The Time has Come for a Post-Season IGT, NYM@MIL, 2024-10-01

[Cowtipper]

Three outs left!

[Fman99]

Butto throwing darts and Brewers hitters rolling over real nice like. Three more outs to get

[Edgy MD]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Edgy MD wrote: I'm not watching right now but noticed a prominent fan rocking a push-up bra back in the prior Milwaukee series. Is her name Amy? Yes, that's Amy. I'd let Butto go three today if he can. Is that all she's wearing?

No, but she definitely has worked out an understanding with gravity.

[Lefty Specialist]

Fasten your seat belts!

[Fman99]

Stanek on for the 9th. Did we really need to pull Butto? He was dealing

[Bob Alpacadaca]

That's one!

[Lefty Specialist]

One out away!

[Bob Alpacadaca]

Careful, Pete!

[kcmets]

Crane Beer and brats for everyone! I'm buying.



(3 beer limit, I ain't Mr. Rockefeller plus it's a work night)

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Stanek trade finally paying dividends

[Cowtipper]

Mets win!



Last time the Mets won their first playoff game of a postseason, they went to the World Series!

[Lefty Specialist]

Boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bob Alpacadaca]

Put it in the books!

[Fman99]

One win in the books. Win tomorrow and earn two days off.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Don't call him Frankie!

[ashie62]

Sweep!

[whippoorwill]

Edgy MD wrote: Benjamin Grimm wrote: Yes, that's Amy. I'd let Butto go three today if he can. Is that all she's wearing? No, but she definitely has worked out an understanding with gravity.

Hahaha! I just wondered because I saw a girl with a cute figure in the stands with a brew crew shirt and wondered if it was her

[Centerfield]

What a great game. Kept battling back. I wasn't even distraught when they went down 4-3. Is this what it feels like to believe?

[bmfc1]

Jomboy breaks down the aftermath of Jesse Winker's triple:

[Gwreck]

Great lipreading. But he, like the ESPN announcers, seemed to totally forget that the Brewers intentionally hit Winker earlier this weekend. Why exactly they did that is still unclear.

[bmfc1]

I don't think this one is going to win the Derby:

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[Edgy MD]

Wow, that's Zvonirrific.



Turns out that Winkie also had his back seize up during the earlier Milwaukee series, and that's what has kept him out of the lineup.



Backs in the fall.

[Centerfield]

Thinking back to that 5th inning. If Chourio makes the routine play instead of the outstanding play, Marte ties the game but maybe we don't score 5. The hustle by both Iglesias and Taylor on that play. It's very possible we don't score any runs that inning. All those ground balls that found holes. The sun was definitely shining on us this game.



And great job by Mendy. I said at the time I might have pulled Severino after the Mets scored, but Mendy made the right call. I also wasn't sure about pinch-hitting JD Martinez in that big spot. I feel like he's not right yet. But Mendy made those calls, and man did they work out.



I can say for sure that I wouldn't have pulled Peralta. That guy was cruising. Can you imagine?



Also, it's nice to be the team that doesn't have the choking stigma attached to them. As a Brewer/Brewer fan, you have to be thinking "not again".

[Benjamin Grimm]

As I was reflecting on the game, two things were at the forefront:



That infield hit by Iglesias. And how Severino turned things around. It looked like it was going to be just like Max Scherzer in Game One two years ago, but Luis got his shit together and ended up with a quality start and a well-deserved win.

[Edgy MD]

I keep thinking about that triple. Why was Frelick so far off the line that it took him forever to track that ball down? I was thinking that it was a standup double and it might be risky to send Alonso home from first, but Pete scored easily and Winker had enough to time to jaw at Adames as he rounded second.



I guess part of it is that Frelick is still smarting from crashing into the window in the padding last week, but he had a long way to go.

[Chad ochoseis]

Nice article in the Athletic:



https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5811414/2024/10/01/mets-brewers-wild-card-analysis?source=user-shared-articlehttps://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5811414/2024/10/01/mets-brewers-wild-card-analysis?source=user-shared-article



If there's one thing that Mendoza has accomplished this year, it's killing the #LOLMets culture. A couple of years ago, nobody would have been surprised to see a bonehead play like Diaz forgetting to cover first base in the Braves game. This year, the Mets are the team that does more with less and doesn't have many brain farts.



I don't have cable, so for post season games I need to find a bar in Cleveland that's showing the Mets or listen on the radio, so I got to hear Howie's calls last night. Sounded like a great game.

[Gwreck]

=Centerfield post_id=173356 time=1727879029 user_id=65] I also wasn't sure about pinch-hitting JD Martinez in that big spot. I feel like he's not right yet. But Mendy made those calls, and man did they work out.

[Edgy MD]

Mendoza also probably had a better sense of whether the Brewers had a righthanded replacement ready.



One advantage to the old four-pitch intentional walk is that it helped buy time for relievers to warm up.



The intentional walk seems to be far less used these days than a generation or two ago. Just being handed one feels a lot more like a surrender than it used to.



The message of an intentional walk used to be "Man, they really feel like the guy on deck stinks compared to the guy at the plate."



Now it feels like "Man, they really feel like their pitcher stinks."



I'm jumping from thought to thought, but I think the story of Mendoza's season is how he kept guys active and involved when they were pretty bad and still tried to keep looking for situations where they could help the team in the right situation, and eventually they became guys who were able to step up in any range of situations.



Lindor, Martinez, Nimmo McNeil, Bader, Álvarez — all of them and others had periods this year where they have looked utterly clueless, and all of them have had periods where they were the only guy you wanted up with the game on the line. Pitchers too. The team has gotten through some dark valleys with guy after guy that eventually became the guy whose shoulders they stood on.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Stanek for example