IGT 06/01 - Mets at Diamondbacks - Dry Heat ll

[Edgy MD]

Big strikeout.



Somebody please poke that guy in the tan sweater sitting behind home plate next to the score bug.

[Edgy MD]

Edgy MD wrote: Somebody please poke that guy in the tan sweater sitting behind home plate next to the score bug.

I think I see him breathing but neither his head nor his eyes seem to ever shift to follow the ball.

[Edgy MD]

Pillar got burned as a pinch-hitter and isn't available as a defensive sub for Dom.

[Edgy MD]

I guess Smitty knee is feeling better.

[Edgy MD]

One-run game in the ninth and you don't guard the line even on the pull side?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Bad

[Edgy MD]

Well, I guess I'll be up a little later.

[Edgy MD]

Rojas is the PotG here: at bat, in the field, and getting under Stroman's skin.

[Edgy MD]

Mason was slow to get that throw in.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I was already asleep and Gary woke me up

[Gwreck]

“It's too much of a carnival. It's not the way the game is supposed to be played.” - Gary on the moronic extra innings rule.

[Edgy MD]

Be interesting to see if Alou is tempted to use Lugo here.



My thinking is that he'll debut as an opener the next time Lucchesi's spot comes around.

[Gwreck]

Lucchesi next pitches Friday. The odd days around the Baltimore games allow them to both skip Lucchesi and get people and extra day of rest. Unless we have the unlikely event of a San Diego rainout.

[Edgy MD]

McKinney's fumbly defense was the Diamondbacks' secret weapon tonight.

[Edgy MD]

What a great tribute to Johan's no-hitter, losing on what appears to be foul but too little evidence to overturn with.

[ashie62]

Bullpen fail tonight.

[Fman99]

Glad I didn't stay up just to watch a 9th-10th inning dumpster fire.

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[kcmets]

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Glad I didn't stay up just to watch a 9th-10th inning dumpster fire.

[Edgy MD]

It really was interesting to see the entire timbre of this game change with the on-field fracas. I feel like the Mets got played by the lesser team there.



Nobody has shared what the substance of the conflict was, and a remote media hasn't yet gotten to the bottom of it, but Josh Rojas more or less admitted he was just trying to get an emotional edge for his team. Done and done. Stroman's outward intensity may make him a choice target for such maneuvering.

[LWFS]

Edgy MD wrote: McKinney's fumbly defense was the Diamondbacks' secret weapon tonight.

Was thinking the same thing at the time... but that was Drury in for the last play. (I suppose that's why they didn't pinch-run him for Dom in left in the ninth.)



How do you NOT have a camera positioned for the down-the-line shot?

[bmfc1]

The HP ump stunk last night, especially when Villar was at-bat:

[Edgy MD]

Edgy MD wrote: McKinney's fumbly defense was the Diamondbacks' secret weapon tonight. Was thinking the same thing at the time... but that was Drury in for the last play. (I suppose that's why they didn't pinch-run him for Dom in left in the ninth.) How do you NOT have a camera positioned for the down-the-line shot?

Yeah, a lot of problems with the home team's production made the away team's broadcast and the replay reviewers' evidence sub-standard.



Gun to my head, I'd guess the game-winning hit was foul, but no way the angle that the crew had provided anything like clear and convincing evidence, and the Met crew did their best to call it, but they were clearly less than 100% sure of what was happening.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Stroman for better or worse appears one of those guys determined to gather motivation by real or imagined aggreivances. If your team was getting owned by him you'd probably try it too

[Edgy MD]

Yup. I've already had a sitdown with Stroman in my head to tell him how every team in the league is going to try this on him now. It didn't go well.



And yeah, the home plate ump had a wide-assed strike zone.



I guess the game felt kind of minor league all around.

[LWFS]

I mean, so do a lot of guys. And FWIW, though Stroman didn't talk about it postgame, D-Back Rojas admitted he initiated whatever there was, y'know, because Stroman

LOOKED AT HIM, something a totally normal person often does.



The thing that gets me about Stroman is that his stuff and location is excellent... but if he's off, it gets HAMMERED. He was off on maybe 4 pitches last night, three in that inning, and one of them was... well. If it wouldn't fuck up his timing too much, I actually think he might be well served to bring back a lot of that Johnny Cueto windup weirdness every now and again, just to put one more thought in hitters' heads.

[kcmets]

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[MFS62]

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I mean, so do a lot of guys. And FWIW, though Stroman didn't talk about it postgame, D-Back Rojas admitted he initiated whatever there was, y'know, because Stroman LOOKED AT HIM , something a totally normal person often does.