IGT 8/19 Mets @ Marlins -- A Jake in the Grass

[Frayed Knot]

The third game of this four-game set sees Jake deGrom return after one missed start to face 24 y/o Pablo [CROSSOUT]Cruise[/CROSSOUT] Lopez already in his third season for Miami

The Mets beat Lopez ten days ago although he didn't pitched badly and has just a 2.25 ERA over his three starts. His ERA for the previous 21 starts in his career however is just south of 5.00



Lineups to follow, probably by someone who pays attention to Twitter ... iow, not me.

[Edgy MD]

You don't needs the Twitter. You can get lineups https://www.mlb.com/starting-lineupshere probably as early as anywhere elbus.

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[TD] Brandon Nimmo (L) cf Michael Conforto (L) rf J.D. Davis (R) 3b Dominic Smith (L) lf Robinson Cano (L) dh Pete Alonso (R) 1b Luis Guillorme (L) 2b Wilson Ramos (R) c Amed Rosario (R) ss Jake deGrom (R), p [/TD]	[TD] Magneuris Sierra (L) cf Jesus Aguilar (R) 1b Corey Dickerson (L) lf Matt Joyce (L) dh Brian Anderson (R) 3b Francisco Cervelli (R) c Eddy Alvarez (S) ss Logan Forsythe (R) 2b Lewis Brinson (R) rf Pablo Lopez (R), p [/TD]

[Lefty Specialist]

Score some runs for him please. And he'll probably only go 5, so score them early.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Marlins home white jersey looks nice, even if the home uni should bear the name of the team and not the city

[whippoorwill]

Wow Pablo Cruise was great

[Edgy MD]

That GOYA logo on the back of the mound is some bullshit.

[Frayed Knot]

Wow Pablo Cruise was great

Now there's a sentence I never expected to read.







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Edited August 19, 2020 by Guest

[bmfc1]

Yeah, usually when I think of Goya I think of the Oval Office.

[bmfc1]

Every game against the Marlins I pay no mind to their manager and soon enough, every game, he gives me a reason to think, "shove it up your ass, Mattingly!"

[Edgy MD]

It seems all the umps this series have had big zones.



Hasn't made the games go particularly faster, but ...

[Edgy MD]

This Pablo Lopey guy is on a roll.

[Edgy MD]

Alvarez looks like he has a 1990 cell phone in his pocket.

[Edgy MD]

I thought Guillorme was in there.



OE: nope.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: This Pablo Lopey guy is on a roll.

It helps that he's only had to retire 5 innings worth of hitters in order to get thru 6 innings thx to GiDPs and other erased runners.

[Frayed Knot]

Alonso robs Aguilar ... Jesus wept.

[Edgy MD]

The Marlins are fast and the Mets have come up short on a few DP opportunities today.



They have to get their 27 outs one at a time. And here comes the first run.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

=whippoorwill post_id=44205 time=1597880627 user_id=79]
Wow Pablo Cruise was great

[Frayed Knot]

The Marlins hit three potential GiDP balls here in the 7th inning yet we've turned those three into a total of two outs.

Our side, on the other hand, are real good at turning grounders into multiple outs.

[bmfc1]

I saw Pablo Cruise 3 years ago and I'm a fan but it was a long night. I could have used a crisp, hour-long hits set rather than a full headliner set with an intermission. There was a long gap where I just looked at my phone following the Mets while waiting for their 3 biggest hits:

https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pablo-cruise/2017/bethesda-blues-and-jazz-supper-club-bethesda-md-53e2db81.htmlhttps://www.setlist.fm/setlist/pablo-cruise/2017/bethesda-blues-and-jazz-supper-club-bethesda-md-53e2db81.html

And now back to the game.

[Frayed Knot]

Nimmo hunts walks too often.

[kcmets]

Yeah, swing the bat, he got rung up twice on same pitch looking.



And then laughed.

[Edgy MD]

I take back what I said about Canó. Dom Smith is the guy whose at-bats I don't want to miss.

[Fman99]

Dom Smith hits the ball with his big middle of the order dong and brings in a run. My hero!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

During this pitching change, get into the fresh instrumental break here around 2:00 in, pianny/keyboard solo into "Yee-hah!" into geetar solo.



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[nymr83]

Edgy MD wrote: I take back what I said about Canó. Dom Smith is the guy whose at-bats I don't want to miss.

yup. Screw Cespedes, addition by subtraction creating ABs for this guy!



Also, when you name your kid 'Josh Smith' do you imagine he'll be in a class or on a baseball team with another Josh Smith one day?

[Edgy MD]

Alonso with the happy bases here. Give us some contact, man.

[Edgy MD]

Not quite.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Edgy MD wrote: I take back what I said about Canó. Dom Smith is the guy whose at-bats I don't want to miss. yup. Screw Cespedes, addition by subtraction creating ABs for this guy! Also, when you name your kid 'Josh Smith' do you imagine he'll be in a class or on a baseball team with another Josh Smith one day?

One of them should change their name to something more exciting like Josh Satin

[nymr83]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I take back what I said about Canó. Dom Smith is the guy whose at-bats I don't want to miss. yup. Screw Cespedes, addition by subtraction creating ABs for this guy! Also, when you name your kid 'Josh Smith' do you imagine he'll be in a class or on a baseball team with another Josh Smith one day? One of them should change their name to something more exciting like Josh Satin

Satin is too close to Satan which would be frowned upon in Florida where you can't call yourselves the "Devil Rays"

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I gotta say I can't even tell if the Mets are good or other team sucks most nights anymore.