IGT 7/3 Mets vs Braves 7:15 Great Scott vs Sherlock (Grant) Holmes

[ashie62]

This game will not be on Apple TV 

Luis Robert Jr is rehabbing. I guess we could see him and Christopher Morel soon

LGM

[Edgy MD]

Who do you think Morel is going to replace?

Presumably, Robert knocks Mauricio off the roster but I'm not sure there's a spot for Morel, unless and until selloffs start happening.

[MFS62]

2 hours ago, Edgy MD said:

Who do you think Morel is going to replace?

Mushroom management. Keeping us in the dark.

That is the extent of my morel mushroom jokes.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

Game times/networks for this series:

Friday: 7:15 (PIX)

Saturday: 8:08 (FOX)

Sunday: 12:30 (NBC)

Monday: 7:15 (SNY)

[seawolf17]

Morel isn't even on the 40. I don't know that he's up soon unless something weird happens.

Plus, there's the whole "he's not all that good at baseball" thing. He basically Mark Vientos.

[Edgy MD]

LOOK WHO'S LEADOFF!

I don't want to make too much of it, but this is massive!

METS

Starting Pitcher

Christian Scott RHP 2-0, 3.20 ERA, 53 SO

Lineup

1. A.J. Ewing (L) CF
2. Juan Soto (L) LF
3. Bo Bichette (R) 3B
4. Francisco Lindor (S) SS
5. Carson Benge (L) RF
6. Jared Young (L) 1B
7. Francisco Alvarez (R) DH
8. Brett Baty (L) 2B
9. Luis Torrens (R) C

ATLANTA

Starting Pitcher

Grant Holmes RHP 4-4, 3.96 ERA, 69 SO

Lineup

1. Drake Baldwin (L) C
2. Ozzie Albies (S) 2B
3. Matt Olson (L) 1B
4. Mauricio Dubón (R) LF
5. Michael Harris II (L) CF
6. Dominic Smith (L) DH
7. Austin Riley (R) 3B
8. Mike Yastrzemski (L) RF
9. Jorge Mateo (R) SS

[Frayed Knot]

Atlanta isn't, and hasn't been, playing well: 5 - 14 in their last 19, their one-time 9.5 G lead down to 2.5

Last night the Cardinals scored 3 in top 1st but the Braves came back with 5 in the bottom half. That kind of 1st inning lightning was, for the last couple of years, their signature move and once it happened the game was essentially over.  But in this case the runs were kind of cheap to start with --  walks, soft hits, and then Dom Smith got a favorable bounce off the pitchers foot which turned into a bases-clearing double -- and then they were blanked for the next eight frames which bit them when the Cards turned in a seven-run 7th. 11 - 5 was the final.

[ashie62]

On 7/2/2026 at 1:35 PM, Edgy MD said:

Who do you think Morel is going to replace?

Presumably, Robert knocks Mauricio off the roster but I'm not sure there's a spot for Morel, unless and until selloffs start happening.

 

[ashie62]

Just now, ashie62 said:

 

I walked everywhere through the heat. I am very sick with a summer flu and listening to stuff under the covers with mede

 

LGM!?

[Edgy MD]

Once they move Lindor up ahead of Soto and Alvarez ahead of Young, they will have the lineup that will win every remaining game.

[Edgy MD]

Lindor's braids are suddenly resplendently long.

Anybody following this funfest?

[Frayed Knot]

How do you expect me to concentrate on baseball with all the goings-on over at MSG?

I mean, we're going to have an In-Reception thread, right?

[Frayed Knot]

Thru 5 innings the first two Mets in each inning have made outs ... except for the Matt Olson error which came with one out so there they tried to make the first two outs of the frame but the Braves wouldn't let them. The Soto HR followed.

[Frayed Knot]

3 minutes ago, Frayed Knot said:

Thru 5 innings the first two Mets in each inning have made outs ... except for the Matt Olson error

And now six straight innings.

[Edgy MD]

They're throwing Danny Young at us?  Just off the IL?  That's crap.

But ... we're pinch-hitting for Ewing?

[Frayed Knot]

15 minutes ago, Frayed Knot said:

And now six straight innings.

And now seven innings

[Edgy MD]

Win it for Senga!

[Frayed Knot]

Young has two 3 - 1 putout flips to Senga and hasn't broken him once.

[Edgy MD]

Senga has found his 98 again.

[Frayed Knot]

19 minutes ago, Frayed Knot said:

And now seven innings

Streak broken!!!!

We now actually have two outs to work with to get a runner in rather than a zero margin for error.

Well NOW we don't have it any longer ... but it was there for an instant.

[Edgy MD]

Pitching Benge in on the hands is where he wants it.

[Edgy MD]

Olson likes the Mets.

[Edgy MD]

Tomahawk chant.

[The Hot Corner]

So far this year, it seems everyone likes the Mets.  

[Frayed Knot]

Well that pretty settles that. Not that we were going to come back from a two run deficit but three makes it a statistical impossibility.

[Edgy MD]

Bichette Bichette
The table is sette

[Frayed Knot]

Good thing we left ourselves with no margin for error.

[Edgy MD]

Lindor!  Lindor!
I wish there was ... more ...

[Frayed Knot]

Braves had five hits ... four of them HRs