IGT 08/25 - PHI at NYM - You Know the Time, You Know the Channel and...

[Edgy MD]

The main thing that is left for tonight is to get Lindor into the hit column.

[Edgy MD]

One more batter needs to reach to get Lindor up.

[ashie62]

12-3



Laugher against the Phillies

[Edgy MD]

Lindor up!



Five RBI for Torrens!!

[ashie62]

Would a team use a position player to pitch with a huge lead in the ninth? I wouldn't think so

[Edgy MD]

José Castillo's first win since Crazy Rich Asians was on the big screen.



The last time Castillo won, JD Vance was describing himself as "a Never Trump guy."

[ashie62]

Great satisfying win



It almost feels like the season and stretch runs starts now



LGM

[Centerfield]

That felt like two different games. The Mets couldn't buy a hit early. The Phillies threatened every inning.



Then everything changed just like that.

[Frayed Knot]

There was NOTHING!!!! in the first four innings that even slightly indicated was to come in the final five.

I was a few minutes from deciding I'd rather rearrange my sock drawer than watch the remainder of the game when the script suddenly flipped.

A million hits (most with two outs), walks, good defense, and a near-perfect pen came out of absolutely nowhere.

Down 3-0 I wasn't sure they were going to score four times in the series and they wind up with 13 in half a game.

Go figure.



The only downside remains Senga. No change, no improvement, and the picture doesn't look promising going forward.

[Edgy MD]

I like to think they took something off Senga's back.



Liking to think that doesn't make it true, of course. But the day he hit the IL — June 13 — was the day the Mets started a streak of eight losses in a row, 11 in 12 games, 15 in 18 games, etc. It put him in the position of being the key Met that had to return to change their fortune, and when he returned, he got hurt again, covering first, and he has tried to tough through it and hasn't found himself since that second injury.



Now, getting picked up big time, the Mets send him the message that he can do what he has to do to get right, and they can pick him up until then.



Or not, but they picked up Soto, Alonso, and Lindor pretty nicely as well.



Also, in addition to seeing the super-slumps of Taylor and Torrens cracking, very surprising news coming out today about Álvarez taking BP.

[Frayed Knot]

Jose Castillo faced two batters getting three outs on three pitches that took close to twenty minutes to throw.

But he got the 'W' for his efforts!

[Benjamin Grimm]

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[Centerfield]

I was thinking last night how many times we've been on the wrong side of last night's game. Score some runs early, then the offense goes to sleep. Defensive miscue leads to a run. Starter falls apart in the middle innings, bullpen implodes and we lose a laugher. Their scrub 9 place hitter goes off.

[Edgy MD]

That pickoff-turned-error was a real change of fortune they never looked back from. The sun shines more brightly when Juan Soto hustles.

[whippoorwill]

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Kruk is eating on air? Sounds tasty

[Frayed Knot]

Like last week maybe, when Kruk asked his partner how the guy who invented the first clock knew what time it was.