IGT, 2024-06-29, HOU@NYM, We Are the Crew That Can Never Be Beat

[Edgy MD]

Got more swings and misses than Diaz & Meyers!!

[Edgy MD]

Hello, Astros' bullpen.

[Edgy MD]

Really happy to see Megill out there in the sixth, but I'm expecting he'll get yanked after a single baserunner.

[ashie62]

Adcock time

[Edgy MD]

ADCOCK!!

[Lefty Specialist]

Adcock duz the job. Could be out there for the 7th, too.

[Edgy MD]

Soft liners get the job done.



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[Bob Alpacadaca]

Vientos hasn't seemed to be a problem at third. That was a good play!

[Edgy MD]

Who's your closer tonight?

[Frayed Knot]

Bob Alpacadaca wrote: Vientos hasn't seemed to be a problem at third. That was a good play!

Still doesn't always have the smooth movements you'd like to see, but he is less mistake prone than he was earlier so there's certainly progress.



... and, on cue, he's replaced for late inning defense to start the 8th.

[Edgy MD]

Alan Porter has been calling a terrific game.



Almost frustratingly so, sometimes.

[Edgy MD]

To many light brown beards in the Mets' pen. I can't tell my guys apart.



I'm surprised to be writing this, but it would help if they had more tatts.

[Edgy MD]

Edgy MD wrote: Alan Porter has been calling a terrific game.

So much for my Alan Porter Fan Club.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Alan Porter has been calling a terrific game. So much for my Alan Porter Fan Club.

Who's more jacked, Porter or Jim Wolf?

[ashie62]

Bad bullpen today



Mets blew a big lead



Hoping they come back

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[Frayed Knot]

And now we'll likely have to bat in the 9th and may regret double-switching Vientos.

[Lefty Specialist]

Four walks in an inning is just unacceptable. If they hit their way on, OK. But you can't just hand it to them like that. They need bullpen help if they're going to do anything this year. Can't score 12 every game.

[Frayed Knot]

Not helping is that Gary starts almost every telecast by saying, 'The Mets could really use a lengthy outing from their starter today' ... and they rarely get one.

[Frayed Knot]

5 runs on 4 hits and 4 walks off the NYM pen

We, meanwhile, have one hit and one walk off of theirs.



Three good righty bats coming up against Hader [JDM, Pete, Alvarez]

That might have mattered more with only a one run deficit.

[MFS62]

Well, looks like there won't be a need for a closer tonight unless some ninth inning magic happens.

They used four relievers in a 7-2 win yesterday., and were left with what we saw tonight.



Later

[Lefty Specialist]

Two off days in the last 6 days and their bullpen is still gassed. That tells you something.

[Frayed Knot]

Among other things: no Diaz, no Smith, no Raley, and starters who can't go longer than 5

[Edgy MD]

The Astros came in as hot or hotter than the Mets. I had a notion that this series would come down to the last game.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: I had a notion that this series would come down to the last game.

What does that mean? That the winner of game three is gonna win the WS? That the loser of game three is gonna be relegated to the Brooklyn Cyclones league?

[Edgy MD]

I think you know what that means.



There's no reason to go looking for a fight today.

[Fman99]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Megill punching his ticket back to Syracuse.

Just announced. Not just because it allows them to bring up a bullpen arm but because Butto/Scott both look like better spot start options five days hence.

[ashie62]

Total cock punch loss zero bullpen

[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: I think you know what that means.

You're probably right. It means that you worked it out in your head that the two teams might actually split the first two games.



How impressive!

[The Hot Corner]

Frayed Knot wrote: Among other things: no Diaz, no Smith, no Raley, and starters who can't go longer than 5

Also missing Sean Reid-Foley.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

It's possible we've seen the last of Smith who would be a free agent this offseason.