IGT — 4/23/2025: Let Us Transcend

[Edgy MD]

Each win by the Mets means the team makes a generous donation to The Katz Institute for Women's Health, and Katz has had a really good six days.



Tomorrow they try to go from "really good" to "perfect" with a chance to sweep the homestand and put a real crimp in the aspirations of the defending division champs. David Peterson is back on the mound against Zack Wheeler, whose heart just hasn't been in the right place the last few years.



I am starting to think that playoff victory was no fluke.



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[batmagadanleadoff]

Edgy MD wrote: I am starting to think that playoff victory was no fluke.

Yes. Let us now ponder whether the outcome of one single, solitary, lone baseball game between two pretty good teams could ever be a fluke. Or not a fluke.

[kcmets]

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Trea Turner ® SS

Bryce Harper (L) 1B

Kyle Schwarber (L) DH

Nick Castellanos ® RF

J.T. Realmuto ® C

Alec Bohm ® 3B

Edmundo Sosa ® 2B

Weston Wilson ® LF

Johan Rojas ® CF



Zack Wheeler (RH) P

(2-1, 3.73 ERA, 41 SO)

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Francisco Lindor (S) SS

Juan Soto (L) RF

Pete Alonso ® 1B

Brandon Nimmo (L) LF

Mark Vientos ® 3B

Jesse Winker (L) DH

Tyrone Taylor ® CF

Brett Baty (L) 2B

Hayden Senger ® C



David Peterson (LH) P

(1-1, 3.27 ERA, 26 SO)

[Centerfield]

3.73 ERA vs. 3.27 ERA.



Poor Phillies are trying to avoid the sweep and have to go into the game with a pitching disadvantage.

[batmagadanleadoff]

You'd rather have David Peterson instead of Zack Wheeler? Are we suddenly in the Bizarro universe?

Edited April 23, 2025 by Guest

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Phillies have a shitload of talent but they look like they might be having a fire-the-manager year.

[roger_that]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Phillies have a shitload of talent but they look like they might be having a fire-the-manager year.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys.



Let's rub their noses in it.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Johnny Lunchbucket wrote: Phillies have a shitload of talent but they look like they might be having a fire-the-manager year.

It's not the Phillies, Lefty. It's those unbeatable Mets, Lefty, who are on track, or on pace to win about 145 games this year. If not for having had to play the unbeatable Mets, Lefty, the Phils would be four games over .500 and on pace or on track to win 96 games, good for first place in just about any season but this one where the Mets, Lefty, are on track to win 188 games. Did I say 188 games? Check back here in 30 seconds. I might have to update that figure.

[Frayed Knot]

Wheeler's had three good starts out of five: 4 ER, 10 H, over 20 innings combined.

But the two others were kind of rough, particularly by his standards: 9 ER on 15 H in 11.1 innings combined

Of course the competition may have had something to do with that. Good games = WAS, COL, MIA; Bad games = ATL, StL

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

If he doesn't have a bad game we can just wait till they go to the bullpen and beat them

[roger_that]

Frayed Knot wrote: Wheeler's had three good starts out of five: 4 ER, 10 H, over 20 innings combined. But the two others were kind of rough, particularly by his standards: 9 ER on 15 H in 11.1 innings combined Of course the competition may have had something to do with that. Good games = WAS, COL, MIA; Bad games = ATL, StL

He's given up exactly one HR in each of his five games so far, but only 6 BB in five games. In his two "bad" games he's struck out only 10 batters combined. In his three good ones, he's struck out better than 10 per game in only 20 innings.



Lefties hit him particularly well, of course, and we've got five good lefties in today's lineup, Lindor, Soto, Nimmo, Winker, and Baty.

Edited April 23, 2025 by Guest

[ashie62]

THE METS ARE ON FIRE!



LGM

[ashie62]

Soto gets his first hit of the series

[Edgy MD]

Keith rightfully doesn't like balls down the line bouncing back toward the middle of the field and being played for a single.

[ashie62]

Peterson looking to bail Vientos out

[ashie62]

Done!!



Score runs

[Edgy MD]

Escapin' from da jam!



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[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Baty!

[ashie62]

[bIGPURPLE]BATY BOOM[/bIGPURPLE]

[Edgy MD]

BATY

BELONGZ

[ashie62]

McNeil in CF and the kids stay with Acuna playing some OF also



Make it so

[roger_that]

Baty does my heart good.



Wheeler has now given up 6 HRs, one in each start.

[Edgy MD]

Some dude in this crowd keeps trying to start a roll call.

[ashie62]

2-2



Let us score more runs

[Marshmallowmilkshake]

I can't remember the Mets ever hitting this many upper deck shots!

[roger_that]

Another lefty, Winker, hits a good shot off Wheeler

[Edgy MD]

This is turning into quite the game. Cada equipo quiere ganar.

[ashie62]

Half over



Wheeler's pitch count is not far from where you would like it to be

[Edgy MD]

Alonso is starting to revert to the jumpy version of himself.

[roger_that]

Wheeler's got one more inning left in him. Then we can gang up on the bullpen.