IGT 09/04 - Mets at Dodgers

[Guest d'Kong76]

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Mets LH Jason Vargas (5-8, 6.56)
Dodgers LH Rich Hill (6-5, 3.59)

[Guest d'Kong76]

Rosario ss
Jackson cf
Flores 2b
Conforto lf
Frazier 3b
Bruce 1b
Plawecki c
Nimmo rf
Vargas p

Dozier 2b
Turner 3b
Machado ss
Kemp rf
Freese 1b
Hernandez cf
Taylor lf
Barnes c
Hill p

[Fman99]

Seriously. I'm on the ropes. First pitch yet to be thrown.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I can last 'til eleven... maybe

[Edgy MD]

This is a key matchup. It's the first game of the Brady Feigl era, as far as I'm concerned.

[Edgy MD]

Ka-POWIE!

Welcome back, Brucie.

[Fman99]

Bruce is up to 5 HRs! That's painful.

[Edgy MD]

Three players who hit 50 homers as a Met and as a Dodger:
[list:z9xatel2][*:z9xatel2]Piazza[/*:m:z9xatel2]
[*:z9xatel2]Hundley[/*:m:z9xatel2]
[*:z9xatel2]Um ... Eddie Murray?[/*:m:z9xatel2][/list:u:z9xatel2]

[Edgy MD]

Back to the mill for Hill!

[Fman99]

This is some good stuff. Nice blammo by Conforto against the lefty.

[Fman99]

• Piazza
• Hundley
• Um ... Eddie Murray?

Edgy MD wrote: Three players who hit 50 homers as a Met and as a Dodger:

Straw was my guess, along with Piazza as the gimme.

[Edgy MD]

Holy shit! Todd Frazier's catch was bullshit?!!

[Edgy MD]

Fman99 wrote: Piazza Hundley Um ... Eddie Murray? Three players who hit 50 homers as a Met and as a Dodger: Straw was my guess, along with Piazza as the gimme.

I don't think Straw got it done as a Dodger, nor Eddie Murray as a Met.

Jeff Kent?

[Edgy MD]

The lead hangs on the razor's edge.

Vargas is, like, early-season Vargas.

[Edgy MD]

Bruce, you were an outfielder, right?

[Edgy MD]

Very boney-headed defense in this crapticle inning.

[Edgy MD]

Mets get the call!

Let's get Handsy the win!!

[Fman99]

I went to bed just before they flushed this game down the crapper.

[Guest 41Forever]

Yup. Went to bed when they were down 5-4. Spared myself another absolute bullpen meltdown.

[bmfc1]

Edgy MD wrote: Bruce, you were an outfielder, right?

It's really great that they aren't calling up Peter Alonso on the guise of his bad defense at 1B when there is a skilled practitioner of the art there in Jay Bruce.

[Fman99]

Trivia answer was Hundley, Piazza & Kent. I had to look it up this morning. Hundley had exactly 50 HRs as a Dodger.

[Frayed Knot]

My immediate guess was Strawberry, but we tend to forget how sucky Straw was out there playing for his 'dream team'. "Me and 'E'*, we're gonna tear it up out there"

But he lasted only three years into his four year FA deal and played less than 1-1/2 years worth of games (214) during that time. Hit hit just 38 LAD HRs while batting .243 (.263 as a Met)



* fellow LA-area pal Eric Davis

[Edgy MD]

Fman99 wrote: Trivia answer was Hundley, Piazza & Kent. I had to look it up this morning. Hundley had exactly 50 HRs as a Dodger.

I win!!

At least, I won on second thought.

Consolation prize!

[Edgy MD]

Game turned to shit, though.

[MFS62]

Just goes to show what happens when Jeff McNeil isn't in the starting lineup.
(Not sure how much of that is joking. I know the game went south when he got into the game, but still ... )

Later

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: My immediate guess was Strawberry, but we tend to forget how sucky Straw was out there playing for his 'dream team'. "Me and 'E'*, we're gonna tear it up out there" But he lasted only three years into his four year FA deal and played less than 1-1/2 years worth of games (214) during that time. Hit hit just 38 LAD HRs while batting .243 (.263 as a Met)

This sort of selective amnesia is one of the things that annoyed me about 'WORST TEAM MONEY CAN BUY'
Because the writers got so much copy out of having Strawberry around they mistook column inch numbers for stat sheet numbers and cited the failure of the Mets to re-sign him to be the #1 cause of the team's crash as if Straw's decline in health and production either never happened or somehow wouldn't have happened if he didn't switch coasts.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cast your vote!