IGT 7/2 The Pulse is Getting Stronger MFY vs NYM 7:10 PM

[MFS62]

James Paxton 5-3 4.34

Jason Vargas 3-3 3.66



Posting this early to give Fmann time to prepare one of his classic KTEs.



Later

[MFS62]

I hope the series in London turned the MFY bullpen into an International disaster.

Don't let them use jet lag as an excuse.



Later

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Tuesday Night Met Club taking this one in from the nosebleeds

[kcmets]

Anyone else feel the Subway Series seems a little vacant and not as meaningful

since Jeter no longer participates?

[G-Fafif]

The Mets who will try to get themselves up for facing the Jeterless...



McNeil RF

Alonso 1B

Davis LF

Frazier 3B

Cano 2B

Ramos C

Conforto CF

Rosario SS

Wheeler P

[bmfc1]

The bullpen that Brodie put together is back: Wilson, Avilan, Familia return, along with Luis Guillermo. Mazza had one appearance, Saturday, 4 innings, 1 run... and done (for now).

[G-Fafif]

Mazza, who followed in the great tradition of Matz and Zamora as Met pitchers sporting at least one "A," "M" and "Z" and debuting in my presence, made an unsuccessful but widely appreciated dive for a foul ball Saturday. Let there be more to his legacy -- and may the Mets never list him as deceased while he still draws breath.

[Edgy MD]

Suddenly, there are two lefties in the pen.



Call me cwazy, but hadn't Poundcake and Mozzarella been pretty much as close to "effective" as anybody of late?

[batmagadanleadoff]

https://twitter.com/AnthonyDiComo/status/1146140380393553923 The bullpen that Brodie put together is back: Wilson, Avilan, Familia return, along with Luis Guillermo. Mazza had one appearance, Saturday, 4 innings, 1 run... and done (for now).

"The Mets bullpen is unrecognizable from just a day ago.", tweets Anthony DiComo?



The Mets bullpen of a day ago was unrecognizable.

[Frayed Knot]

=kcmets post_id=14844 time=1562092230 user_id=53]
Anyone else feel the Subway Series seems a little vacant and not as meaningful

since Jeter no longer participates?

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Kendrys Morales was just SL'd (Seeya Later dude) aka: DFA'd just six weeks after trading (probably not much) to get him.

That's a 2015 Royal right there.



Mostly held in check by the Mets pitchers in the World Series, but still.

[Edgy MD]

First time out of the three-hole for Canny?

[Frayed Knot]

First time since way back in Sunday's game, yeah.

Looks like twice before also, all times in the 5-slot.

[Frayed Knot]

So, so far, this game is typical of recent NYM games:

- our pitcher, despite allowing no (1st inning) baserunners, needed close to two innings worth of pitches (24) just to get through the opening frame

- our offense allowed their hurler to get through an inning having to only retire two batters

[bmfc1]

Ramos showing more and more why he was a Brodie Van Mistake. He's now only the starting catcher 3/5 of the time:

https://nypost.com/2019/07/02/mets-let-noah-syndergaard-dump-ramos-in-sudden-trend/https://nypost.com/2019/07/02/mets-let-noah-syndergaard-dump-ramos-in-sudden-trend/

[Frayed Knot]

53 pitches to get thru 2 innings even though these peckerheads haven't hit a ball hard yet.

[Frayed Knot]

So now thru two innings Paxton has only had to retire four batters.

And so it goes.

[Frayed Knot]

McNeil's foot speed forced Paxton to actually retire three batters in the third ... although, when you think about it, one was on a bad bunt by someone trying to make an out so he's really only

had to retire six batters so far this game.







And Wheeler is at five innings worth of throws w/2 outs in the 4th

[bmfc1]

Stop telling them to bunt you dope.

[Frayed Knot]

So our .300+ hitting pitcher can't bunt, and their non-hitting pitcher does it perfectly twice.

[G-Fafif]

This game is being very careful to suck.

[G-Fafif]

Now a little less careful.

[Fman99]

Watching on YES as I don't get WPIX. These announcers suck all of the ass.



Sorry I did not do a KTE. John Sterling is still a jackass. Suzyn Waldman still wears giant old lady panties. And now you know.

[Edgy MD]

Get your bunts down. Avoid double plays.



Under-rated baseball values.

[Frayed Knot]

I don't want to say that Justin Wilson has been gone for a long time ... but I had no idea what he looked like.







John Sterling, btw, is about to break his long streak on Yanqui radio.

He hasn't missed a game since he was hired (early '90s?) but will skip their upcoming trip to Tampa

[bmfc1]

Justin Wilson uses a Wilson glove.

[Edgy MD]

I would hope so. Dominic Smith uses Smith Brothers cough drops, too.

[Edgy MD]

Still time to redeem himself, but Michael Conforto has had a smelly game.



It'd be cool if he could face a righty next time and show his merit.

[Edgy MD]

Is Oscar Gamble on the mound?

[Edgy MD]

Man Doc Octopus is a slow-assed pitcher. Like Trachsel slow.