Brewers @ Mets IGT 7/7/21 - Game 2

[Frayed Knot]

Hey friend, do it again. Ballantine Ballantine Beer!



OK, that was an old MFY broadcast jingle, but for some reason it just popped into my head as I started to type and it sort of works here.

We're going to see lefty Brett Anderson in the Cub Scout unis, a guy who we were supposed to see Tuesday night and then thought we'd see Wednesday afternoon.

And the Mets will pitch someone ... at least I hope they will.

[ashie62]

A Ballantine Blast!



Peraza style.

[Frayed Knot]

Stock, kind of stocky.

And already better than deGrom!!

[Edgy MD]

Stock seems to have found a groove.

[Edgy MD]

Nothing gives me more of a confidence boost than when a team sends me out to the mound in #89.

[Gwreck]

Stupid 7 inning rule again not working in our favor.

[Edgy MD]

And having gotten some chips against their pen in the earlier games, I'd have more confidence in the late innings against them ... if there were late innings.

[Edgy MD]

I'm anticipating a Tropeano debut in the [CROSSOUT]ninth[/CROSSOUT] seventh.

[Benjamin Grimm]

At first glance I thought there was a female umpire at third base

[Edgy MD]

He is pretty. I don't deny.



Two great pinch-hit at-bats and the Mets have something going in the sixth.

[Chad ochoseis]

Hook is a great name for a pitching coach.

[Edgy MD]

Bases bloated, tying runs on base against Boxie, and the big bats coming.

[Frayed Knot]

I'll take an RBI hit with a box of burgers to go please.

[Edgy MD]

Ah Lindy. You've got to pull the switch on that.

[Centerfield]

Can't take a called strike three there. My god.

[Gwreck]

Going to need a grand slam, thanks Pete.

[Edgy MD]

Oh, Box.

[Frayed Knot]

How about this rule change: if a team calls time in order to have a mound conference, then ALL activity has to cease for the length of the T.O., included the pitchers throwing in the pen.

This would at least eliminate the situation where the game is being stalled for the sole purpose of stalling the game.

[kcmets]

Good lord.

[Edgy MD]

Brad Boxbrger starring in Escape Room.

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

Not going to get a better chance than that.

[Frayed Knot]

You just knew Pete was going to chase one of those high hard ones. It was just a question of whether Boxburger could get one high enough.

[The Hot Corner]

Unbelievable. Bases loaded with no outs and Lindor-Smith-Alonso all strike out. Someone has to be able to put a ball into play.

[The Hot Corner]

Castro seems lost of late.

[The Hot Corner]

Just like that, Castro makes it so the Mets won't have to worry about facing Hader.

[Frayed Knot]

Two very lackluster game twos in DHs this week with sweeps on the table in both.

[Edgy MD]

Swinging 2-0, down by five in the [CROSSOUT]ninth[/CROSSOUT] seventh.



Makes me wanna file a suit.

[Edgy MD]

Well, those two series were remarkably similar.

[Frayed Knot]

Yup.

Clutch comebacks vs top-notch starters and shut-down closers only to follow that up with non-competative showings vs reclamation openers and no-name bull-penners.

[Edgy MD]

Also, the rainouts forcing the series to finish with a jerry-rigged doubleheader.



Also, both shutdown closers being lefties who clock in at 100 being taken deep for a game-tying solo homer by a righthanded hitter to left-center field, in the seventh-inning-disguised-as-a-ninth-inning in game two of the series/game one of the double-header.