Mets/Yankees IGT 8/28/20 Game One. They'll SURELY score for Wacha!

[Benjamin Grimm]

I had forgotten that I'm responsible for today's IGT!

[MFS62]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: I had forgotten that I'm responsible for today's IGT!

No problem.

If you were responsible for a bar tab, we would have reminded you.

Later

[G-Fafif]

McNeil 2B

J.D. Davis 3B

Conforto RF

Alonso 1B

Canó DH

Ramos C

D. Smith LF

Marisnick CF

Rosario SS



Wacha RHP (1-2, 6.43)

[ashie62]

It's a Jake Marisnick sighting. Dom draws LF



LFGM!

[Frayed Knot]

I think they're starting to sour on Nimmo, not as an overall player but certainly as a CF'er. The last few games haven't helped him much there.

Billy Hamilton was in CF in last night's (faux) starting lineup and now Marisnick, two guys who have barely been w/the team all year.

[Frayed Knot]

Quickie MFY KTE (as I've seen almost none of their games this season):



-- 16-11 but that's after losing their last 5 straight (TBR x 3 then a DH to the Braves) and are suddenly 2.5 games in back of Tampa in the AL East



-- Anyone who had 1st sacker Luke Voit as the team's leading HR hitter step up and collect your prize. The former 22nd round pick by StL now has 46 HRs as a NYY (11 this season) in a little over

one full season's worth of games (180) after hitting all of five in pieces of two seasons (70 games) w/the Cards. The Yanx traded Chasen Shreve to get him back on the 2018 trading deadline



-- Of course part of the reason Voit is leading the team is that Giancarlo Stanton (3 HRs) is out (stop the presses!!) and Aaron Judge (9) is out, DJ LeMahieu (2) is out, and now Gleyber Torres (1) is also out

Those four combined to hit 712 HRs (or something close to that) in 2019



-- Catcher Gary Sanchez, who seems to lurch between being very dangerous and a complete mess, is currently in the 'mess' stage: .139/.253/.361 in 72 ABs

On defense he's constantly a mess. Brett Gardner (36 y/o) might also be slip-slidin' towards his sell-by date: .172/.290/.362



-- We'll see lefty Jordan Montgomery is the 1st game: 4 starts this year, 19.1 IP, 10 Runs on 18 Hits, 3 BB, 14 K, 3 HR

He missed the back half of 2018 and most of 2019 with UCL surgery.



-- They can go fuck themselves.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Wacha getting Whacka-ed

[bmfc1]

The Mets top of the 1st was over in seconds. This half-inning feels like an hour already.

[Edgy MD]

Here's a strategy. If there's a game situation, try to pitch to this Ford guy.

[Edgy MD]

Well, either Wacha found himself, or there's a big falloff from the front to the back side of the Yankees' lineup.

[Frayed Knot]

Down 2-0 while we're still waiting for our first contact with a pitch.

And you hate coughing up two runs in an inning where they hit ONE ball hard.

[ashie62]

31 pitches by Wacha in the first inning on a doubleheader day

[Edgy MD]

Let's make some contact, Mets.



OE: Thanks, Canó!

[Frayed Knot]

I think Wacha threw as many pitches to Sanchez as Montgomery did in the entire first inning (13).

And I wasn't exactly high on Alonso breaking the K-streak.

[Frayed Knot]

Have NYM batters swung at a strike yet?

[LWFS]

I don't think they're going to be scoring much for Wacha today.



Remember when some people thought JD Davis was a good defensive third base option? Ole!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Michael Whack-a

[Edgy MD]

The Mets are chasing and the Yanks not today.



Nice to see Marizzy lay off the junk.

[LWFS]

Junky, but it's dropping off the table like Johan's so far. I knew his change was good, but so far, it's been otherworldly.

[Edgy MD]

Rosario is looking up from the bottom of deep, dark hole.

[Frayed Knot]

Wacha: 31 pitches in the 1st inning

Montgomery: 32 pitches thru 2 outs in the 3rd

[ashie62]

We're almost halfway home in an hour. This game feels very uphill. The Mets just don't hit much this year, yet anyway

[Edgy MD]

We need action in the pen and we need it fast.



Before this game's part of the past.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I just remembered that this is a seven-inning game. Less time to catch up, but it's looking like there's plenty of time to fall further behind.

[Frayed Knot]

Problem with being down by four runs (no matter how many innings you get) is that we'll need at least 20 baserunners just to cash in four of them.

[ashie62]

I feel badly for Alonso. He was so excited to start the season and he is just not getting it done

[Lefty Specialist]

=ashie62 post_id=44962 time=1598649354 user_id=90]
I feel badly for Alonso. He was so excited to start the season and he is just not getting it done

[bmfc1]

If it's a change-up out of the strikezone you know that Pete will be swinging at it.

[ashie62]

Pretty much



Maybe a deep prospect or two could get called up and distinguish themselves

[Frayed Knot]

Maybe they should try NOT swinging with soggy rolled-up newspapers.

The contact might be a bit better with something else (say wood maybe) and a ball might possibly get out of the infield.