IGT 08/21 - NYMets at CHISox - South Side Sluggin'

[kcmets]

Sean Manaea (LHP) 4-5, 4.22 ERA, 113 SO

TBD

[whippoorwill]

What time KC?

[kcmets]

Does anybody really know what time it is?

Does anybody really care...

[Benjamin Grimm]

That's an appropriate response for a series being played in Chicago.

[Edgy MD]

41 minutes ago, Benjamin Grimm said:

That's an appropriate response for a series being played in Chicago.

This post made me smile.

 

[Centerfield]

I knew the White Sox were doing better this year, but I was surprised to see they are in first place in the AL Central.   66-60.  

[seawolf17]

Saw a story recently that they're on pace to be the first team since eighteen dickety nine or whatever to lose 100 games and win the division the following year.

[Centerfield]

It helps that they unloaded their underperforming CF on us and signed a giant Japanese whose HRs make MLB stadiums look like Little League fields. 

[Frayed Knot]

ChiSox are 7th in MLB in scoring (RS/G) though tops in the AL (trailing WAS, CHC, PIT, LAD, MIL, and COL) and 3rd overall in HRs. Are right in the middle of the pack in giving up runs (just behind the Mets)..

They're coming off losing two of three to the Cubs (both losses by walk-off) before getting shutout today (and no-hit thru six) in an afternoon makeup game vs the Braves.

Looks like we'll see Sean Burke [RH; 3.15 ERA; 1.11 WHIP] on Friday night (7:40 EDT for whoever asked earlier), ex-Mariner Luis Castillo [RH; 4.99; 1.37 combined SEA/CHW] on Saturday (7:10), and ... somebody on Sunday (2:10). Bryan Hudson (opener) then Erick Fedde followed Castillo in the rotation last time but they don't seem like a strict rotation kind of club.

A couple of familiar names out of the pen: Sean Newcomb (a one-time starter for the Braves), hard-throwing Jordan Hicks (a brief sensation for StL) and his walktastic ways (4.9 BB/9 career, 5.9 this season), and Erick Fedde who came up w/the Nats and pitched there 2017 - 2022 before tours of Korea, CHW, StL ATL, MIL, and now back to the Sox.

ex-NYM factor: Luisangel Acuna [.237/.269/.269 in 199 PA] and one-time 1st round draft pick and (via War Melville HS and U of Conn) Anthony Kay. Now 31 y/o, he sports a [4.01 ERA / 1.34 WHIP in his first year in the States following two seasons in Japan.

And their entire offensive lineup, with the exception of their DH pair [Andrew Benintendi (L) and Randal Grichuk (R)] are under 30.

[Gwreck]

2 hours ago, Frayed Knot said:

one-time 1st round draft pick and (via War Melville HS and U of Conn) Anthony Kay. Now 31 y/o, he sports a [4.01 ERA / 1.34 WHIP in his first year in the States following two seasons in Japan.

Kay had quite the circuitous path to becoming a Met:

-Drafted by the Mets in 2013 out of Ward Melville (also Steven Matz’s alma mater).  Doesn’t sign.

-Drafted again by Mets in 2016, this time as a first rounder out of UConn.  Was the compensatory pick for losing Murphy in free agency.

-Traded to Toronto in 2019 in the Stroman deal

-Picked up by the Mets in 2023 after being cut by the Blue Jays and Cubs.  Pitches 3 games at the end of September/early October.

[Edgy MD]

While you were sleeping, the Mets pulled within two and a half games of Washington, as the Nats were getting mowed down by a vicious performance from Old Skool Jacob deGrom, throwing six innings, striking out 10, and yielding but a single hit and a single walk.  HIs bullpen threw three hitless innings for the 1-0 victory.  (I told you it was Old Skool.)

Drop a line to Jacob with your thanks.

[Benjamin Grimm]

In one of those unwanted messages that show up in my Facebook scroll, someone posted that deGrom made history with that game, but it didn't say what the historic achievement was. 

[MFS62]

7 minutes ago, Benjamin Grimm said:

In one of those unwanted messages that show up in my Facebook scroll, someone posted that deGrom made history with that game, but it didn't say what the historic achievement was. 

"The Rangers ace struck out the first two batters of his start on Thursday, then tipped his hat to the crowd after becoming the 95th pitcher in MLB history to reach 2,000 strikeouts."

Later

[kcmets]

Battle of the Sean's! 

Sean Manaea (LHP) 4-5, 4.22 ERA, 113 SO

Sean Burke (RHP) 7-6, 3.15 ERA 154 SO

RHP

7-6, 3.15 ERA, 154 SO

[Benjamin Grimm]

May the best Sean win! (And in this case, I hope the best Sean is the one with fewer wins, fewer strikeouts, and a higher ERA.)

[Edgy MD]

Please welcome back to the Mets orbit Luisangel Acuña, without whom the 2024 playoff run would have been mighty unlikely.

The Mets themselves posted their lineup late, but it looks like Luis Robert is going to himself get welcomed back to Comiskey II as a leftfielder.

Ballbaron

Sean Manaea LHP 4-5, 4.22 ERA, 113 SO

Lineup

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

Pelletmeister

Sean Burke RHP 7-6, 3.15 ERA, 154 SO

Lineup

1. Chase Meidroth (R) 2B
2. Munetaka Murakami (L) 1B
3. Miguel Vargas (R) 3B
4. Randal Grichuk (R) LF
5. Colson Montgomery (L) DH
6. Brenton Doyle (R) CF
7. Luisangel Acuña (R) SS
8. Jake Rogers (R) C
9. Tristan Peters (L) RF

[ashie62]

Old friend Luisangel Acuna is starting and on a better team

[ashie62]

We are starting off in a rain delay

[ashie62]

They are waiting for an approaching wave of rain

That sounds like this could be a lengthy delay

[Edgy MD]

Well, it's coming underway now.

Interesting Sox unis.  A flying sock on the hat in lieu of the  insignia.

[ashie62]

Yeah!

[Edgy MD]

Righties weren't touching this Burke guy, but there's Marcus Semien, of all guys, turning him around for the RBI single.

[Edgy MD]

Terrifically confident shutdown inning for Manaea.

[Edgy MD]

Brenton Doyle making the Sox miss Luis Robert, Jr.

[Edgy MD]

Baty is the master of this game.

[ashie62]

Those White Sox unis are pretty fugly

[Edgy MD]

I dunno.  Blood and black always complement each other.  Blackhawks colors.

Also, Francisco Alvarez really needs to close up and shorten up.

[Edgy MD]

Manaea is very poisey.

[Centerfield]

Just tuned in. Are we playing the Bulls?

[Edgy MD]

Bo can pull.