IGT - June 17, 2025 - Peterson vs. Schwellenbach

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

BOOOOOOI

[Lefty Specialist]

Just brutal.

[Frayed Knot]

We were twice handed outs and gave them back

We had four guys reach base who then turned themselves into outs

[kcmets]

Phillies lost too, but geez there is a lot to finger point at in this debacle.

[Frayed Knot]

This week has seven to ten game losing streak written all over it.

Hell, we're halfway there already.

[ashie62]

Regression to the norm. Painful

[Lefty Specialist]

It's like 2024 in reverse.

[Centerfield]

You can't play that stupid and expect to win.



Pete with the boneheaded baserunning. Mauricio error. Alvarez with his head up his ass. On the Soto play what is the point of a base coach if you don't fucking coach.



Awful pitch sequence from Garrett.



And now it's Sale versus Blackburn.

[Centerfield]

And really. Enough of Jared fucking young.

[Fman99]

Tough game to watch. No me likee

[Lefty Specialist]

Brazoban gets the loss but I pin this one squarely on Garrett. You had one job.

[metirish]

Philly two games back , could be a rough week

[Frayed Knot]

Garrett also came in with two on and no one out. Can't hang that all on him.

Brazoban's WP - BB sequence leading up to the (wall scraping) Sac Fly was worse IMO



But I'm not hanging this on the pitchers. Two solo HRs plus a bloop for the sum total of your offense isn't going to win many games. Particularly not when

you scuttle other opportunities by self-erasing four baserunners and then fail to erase one of theirs when what winds up as the winning run hangs himself

up in the middle of the base path.

Run! At! The! Runner! The other guy is on 1st base, he can't go anywhere until the lead runner decides what to do. There's no reason to get rid of the ball

immediately there and make the decision for him. I was frankly surprised that the runner on 1st didn't take 2nd as part of that debacle. Since the ball was

initially in the dirt it winds up being scored as a 'Wild Pitch' against Brazoban but that's burying the lede.

[MFS62]

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And now it's Sale versus Blackburn.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, not a night for Antoan Richardson to rest easy. The Braves were on their toes and the Mets were on their heels.



Impressive night for Tyrone Taylor. His bat got around against that damned splitter, and he showed something making that catch at the end with nothing on the line but his self-respect.

[MFS62]

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, not a night for Antoan Richardson to rest easy. The Braves were on their toes and the Mets were on their heels. Impressive night for Tyrone Taylor. His bat got around against that damned splitter, and he showed something making that catch at the end with nothing on the line but his self-respect.

I read that he dedicated the game to his father, but I can't find any quotes.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: ... and he showed something making that catch at the end with nothing on the line but his self-respect.

As he was going back for that one I said to myself, 'injuring himself while making this catch would be the perfect topper for the night'.

Fortunately he wasn't reading my mind at the time.

[metirish]

Gelbs



Fascinating moment: On Ozuna's game-tying double, Garrett called fastball, but Alvarez switched to splitter. Alvarez felt awful after. Alvarez made the call because Ozuna looked lost on the last splitter. Garrett thought he wouldn't catch up to the fastball after the weak swing.

[Centerfield]

So we'll never know what would have happened had Garret thrown the fast ball. But you can't understate the importance of mixing pitches. Alvarez read that as "looking lost". I felt like Ozuna was figuring out the timing. In any case, it's clear that splitter was not the right call there. And even if Alvarez thought it would be good to double up on the splitter, a pitcher who isn't convinced it's the right pitch to throw is more likely to throw a bad one.



I've had some time to let that loss sink in. Unlike the other losses this season, this one still pisses me off. I've now seen the replay of the late call by the umpire on the Alonso fly ball. So I guess Soto might have been somewhat justified, but also, that play was right in front of him. The rest of the mistakes. Just awful.

[Benjamin Grimm]

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