IGT 8/29: NYM @ CHC, Like We Didn't Already Lose Once Today

[seawolf17]

Thankfully, we have... /checks internet

...Jason Vargas starting Game 2. Oy.

City Dwellers:
Rosario SS
McNeil 2B
Jackson CF
Bruce 1B
Conforto LF
Frazier 3B
Nimmo RF
Plawecki C
Vargas P (0-12, 8.45)

Baby Bears:
Schwarber LF
Almora CF
Zobrist 2B
Rizzo 1B
Bote SS
Contreras C
LaStella 3B
Mills P (second major league start, went 5 2/3 and gave up one run vs Reds Friday)
Happ RF

[seawolf17]

Cubs' 26th man will be RHP James Norwood, who will probably pitch the seventh and strike out the side or something.

Mets' 26th man will be RHP Jacob Rhame, who will probably be bitten by a runaway mountain lion and miss the next 10-12 months.

[seawolf17]

Todd Frazier busts out the whooping stick with a salami and it's 4-0 good guys in the top of the first!

[bmfc1]

deGrom high-fives Frazier and then goes into the locker room to scream.

[bmfc1]

And there's another unforced error where the Mets give up an out.

[Edgy MD]

Man, 8-1. Sheesh guys, it's like you want to make it particularly hard on deGrom.

[A Boy Named Seo]

5 ribeyes for Frazier today. Everybody in on the ass-kicking.

[Benjamin Grimm]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Everybody in on the ass-kicking.

But virtually nobody in on the IGT!



Cast your vote!

[Fman99]

I was at the state fair, getting crunked. I watched a good chunk of this game on the replay though.

[Frayed Knot]

I watched this game on delay and just realized that I had yet to erase it. But before I did, I forwarded it to the spot in the top of the 3rd inning spot Conforto got picked off (once replay review was employed) to end the inning. I wanted to check that play because, you may recall, Gary, and to a lesser degree, Ron, got into a discussion over the amount of time it took Madden to ask for the replay which, they said, was clearly over the allotted time.

What I found:
-- it was 50 seconds before the umps walked over the get the headphones on (about 55 until they were putting them on). That's 20+ seconds after the umps should have resumed play and told Madden to go screw.
-- it was then another 1:25 before reaching a decision. There have been promises of time limits since the beginning of the NFL's replay system now nearly four decades ago, but the next time those are enforced will be the first time because once you align yourself with the church of "getting it right" then there's no limit to what plays can be reviewed and how long they can be studied before reaching a conclusion
-- and, since that was the final play of the inning, it was another 2:25 until the first pitch of the next half-inning (should be 2:05)

Time between pitches = 4:45