Cubs (Cabrera) vs Mets (Senga): 6/23/26, 7:10pm

[Frayed Knot]

3-2/3 IP, 98 pitches, seven earned ... and that's starting with a 1-2-3 1st

I don't know what you do with this guy.

[ashie62]

Even the Brooklyn Nets are having a better night than the Mets

[Cowtipper]

Slick play. I never thought that inning would end. 

[ashie62]

Senga's ERA is about that same as Jim Bouton's was in the Metro League

[Centerfield]

14 minutes ago, Frayed Knot said:

I don't know what you do with this guy.

I do. 

[Centerfield]

Soto hurt?

Ridiculous. 

[Frayed Knot]

Well, we don't want him to play too many games with Lindor. They've already appeared in the same lineup nine times over the first 78 games. I think that's enough for a while.

[Edgy MD]

Amazing that Cabrera is still out there.

Mets swinging at near everything now.

[Cowtipper]

Why not? Not like they're gonna score.

[Edgy MD]

Because swinging at everything is the way to lose.

Vientos just became perhaps the first guy to earn a walk after being down 0-and-3.

[Cowtipper]

I look away for 30 seconds and that fella is on the ground. What in the world happened? Was he blinded by David Stearns' genius and knocked off his feet? 

[Edgy MD]

Cabrera sure earned the win on that play.

Why the fuck people are reacting to his injury by doing the "Seven Nation Army" chant is beyond me.

[Edgy MD]

Just now, Cowtipper said:

I look away for 30 seconds and that fella is on the ground. What in the world happened? Was he blinded by David Stearns' genius and knocked off his feet? 

Please try harder.

Is there even a joke in there?

[Cowtipper]

Getting Edgy to whine is enough for one evening. My day is complete. Have a wonderful night, all. 

[ashie62]

Soto injured, calf?

This is absolutely one of the most brutal painful and disappointing seasons of my Mets fandom

[Edgy MD]

10 minutes ago, Cowtipper said:

Getting Edgy to whine is enough for one evening. My day is complete. Have a wonderful night, all. 

Well, I asked please.

[ashie62]

Some reporting that Soto was wincing on swings

If it's an oblique that fat lady is primping up

LGM

[Edgy MD]

Amazing that the booth is confused and the DJ plays "What's Goin' On"?

I think PCA could have broken contact in between his first hand and trailing hand, or at least the Mets might have convinced themselves of that.

[Edgy MD]

It may be a ticky-tack call, but once the Mets make the challenge, the umps in the replay booth have to call what they see.

[Edgy MD]

Bichette walks matter.

Soto injuries matter more.

[Edgy MD]

Mets PotG is the replay crew in Chelsea.

[Frayed Knot]

Seven of the nine Cubs runs scored with two outs.

[Edgy MD]

So, the Young-vs.-Waggy leftfielding contest isn't exactly a heated battle.

[Edgy MD]

Start Minter.

[Frayed Knot]

OK, so that call reversal at 2B that confused the entire booth.

Keith kept saying the the ball was 'dead' which was never the case. That it was often treated as if it were, the example of umps telling/signaling runners to slow down if/when they were running on ball four was mentioned, should have never happened and was part of the problem leading baseball into the age where the time between ABs and even pitches was treated as dead time even though it wasn't.

Yes, the runner 'is awarded' 2nd base due to ball four but if he chooses, by choice or via ignorance, to go in with a head-first dive he does so at his own risk and there's no reason why he shouldn't be subject to being put out if he comes off the base.

[Edgy MD]

2 minutes ago, Frayed Knot said:

Yes, the runner 'is awarded' 2nd base due to ball four but if he chooses, by choice or via ignorance, to go in with a head-first dive he does so at his own risk and there's no reason why he shouldn't be subject to being put out if he comes off the base.

It shouldn't even be controversial.

Yeah, it's ticky-tack, but if people slide like that, well, they do that at their own risk.

[Edgy MD]

Mets thumb their noses at history with a ninth-inning walk.  That's a 1.000 OPS!

[Edgy MD]

Ninth inning OPS on the night down to .500.

[Frayed Knot]

3 minutes ago, Edgy MD said:

It shouldn't even be controversial. Yeah, it's ticky-tack, but if people slide like that, well, they do that at their own risk.

The reason it is controversial, and I've talked about this in the past, is because of the slow morphing of baseball from a game where the ball was considered live and in play unless specifically stated otherwise, to one where the opposite was true or at least assumed to be.

Those who found themselves confused did so because they assumed that nothing was allowed to happen once ball four was indicated.

[Edgy MD]

A half-decent performance by the starter might've made this a game.