IGT 6/20 Mets vs Astros 8:10 Verlander Returns

[Frayed Knot]

=kcmets post_id=129309 time=1687310239 user_id=53]
Time to even things up!!

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Managed to avoid getting perfectoed

[Edgy MD]

=kcmets post_id=129309 time=1687310239 user_id=53]
Good quick 5th for Verlander.



Time to even things up!!

[Edgy MD]

Escobar not cooperating.



Avoid double-plays by all means, friends.

[Edgy MD]

Tying run in the hole in the person of Francisco Lindor.

[Edgy MD]

Tying run in the hole in the person of Pete Alonso.

[Fman99]

Boy this guy has some nasty stuff. Mets looking mostly inept up there

[Edgy MD]

Tying run in the hole in the person of Tomasino Pham.

[Edgy MD]

Tying run escapes the hole and is now on deck in the person of Tommy Pham.

[Edgy MD]

And that's not going to pass for a rally.



This guy was signed at 21. Way to find a diamond in the rough, Astros.

[metirish]

Damnit, Gary just gave the answer but I wasn't really listening

[Frayed Knot]

=metirish post_id=129323 time=1687311872 user_id=72]
Damnit, Gary just gave the answer but I wasn't really listening

[Edgy MD]

T.R.o.D.i.t.P.o. Mark Canha!!

[Edgy MD]

Well, they break through, but, the Mets drives are having trouble finding the grass.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Rally continues

[Edgy MD]

NOW the tying run reaches the plate.



And its name is Nimmo.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Frayed Knot wrote: =metirish post_id=129323 time=1687311872 user_id=72] Damnit, Gary just gave the answer but I wasn't really listening

I misheard it originally, it WAS three others that did all 30 teams within their first 100 HRs

Jose Guillen, Orlando Hudson, JD Drew



Not surprising that all are from the IL play era

[Frayed Knot]

I'd feel a bit better about this if Nimmo had at least come within a foot of contact in this series.

[Frayed Knot]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: =metirish post_id=129323 time=1687311872 user_id=72] Damnit, Gary just gave the answer but I wasn't really listening I misheard it originally, it WAS three others that did all 30 teams within their first 100 HRs Jose Guillen, Orlando Hudson, JD Drew Not surprising that all are from the IL play era

Steven Drew, not JD if I heard right

[Frayed Knot]

That 4th Houston run sukked.

Cheap hit, then with all those opportunities to run he doesn't do it until a the batter hits a grounder so no force or DP. He then comes in on another cheap hit.



That run looking large at the moment.

[Edgy MD]

This hole Brig has dug for himself looming pretty large too.

[Edgy MD]

OK, within reach in the ninth.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

This game is winnable

[kcmets]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: This game is winnable

[bIGPURPLE]Fuck YEAH![/bIGPURPLE]

[Edgy MD]

Swinging at the first strike here = bad.

[Edgy MD]

Alonso shows why you take when down in the ninth.

[Frayed Knot]

Can't bitch too much over a hot Pham as the tying run with a short porch.

[Edgy MD]

Dat's baseball.

[kcmets]

Whelp, slip slidin' away...

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Alonso shows why you take when down in the ninth.

Because the pitcher didn't throw a single strike. Alonso took four balls. Taking a pitch that isn't in the strike zone is an extremely sound strategy. It isn't even remotely like what you preach every single game --- deciding and then committing to taking a pitch before that pitch is even thrown -- even if that pitch turns out to be a 70MPH meatball right down the middle of the plate. You know how fucked batters are when they're behind in the count. Not everybody's Keith Hernandez. Jesus Christ with the automatic taking of the first pitch. The best hitters in baseball are gonna make an out 60 or 70 percent of the time on every at bat, even with a clean count. They don't need to be hitting behind in the count on top of that. The pitcher has the advantage on every single at bat. If a batter's gonna decide to take a pitch before it's even thrown, it should be on a batter's count, like 3-0 or 3-1 --- not on the first pitch.