IGT - Mets @ Pittsburgh, 7/15 ... make that 7/16

[Frayed Knot]

Kuhl (and his gang) keep trying to give us runs but we keep giving those opps back.

[Frayed Knot]

Have they designated the GiDP guy for this inning yet or are they just playing it by ear?

[Frayed Knot]

4-1/2 innings worth of pitches just to get thru 3 for Stroman isn't helping matters either.

[Frayed Knot]

No, Gary. The DH does NOT "create another job" it merely replaces one with a different one.

[Edgy MD]

How does Stro' go up there swinging?

[Edgy MD]

Hey, Francisco, it's called running.



OE: Shame on me. Looks like he strained something.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Uh oh

[Edgy MD]

Looks like Guillorme coming in.



I was kind of thinking that we'd see J.D. Davis and move Villar to short.

[Lefty Specialist]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDKIs0v120shttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDKIs0v120s

[Frayed Knot]

Just speculating, but Stroman is cocky so probably said something to provoke that.

[Edgy MD]

Somebody must've just called Stroman "high-strung." He hates that.

[Frayed Knot]

Actually it looks like Nogowski might have yapped first.

[Edgy MD]

It does, indeed. But when you light Stromans' fuse, it stays lit.

[bmfc1]

Maybe Stroman was extra happy after Nogowski called timeout after timeout. That's on the flaccid HP umpire for granting it but perhaps Stroman was pissed at the batter.

[Frayed Knot]

Damn, another leadoff base runner!

Don't they know by now that those kill the whole inning?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

I'm sure Stro was already hot with the booshit hbp

[Edgy MD]

Buccos on borrowed time here. The Mets should've scored 10 by now.

[kcmets]

Are we not men? We are Difo!

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Buccos on borrowed time here. The Mets should've scored 10 by now.

Except that they have three hits!!

Tough to claim you deserve more on that evidence.

[Edgy MD]

I certainly wouldn't say they deserve it.

[Edgy MD]

I realize Thorne is watching the game on a monitors, and that's not particularly fair, but as that homerun flies out, I've been getting the feeling all evening that he's been the last guy who knows the outcome on every play.



That homer cleared the bleachers and he called it a pop-up.

[Edgy MD]

Eighth inning and the first time I've heard Steve Gelbs' voice. I didn't think he was on the job tonight.

[G-Fafif]

Gelbs was on earlier with some background on Dave Jauss's BP pitching prowess, but Steve did vanish for long while thereafter.

[Edgy MD]

Guillorme just pulled something of a Rey-o imitation out of his back pocket.

[Edgy MD]

Need a comeback in the ninth with a pitcher's spot coming up.



Billy McKinney, come back!

[G-Fafif]

Keith tonight told a story about that one time he faced young Expo callup Randy Johnson, as Ronnie did recently. They each cited essentially the same frightening experience.



Johnson never faced the Mets as an Expo.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, that smelled funny to me. Maybe Keith (and maybe Ron?) saw him in spring training.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Keith must have momentarily mistaken himself for John Kruk.



What a disastrous start for the SHaMs. Punked by a last place team, again, no response after a "fight", may have lost their best guy to an injury, Drew Smith coughs it up on his very first pitch of "leverage." But nobody can stop talking about how Alonso is terrific for winning a batting-practice contest.

[Lefty Specialist]

Miserable performance. Thorne actually refererred to the Mets as the Orioles once, which I thought was kind of funny.



0-12 with RISP says it all. This team needs a cattle prod.

[Benjamin Grimm]

He also kept calling Nimmo "Nemo". Someone should have silently corrected him after the first time.



And then Keith started to call him "Nemo" but quickly backed up and said "Nimmo".