IGT 4/13/2021 (1): PHI@NYM — Dry Off Already

[Chad ochoseis]

Nice.

[Frayed Knot]

V - R !!!

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[TransMonk]

Mets win!!! Yea!

[G-Fafif]

They win the dumb thing!

[Willets Point]

Just got back from taking my daughter to baseball practice in time to see the walk off!



What was the reason for pulling Walker early?

[Frayed Knot]

Willets Point wrote: What was the reason for pulling Walker early?

Walked the # 8 & 9 hitters back to back.

Plus, the 5th inning is now like the 7th inning strategy-wise in these shortened games.

[Willets Point]

You'd think the strategy would be to get the same amount of innings out of your starter because your bullpen needs to be ready for two games.

Edited April 13, 2021 by Guest

[kcmets]

A win is nice, hope it leads to better times ahead.



What's next, after two extras they play kickball?

[MFS62]

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They win the dumb thing!

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, although if a hurler starting to lose his control gives up a run or two in the 5th or 6th you've got less time to make up for that. Best to get a fresh guy in before it's too late ... or something along those lines.



oe: answering Willets

[Willets Point]

Frayed Knot wrote: Yeah, although if a hurler starting to lose his control gives up a run or two in the 5th or 6th you've got less time to make up for that. Best to get a fresh guy in before it's too late ... or something along those lines. oe: answering Willets

Yes, that makes sense. Just as long as the strategy isn't "I usually let my guy go 6 innings in a 9-inning game so I'll pull him after 4 in a 7-inning game."

[Chad ochoseis]

Also PHing or double switching to get some offense "late" in a close game.



Speaking of going to the bullpen, kudos to them for only letting the fake run score over the last three. Charge the last Phillies run to Manfred.

[Edgy MD]

You know, folks, Rob Manfred sure doesn't like to dilly-dally around. He wants to jump straight to the drama and send you on your way. Why, before he went into baseball, he was a stage director. When he did Romeo & Juliet, he just gave Juliet a free vial of poison and cut to Act 5.



I tell ya folks, if he wrote the Bible, Jesus would have been entombed half-alive with a knife to cut himself free and a hot sandwich!

[Ceetar]

Willets Point wrote: Just got back from taking my daughter to baseball practice in time to see the walk off! What was the reason for pulling Walker early?

beat me. our softball practice finished up while they were threatening on the bottom 8th. finished while we were putting stuff away.

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[Benjamin Grimm]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: I didn't realize that by double switching a guy out of the game they go backwards in the lineup. Dumb and dumbest. Anyway, I hate the Mets but hooray

That makes no sense at all. I couldn't understand why Lindor was on second base. It should have been Trevor May (or a pinch runner for May) because he was in the previous spot in the batting order.

[Frayed Knot]

The rule was (hastily) put in because, unlike last season,, pitchers have to hit this year (at least in the real league) but they apparently need to be treated as fine China and can't possibly be expected to run the bases. So when the Mets double-switched the pitcher into the final out batting slot, the 'Manfred Man' (automatic runner) became the previous out which was Lindor.

As I said earlier, it was a brilliant piece of strategy by Luis if intentional although I have my doubts as to whether it was.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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The Tabloid Cover Derby staff in Stockholm asked me to ask you: Where did you get this early edition Newsday cover?



Gjord, Ronja, and Vidar say thank you!

[bmfc1]

Həˈlō to the TCD Staff!



I get texts from Newsday's Tim Healy (as a digital subscriber) and he texted that at 9:20 and said, "Here is the early version of the backpage for the paper tomorrow.



A little inside baseball for you: The first version of the newspaper starts getting printed right about now. So, this back page -- and my story about the games -- will need to be updated at least once tonight. Doubleheaders can be complicated!"

[Benjamin Grimm]

Please keep sharing those! Newsday covers are the ones for which I don't have the most reliable sources. Robert Shields has a Twitter feed that's very useful, but he doesn't seem to share the early editions.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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http://potg.leaptoad.com/mets/index.phpCast your vote!

[bmfc1]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Please keep sharing those! Newsday covers are the ones for which I don't have the most reliable sources. Robert Shields has a Twitter feed that's very useful, but he doesn't seem to share the early editions.

Would doing so make me at least "of counsel" member of TCD staff?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I asked, and this is the response I got:

Tiden har kommit, sa valrossen, att prata om många saker. Av skor och skepp och tätningsvax, av kål och kungar. Och varför havet kokar varmt och om grisar har vingar.

The gang in Stockholm can be pretty cryptic at times.

[Edgy MD]

They can be a big old crowd of pains in the ass is what they can be.



But they're ˈvår pains in the ass, so ...