IGT 06/02 - ARI at NYM - 1:40 First Pitch

[Edgy MD]

Well, the Mets ninth-inning job is currently being listed at linkedin.



Diekman sort of was set up, sending him against righties, but he didn't come in to anybody.

[Edgy MD]

Sewald has some loose laces flying off his glove.

[Cowtipper]

Mets still suck.

[kcmets]

Anyone happen to hear when the Mets last hit back to

back triples? I imagine it's kinda rare.

[Cowtipper]

=kcmets post_id=157567 time=1717360232 user_id=53]
Anyone happen to hear when the Mets last hit back to

back triples? I imagine it's kinda rare.

[ashie62]

It feels like Edwin Diaz may have as well gone to Brazil uncertain to return

[whippoorwill]

Edgy MD wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I, for one, welcome the Luís Torrens era to Citi Field. (If they play "Brother Louie" for him, I think I'm going to scream.) I happen to love Brother Louie. Whatever do you mean? I love it too, but it's a tragic song, and they played a chorus of it every time Luis Guillorme came up, and it certainly didn't deliver the sort of energy that sustains a rally. Sort of like when they play "Piano Man" in the eighth-inning. A lot of people love that song, almost certainly moreso in Mets territory. I don't judge them, but a story of middle-aged people watching their lives slip away is no way to trigger the energy to produce late-inning fireworks.

Yeah piano man is depressing but also rousing

[Fman99]

Brutal. Had the radio call on XM as I puttered around my yard and house doing chores. As soon as the lead was blown I turned it off.

[metirish]

This has such a Wilponion feel to it all , first year manager , 17 games out on June 2nd , brutal to watch

[Edgy MD]

Mendoza didn't use his long man despite losing his starting pitcher after four. He pulled Dedniel Nuñez while he had three pitches working and had fanned three guys in a row. Then he sent a lefty out to save it going up against a star switch-hitter whose OPS is a crushing .270 points better against lefties.



I know there's a reason guys do these things, and I know there are constraints he's probably working within, but I'm flummoxed. From the outside, it looks like "How can I blow this?"

[metirish]

Makes me wonder what Gibbons is saying to him, if anything

[Frayed Knot]

If you keep looking for the reliever who might not have it that day you're bound to find one sooner or later.

The previous three had all done quite nicely.





The good news from the offense is that today it was them bunching their hits with two outs for multiple runs.

The bad news is that they had no hits in the two innings prior to that and just one in the six subsequent frames.

In fact, DJ Stewart's (rather soft) single was the only ball they got out of the infield!!! after JD's triple in the 3rd.



3rd: DJ's K w/JD on 3rd

4th: BB, IF PO, GiDP

5th: GO, GO, K

6th: GO, K, 1B, K

7th: GO, GO, GO

8th: K, K, K

9th: IF PO, K, Foul IF PO

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: If you keep looking for the reliever who might not have it that day you're bound to find one sooner or later.

That's a pretty solid principle.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: If you keep looking for the reliever who might not have it that day you're bound to find one sooner or later. That's a pretty solid principle.

It is. Another solid principle is that the reliever who was lights out in the seventh inning can, just the same, stink up the joint in the eighth inning if he's left in the game. Nobody here knows a fraction of what the team knows and anything can happen no matter what. Not that it isn't a lot of fun to second guess after the fact with hindsight. But if this was an exact science, they would've figured out by now how to get nine scoreless innings from the staff every game. But then the other team would've figured out the same stuff and in the end, no team would ever score.



I didn't see anybody complaining about Mendoza using four different relievers to get through the four innings comprising innings number five through eight.

[Edgy MD]

Well, then, you just have to look.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[Cowtipper]

=kcmets post_id=157567 time=1717360232 user_id=53]
Anyone happen to hear when the Mets last hit back to

back triples? I imagine it's kinda rare.

[Frayed Knot]

=batmagadanleadoff post_id=157590 time=1717383024 user_id=68]
I didn't see anybody complaining about Mendoza using four different relievers to get through the four innings comprising innings number five through eight.

[Edgy MD]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: If you were listening to the radio you'd have gotten the froggy sounds of John Gibbons

Does Gibby sound like he has anything to offer?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

The interview was about Strawberry and no he didn't have much to say

[whippoorwill]

Why was he talking about Strawberry?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Frayed Knot wrote: =batmagadanleadoff post_id=157590 time=1717383024 user_id=68] I didn't see anybody complaining about Mendoza using four different relievers to get through the four innings comprising innings number five through eight.

I was certainly questioning, in real time, the one and out strategy for Garrett on the heels of his perfect inning

on 11 pitches and then the same when Ottavino was hooked after his perfect inning on just nine.