was outside

Yeah, crappy game for Disco Stu.

[bmfc1]

Swing the damn bat. Don't let a bad ump beat you--Pawlecki is more than capable of doing that himself.

[Fman99]

'Twas a big ol shit show.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cast your vote!