ISTGT 2021 — None of This Counts

[Edgy MD]

Can we please standardize the size of the fake people to something like human proportion?

[Edgy MD]

Interesting interview with Blevins here where he acknowleges getting pitching tips off the hitting coach.

[Edgy MD]

Stephen Nogosek has inherited Tim Tebow's number and Craig Swan's face.

[Edgy MD]

Nogosek throws one of the most action-free tie-game ninth innings you'll ever see — BB – BB – SO – SO – WP – BB – full-count SO.



Something like 35 pitches, no fair balls.



Somebody's got to reintroduce the contact hitter to baseball.

[Edgy MD]

Game ends at 4-4.



Very much a spring game. Nobody wins. Nobody really trying to.

[Edgy MD]

More of a PSTGT post, but the Mets absorbed a 9-5 loss to the Nationals today, with three errata leading to three unearned runz.



Jordan Yamamoto, who executed one of the errors, took the loss. Jake Hager, who came into camp with something like four people to pass in order to make the team, whacked his second spring homer, driving in three, while Mark Vientos went 2-2, with two dubbles, scoring twice, and upping his OPS to a head-turning 2.125.

[Edgy MD]

Holy shit! The Cardinals have TWO thirdbasemen named "Nolan"!

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[TH][FIMG=250]https://stlbaseballweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Joe-Torre-Cardinals-Manager.jpg[/FIMG] CARDINALS[/TH]	[TH][FIMG=250]https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-IqLYAhVyj-8/WiGXiIiw8CI/AAAAAAABARE/4_NjJC6ZtsQMGF-YSM1Mt4LvUr8ftqIPQCLcBGAs/s320/450888702.jpg[/FIMG] METS[/TH]
	Matt Carpenter*, 2b Nolan Gorman*, 3b Yadier Molina, c Austin Dean, lf Justin Williams*, rf Andrew Knizner, dh Edmundo Sosa, ss Evan Mendoza, 1b Scott Hurst*, cf [/TD]	[TD] Kevin Pillar, cf Jeff McNeil*, 2b Pete Alonso, 1b Dom Smith*, dh James McCann, c Jonathan Villar#, ss Brandon Drury, 3b Albert Almora, Jr., rf Huggy Bear Fargas*, lf
[TH]Carlos Martinez, rhp[/TH]	[TH]Taijuan Walker, rhp[/TH]

[Benjamin Grimm]

Huggy Bear Fargas????

[kcmets]

The locksmith is seeing if we're paying attention?

[Edgy MD]

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[kcmets]

Lol, I never would have "gotten" that. Didn't watch S & H much.

[Willets Point]

Edgy MD wrote: Holy shit! The Cardinals have TWO thirdbasemen named "Nolan"!

There's https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/n/nolanth01.shtmlsomeone who would not want to play on the Cardinals and ruin his nickname.

[A Boy Named Seo]

Looks like today is on SNY. 99 WALKER on the bump.

[TransMonk]

I have a three hour phone meeting this afternoon that could have easily been an email. I'm going to try to keep my attention on the game...my first of the spring.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I'm all meetinged up today too suckzzzz

[A Boy Named Seo]

I am meeting the Mets. Eff u, work.

[Edgy MD]

A one-two-three inning for [fimg=15]https://icons.iconarchive.com/icons/jonathan-rey/star-wars-vehicles/256/Tie-Fighter-03-icon.png[/fimg]-1.



Two strikeouts and then a grounder to third by Molina, and Drury honored regular-season tradition by taking his time to make Molina run all the way to first.

[LWFS]

Mike Shildt is the manager of the Cardinals.



This is a fact I JUST learned now, despite the attendant facts that he has been so for four seasons and won NL Manager of the Year in 2019.

[A Boy Named Seo]

I hope Taijuan Walker ends up as good on the mound as he is in interviews. Quickly becoming a favorite of mine.

[LWFS]

Fun story from the booth about Ol' Yadier F's defensive work last week in a Spring Training game. The video-- including some ill-advised rookie trash talk, and some sustained eye contact-- is https://www.mlb.com/news/yadier-molina-dares-runner-throws-him-outentertaining.

[Edgy MD]

Ron had Taijuan's game pegged. He was successful in the first using the get-ahead fastball, but he quickly fell into a pattern, and the Cards jumped on it in the second.

[Edgy MD]

The Mets were down 3-0 but a seventh-inning rally has them back in it.

• Baty walks


• Ferguson singles, Baty to second


• Mallex Smith strikes the hell out


• Pillar singles, Baty scores, Fergy to third.
  
  Crow-Armstrong pinch-runs for Pillar of fire.


• Peraza grounds to third, Fergy scores. Crow-Armstrong to third.


• Alonso walks.
  
  =#FF0000]Seth Elledge replaces =#FF0000]Angel Rondon on the mound.
  
  Lee pinch-hits for Dom Smith.

[LWFS]

There's white, there's white, and there's WHITE. Crow-Armstrong is, like, translucent.



Notwithstanding Gary's weird praise of him earlier, C. B. Bucknor remains pretty f'ing awful.

[Edgy MD]

[bIGPURPLE]Super-white guy Pete Crow-Armstrong scores on the wild pitch!!! Tie GAME!!!![/bIGPURPLE]

[Edgy MD]

Khalil lee whiffs. Caleb Joseph takes to the plate with two out.

[Edgy MD]

[bIGPURPLE]Joseph walks!! Bags juiced again for Mauricio!!!![/bIGPURPLE]

[Edgy MD]

[bIGPURPLE]Hanging sinker!!



Two-run single!!!!



THE METS HAVE BATTED AROUND!!!![/bIGPURPLE]

[LWFS]

THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT against terrible, last-rung-of-the-baseball-ladder competish, but still

[TransMonk]

5 run 7th innings are fun.



I've seen several level swings producing opposite field hits today. I like it.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

yay