The Next 20 Games

[Centerfield]

Are against the Braves, Phillies, Yankees and Dodgers, with one series against the Rockies. This is really the last tough stretch of games for 2022.



After that, September looks as soft as a baby's bottom. Atlanta seems to do fine anytime they're not playing the Mets, so you figure we have to do our damage in the head-to-head games.



How many will the Mets win?

[kcmets]

14!!



Phillies 7 - (5-2)

Skanks 2 - (1-1)

Rockies 4 - (3-1)

Dodgers 3 - (2-1)

Braves 4 - (3-1)

[roger_that]

If they can win 10 of 20, I'll take it. Even splitting with the Braves will be a victory of sorts.

[Centerfield]

I think I'd be fine with this:



Phillies 7 - (4-3)

Skanks 2 - (1-1)

Rockies 4 - (3-1)

Dodgers 3 - (2-1)

Braves 4 - (2-2)



12-8.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'd even be fine with an 11-9, with a 1-2 against the Dodgers. Everything else as Centerfield put it.

[batmagadanleadoff]

=Centerfield post_id=103403 time=1660233350 user_id=65]
After that, September looks as soft as a baby's bottom.

[Gwreck]

17:

3-0 Phillies

3-1 Braves

3-1 Phillies

2-0 Yankees

4-0 Rockies

2-1 Dodgers

[kcmets]

17 would be so much fun! We're gonna need plastic surgery to remove our goddamn

smiles! We'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' out of our assholes!

[Frayed Knot]

Got some pretty optimistic peeps here.



13/20 is the rate that would most accurately approximate our season's pace to date. One could argue that the deGrom factor should ramp that up a notch or three but the counter would be that the level of competition should knock it back a few pegs.

[roger_that]

=roger_that post_id=103406 time=1660234919 user_id=128]
If they can win 10 of 20, I'll take it. Even splitting with the Braves will be a victory of sorts.

[MFS62]

=kcmets post_id=103419 time=1660239903 user_id=53]
17 would be so much fun! We're gonna need plastic surgery to remove our goddamn

smiles! We'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' out of our assholes!

[Lefty Specialist]

11-9:



2-1 Phillies

2-2 Braves

2-2 Phillies

1-1 Yankees

3-1 Rockies

1-2 Dodgers

[roger_that]

Lefty Specialist wrote: 11-9

I remember well the pride I took when, once upon a time, a Mets' pitcher was able, for the first time in recorded history, to post a record of 11-9.



In 1966, Dennis Ribant finished up the year with an 11-9 record, the first time ever that a Met had won in double figures but lost only in single figures. I remember being so impressed with Ribant's magnificent skill levels, and then being so depressed when the team promptly swapped him out to Pittsburgh.

[Bob Alpacadaca]

Something about the Phillies is a little scary, though the post-game interviews are interesting.



Phillies 7 - (4-3)

Yankees- 2 - (1-1)

Rockies 4 - (4-0)

Dodgers 3 - (2-1)

Braves 4 - (3-1)

[Fman99]

The rotation has been soooooooo good of late. I expect them to go 13-7 in this stretch even against tough opponents.

[seawolf17]

20-0.



WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE.

[Edgy MD]

It's all about going 1-0 over the next one with me.

[metsmarathon]

12-8 sounds fine. i get anxious about trying to predict out too small a sample, and worry muchly about angering the gods when i do so.

[roger_that]

the thing about any number of losses, no matter how many or few they turn out to be, is that there's always gonna be one or two that were SO winnable....but that one where a crucial error, or wild pitch, or ball hit to the warning cost you a victory just eats you up.

[Frayed Knot]

Well, I guess 20-0 is out of the question.

[roger_that]

And last night's was that one winnable loss.

[ashie62]

=kcmets post_id=103419 time=1660239903 user_id=53]
17 would be so much fun! We're gonna need plastic surgery to remove our goddamn

smiles! We'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' out of our assholes!

[ashie62]

Mets at 1-1 here

[ashie62]

,,3-3

[whippoorwill]

=MFS62 post_id=103467 time=1660257478 user_id=60]
=kcmets post_id=103419 time=1660239903 user_id=53]
17 would be so much fun! We're gonna need plastic surgery to remove our goddamn

smiles! We'll be whistling 'Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah' out of our assholes!