Oakland at New York, Game 2 (8/14/24)

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

The A's have the best unis in the game, of that there's no doubt. I used to say the Tigers and Cardinals are better but that's bullshit.



They looked absolutely great out there last night, and I don't mean that Shea Langoliers nearly cycled (he shoulda gone for it).



Good crowd last night that wanted the Mets to do something, may they show up again.



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[kcmets]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Good crowd last night that wanted the Mets to do something

They showed the flood of fans coming in from train a few

times and it caught my TV attention.

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: may they show up again

Let's hope they do, and that the bats do as well.

[Benjamin Grimm]

There were no fans there yesterday at all. It was an empty stadium! The fans you saw on television were all AI.

[kcmets]

Right, all the real fans were at the Del Boca Vista charity

softball event. 10-20-30,000 it's hard to count there were

so many. So many, and never on the news.



Francisco Lindor (S) SS

Brandon Nimmo (L) CF

J.D. Martinez ® DH

Jesse Winker (L) LF

Pete Alonso ® 1B

Jeff McNeil (L) 2B

Mark Vientos ® 3B

Ben Gamel (L) RF

Francisco Alvarez ® C

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Alvarez getting the Ali Sanchez Treatment

[ashie62]

The Diamondbacks and Padres are killing it



A 5-6 or extended game losing streak here could prove fatal



WIN SOME GAMES

[Edgy MD]

The key lime pie in this lineup is J.D. Martinez coming right back after exiting early yesterday following a pitch off of his elbow, along with Alonso being back out there after eating a piece of last night's infield.

[Edgy MD]

The crowd doesn't seem quite so enthusiastic so far, but they perked up after Peterson got that third out — not getting the call on two pitches but still getting a foul tip strikeout on the 3-2 count.

[Edgy MD]

Ron reporting Rusty Staub's opinion that Mark Fidrych had a more incredible rookie season than Gooden.



That's something.

[ashie62]

The Mets are going to beat the living crap out of Oakland tonight

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Gamel can't be fouling out there

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, but McNuggles popped out to.



I was looking for the squeeze.

[MFS62]

I'm glad Vientos is back.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Nice to see Estes get taken deep after getting called out by the booth for being a dick.

[Edgy MD]

Raise a glass to the two grumpy-looking guys in SELL t-shirts behind home plate.

[Edgy MD]

Gary and Ronnie making cracks about the Chris Christie/GW Bridge scandal, forgetting perhaps that Christie is now one of their bosses.

[Edgy MD]

Beautiful three-pitch strikeout of Gelof with the tying runs in scoring position.



He's got three walks but he's throwing that fastball with confidence for strikes when he has to.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Is Estes wearing Wilma Flintstone's necklace?

[Edgy MD]

HUGE bomb by Alonso.



It interrupted the interview with Mike Cameron, and they almost forgot to go back to him.

[Edgy MD]

Bad send gets Gamel pegged at the plate, but it's cool to seem Mike Cameron watch his son make the play.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Bad send gets Gamel pegged at the plate, but it's cool to seem Mike Cameron watch his son make the play.

There were two outs, I had no problem with the send.

You usually want to send everyone.

[Edgy MD]

Peterson at 70 pitches entering the sixth is a pretty good situation, but a leadoff dubble probably wasn't part of the plan.

[Edgy MD]

I didn't know Peterson had 96.

[Edgy MD]

Peterson seems to be working with a 90-pitch cap.



Ron says Huascar Brazobán has been a steal. Show me, please.

[Edgy MD]

A rapid 6-4-3! A steal indeed!

[Frayed Knot]

Peterson says 'I coulda done that!'

[Frayed Knot]

This game seems like it should have more than a two run cushion.

Adding to it real soon would be a peach of an idea.

[Edgy MD]

Real soon is upon us with the bezes bloated, no outs, and a wild pitcher.

[Edgy MD]

And there's one and the line moves up.

[Frayed Knot]

I thought Lindor's hit was down all the way; a better read on it by Gamel would have been two runs ... and now it is anyway.