IGT 5/19 - Mets at Boston

[Frayed Knot]

I'm 0-2 w/IGTs so far this year so I'm playing the role of 'slump buster' which will only work if NYM bats can figure out a way to bust out of all of their collective slumps.

They've relied on the bats of Lindor and Alonso for most of the season while everyone else was sub-par and/or inconsistent. But now that Fransisco and Pete are scuffling themselves for the past week or so the RS average is around 3/G lately.



And we get a rookie pitcher to face: Hunter Dobbins, R/R (not sure why I insist on listing his batting side), 25 y/o, 6' 2"/185, 8th round pick in 2021 out of Texas Tech.

This will be his sixth start after making his ML debut in early April: 2-1, 3.90, 1.30 WHiP. 32 hits in 27.2 innings but just 4 walks. Has so far faced StL, CHW, MIN, KCR, DET

Kodai Senga goes for the good guys.





Oh, and remember that this game is scheduled for a 6:45 EDT first pitch





The Red Sox are currently in 2nd place AL East despite a below .500 record of 23-25 after losing two of three to the Braves over the weekend.

With 234 RS and 226 RA they score at a rate of about 1/2 per game over ML average but are worse than avg at allowing runs by nearly the same gap (0.36 R/G)

Edited May 19, 2025 by Guest

[MFS62]

If the hitters are in a slump, trying to pull everything toward the Green Monster isn't going to get them out of it.

Later

[kcmets]

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F Lindor (S) SS

J Soto (L) RF

P Alonso ® 1B

B Nimmo (L) LF

M Vientos ® DH

B Baty (L) 3B

F Alvarez ® C

J McNeil (L) 2B

T Taylor ® CF



Kodai Senga (RH) P

(4-2, 1.02 ERA, 42 SO)

[ashie62]

Let's go, the Braves are starting to win



The Mets have had the best of everything until now it seems. This game would go aways to snap out of this funk



Break the funk!

[ashie62]

Uh Pete wtf

[ashie62]

Pete assumed it was a homer and didn't run out of the box



That's a sin

[metirish]

Missed it, even though I read FK reminder that it was a 6:45 start

[Edgy MD]

Strange that Lindor was nowhere in the vicinity of that run-scoring groundout to McNaggles.

[Edgy MD]

Well, Lindor really hustled on that single down the line, but a 2-0 hole is not the plan.

[kcmets]

What channel is this game on?

[ashie62]

Rough rough start



I think Alvarez has regressed as a catcher. Too much backhand



SNY

[Frayed Knot]

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What channel is this game on?

[ashie62]

Let's hope not

[Edgy MD]

Nice Twelve Angry Men reference from Darling.

[Centerfield]

If we don't get great starting pitching, we have no chance.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Nice Twelve Angry Men reference from Darling.

Yes, I enjoyed that reference.

But then Gary drops the ball by noting that pitcher Dobbins is a former HS QB from Texas but failing to note that he was in the process of pitching to Baty, another Lone Star HS QB

[ashie62]

Cold blustery weather there

[ashie62]

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: Nice Twelve Angry Men reference from Darling. Yes, I enjoyed that reference. But then Gary drops the ball by noting that pitcher Dobbins is a former HS QB from Texas but failing to note that he was in the process of pitching to Baty, another Lone Star HS QB

Ba dumb bump

[ashie62]

Senga went to the mound without his pitchcom and later tripped over the mound in the first inning

[Edgy MD]

[CROSSOUT]Omar[/CROSSOUT] Carlos Narváez outscoring the Mets, 1-0.

[ashie62]

Losing a game by a thousand paper cuts

[Edgy MD]

The bottom of the lineup is not playing along with that narrative.

[ashie62]

Here we go



Soto time

[ashie62]

I really believe Soto is feeling every bit of the pressure

[Lefty Specialist]

Beltran had a bad first year for the Mets. Lindor had a bad first year. (Bad for them, anyway) After that they were back to being themselves.



Soto seems to be going through the same thing.

[kcmets]

Alonso getting the toss and throw yips.

[ashie62]

Pretty much



Pete's head is not in straight right now

[Frayed Knot]

It's not just the accuracy of his throws, it's the timing of them too.

That flip was obviously too high but it was also way too late.

[ashie62]

He did look like a ballerina with that toss

[Centerfield]

These games are painful to watch.