IGT 05/05 - Mets at Phils - Back in the Saddle Again

[kcmets]

I'm so happy I could pee!

[Willets Point]

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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Realmuto was not really competitive. Hoskins flattened.



B o o o k s

[batmagadanleadoff]

This is the Fuck Aerosmith game.

[Fman99]

What an amazing comeback. All thanks to Aerosmith, I think we can agree.

[G-Fafif]

That was fucking beautiful.

[Methead]

OK, now THAT was the best win of the year.



So far.

[Edgy MD]

Gary: The sort of win that a team can live on for a month.



Ron: The sort of win that makes you feel like a teenager again.

[Gwreck]

LGM

[bmfc1]

The "New Kid In Town" gets the win in Eagles territory.

What a great game.

[Gwreck]

Lost in the shuffle: second straight game Buck gives up the DH in the 9th inning.

[Fman99]

There are few things more enjoyable to me than watching utterly dejected Phillies fans in the seats, incredulous that their pen could blow a lead like that.

[G-Fafif]

Mets before ninth: At least we have Scherzer going tomorrow.



Phillies after ninth: Ah, fuck, we face Scherzer tomorrow — maybe it'll rain.

[Frayed Knot]

Ho Lee Shit!!



I turned it off -- was catching up on BARRY -- when I happened to check the score (still top 9). At that point I had to go back and see how it happened.

So I just saw the final out. And now don't ever tell me that Diaz doesn't know how to close out a 'Big' game.

[Frayed Knot]

This was one of those games where I trot out the old saw that if you're going not pitch, and are going to not hit, and are going to not field ... then you might as well do not do them all on the same night.

And yet they won anyway.

That's two miracle wins in the first month.



Still no two game losing streak.

[Edgy MD]

MLB.tv was glitchy all night. I finally tuned in for the bottom of the ninth and WOW.



I just re-watched the rally (after several glitches kept resetting the game). It seemed like three balls went just over Alex Bohm's glove. The Phils should have had Charles Barkley playing third.



Also, Odubel Herrera seemed to quit in his last few steps on Marte's go-ahead hit. I realize that diving for a ball that's about to hit off the base of the wall is a good way to break your neck, but he seemed defeated out there.



Keep Herrera in your lineup, Philly.

[Gwreck]

Frayed Knot wrote: Still no two game losing streak.

First week, they lost the fourth game of the initial Washington series, then lost the first game at Philly.

[The Hot Corner]

I was out with the family this evening. When I came home, I rushed to my computer to stream the game. Already down 5-0 to the Phillies in the 3rd innning. Meanwhile, the Crane Pool IGT was busy arguing over the Aerosmith's place in the pantheon of classic rock bands. Sometime in the 4th or 5th inning with the Phillies up 7-0 I decided it was a good night to have a beer and catch up on some reading. Came in a short while ago preparing to go to bed early. Decided to check the score before calling it a night and couldn't believe my eyes. Now I'm too stoked to go to sleep.



Inspiring win for the Mets and a soul crushing defeat for the Phillies. I feel so unworthy, as a result of my lack of faith.

[Frayed Knot]

Yup. Two liners just over Bohm's glove, but he's 6' 4" so Barkley likely wouldn't have helped.



They had 3 hits entering the 9th. They notched 8 in the 9th including two infield singles (Hustle!!). Marte's hits started it and capped it.

[Frayed Knot]

Last time a team overcame a six run deficit in the 9th ... the Nats against the Mets in 2019

[TransMonk]

I picked the wrong night not to watch or record.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Yup. Two liners just over Bohm's glove, but he's 6' 4" so Barkley likely wouldn't have helped.

Charles has ups.



I mean, he did before he turned 59 or whatever he is. But I think "Philly" + "Needing a Rebound" and I think of Charles Barkley, what with Moses Malone being dead at the present time.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Last time a team overcame a six run deficit in the 9th ... the Nats against the Mets in 2019

The night Edwin Diaz spiked his glove before the winning homer was halfway out of the park. I seem to remember that being a good year for the Nationals.

[Centerfield]

Frayed Knot wrote: Yup. Two liners just over Bohm's glove, but he's 6' 4" so Barkley likely wouldn't have helped.

Depends which Charles Barkley. The one that used to sky for rebounds would have snagged them both.



The older chubby guy who sits in the TNT studio ducks away from those liners.

[Lefty Specialist]

I am a bad Met fan. 7-1 late, I turned it off. Woke up this morning to the news. DVR'ing the replay on SNY.



Bad, bad Met fan. Bad.

[metsmarathon]

my god i love the phillies bullpen. what a great game.

[Edgy MD]

That's even without Hector Neris.



In this game and in the St. Louis comeback, Gary remarked that, "The last thing a manager wants to do is get his closer up — whether or not he even uses him."



No, Gary, the last thing a manager wants to do is lose a game he led 7-0.

[MFS62]

=Fman99 post_id=91493 time=1651802789 user_id=86]
What an amazing comeback. All thanks to Aerosmith, I think we can agree.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Great game story in the Philadelphia Inquirer this morning. I always try and think how I'd handle these kinds of stories which test your ability to present uncomfortable truths. Scott Lauber is the writer.

The forecast is calling for rain Friday. But on a clear, cool Thursday night, the sky fell on the Phillies. Leading by four runs after the first inning, seven runs after the fourth, and six runs with three outs to go in what should've been a series-opening giggler against the division-leading New York Mets, the Phillies lost — yes, somehow they lost — 8-7 before an announced crowd of 24,040 stunned patrons at Citizens Bank Park. How it happened is almost secondary to the fact that it actually happened. But James Norwood and closer Corey Knebel combined to allow seven runs in the ninth inning — four of which scored with two outs — in a loss that had to be seen to be believed. Even then, it strained credulity. Consider this: Phillies manager Joe Girardi, who managed a Game 7 loss in the 2017 American League Championship Series that preceded his firing by the New York Yankees, called it “about as hard [a loss] as I've been through.” “Shouldn't have happened,” Knebel said after giving up three two-out hits in a row, including Brandon Nimmo's game-tying two-run single and Starling Marte's go-ahead double that split the gap in left-center. “Got to be better. Offense did their job tonight. [Aaron] Nola, awesome outing. The game's on me. We've got a seven-run lead, six-run lead going into the ninth. It can't happen.”

[Edgy MD]

God, I love a game story.



I like that after curve that made Smith look really, really bad striking out for the second out, Nimmo lined a curve that was just as sharp into center. His just had more plate, but it was really breaking when he squared it up.