IGT 8/9/2019: WAS @ NYM -- A Step Up in Class

[Chad ochoseis]

Meanwhile, some scoreboard watching:



In Milwaukee, Hunter Pence helps out by scoring on a wild pitch and tying the game for the Rangers.



In San Francisco, the Giants are beating the Phillies 1-0.



If the Brewers and Phillies lose, the Mets wake up tomorrow leading the race for the second WC spot.



OE - forgot about those pesky Cardinals, who are up 5-2 in the 8th against Pittsburgh and will be in a virtual tie with the Mets if they win.

[Edgy MD]

I can think of two or three reasons not to send Lagares up to bunt there. Maybe more if I really try hard.



But apart from that, fuck me, that was damn near a perfect baseball game.

[Lefty Specialist]

Lefty Jr was watching MASN in DC and he said the broadcast team was apoplectic.

[whippoorwill]

Hot dog!

[Edgy MD]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: That inning had the biggest hit of Rosario's, Panik's, Frazier's and maybe Conforto's Met careers

I think Don Hahn's and Darren Reed's too.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Ramos too, maybe

[bmfc1]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Lefty Jr was watching MASN in DC and he said the broadcast team was apoplectic.

I had MASN on mute with Howie sync'd but MASN went to commercial only 30 seconds after the winning run scored. Cowards.

[bmfc1]

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[TransMonk]

Now that was a game!

[Edgy MD]

We can call this game The Doolittle Raid Game.



I'd like to point out that Rosario's offensive improvement is on an almost parallel pace with his defensive improvement. That run-saving, jumpin', snagged liner was exactly the sort of play he wasn't making last year when his movements were like a marionette's.

[Lefty Specialist]

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[Fman99]

Wasn't in the Pool for this but watched nearly all of it, minus a 30-40 minute interruption to go watch Fboy's beach volleyball game (during which I had the audio on via my phone/XM).



What a great damn game.



Thoughts, though - mostly about Mickey still being terrible.



1. The Alonso challenge, which he really had no chance of winning. He seems to use these specifically on bad challenges as "Hail Mary" attempts to get a break

2. Leaving Stroman in to start the 7th when he clearly labored through innings 5-6.

3. Sending Lagares up to bunt when everyone worth their salt knows he can't bunt, and you've got a bench full of pitchers who practice bunting. Funny, too, that Howie knew to call this out, because GKR didn't even really touch on the point that it was a poor managerial decision.



Winning despite all that, plus Ramos/Avilan's mental biff allowing the 6th run to score, is pretty amazin'

[MFS62]

This was like putting on an old pair of pants and finding money in the pocket.

Later

[bmfc1]

Thoughts, though - mostly about Mickey still being terrible. 1. The Alonso challenge, which he really had no chance of winning. He seems to use these specifically on bad challenges as "Hail Mary" attempts to get a break

I think that sometimes if a player makes the "challenge" sign Mickey will challenge the call just to show that he supports his player.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

All of our enemies won their games last night. To think of how close we came to a bad bad night. I hat baseball night. Geez

[Benjamin Grimm]

I just finished watching the game on TiVo delay. Wow, that was fun!

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: And if nothing else I'd have certainly called it off after the first rather lame-looking stab.

Lame-looking stabs are what passes for bunting these days. Some guys (most guys) do it better than Lagares, but I'm telling you, almost everybody bunts wrong, and even a higher percentage of righthanders, and I don't know how the art has been lost and nobody in baseball seems to notice or care.



Fuck it, I'm writing to Chili Davis.

[Edgy MD]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: All of our enemies won their games last night. To think of how close we came to a bad bad night. I hat baseball night. Geez

Yabbut ... the Nats were at least one enemy who didn't win.

[G-Fafif]

Nah, http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2019/08/10/impossible-to-not-believe/this didn't really happen.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Nah, http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/2019/08/10/impossible-to-not-believe/this didn't really happen.

lol

[Edgy MD]

I read that out loud to my wife and dog.

[G-Fafif]

Edgy MD wrote: I read that out loud to my wife and dog.

All the species have Wild Card Fever.

[Edgy MD]

My dog is all about the division.



"You're getting ahead of yourself," I say. But she's all "Woof."

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

The Lagares bunt, the Avilan wild pitch, the Stroman 7th inning leadoff walk. Any or all of those mistakes cost the FHaMs a game. The SHaMs are like, fuck it



Also the 2nd and 3rd failure in the 4th or 5th.

[Edgy MD]

And if Conforto and McNeil collided on the warning track for the FHaMs, rather than contributing to a comeback win, they would have each been out for three months or more.

[batmagadanleadoff]

How long before SNY replays this game? I bet it'lll be within a week or two. The "shirt" game might even eventuallly come to replace the "Matt Franco" game as SNY's most replayed game. Also, Stephen Strasburg was the starting pitcher in what are two of the greatest regular season games played at Citi Field: last night's "shirt" game and the "Harvey's better" game.

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[G-Fafif]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: The Lagares bunt, the Avilan wild pitch, the Stroman 7th inning leadoff walk. Any or all of those mistakes cost the FHaMs a game. The SHaMs are like, fuck it Also the 2nd and 3rd failure in the 4th or 5th.

My reporter's notebook was filled with the mistakes that were going to contribute to just one loss that, still, would have been great to have won. Oh well, let's get ‘em tomorrow.



By the bottom of the ninth it didn't occur to me we'd get ‘em tonight.

[batmagadanleadoff]

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How long before SNY replays this game? I bet it'lll be within a week or two.

[Frayed Knot]

The Alonso challenge, which [Mickey] really had no chance of winning. He seems to use these specifically on bad challenges as "Hail Mary" attempts to get a break

And often quite early in the game.

If you're going to try for a 'Hail Mary' reversal, do so in a crucial late-inning situation where a call going your way can possibly turn a game.









Just re-watched the bottom of the 9th.



-- What a fucking bolt by Frazier!! I know I'm not breaking any news here but I'm not sure we've seen him hit anything that hard or that far and only fair/foul kept us in suspense for those two or three milli-seconds.

It came right after Keith said how well TF has hit LHPs this year.



-- Doolittle faced eight batters including three LHBs (which is probably what prompted mgr Martinez to keep him in the game) retiring just two of them and that includes the one who was trying to make an out.

Oddly, the only man he actually got out was McNeil.

He's faced the Mets more than any other team this season and they're pasting him to a .471/.514/.735 // 1249 clip [16 for 34 plus 2 BB and a HBP]. 19 Runs given up this season; 10 of them to the NYM



-- That was a pretty tough pitch Conforto hit and he hit it a lot harder than I initially thought. Inside corner fastball from a LHP, that pitch jams most lefty swingers (and probably Conforto in most ABs) but he

"turned on it" as Keith would (and did) say enough to get the barrel on it and it was no 'lofted' fly over a drawn-in OF. That was a liner landing on the warning track that beats any defense except maybe an

extreme 'No Doubles' shift. Eaton never came close to laying a glove anywhere near it. I see where they gave him credit only for a single so I guess he only reached the vicinity of 2nd base



-- Maybe the funniest thing in that dog pile out behind 2nd base was that Dom got out there on his little scooter thing to join in.