IGT 7/11 Mets Red Sox 4:10 Peralta Bello

[ashie62]

The Mets still have some mojo left in them. Brayan Bello is coming up from AAA for this

The Red Sox are paying him around $130 million dollars

[Brandon Glick]

FWIW, the Sox called up Eduardo Rivera to take the start today. Bello is sticking in the minors.

[Edgy MD]

"Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm."

Winston Churchill

 

 

[ashie62]

On FS1

[ashie62]

Game time

I have money on Peralta 

[Edgy MD]

The Zach Short thing is really looking like a thing-like thing.

BOSTON

Starting Pitcher

Eduardo Rivera LHP 0-0, 0.00 ERA, 3 SO

Lineup

1. Anthony Seigler (S) 2B
2. Ceddanne Rafaela (R) CF
3. Wilyer Abreu (L) RF
4. Caleb Durbin (R) 3B
5. Masataka Yoshida (L) DH
6. Andruw Monasterio (R) 1B
7. Jarren Duran (L) LF
8. Carlos Narváez (R) C
9. Tsung-Che Cheng (L) SS

METS

Starting Pitcher

Freddy Peralta RHP 5-7, 4.68 ERA, 98 SO

NYM Lineup

1. A.J. Ewing (L) CF
2. Juan Soto (L) LF
3. Francisco Lindor (S) SS
4. Carson Benge (L) RF
5. Jorge Polanco (S) DH
6. Eric Wagaman (R) 1B
7. Francisco Alvarez (R) C
8. Brett Baty (L) 3B
9. Zack Short (R) 2B

[ashie62]

I want Bo Bichette to look like the cock of the walk at the deadline

[Edgy MD]

Is there word that he's hurt?

He hadn't missed a game and now he's riding pine two days in a row.

[metirish]

Overall sore legs and ankle soreness, per Andy Green ,available off the bench , but may use this and ASG to rest 

[metirish]

I don't think I have ever heard such and explanation, but that's what Green said 

[Frayed Knot]

Basically sitting out this series (or a big chunk of it) gives Bichette almost a full week to rest and heal all his owies.

[Edgy MD]

Five K's is good.  Having to load the bases on the way there, not as much.

Also good and not so good is trying to use the All-Star break to get rest for guys you signed to be All-Stars.

[metirish]

Yes and closing in on 50 pitches,  looking like short-day Freddy again 

[Frayed Knot]

Leadoff runner on 2nd ... and then no ball leaves the IF for the rest of the inning.

It's a little known fact but, in his HS Yearbook, Francisco Alvarez was voted the boy most likely to start an AB with an 0-2 count. I'll cut and paste the entry as soon as I get a minute.

[Edgy MD]

As long as it isn't Shit-Day Freddy, I'm a happy beaver.

[metirish]

Needed that quick inning 

[Cowtipper]

I mean this in the nicest way possible but the chick Steve Gelbs is interviewing is talking like an insufferable college-educated white woman who thinks she's a lot smarter than she actually is.

Jeez louise I had to turn it to mute. 

[Edgy MD]

First guy I saw tag from first to second on a fly to shallow left.

Don't matter as he scores on the homer anyhow.

[The Hot Corner]

Absolutely stupid ABS challenge by Peralta (on a pitch that wasn't remotely close) earlier in the game comes back to haunt them.  The 3-2 pitch to Durban appeared to be a strike, but after wasting the earlier challenge the Mets are a little gun shy of using their sole challenge.  Durban takes first on the walk and now Monaststerio takes him deep.  Cost Peralta extra pitches and now an extra run.  

Of all the off-season additions, I think Peralta has disappointed me the most.

[ashie62]

I don't believe Freddy Peralta will be remembered as a good Met

[Edgy MD]

Good malapropism by Ronnie, calling the 1986 Mets "The Ringling Brothers Family Circus."

[Edgy MD]

Ronnie says "his people" don't have a version of "L'chaim."

"Ke ola" is the phrase he's looking for, unless he means his Boston people, in which case there are about 500 versions available, including "L'chaim."

[ashie62]

How hard is it for a deli not to put mayonnaise on a sandwich when it is not checked to be added

Vile sauce

[Edgy MD]

Young should probably have gotten that at-bat that Waggy just took.

[Edgy MD]

A rip on the screws that goes up the middle is turned into an out by Short, but a doink off the handle is a double.

[ashie62]

What a mess, oh those base on baseballs

[The Hot Corner]

Another disappointing effort by Peralta.  

Now Brazoban has to try to clean up his mess.

[Edgy MD]

That is the nickiest of a nicked corner that any ABS has ever rewarded a team with.

[The Hot Corner]

Now that is how (and when) you use your zABS challenges.

[The Hot Corner]

Good job by Brazoban.