IGT 5/19 - Mets at Boston

[Centerfield]

Baty completely cold again. Will never understand sitting guys when they get hot.

[kcmets]

Lotta fans of the orange and blue present in beantown.

[Centerfield]

Terrible call. Especially given the one Senga didn't get.

[Frayed Knot]

Our (lack of) clutch hitting prowess continues!

1st & 3rd, 1 out. Result: K, K

[Edgy MD]

Not a good feeling to see Lindor, Soto, and Alonso all in a bad headspace at once.

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: Our (lack of) clutch hitting prowess continues!

1st & 2nd no one out. Result: 5-6-3 GiDP

[Edgy MD]

McNeil is the most locked in guy we have in this lineup, goofy bat and all.

[Frayed Knot]

Taylor, given a second chance (though with only a runner on 1st & 2 out) comes through.

Now Lindor's gets a second crack at it. Result: ??????







Not a lot of drama there, eh?

[Edgy MD]

McNeffies also seems like the only guy who is busting it.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Meet Jose Castillo

[Edgy MD]

Pete chasing the slider away. Never a good indicator.

[Centerfield]

This is a real prolonged suck.



Reminds me of May 2024.

[batmagadanleadoff]

It's the Baby Mets of 2022 due up this last inning: Mark Vientos, Brett "Hank Sauer" Baty and Francisco "Not Johnny Bench" Alvarez.

[Frayed Knot]

Was there any doubt that it would end any other way?



And, yes, the two run bottom 1st WAS an insurmountable lead.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Breaking News: Pete Alonso is no longer ON TRACK to hit 200 HR's this season. Math and footnotes explaining calculations to follow in long-winded endnote.

[Fman99]

Lefty Specialist wrote: 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.

Said this very thing to someone over the weekend. First year, big contract, big city. It happens.

[ashie62]

Hopefully this won't last too long

[Lefty Specialist]

Lefty Specialist wrote: 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. Said this very thing to someone over the weekend. First year, big contract, big city. It happens.

Well, he'd better figure it out because I'm not looking forward to 14 1/2 more years of this.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Lefty Specialist wrote: 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. Said this very thing to someone over the weekend. First year, big contract, big city. It happens.

I thought of Lindor and Beltran too.



But I also thought of George Foster. And Jason Bay.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[Cowtipper]

Down to second place :-(

[Edgy MD]

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

I thought of this, too.



It is really impressive how many baseball players — even those you don't automatically think of as polished all-around athletes — were championship-level, college-recruited high school quarterbacks. Gary Carter was. Ed Charles was. Joey Mauer was supposedly unstoppable as a high school quarterback.