IGT 4/22/2019: PHI @ NYM -- Matz Out Of It!

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We need to be Cher to the Mets' Nicolas Cage as the battle for NL East supremacy sets down in Citi Field. Matz versus Arrieta. Harper still sucks.

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Matz out of it!

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Raining in the Metropolitan Area at the moment. In the 11368 forecast for this evening as well.

[Lefty Specialist]

Can it keep raining until deGrom is off the injured list?

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Frazier expected to be activated tonight. No corresponding move yet announced.

[G-Fafif]

Frazier, Guillorme back; Wilson to IL (elbow soreness), Sewald to Syracuse.



Cano not in lineup after non-HBP. Rosario also.out with flu symptoms.

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Start delayed.

[kcmets]

EFPT 8:45

[A Boy Named Seo]

Has Ramos been using that orange and blue catcher's mitt the whole time and I've just noticed it?

[Edgy MD]

Who is the third voice in the booth?

[HahnSolo]

Zeile was supposed to get some games in Rons absence. I guess it's him?

[Edgy MD]

Sounds right. He said he was a former-catcher.



Also has quite the whiskey voice.



Hey! Matz is getting outs and stuff!!

[Frayed Knot]

A Boy Named Seo wrote: Has Ramos been using that orange and blue catcher's mitt the whole time and I've just noticed it?

I think he's been using different mitts for different pitchers.

Not five different ones I don't think, but more than one.







And, yes, that is Mr. Zeile

Or, as our old on-line frenemy METSSC used to call him, UNZeile, for what he perceived as Todd's low energy type of demeanor.

[Edgy MD]

Todd Frazier batting 1.000.

[Edgy MD]

Way to dig out of trouble, Matzburger.

[Edgy MD]

I don't want to play in if I'm an infielder with Alonso up.

[Edgy MD]

Keeping the line moving. Two-zip, Mets over the Arrieta.

[Fman99]

Good stuff so far. Thanks for pointing out the roster moves, the Mets web site is useless as usual with that stuff.

[Edgy MD]

NA-NA-NA-NA!

NA-NA-NA-NA!

BRYCE HARPER!

GOOD-BYE!

[Fman99]

Yeah, see ya, beat it, ya bearded jackass.

[Frayed Knot]

Matz obviously better in this game than the last one but, even with just one run allowed thru 4, he's still up near 80 pitches, normally you'd like to see that get him through 5-1/3



And now is going back out there following a very quick bottom 4th

[Edgy MD]

Well, it might have been quick had Harper not acted like a harpy.

[Fman99]

These are my first looks at the Cano HBP from yesterday. Sorry, that's not a swing, I don't know what planet you're on where that's an offering at a pitch.

[Edgy MD]

Jeff McNelt is the #3 hitter on any team I manage.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

That was pretty cool. M Neil homers right after Arietta gets grumpy on a call.

[Fman99]

In other news,













[bIGPURPLE]KABOOOOOOOM![/bIGPURPLE]

[Frayed Knot]

Quinn K's on 3 pitches in his first AB of the game, and is heard to remark in the dugout afterward that he'd not seen nuthin' like that.

I guess those pitches just weren't his cup of meat.

[Fman99]

Jesus, has Guillorme ever had an MLB hit? He's brutal as a batter.

[Frayed Knot]

Luis Guillorme's walk-up music is not the obvious 'Louie Louie' but rather the Stories version of 'Brother Louie'





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Edited April 22, 2019 by Guest