IGT 7/31/2020: NYM @ ATL — I Know This Much is Truist

[MFS62]

I was there when D'Arnaud hit his first major league home run.

The Mets lost, and gave up 11 runs that day, too.

Something about him and the Mets giving up 11 runs, no matter which team he plays for.

I don't want to see him any more.



Later

[G-Fafif]

Last night was third consecutive nine-inning game the Mets lost that took them more than three-and-a-half hours to lose. That's a first in franchise history.

[Edgy MD]

The thirty-man roster! Brilliant!

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: The thirty-man roster! Brilliant!

That and the DH.

[Edgy MD]

It's somewhat counter-intuitive, isn't it? You'd think that the DH would (at least) mean shorter games because of fewer substitutions being necessary, but obviously those cuts are being more than offset in other parts of the game, and those legendary Yankee/Red Sox suckathons are going to happen everywhere now. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this wet slog version of baseball we're seeing isn't Spring Training baseball at all, but simply American League baseball.

[Frayed Knot]

The other thing is pitch count.

I saw a list a few days ago of most pitches by one team over one season in baseball history. Now that's a bit misleading in that 'baseball history' in this case means since 1988 which I guess is when reliable pitch

count data started being recorded. But that's still 30 seasons or nearly 900 team/seasons even if we toss out the shortened '94 & '95 seasons which aren't going to appear on a list of highest cumulative totals.



Anyway, the top two teams were the 2019 Red Sox and the 2019 Orioles, and I think it was six of the top 20 ever occurred in 2019

The highest 300 teams were listed and a majority of those were the most recent decade while there were all of two or three seasons from the '90s.





So lots more pitches being thrown but with many fewer being put into play ... that's a bad combination.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, I said as much a few years back but (somebody) told me that it wasn't for me to decide that this wasn't an exciting brand of play.