IGT 9/13/19 - Dodgers @ Mets

[kcmets]

Frazier yucking it up with Belinger at first down 7-1.

[Frayed Knot]

So three tack-on runs after two were out and nobody on.

That's what that 5th inning was like in Chicago today, except more than twice as long and producing seven runs with hit after hit (and some bad defense mixed in) to the

point where you weren't sure if it was ever going to end.

[LWFS]

People make a lot of the Dodgers' talent, and they do have a lot of it.



But they've just plain outplayed us tonight-- hitting against the shift, running hard, working deep into counts-- too.

[Edgy MD]

I'm feeling good about Alonso pinch-hitting here.

[Edgy MD]

Cool. A four-pitch walk.



There isn't a new rule that says Lowrie has to bat here, right? They can still send up Nimmo, right?

[LWFS]

Roberts looked like he was about to leave Kershaw in until Lowrie was announced. If I were Callaway, I might have left walky-walky Nimmo in to PH.

[LWFS]

So... burn Lowrie, then?

[Edgy MD]

I guess they can.

[LWFS]

Rosario looks like he's playing defense up there.

[MFS62]

If Diaz doesn't pitch in this game, we know he floating in the sewer deep beneath the Empire State Building.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Maybe they should have run for Alonso.



On the other hand, the throw was so good that maybe it's good they didn't. They might have sent Matz and seen him cut down.

[Edgy MD]

Fleb.

[LWFS]

Do you maneuver to keep Alonso in the game at this point?

[Gwreck]

Might not have necessarily, but with Davis making the last out, sure.

[LWFS]

I don't know if these bullpen dudes are afraid of not being able to escape in time ICOE, or whether they just don't want to climb too many flights en route to work, but outside of Familia, nobody wants off the ESB ground floor.

[Gwreck]

I understand we are unlikely to win, but still. If you are unable to take a free hit, Robinson Cano, then you need to take bunting practice every single day until you learn.

[Edgy MD]

That, of course, goes to everybody on the team.



And everybody in the minor league system.



An everybody that wants to be on the team.



And everybody that wants to be in the minor league system.

[LWFS]

AND Bellinger's sprinting in the ninth on a dribbler when they're up 9-2, because he's got a shot at a hit.

[Edgy MD]

AND Todd swings 2-0 down seven in the bottom of the ninth.



He should have to walk home after that.

[Frayed Knot]

If I were the replay umps I'd have turned down that challenge even if the evidence showed otherwise, just to reward Bellinger for the hustle and to punish Lockett for his laziness.

[Frayed Knot]

And yet another 3-1/2 hour game in a season full of them.

Edited September 13, 2019 by Guest

[kcmets]

Miserable game.

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: If I were the replay umps I'd have turned down that challenge even if the evidence showed otherwise, just to reward Bellinger for the hustle and to punish Lockett for his laziness.

Plenty of punishment to go around for this one - a lot of flat Schaefer, just like their performance.

Later

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Mets did everything wrong from the start in this game, including having lines at the entrance so congested and slow that me and thousands of others missed the first 2.5 innings. More people were outside than in.



I have little sympathy for those who show up too late to get in on time, and due to meeting up with a bunch of folks all arriving separately got a later start than I would have intended (Wifey Bucket + Lunchpail had separate tix and they went in ahead of us) but getting in line at 6:50 for a 7:10 game ought to be enough for a competent and adequately staffed organization to get us through even on amateur night. Instead it took an hour. An hour! They gave out "free shirts" at the entrance but not the ones advertised, they ran out of those.



The game was the same, they were just unprepared for and overwhelmed by the visitors.

[Gwreck]

That was my experience as well. And it is completely fixable: hire enough people and get enough security screening points set up to move people in faster. But the Mets can't be bothered.



Nevermind the fact that the security theater is so offensively ineffective. And that having thousands of fans stuck outside in those lines creates an exponentially greater safety risk.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

there has to be a more effective way to let the Mets know how unacceptable this is than mad-tweeting them

[cal sharpie]

Got in on time entering in the right field entrance but lotta folks came in in the 3rd or 4th inning. It was kinda cold so happy for the crappy t-shirt. Game was terrible and too many Dodger fans. Mariska Hargetay came out to throw a first pitch and then some corporate guy came out to also throw a first pitch (second pitch?). Mariska's was much better thrown.

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=kcmets post_id=21894 time=1568428444 user_id=53]Miserable game.