Don't Surrender Yet IGT 9/14

[Frayed Knot]

Oh good, another mound conference.

It's been two batters/nine pitches since you last talked to him

[batmagadanleadoff]

McNeil's due for a homer.

[batmagadanleadoff]

How come the Cards aren't wearing a Lou Brock patch this year? First ballot HOF'ers aren't good enough to honor like that?

[Edgy MD]

Wow, what a bad pitch to swing at and he reaches anywutz.



Al Mora, make a memory.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Aaron Altherr is the only other Met with initials A.A.

[Edgy MD]

Flurb.

[Frayed Knot]

After the Baez HR, the Mets had nine separate PAs with the potential to win the game. ONE got the ball out of the infield, a Pillar bases empty FO

The others were a K, a BB, Foul Out, and five weak grounders.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

This team is just larded with relentless failure

[bmfc1]

Edgy MD wrote: The heart of the story is pulling Fruit Loups after seven pitches.

This, plus taking out Stro after 6, especially as he said that Lugo and Castro were n/a and he wouldn't use Diaz for a 2d inning.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: This team is just larded with relentless failure

The Mets should've been an offensive powerhouse this season. But four key players, Lindor, McNeil, Conforto and Smith have grossly, grossly underperformed. Three of those guys are all-stars and the fourth, Smith would've very likely been invited to last year's all-star game if there was one.



What team could overcome that?



Did you hear that the Mets last nine losses were all by o e run, a major league record? Never been done before.

[G-Fafif]

That was an incorrect note Gary was handed. The Mets lost by seven just the night before. But definitely a LOT of recent 1-run losses.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Frayed Knot wrote: It's nice that his ball went out because two feet shorter and it's his third base running mistake of the game and if that thing is in play and he's on 1st because he's looking to the dugout posing I'd have pulled him from the game immediately and would be tempted to release him by morning.

Yeah we had a good view from behind 1st and we weren't even sure it went out, was shocked to look back to the field and Baez had barely crossed 1st



Just about every hard hit ball turned into 1 or 2 outs, but there were way too few of them. So much weak contact, but some of that resulted in opportunity. The hitting approach has just never resolved itself. What a punt this year has been

[Fman99]

Man, what a bummer. I went to bed after Baez tied it, on work travel, in Texas and after a 19 hour day that started at 4:30 AM EDT. So I missed the worst of it at least.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

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[bmfc1]

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They should put you in the booth with Wayne while Howie is out.

[Edgy MD]

I can't understand that. Just moments earlier, the booth was underscoring how Pillar couldn't be off with contact, and shouldn't be off with contact, that he had to give the team two chances to drive him home, and then he takes off on contact, gets caught in no man's land, and they say that there was nothing he could do.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

He probably woulda been out anyway but continuing home and maybe drawing a more panicked throw might have been the better gamble.



I'm going to show this to Lunchpail (muted) BTW to illustrate all that is happening when a team executes a tricky play. The Cards did everything right there