IGT 6/17 Gaydame Mets vs Reds 12:40 McLean Lodolo

[ashie62]

I'm feeling the "hope for the best expect the worst" Mets thingy 

LGM

[ashie62]

Benge 9

Bichette 5

Soto 7

Semien 4

Vientos 3

Alvarez DH

Ewing 8

Torrens 2

Short 6

McLean 1

[ashie62]

My Moops crystal ball sees Francisco Alvarez having a big boy day

[Frayed Knot]

A SCORELESS 1st!! A SCORELESS 1st!!!

No walks, no hits, and no HRs with multiple Red dudes on base!!

[Brock Beauchamp]

That was an embarrassingly bad challenge.

[Frayed Knot]

So we've already have two GiDPs plus an ABS challenge that was both wrong and in a wrong situation to use it (bases empty, scoreless game, 2nd inning, 2-1 count) and it only took five batters into the game. to achieve all that.

[Frayed Knot]

Four of the first eight batters reach base and yet none have managed to reach 2nd yet.

These kind of oddities are tough to do and yet we manage to do them on a nearly daily basis.

 

 

oe: and now a Sac Bunt by the 9th hitter of the game moves a runner to 2nd 

[Frayed Knot]

We have a lead!!! Quick, call time out!

[Brock Beauchamp]

1 minute ago, Frayed Knot said:

We have a lead!!! Quick, call time out!

No, it's time to run out the clock.

[MFS62]

3 minutes ago, Frayed Knot said:

We have a lead!!! Quick, call time out!

Hold the ball. Run out the clock.

Oh, wait! Wrong sport.

Never mind.

 

OOPS _ Brock and I had the same idea at the same time.

Later

[Cowtipper]

Who's at short?

[Cowtipper]

It's like this team wants to lose. 

[whippoorwill]

26 minutes ago, Frayed Knot said:

We have a lead!!! Quick, call time out!

Woo hoo!

[Edgy MD]

When McLean strikes out a guy to end the inning, he walks off the mound with a deGromian authority.  Especially when he dots a corner with a called strike three.

It's a shame that Hernandez is not a soccer fan, as Spain has one of the top two or three men's teams in the world, and are probably alone atop of the women's national teams.

[Edgy MD]

Also, Viento's sac fly should have advanced all three runners.

[Edgy MD]

Amazing inning in that all three Reds outfielders have looked like high schoolers.

[Edgy MD]

I don't know if six innings is it for Nolan McLean, even taking into account the threat the last inning, this has probably been his best game as a big-leaguer.

[Edgy MD]

How come threads go dead when I enter them?

Do I smell?  I smell, don't I?

[Centerfield]

16 minutes ago, Edgy MD said:

I don't know if six innings is it for Nolan McLean, even taking into account the threat the last inning, this has probably been his best game as a big-leaguer.

This is great to hear. His control is good?

[Edgy MD]

VERY good.  Just dotted the corner for strike three in the seventh.

When he has been off the plate, it seems to be less wildness, and more setting up the next pitch.

[Edgy MD]

Short (now 0-for-3 with a sacrifice) is wearing #40.

That number belongs on the back of a pitcher who somehow gets it done without a fastball.  Pat Zachry.  Bartolo Colon.  Jeff Innis.

Come one, Mets!  Call me!  No shortstop is going to prosper with a 40 on his back!

[Edgy MD]

Marcus Semien, who has played 658 2/3 out of 659 2/3 (99.85%) of all innings at second for the Mets this season, just sat down to give Baty the last two innings.

[Edgy MD]

Everyone in the hit column but Shortcake, and he comes up this inning.

[Edgy MD]

Nope.  No Shorty.