IGT 9/3/2021: NYM@WAS — Don’t Pitch to Soto

[G-Fafif]

Mets take their disjointed five-game winning streak inside the Beltway. Rich Hill vs Capitol Hill, slightly after seven on SNY (or MASN, presumably, if you're in blackout territory).

[Edgy MD]

Don't Pitch to Soto was my favorite Rick Springfield album.

[ashie62]

I thought Bryan Adams sang that.

[MFS62]

Sage advice.



If there's a hitter on another team you have trouble getting out, you should pitch around around him unless you have to.(e.g.- bases loaded and no place to put him)



Later

[Frayed Knot]

I'd argue the opposite: pitch TO someone unless forced to do otherwise.



Avoid someone if the situation calls for it but preemptively granting anyone a 1.000 OBA and then trying to figure out a way to get him out with the sacks full and you can't walk him is a formula for losing baseball.

[Lefty Specialist]

It's okay to pitch to him, just don't give him anything he can hit.

[Edgy MD]

Lefty for pitching coach!

[bmfc1]

METS:

1. Jonathan Villar (S) 3B

2. Brandon Nimmo (L) CF

3. Francisco Lindor (S) SS

4. Pete Alonso ® 1B

5. Javier Baez ® 2B

6. Michael Conforto (L) RF

7. Kevin Pillar ® LF

8. Chance Sisco (L) C

9. Rich Hill (L) P



Nationals:

1. Lane Thomas ® CF

2. Alcides Escobar ® SS

3. Juan Soto (L) RF

4. Josh Bell (S) LF

5. Ryan Zimmerman ® 1B

6. Riley Adams ® C

7. Carter Kieboom ® 3B

8. Luis Garcia (L) 2B

9. Sean Nolin (L) P



Dom is on the bereavement list and is not with the team.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, it's a Sisco day!

[Frayed Knot]

Five out of the last six since the whole west-coast-teams debacle was nice but at the same time was virtually necessary and it remains necessary that we keep

up something resembling that pace over this eight game WAS (5) / MIA (3) road swing. Winning 'only' five here probably isn't good enough, especially as it's

followed by a NYY - StL - PHI - BOS (2) - MIL 14-game stretch.

[Ceetar]

sure, sit J.D. Davis again, that makes sense.

[Edgy MD]

Hey, no first-inning hole!

[Frayed Knot]

That's why you don't swing at borderline 3-0 pitches while leading off an inning, Pete.

[Edgy MD]

Hey, second inning lead!

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: That's why you don't swing at borderline 3-0 pitches while leading off an inning, Pete.

Nobody should be doing this. Babe Ruth in 1921 shouldn't be doing this.

[Frayed Knot]

Five players drafted from Seaford HS: in 1965, 1967, 1969, 1970, and then this Nolin guy in 2008

What were that town feeding those guys back in the late '60s?

[Gwreck]

=Ceetar post_id=76452 time=1630706858 user_id=102]
sure, sit J.D. Davis again, that makes sense.

[Edgy MD]

Hit it to Soto!

[Frayed Knot]

Until just mentioned by Gary a minute ago, I hadn't thought about David Peterson on maybe two months.

[bmfc1]

If Hand pitches this weekend he will have pitched in Nationals Park this season for 3 different teams. That sounds unusual.

[bmfc1]

Frayed Knot wrote: Until just mentioned by Gary a minute ago, I hadn't thought about David Peterson on maybe two months.

Same here and then I thought that we didn't realize what a loss that was at the time. I hope he's OK for ST '22.

[Edgy MD]

Mets ought to be chasing Nolin before the end of this inning.

[Edgy MD]

Not chaste yet, but top of the order next inning.

[Frayed Knot]

So far, so good on the pitching to Soto front.

[Edgy MD]

Leadoff double for Villar. LET'S SEE THE BULLPEN!

[bmfc1]

Edgy MD wrote: Leadoff double for Villar. LET'S SEE THE BULLPEN!

If it's a day ending with "y", Villar makes an out on the basepaths. SNY absolves him.

[ashie62]

Winning is fun.



Villar does carry this team at times.



He has stolen a couple of games with his legs.

[Frayed Knot]

We have far too many hard hit balls through five innings to only have two runs, and yet in some ways we're lucky to even have the two.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Leadoff double for Villar. LET'S SEE THE BULLPEN! If it's a day ending with "y", Villar makes an out on the basepaths. SNY absolves him.

In this case Gary and Keith were right.

His only other option was to try and return to 2nd but if he does that he likely runs the team into a DP

[Edgy MD]

I wouldn't know, because not unlike Zack Scott, I'm blacked out down here.