IGT Apr 10 7:10 PM A's at Mets: The Return of Captain Red Ass

[Fman99]

Clay Holmes vs J.T. Ginn.  Time to get off the schneid and end this two game losing streak.  

Presumably McNeil gets a nice response from the fans in his first turn at bat.

	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	TOT
Myers	0	0	0	0	0	0
Garcia, L	0	0	23	0	21	44
Williams	21	0	16	0	0	37
Brazoban	10	0	14	0	0	24
Weaver	12	0	13	0	16	41
Raley, B	0	0	20	0	0	20
Lovelady	0	0	0	0	18	18
Manaea	0	0	0	70	0	70

[Centerfield]

Opening day was 70 degrees. Since then all of our home games have been cold. Maybe our hitters don’t like the cold. 

[A Boy Named Seo]

When they announce McNeil, everyone in Citi should slam their hat and yell FUCK at the top of their lungs. A finer tribute you'll never see. 

[ashie62]

I don't know that Jeffy will get an ovation

I'm not impressed by the Mets so far. Polanco is sketchy and Benge is working himself to triple AAA

Among other issues 

 

 

[ashie62]

Jared Young batting third. I like that

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

J-E-F-F JEFF JEFF JEFF

[Frayed Knot]

McNeil's career hits as a NYM slots him just ahead of Carlos Beltran and just behind Keith Hernandez.

 

RETIRE HIS NUMBER NOW!!!!

[Centerfield]

What to even say. Another pathetic offensive showing. 

[Frayed Knot]

No, you're wrong. The offense needs to improve by several degrees before it deserves to be called  'Pathetic'.

[Centerfield]

Yikes. Holmes pulled with an apparent injury. 

[Frayed Knot]

1st & 2nd, no one out ... and they hit TWO GiDP balls!!

I think this means they start the next inning with one out.

[Centerfield]

Omg. This team cannot be any worse. 

[Centerfield]

Left hamstring tightness for Clay Holmes. Not great. 

[Frayed Knot]

"Hamstring tightness" for Holmes.

Hell, my hamstrings have been tight since the Carter administration.

[Centerfield]

“Better ABs”

[Frayed Knot]

Send Benge before someone gets a chance to hit into a GiDP

[Centerfield]

Catch the fucking ball. Wow. 

[Centerfield]

Terrible throw too. 

[Frayed Knot]

Oh well, we weren't coming back from 1-0 down anyway.

[Fman99]

If you can tell me why Myers is still pitching I will send you a dollar in the mail 

[Centerfield]

This was still a winnable game. Mendoza has no feel for the pitching. 
 

Stayed with Senga too long. Pulled McLean too early. Hung Myers out to dry. 

[Edgy MD]

Well, at least we got McNeil's bat going.  That's a start.

[metirish]

Pathetic 

[Gwreck]

4 hours ago, ashie62 said:

Jared Young batting third. I like that

I assume that’s some sort of message Mendoza is sending to Stearns about the lack of depth on this team.

[Centerfield]

Did you guys hear Mendoza justify Lindor’s baserunning last night?  That’s crazy to me. You can’t be erased from third like that. 
 

The way I understand it, on that ball you take a secondary lead but don’t break for home until the throw goes to second. It’s very unlikely that the SS would throw you out on a tag play at home.  It’s unlikely he would even try.  He has to come across the bag and completely turn his body to get anything on a throw home. A fast runner like Lindor scores easily. 
 

This is like the ridiculous send in the Pittsburgh game. Acknowledge the mistake so it doesn’t happen again. 
 

inexcusable. 
 

 

[Gwreck]

8 hours ago, Centerfield said:

This is like the ridiculous send in the Pittsburgh game. Acknowledge the mistake so it doesn’t happen again. . 

I was thinking about this more in contrast to the early May 2024 game against the Cubs in which Alonso was called out at the plate trying to score the tying run in the bottom of the 9th on a sac fly.  And Mendoza didn’t hold back, or say “yeah, we could’ve scored more runs earlier” (which is true) — instead he was clear that he though the umpires had the call wrong and that was the deciding factor.  I remember being very impressed with that answer and the candor.

The Pittsburgh game continues to bother me since it was so clearly in-the-moment the wrong decision, and all he had to do was say “yeah, a mistake, it won’t happen again.”  But no such candor to be had.