IGT - 9/15/20; Mets @ Philly

[Frayed Knot]

So I hear there's a ballgame tonight. A division game even. Those are important ... or so I'm told.



Phils are coming off losing five times in their ridonculous and just-concluded Seven Game series against Miami

If was enough to see the Marlins pass the Phils and take 2nd place in the NLE

Phils sit 2.5 ahead of us and 1.5 behind the Fish



Rick Porcello vs Jake Arrieta

We didn't hit Arrieta last time. Everyone hit Porcello last time (and the time before that, and the ti ...)

[batmagadanleadoff]

It's a pitching match-up of over-the-hill Cy Young award winners!



Tomorrow's the marquee match-up --- deGrom v. Nola! Reserve your tickets now, before they're all gone!



And a Phillie transaction from today: Philadelphia Phillies placed 1B Rhys Hoskins on the 10-day injured list. Left elbow strain.

[Edgy MD]

I heard he's planning on changing his name to Rhys Football Team. OHHHHHH!!!!!

[ashie62]

Rhys n' Swine.



Gotta win Mets!

[Edgy MD]

Bryce? Jean? Didi? That's a lot of females in the Phillies lineup today.



Finally living up to their nickname!

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[TD] Brandon Nimmo*, cf Michael Conforto* rf J.D. Davis, 3b Dominic Smith*, 1b Robinson Cano*, 2b Pete Alonso, dh Jeff McNeil*, lf Andres Gimenez*, ss Wilson Ramos, c Rick Porcello, sp[/TD]	[TD] Andrew McCutchen, dh Bryce Harper*, rf Alec Bohm, 1b Didi Gregorius*, ss Jean Segura, 3b Scott Kingery, 2b Andrew Knapp#, c Kyle Garlick, lf Roman Quin#, cf Jake Arrieta, sp[/TD]

McCutchen dh-ing means he won't be able to help out by getting caught watching flies to deep left, expecting them to go foul.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Alonso with bases loaded, no score, 2 out here.





THIS IS THE WHOLE GAME HERE

Please do something good

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

overanxious on an inside strike, foul ball, strike 1

Ball 1 way outside

Pop out to shallow center.



Turning on islanders

[whippoorwill]

Edgy MD wrote: Bryce? Jean? Didi? That's a lot of females in the Phillies lineup today. Finally living up to their nickname! [TABLE][TR][/TR][TR][/TR][/TABLE] [TH][FIMG=200]https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81V7Xb1zkRL.jpg[/FIMG][/TH] [TH][FIMG=200]https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/815ajHAYuSL._AC_SL1500_.jpg[/FIMG][/TH] [TD] Brandon Nimmo*, cf Michael Conforto* rf J.D. Davis, 3b Dominic Smith*, 1b Robinson Cano*, 2b Pete Alonso, dh Jeff McNeil*, lf Andres Gimenez*, ss Wilson Ramos, c Rick Porcello, sp[/TD] [TD] Andrew McCutchen, dh Bryce Harper*, rf Alec Bohm, 1b Didi Gregorius*, ss Jean Segura, 3b Scott Kingery, 2b Andrew Knapp#, c Kyle Garlick, lf Roman Quin#, cf Jake Arrieta, sp[/TD] McCutchen dh-ing means he won't be able to help out by getting caught watching flies to deep left, expecting them to go foul.

One female is missing...he ran out of pink bandaids

[kcmets]

Turned on the TV and Pete ends an inning with men on base. I don't track

these things but feels like it's at least once per game. Likely more.

[Edgy MD]

Porky has the bases loaded out and the Phils are sending up a fourth-inning pinch-hitter in Hasely.

[bmfc1]

See that Mets: that's called a 2-out hit with runners in scoring position.

[Edgy MD]

And it's 2-zip.



The part missing from Porcello's game seems to be a pitch he can get guys to chase. He's got to throw strikes, because breaking stuff outside the zone is just an exercise in getting behind the count.

[Edgy MD]

Conforto saves the Earth once more.

[Fman99]

Kerplingy! there for Nimmo

[Edgy MD]

A BB by Didi and the Mets are in a hole.

[Fman99]

Rick Porcello can eat a big bag of wet shit for all I care

[Frayed Knot]

So they get multiple two out RBI hits while we get multiple runners on multiple times and don't score at all.

Sounds about right

[Frayed Knot]

85 pitches for Arrieta through five and maybe 50 of those were with runners on.





And NOW Cano notches a hit!!!

[Edgy MD]

That pitch Alonso just popped up was a hunk of meat that would have been devoured by Alonso 19.

[Edgy MD]

That was some Corsican Brothers shit there. Arrieta hits Gimenez in the thigh and then grabs his thigh in the exact same spot.

[Edgy MD]

Man, Ramos just feels like a double play in a box this season.

[Fman99]

Of course Ramos kills that rally with a GIDP. Never saw that coming. In other news, the sun is big and hot.

[Edgy MD]

First pitch swinging against a guy just into the game.

[Frayed Knot]

Gary: "And the Mets continue to waste opportunities"



It's come to the point where I don't even consider runners on base to be opportunities anymore. It's more like we're in a hole in those kind of situations.

[bmfc1]

What a big sack of human excrement Ramos has been. And you know that he'll lose 20 pounds this off-season, sign a one-year deal, say that he was distracted with the new baby and Covid, and have a great year for someone else. For now, they might as well waive his fat ass.

[Frayed Knot]

So the Philly pen has given up nearly one run per inning over the course of this season so far ... so let's see how many we can notch off them tonight over 3-2/3 inning.

I'm guessing the answer will be negative one, that we'll be so bad over these closing innings that the one run we already had will somehow wind up being erased and

the Phils staff winds up with a combined shutout.

[Frayed Knot]

And, once again, the leadoff hit proves to be a deterrent to scoring.

[Edgy MD]

Gary's wrong. He says Aparicio is the only MLB offensive player to play only one position his whole career, but https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/smithoz01.shtmlOzzie Smith never played anywhere but shortstop.

[bmfc1]

Frayed Knot wrote: And, once again, the leadoff hit proves to be a deterrent to scoring.

The key to beating the Mets is giving up a leadoff double.

[Frayed Knot]

And now the 8th inning is doomed as another leadoff batter reaches.

The only question now is whether it will require three batters to end the inning or whether we can GiDP again.