Now it's the NGaaDG IGT - Mets in Miami Take Two, 9/8/26

[Frayed Knot]

Back to night games for the final two of this series although note that Tuesday and Wednesday will both be at a 6:40 start

So we hit one nemesis hard on Monday in Eury Pérez, now we go for two in a row as Sanday Alcantara takes the hill opposite Sean Manaea.

The Marlins are playing every game hard and working their staff hard as they're still on the fringes of a WC slot. Currently they're 5th in a field of three but lost ground to both PHI & SDP with the loss on Monday. A sweep here would really damage their chances ... plus It would be nice if the Mets could ruin their post-season plans for a change, eh?

[Centerfield]

Can you explain the acronym in the title?

[Brock Beauchamp]

	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TOT
Tobias Myers	0	0	0	23	0	23
Robert Stock	0	4	0	0	0	4
Nate Lavender	0	0	0	5	0	5
Kodai Senga	0	10	0	14	0	24
Jonathan Pintaro	0	0	0	22	0	22
Dedniel Núñez	0	0	0	0	10	10
Daniel Duarte	0	0	0	0	8	8
Chris Devenski	0	0	22	0	19	41
Austin Warren	0	29	0	0	15	44

 

[MFS62]

12 hours ago, Centerfield said:

Can you explain the acronym in the title?

I just got it - night game after a day game.

Later

[seawolf17]

So I clicked through the rest of the season on https://playoffpredictors.com/, and there DOES exist a scenario where we're as high as the four seed. Does it require a LOT of things to go right, including us going 18-0, the AL winning every interleague game (except ours), and the Phillies finishing their season 0-18, among other improbable things? Well, of course. But ya gotta believe and all that.

[Edgy MD]

Gotta take care of the part within our control and root our team to glorious victory over the Miamis.

[Edgy MD]

Hey, look!  That's Jared Young back in the lineup and playing first!

Guestchucker

Sean Manaea LHP 4-7, 4.70 ERA, 122 SO

Lineup

1. F Lindor (S) SS
2. J Soto (L) LF
3. B Bichette (R) DH
4. C Benge (L) RF
5. J Young (L) 1B
6. M Semien (R) 2B
7. A Ewing (L) CF
8. B Baty (L) 3B
9. F Alvarez (R) C

Homechucker

Sandy Alcantara RHP 13-9, 3.54 ERA, 142 SO

Lineup

1. H Hernández (R) LF
2. O Lopez (R) SS
3. A Ramírez (R) DH
4. J Sanoja (R) 3B
5. E Ruiz (R) RF D
6. De Los Santos (R) 1B
7. J Marsee (L) CF
8. J Serna (R) 2B
9. B Navarreto (R) C

[Frayed Knot]

New strategy: Everyone swing at the first pitch!!!

[Edgy MD]

Holy shit!  Tuning in, like, two seconds late, and it's 5-0!

[Frayed Knot]

Manaea thru 2 innings: 0 runs / 20 pitches

Alcantara thru 2 innings: 5 runs / 50 pitches

[Edgy MD]

Gosh, they brought their gloves and arms (or one arm at least) tonight too.

[Lefty Specialist]

And a little dork  is the first hit off Manaea.  Gary had studiously avoided using the word 'no-hitter'.  

But now the wheels seem to falling off a bit for Sean.

 

[Frayed Knot]

What Gary failed to mention when he referenced the other two times a Met pitcher this year had gone perfect through five innings (McLean both times) was that we only won one of those two games.

Mets had a 3-0 lead after five vs Minnesota on 4/21 but McLean couldn't finish the 6th either and the Mets lost 5 - 3. Mets beat the Giants 10 - 3 in the other game in early April.

[Edgy MD]

If Baty hadn't been playing in ... .

[Lefty Specialist]

Ya know, after rackytacking Alcantara for 7 runs, they better not lose this game.  Opportunities like that don't come along very often.

[Edgy MD]

And after bursting the Alcantara bubble, let's not make a Cy Young candidate out of (checks notes) Dax Fulton.

[Frayed Knot]

Lavender to the rescue ... Dilly, Dilly.

[Frayed Knot]

20 minutes ago, Edgy MD said:

And after bursting the Alcantara bubble, let's not make a Cy Young candidate out of (checks notes) Dax Fulton.

Too late. Fulton is currently the presumptive NL front-runner. based on the last three innings.

[Edgy MD]

I'm enjoying Kloser Kodai, but I'd sure like to see Duarte or Dedniel or the like get a ninth too.

Marrying oneself to a single save guy is a plague.

[Edgy MD]

Morabitititito replacing Bichette on the basepaths takes him out of play as a defensive replacement for Soto in the ninth.

Maybe Pachework gets that call.

[Edgy MD]

It appears Soto can track down a deep fly on his own.

[Edgy MD]

And if Senga gets through this inning unscathed, he gets his ERA under seven.

[Edgy MD]

Please.

[Edgy MD]

Well, that run's on me.

[Frayed Knot]

9 minutes ago, Edgy MD said:

Morabitititito replacing Bichette on the basepaths takes him out of play as a defensive replacement for Soto in the ninth.

Maybe Pachework gets that call.

Maybe don't want to remove Soto for a potential 10th inning (or later) AB? Soto bats 6th in the lineup going forward.

[Edgy MD]

[Frayed Knot]

That game was much more interesting than it needed to be.

[Centerfield]

That was interesting 

[Edgy MD]

Nats, Reds, and Cards are all the west coast, so it'll be while before we learn if the Mets gain on any of them, and the Pirates are winning big, but hey, they sure gain on the Marlins.

D-Backs, current owners of the last wild card slot, are scoreless in the seventh against Kansas City.

[Centerfield]

Watching the post game interview it seems like Sean Manaea has no idea why he pitches well, and equally no idea why things go bad.