IGT 7/11 Dueling Max Mets at Braves game

[Edgy MD]

More than a bit lucky.



Braves go to the pen but stay lefthanded.

[Edgy MD]

Acuña here getting the full count has been the Braves best plate appearance.



And he pops to short center.



Seventy-four pitches through six. Can't ask for better.

[Lefty Specialist]

Can we just go straight from Max to Diaz?

[Frayed Knot]

We have had too many baserunners in this game to only have two runs.

Need to tack on.

[Frayed Knot]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Can we just go straight from Max to Diaz?

I'm tempted to just let Max pull the car into the garage himself ... but we've got time before we have to decide on that one.

[Lefty Specialist]

I'd have to think he's on a 90-95 pitch limit tonight, and he's at 74 through 6.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, it's a one-batter-at-a-time thing. But at this point, each batter he gets out pretty much crosses another reliever off of the we-might-need-him list.



I'd just like to cross a few off with our batters. Seven hits, five walks, and a hit batsman and two runs? That's the sort of think that makes me antsy.

[Edgy MD]

Swanson hitting one to the wall in the gap also makes me antsy.

[Edgy MD]

And Riley takes a big chunk out of the margin for error.

[Edgy MD]

The war chant begins.

[Lefty Specialist]

Well, Max is prone to giving up home runs. And with that Ozuna ball, perhaps he's running out of gas.

[Edgy MD]

Got Ozuna with an inside fastball and an inside change to get ahead. Coming back in to him a third time was recklessness. I think we're on his last batter for certain.

[Edgy MD]

Sweet ending, but that's probably it.



Need three outs in the eighth, probably out of Otto.



Let's get some runz!

[Lefty Specialist]

Finishes with a flourish, but concerned about getting these next 6 outs.

[Edgy MD]

YEAH!!!



I was about to question them bringing in O'Day with three of the next four hitters lefthanded, but Guillorme questioned it for me.

[Frayed Knot]

LUIS GUILLORME IS A GOD LIVING AMONG US

[Lefty Specialist]

Beardblast!!!

[Edgy MD]

Looked like Neato landed hard on the bag running to first there.

[Gwreck]

SNY booth talking as if Diaz's availability is a mystery.



This seems like an obvious answer. He threw 7 pitches in the 9th yesterday. If you weren't preserving his availability for today, you'd have pitched him in the 10th yesterday.

[Edgy MD]

Acuña is up as the tying run.



Do. Not. Like.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Squirty

[Edgy MD]

Shmut.



Living on the edge here.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Otto does it.



Whew

[Edgy MD]

He bends but he does not break.

[Lefty Specialist]

After that inning I need a couple of glasses of tart cherry juice.

[Frayed Knot]

I need a couple of glasses of something.

[Edgy MD]

With the power on this team, the next inning has a good chance to be just as hairy.



Tack. On. Now.

[Frayed Knot]

Let's take this dude to some place he's never been before ... like maybe a salad bar.

[Edgy MD]

Francisco Lindor gets "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay."

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

A Hit and run #oldschool