IGT LAD@NYM, 8/30/2022

[Willets Point]

Big moment for Pete.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, treating an 0-2 count as an invitation to bounce two breaking pitches away is so 2010.



But I like Pete coming up against Vesia here.



OE: But I eschew the result.

[Willets Point]

Or not.

[Gwreck]

Edgy MD wrote: Did Timmy play that or fake it?

Definitely played it.

[Edgy MD]

Cool.



A couple of runs here and he'll be playing the other song.

[Edgy MD]

McNeilio needs a haircut, I think.

[bmfc1]

Not a good game for Billy's lack of deadline moves: the bullpen gave up the go-ahead run, McCann did nothing, Naquin did nothing, and Ruf did nothing (seriously, why did they think he was better than JD?). UPDATED: plus, Vogelbach hit into a 9th inning DP.

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[Edgy MD]

I'd sign up for one run in four innings from the bullpen on any night, messy as that might have looked this evening.



Three runs from the offense, not so much.



But the Dodgers seem to want to use Reed in the ninth, so this isn't over.

[Frayed Knot]

Lux followed by Trayce is my go-to cleaning method for germ and bacteria free surfaces.

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[Edgy MD]

The Mets have two slugging lefty bats on the bench to send up against this guy.

[Edgy MD]

Escobar is in there to get lefties and he has two hits against righties.

[Frayed Knot]

Please no ground balls from Vogelsong.

[Edgy MD]

Too bad. Tough conditions for a big comeback.

[Willets Point]

Drat

[Fman99]

Well that was sucky. They should have hung a 5 spot on that guy in the first and cruised but NOOOOOOO

[Gwreck]

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(seriously, why did they think he was better than JD?).

[kcmets]

Edgy MD wrote: Too bad. Tough conditions for a big comeback.

They lost, nothing to do with conditions.

[Frayed Knot]

Lefty Specialist wrote: This just is not a competitive bullpen come playoff time.

It's got its issues like most (all?) pens do, but 1 run over 3-2/3 on 2 hits (plus 5 BBs ... 1 intentional) isn't exactly horrible, especially seeing as how the lone run was set up by a leadoff pool cue dubble by Freddie.



iow, the pen wasn't our problem tonight

[Ceetar]

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(seriously, why did they think he was better than JD?).

[MFS62]

Jake Reed?

That hurts.

Later

[Gwreck]

=Ceetar post_id=105839 time=1661913892 user_id=102]They gave him garbage chances and not enough playing time.

[Ceetar]

My point was he should've been a regular. And yes, they should've played him as the DH more often than not. He was league average for the Mets this year, though there were some stretches where he was hitting it real hard and not getting good results. Again, not surprised that that bad luck turned around.



Hell, Davis' .364 OBP since 2019 is tied for 7th with McNeil, only .001 behind Conforto and Guillorme. Baez's small sample was an outlier, and Canha and Nimmo are good. Vogelbach's .388 won't hold up either. He's been right there. Davis was solid and reliable in a way that guys like Vogelbach and Ruf and Naquin just haven't shown they can be. I worry those guys are going to get exploited and exposed by better teams with deep playoff bullpens that make it harder to force the platoon advantage all game.

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[ashie62]

Edgy MD wrote: Too bad. Tough conditions for a big comeback. They lost, nothing to do with conditions.

They had every opportunity to blow it open in the first but only got one

[kcmets]

I know, I was responding to what I thought was citing of rain/drizzle

as being tough to play in. I didn't/don't buy that.

[Edgy MD]

Sorry, it looked tougher in the bottom of the ninth from Baltimore. The umpire had the look that seemed to say he'd stop the game if it hadn't been so close to the end.

[MFS62]

If you'd rather see Nate Fisher coming into games instead of Joely Rodriguez, join me by raising your hand.

And can somebody please explain why they didn't re-sign Aaron Loup?



Later

[kcmets]

Throwing Jake Reed into the fire was diabolically clever or lucky?



Asking for a friend.

[Frayed Knot]

Y'know for a team that's scored a grand total of three runs over the last two games via two solo HRs plus a three-base error, we sure do a lot of bitching

about a bullpen that gave up A run (on a cue shot double plus a stick-the-bat-out single) while being asked to cover 17 outs in those games.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, too often it's easy to fall into the trap that there isn't enough relief pitching, and there is nothing anything less than an umblemished record that is acceptable for relievers.



But the guys we don't have, had we gotten them, would have displaced the guys we do have, and then they'd be the ones that are unacceptably imperfect. They wouldn't necessarily be better, and they might be worse, and if so, the Mets would have future talent invested in that worseness.



Aaron Loup was terrific in 2021, and that got him a three-year contract from the Angels and good for him, but so far in that contract, he's fallen back to the pack and just been another guy.



He's a frequent figure in Jomboy videos, though, because weird things seem to happen when he's on the mound.



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