It's deGrom day! It's the best day in baseball! NYM@SD IGT 6/5/21

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Lugo looks like he's put on a few

[Willets Point]

Profar is gonna Gofar a shower.

Edited June 5, 2021 by Guest

[Edgy MD]

Come on, Profart.

[Edgy MD]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Lugo looks like he's put on a few

http://phpbb3.leaptoad.com/mets/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=30462&p=66513&hilit=ass#p66513Indeed.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

It's almost like he shrunk. He looks shorter and fatter than he used to be

[Frayed Knot]

You go Lou Geaux



I didn't like the way that inning started -- not just the single but also the swings Profar was getting -- but a nice finish.

[Edgy MD]

I also like when Mets hitters blow the save situation rather than their pitchers.

[Edgy MD]

Is Dom hurting?

[Willets Point]

Machado failing to make an out makes me happy.

[LWFS]

Weird baseball goings-on in this top of the ninth... mostly in terms of near-collisions, plural (Lindor and a running-to-backup-home Crismatt, Dom and Machado on a squibbed grounder to third.

[LWFS]

Edgy MD wrote: Is Dom hurting?

He seemed to grimace there, didn't he?

[LWFS]

Dammit, Dom's not in for the ninth, defensively.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Somehow scoring a 4th run made this lead less secure imo

[Willets Point]

Tatis moved like he was on marionette strings to avoid that pitch.

[Frayed Knot]

First three pitches aside, this inning is going well.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

📚

[Edgy MD]

Suddenly on a pace to win a career-high 16 games.

[Edgy MD]

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Dammit, Dom's not in for the ninth, defensively.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Suddenly on a pace to win a career-high 16 games.

More. On pace to win 16 games only if he misses a good chunk of starts every other month like he already did in the April/May stretch.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, that's how I measure paces, repeating the pattern from the start of the year, as unlikely as that pattern is to sustain itself.

[batmagadanleadoff]

OK. deGrom was also on pace to strike out more than 400 batters this season until he was IL'ed.



And speaking of deGrom's paces, the booth mentioned today that deGrom is gonna have a tougher time surpassing Gibson's 1968 ERA because deGrom won't get to pitch nearly as many innings as Gibson did in '68. I'm pretty certain that the booth was mimicking, without attributing, the exact same point Joe Posnanski made in The Athletic a few days ago.



I disagree totally. I think that's crazy talk. It's easier to maintain a historic ERA pace like Gibson did in '68 or like deGrom's doing this season over less innings, not more innings. More innings only increases the pitcher's chances of having just one or two bad outings, which could kill the pace because at this level of microscopic ERA, there's zero margin for error.

[Edgy MD]

Of course. That's why, among other things, the lowest ERAs belong to relief pitchers, pitching fewer innings.



Dennis Eckersley put up a 0.61 ERA in 1990 and came in fifth in Cy Young voting. While I could quibble with that vote, I certainly don't think any voters seriouosly believed that his miniscule ERA was harder because he threw only 73 innings.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Of course. That's why, among other things, the lowest ERAs belong to relief pitchers, pitching fewer innings. Dennis Eckersley put up a 0.61 ERA in 1990 and came in fifth in Cy Young voting. While I could quibble with that vote, I certainly don't think any voters seriouosly believed that his miniscule ERA was harder because he threw only 73 innings.

I know. The point is so obvious, you could argue the point with any record, hitting or pitching. It was easier for Roger Maris to average 61 HR's over just one season instead of over his entire career.



See?

[batmagadanleadoff]

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[Lefty Specialist]

Jeez, just savor the win, kids.

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