IGT 2026-04-26 (1) Sunday Double Awesome

[Edgy MD]

The glory of today's Game Two struggle against the Rockies has been banged out of respect for Lady Rain, gifting to all baseball fans a vision of rare and beautiful — but once semi-common — Sunday doubleheader.

Less felicitous is the news that the Mr. Met at the Unisphere Light-Up Bobblehead giveaway as well as Queens Culture Day will be rescheduled to a future date.  BOOOOO!!!  You could have moved that shit to an indoor location!  The Queens Museum!!  The World Ice Arena!! 

Hell, you could have canceled the game but observed Queens Culture Day on the still-dry concourses.  This is Queens we are talking about.

 
  

Nolan McLean is schedule to go in the opener for the Mets.  The Rockies, at a loss for an answer, have yet to announce a starter.

[The Hot Corner]

The Mets really need to win 2 tomorrow.  Hopefully, the Mets pitching is on point and the offense can give them adequate runs to work with.  It has to be tough to feel like you have to be perfect in order to give your team a chance.  

[Frayed Knot]

Well, the Mets lost the first game of a series to the Giants earlier in the year and went on to take the series 3-1

They also recently lost the opening  vs the Twins but still won that series 2-1

So there's no reason they can't win the final two at home against the Rox ... no reason that is except that we're missing our star player, and the starting pitching is often a mess, and the closer isn't closing well. And finally the part about them not being a particularly good team might also keep them from completing a DH sweep.

But other than that ... 

[Edgy MD]

Rainouts just mean one more day of healing in this, The Year of the Calf.

[Fman99]

I hope that 18 innings of Mets baseball today yields even a half dozen that are palatable to watch.

[Brock Beauchamp]

	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	TOT
Tobias Myers	0	0	40	0	0	40
Sean Manaea	0	0	0	61	0	61
Luke Weaver	0	30	0	0	0	30
Huascar Brazobán	16	0	10	0	0	26
Devin Williams	21	0	22	0	0	43
David Peterson	0	0	45	0	0	45
Craig Kimbrel	0	0	19	0	0	19
Brooks Raley	0	16	0	0	0	16

[ashie62]

Bob Nightingale suggested that internally the Mets are seeing Lindor back "weeks into June"

No surprise and no surprise either if this assessment is updated to All Star break

[whippoorwill]

2 hours ago, Brock Beauchamp said:

	TUE	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	TOT
Tobias Myers	0	0	40	0	0	40
Sean Manaea	0	0	0	61	0	61
Luke Weaver	0	30	0	0	0	30
Huascar Brazobán	16	0	10	0	0	26
Devin Williams	21	0	22	0	0	43
David Peterson	0	0	45	0	0	45
Craig Kimbrel	0	0	19	0	0	19
Brooks Raley	0	16	0	0	0	16

Brock, I'm sorry to be dense but what are these little charts?

 

[metirish]

I too would like to know, pitching totals ?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Number of pitches. 

[Edgy MD]

They dispaly how many pitches each reliever has thrown each day of late, so we have a good idea who the Mets are most likely to use today.

[whippoorwill]

What do the colors mean?   ANd Manaea threw 61 pitches in one day?  Sorry I'm just surprised!

[Frayed Knot]

Colors: lighter use (under 20) or heavier use (20+)

And Manaea threw 3.1 innings on Friday so 61 is only slightly high for that length.

[Edgy MD]

The colors represent a degree of freshness.  Over 20 pitches is depicted in a hot red, presumably to represent a pitcher's burning muscles, tendons, and ligaments.

Yellow represents a lower level of use on that day, and so presumably a lesser level of discomfort.

Green suggests, as I understand it, a pitcher who is as fresh as a daisy.

[Edgy MD]

We're getting ready to get underway here, and the Rox are sending an old friend to the mound.

COLORADO
Jose Quintana (LHP) 0-2, 6.23 ERA

1. Edouard Julien (L) 2B
2. Mickey Moniak (L) RF
3. TJ Rumfield (L) DH
4. Troy Johnston (L) 1B
5. Kyle Karros (R) 3B
6. Brett Sullivan (L) C
7. Ezequiel Tovar (R) SS
8. Jake McCarthy (L) CF
9. Jordan Beck (R) LF

METS
Nolan McLean (RHP) 1-1, 2.67 ERA

1. Bo Bichette (R) SS
2. Juan Soto (L) DH
3. Luis Robert Jr. (R) CF
4. Mark Vientos (R) 1B
5. Marcus Semien (R) 2B
6. Brett Baty (L) 3B
7. Tyrone Taylor (R) RF
8. Tommy Pham (R) LF
9. Luis Torrens (R) C

Some funky stuff coming out of that Carlos Mendoza Lineup Machine.

[Edgy MD]

Home plate umpire Ryan Blakney doing a great Dutch Rennert imitation as Rockies leadoff batter Edoard Julen looks at three straight strikes and sits quickly down.

[ashie62]

With the team playing poorly I wish Cohen would tap the breaks on his McLean love

Is is felicitous or fellatio?

[Edgy MD]

Is he not pitching well?

Is Cohen not noting who is doing poorly?

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Conditions are right for an inning ending gidp

[whippoorwill]

Thanks for all the info!  Great idea :)

[ashie62]

10 minutes ago, ashie62 said:

With the team playing poorly I wish Cohen would tap the breaks on his McLean love

Is is felicitous or fellatio?

Semien, good christ

[Frayed Knot]

Semien finds a way to avoid a GiDP

[ashie62]

They can't score one?

[Edgy MD]

They can.  They just didn't.

[Frayed Knot]

18 minutes ago, ashie62 said:

With the team playing poorly I wish Cohen would tap the breaks on his McLean love

What Gary Really needs to tap the brakes on is quoting a hitter's RiSP numbers as if it's a good predictive metric.

And that goes double for Keith.

[ashie62]

My take on ABS is either don't use it all or use it on every pitch

I don't see a middle on ABS although I use to

[Edgy MD]

One hit for each team.  Both were on catchable flares falling in between the infielders and outfielders.

[Edgy MD]

That'll do it for now.

[Edgy MD]

It's nice when you have a guy on the ropes in the first.

It's not so nice when you fail to get to him, and then he finds his groove.

[ashie62]

There's a lot of game left but I have trouble believing the Mets can score, at all today