IGT - Mets @ Cards, 5/4 Game 2

[Frayed Knot]

It's <5 minutes to first pitch and we need an IGT so I'm putting up my first one of the year.



Tylor Megill faces some other dude.

And May the 4th be with us!

[kcmets]

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Francisco Lindor (S) SS

Juan Soto (L) DH

Pete Alonso ® 1B

Mark Vientos ® 3B

Brandon Nimmo (L) LF

Starling Marte ® RF

Francisco Alvarez ® C

Luisangel Acuña ® 2B

Tyrone Taylor ® CF



Tylor Megill (RH) P

(3-2, 1.74 ERA, 39 SO)

[ashie62]

I don't know anything about Star Wars other than May 4th means something



Cardinals have a 2-0 lead in the first on a Burleson homerun

[kcmets]

Everybody hits!!!

[Fman99]

Twas a clutch AB there by Marte to extend the inning

[Cowtipper]

I hope they win.

[ashie62]

4-2 Mets!!



They really need a split before heading west

[The Hot Corner]

The Mets score 4 in the top of the 3rd to take the lead 4-2.



Megill is currently in the process of giving up the lead.

[The Hot Corner]

Megill is struggling. Escapes the bottom of the 3rd with the score now tied at 4.

[Cowtipper]

I guess he really puts the "tie" in Ty-lor, amirite boys?

[metirish]

Dammit, Juan nearly had one , good catch at the wall

[The Hot Corner]

Damn, Victor Scott II made a great leaping catch to rob Soto of a 3 run HR to center. Men on second & third with one out for Pete.

[The Hot Corner]

Nimmo smokes a hard line drive to the gap. Unfortunately, it hung up just long enough the RF to run it down and end the inning. The Mets hit some rockets that inning, but too many of them ended up in the gloves of Cardinal outfielders.

[Frayed Knot]

StL starter Pallante faced 21 NYM hitters and retired just eight of them!

Couple that with all the hard-hit balls that became some of those outs and he's lucky not to have given up 14 runs

[kcmets]

I'll take 'Stranded On The Bags' for $600 please, Alex

[The Hot Corner]

Sound went out on my MLB feed in the 7th inning. It is weird, watching with no sound. Like inverse radio.

[kcmets]

Move from the wrong Game thread:
=kcmets post_id=191675 time=1746404949 user_id=53]
Hey Gary and Keith, I always thought 'get that guy a tin

cup' jokingly implied that the ump is blind. It's an outdated

cultural image of a blind guy selling perhaps pencils on a

street corner and looking for a coin in his 'tin cup.'

[Fman99]

What a big ol meh today was Mets wise

[The Hot Corner]

The Mets lose both games of the doubleheader. The Mets stranded too many base runners. They hit into some bad luck in the second game, but the biggest factor is the starting pitching was unable to continue it's stellar work. In game one, Tidwell was not ready for his ML debut and got smacked around by the Cardinals. In the second game, Megill just didn't have it today. The Mets hit Cardinals starter Palante very hard, but his defense bailed him out to keep it from being even worse. Then MrGreevey came in to toss 5.2 innings of stellar relief in his season debut for the Cardinals.



Not a good day for the Mets. They need to regroup and get back to their winning ways in Arizona.

[Frayed Knot]

So that's 4 - 6 following the seven game winning streak.

Overall you'd take 11 - 6, but it kinda suxx after that start.



In the Mets 13 losses this season, 11 are by one or two runs. (4 - 8 to MIA, 3 - 6 to MIN]

Other than those it's losses by 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1 runs

By contrast, 12 of our 22 wins have been by three runs or more: 6, 5, 5, 8, 3. 3, 3, 3, 4, 14, 5, 6





Not sure that those stats are entirely relevant this early in the season, but at least we've been in every game.

Edited May 4, 2025 by Guest

[Frayed Knot]

=kcmets post_id=191675 time=1746404949 user_id=53]
Hey Gary and Keith, I always thought 'get that guy a tin

cup' jokingly implied that the ump is blind. It's an outdated

cultural image of a blind guy selling perhaps pencils on a

street corner and looking for a coin in his 'tin cup.'

[batmagadanleadoff]

Frayed Knot wrote: So that's 4 - 6 following the seven game winning streak. Overall you'd take 11 - 6, but it kinda suxx after that start. In the Mets 13 losses this season, 11 are by one or two runs. (4 - 8 to MIA, 3 - 6 to MIN] Other than those it's losses by 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1 runs By contrast, 12 of our 22 wins have been by three runs or more: 6, 5, 5, 8, 3. 3, 3, 3, 4, 14, 5, 6 Not sure that those stats are entirely relevant this early in the season, but at least we've been in every game.

It's a promising trend and those stats are as relevant or irrelevant as any other stats this season. They portend a dominant juggernaut Mets team just as much as the stats, at least to date, portend an MVP-caliber season for Pete Alonso.(See, On Track thread).

[Benjamin Grimm]

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http://potg.leaptoad.com/mets/index.phpCast your vote!

[MFS62]

This is weird (from Yahoo Sports) - some of you don't like Yahoo links:

The Mets have lost their 34th game of the season a remarkable 16 years in a row in what has become one of the strangest, and completely inconsequential, hexes in sports history. It started in 2010, when the Mets fell to the Washington Nationals, 6-4. Every year since, the Mets have dropped that game. The Cardinals were the 13th different team the Mets have faced during this span, so it's not like it's tied to any specific opponent. That makes the streak only weirder.

Rats!

Now that's something we'll have to look out for next year.

Later