IGT 6/4/2021 NYM @ SD: Lucchesi's Revenge, by Mario Puzo

[Willets Point]

Floating in both directions for what it's worth.

[LWFS]

This umpire. Gifted two balls, by my count. Man. We'll take it, but... man.

[LWFS]

I like the Dom matchup against this reliever. But he could PH for the pitcher next.



Why do they keep subbing out the good defensive CF/speed dude in the late innings... without HAVING to?

[Willets Point]

Blargh!

[Edgy MD]

What this game needs is some hot Dale Thayer action.

[LWFS]

Is it me, or is every other pitcher this week BUT Stroman doing the Stroman mid-windup stork pause thing?



Anyway, it works for May.

[Willets Point]

Time for a Big Ass Rally!

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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Let's Go Big Asses

[Edgy MD]

That's twice that Pillar has whiffed on a pitch in the dirt and hasn't run.



Not a good look after all the pro's-pro spooging over him.

[Willets Point]

How it started: Lindor isn't hitting.



How it's going: Only Lindor is hitting.

[Willets Point]

McCann has a point.

[Edgy MD]

Get your money's worth McCannie.



You too, Louie.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

This umpire sucks.

[LWFS]

#RobotUmps

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Fuk

[Willets Point]

Drat!

[Frayed Knot]

Thoughts on the delayed viewing of the game (watched the first 6 live, the final 3 this morning).



-- RO-BO-UMP! RO-BO-UMP!

-- We get a (E7) gift with no outs then fail to manage even a fair ball [K, Foul-Out, K], They bunt into a rally-killing DP but then our hurlers don't even force three consecutive guys to make 2-out contact

in order to score an insurance run

-- RO-BO-UMP! RO-BO-UMP!

-- I wonder if SDP reliever Pierce Johnson's nickname at any point growing up was 14-17, or maybe 14-36?

-- Did I mention Robo-Ump? It's not that the umping screwed us one-sidedly or was the reason for the loss, but it would have been a more enjoyable game without all the ????s and !!!!!s, and &@#%'s

-- I conflate Tommy Pham with Kolten Wong -- stocky guys with one-syllable Asian names who came up with the Cardinals just one year apart -- to the point where I kept expecting Gary to bring up the

time when Pham got himself picked off as a rookie for the final out with Pujols at bat in a one-run playoff game ... until I remembered that that was Wong

-- 2-0, 8-1/2 inning game with a total of 9 hits = 3:02

[Fman99]

I went to bed when they failed to plate Lindor in the 7th. That shit angered me.

[Edgy MD]

Familia's form seemed all kinds of awful. He was finishing all closed up with his back partially turned to the batter.



Even when he's going well, his confidence seems utterly absent, and I wonder how he ever got 50 saves. I also wonder why he's given up the splitter.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[bmfc1]

I'm only going on "what I read in the papers" as I didn't see most of the game but I don't understand how the call that lead to McCann and Luis' ejections wasn't one of the top 3 worst calls of the game.

[bLOCKQUOTE]Another source of frustration was the strike zone of Quinn Wolcott. The strike zone is supposed to be rectangle, but Wolcott's was more akin to a tracing of an amoeba, one spastically shooting out pseudopods below the zone and across its inside boundaries, then mysteriously withdrawing them from those boundaries.

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[Frayed Knot]

'Strike 3' to McCann was a ball but reasonably close. By itself it wasn't all that bad.

But I'm sure his frustration was more from a cumulative effect -- one of the guys Drew Smith walked to set up the Pads' 2nd run the previous half inning was struck out x2

but the Mets got neither the called strike nor the half swing both of which c/should have K'd him -- and then Rojas getting run was just a reaction to the McCann heave-ho.

Rojas even seemed to point to the 3B ump at one point as if to say 'and he sucks too', iow, Luis wasn't out there to merely defend JMcC but to argue the call(s) also

which is an automatic ejection and indeed he was gone from almost the second he opened his mouth.

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: ... I kept expecting Gary to bring up the timee when Pham got himself picked off as a rookie for the final out with Pujols at bat in a one-run playoff game ... until I remembered that that was Wong

Checking on the details: it was a WS game [2013 vs Boston] and it was with Beltran at the plate, not Pujols.

[Edgy MD]

Great, now you're conflating Beltran and Pujols.



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