Mets (Brazoban) vs Padres (Vasquez): 6/7/26, 4:10pm

[Brock Beauchamp]

I added some code changes to the bullpen chart, so tomorrow we'll see if it adjusts for Brazoban opening today.

Luke Weaver	0	10	0	7	0	17
Joey Gerber	0	10	0	0	0	10
Huascar Brazobán	33	0	0	17	0	50
Devin Williams	0	0	0	0	0	0
David Peterson	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cionel Pérez	28	0	0	0	0	28
Brooks Raley	0	16	0	0	0	16
Austin Warren	0	0	0	0	34	34
A.J. Minter	19	0	0	14	0	33

 

[Edgy MD]

Bo Bichette back out there despite whatever went down with his shoulder yesterday.  The only concession the Mets make to a Sunday day game, in fact, is moving Soto to DH.

METS

STARTING PITCHER:

Huascar Brazobán RHP 3-1, 2.25 ERA, 26 SO

LINEUP:

1. Carson Benge (L) RF
2. Bo Bichette (R) SS
3. Juan Soto (L) DH
4. Jared Young (L) 1B
5. A.J. Ewing (L) CF
6. Marcus Semien (R) 2B
7. Brett Baty (L) 3B
8. MJ Melendez (L) LF
9. Luis Torrens (R) C

SAN DIEGO

STARTING PITCHER:

Randy Vásquez RHP 5-3, 3.31 ERA, 50 SO

LINEUP:

1. Fernando Tatis Jr. (R) 2B
2. Jackson Merrill (L) CF
3. Ty France (R) 1B
4. Manny Machado (R) 3B
5. Xander Bogaerts (R) SS
6. Miguel Andujar (R) DH
7. Jase Bowen (R) RF
8. Samad Taylor (R) LF
9. Freddy Fermin (R) C

[Edgy MD]

Rather than doing some sort of sledgehammer swing, now, when the Mets get base hits (or at least on Baty's double just now), they do some sort of Spider-Man webshooter gesture.

Which, if I'm interpreting it correctly, has some Queens pedigree in it, which is nice.

[Edgy MD]

Baseball going on, kids.

I haven't offended you all, have I?

[Edgy MD]

Two singles to open the fifth has the stage set for Soto.

[Frayed Knot]

Soto up for the second time with two-on/none-out. 

1st time was 2nd & 3rd and he got an RBI GO . And now here he walks to load the bases. So no hits either time even though more low level positive results in each.

[Edgy MD]

And a walk to Soto, and a single by Mighty Jared Young and we have one home and still the bases loaded with no out.

Chance to blow this one up as the Diegos go to the pen.

[Frayed Knot]

Jared Young turns 31 y/o next month, so I guess that means we can no longer refer to Jared Young as young Jared.

[Frayed Knot]

I think I had some Yuki Matsui at an Asian Fusion restaurant recently.

[Edgy MD]

Those runs they left out there are really missed about now.

[Edgy MD]

Thankfully, Tatis is using something that is not his head.

[Frayed Knot]

I'm not sure that Gelbs and Keith are correct in stating that the FO/DP is no RBI (I'd trust Gary if he gave out that info but not necessarily these two). I thought only GiDPs fit that category based on the idea that if the defense had enough time to turn two they could also have chosen to cut down the run. A FO/DP isn't really the same situation.

[Edgy MD]

I imagine they were looking at information coming from the official scorer.

I'm pretty sure MJ gets an RBI on that homer, but the rules are apparently relentlessly arcane, so I don't know.

[Edgy MD]

Hopefully in about seven or eight weeks, Ewing takes the same great leap forward that Benge is now taking.

[Frayed Knot]

And just think, the Padres only have Tatis (1 HR) and Machado (.172 BA) under contract for 8 and 7 seasons after this current one. 

Not that I think their current numbers are where those two will be locked in going forward. But those contracts do have the potential to be concurrently ugly over a multiple year period. Tatis, at least, will play out the whole season as a 27 y/o, but Machado turns 34 just in the next few weeks.

[Edgy MD]

Sixty-six pitches from Manaea.

I don't particularly understand the point of using openers if they don't push starters/bulk relievers deeper into the game.

[Frayed Knot]

Well I think it was more the results of his final inning that ended his day rather than just number of pitches.

 

 

btw, Ducky Medwick died at the age of 63 (when Keith was in his second ML season) so not quite as old as Keith seems to think he was when he was the StL roving minor league hitting instructor.

[Frayed Knot]

43 minutes ago, Frayed Knot said:

I'm not sure that Gelbs and Keith are correct in stating that the FO/DP is no RBI (I'd trust Gary if he gave out that info but not necessarily these two). I thought only GiDPs fit that category based on the idea that if the defense had enough time to turn two they could also have chosen to cut down the run. A FO/DP isn't really the same situation.

Hah!! I was right! The official scorer DID award Ewing an RBI

oe: and I was right that Gary would know!!! (Keith revealed that Gary texted immediately after the call was made)

[Edgy MD]

Strange to see the Mets use three straight lefties out of the pen in a row.

[Edgy MD]

20 minutes ago, Frayed Knot said:

btw, Ducky Medwick died at the age of 63 (when Keith was in his second ML season) so not quite as old as Keith seems to think he was when he was the StL roving minor league hitting instructor.

Medwick was famously cantankerous and combatitive — to the point where the commissioner took the initiative to personally kick him out of a World Series game.  (We could have used you in 2000, Commissioner Landis!)  I imagine his crankiness and walking style and a lifetime of days under the summer sun made him appear older to a very young Keith.

[Frayed Knot]

8 minutes ago, Edgy MD said:

Strange to see the Mets use three straight lefties out of the pen in a row.

And against a lineup with eight RHBs

[Edgy MD]

Let's rally in the ninth and get Benge a sixth trip to the plate.

[Edgy MD]

3 minutes ago, Frayed Knot said:

And against a lineup with eight RHBs

Had they used Raley last night ... ah, forget it.

[Edgy MD]

I thought Ewing had no chance at that ball.

[Frayed Knot]

22 minutes ago, Edgy MD said:

Medwick was famously cantankerous and combatitive — to the point where the commissioner took the initiative to personally kick him out of a World Series game.  (We could have used you in 2000, Commissioner Landis!)  I imagine his crankiness and walking style and a lifetime of days under the summer sun made him appear older to a very young Keith.

Young people in general tend to be lousy at estimating older aged people. Everyone over the age of 35 looks 80 to them.

There's a story about Mantle and Stengel where Casey took young Mick out to the OF at Ebbets Field prior to the first 1952 WS game in Brooklyn in order to show him how he, Casey, liked to play the ball off the odd angled walls in that park. And the story goes that that was the first time Mantle not only realized that Casey had once been a ballplayer but also there was a time when he had been something other than an old man. Casey was 63 at the time while Mick was still not yet 21 and his own father had died a few months earlier at the age of just 40.

[Edgy MD]

"He thinks I was born old."

Two more guys need to reach to bet Benge to the plate for a sixth time.

[Frayed Knot]

Let Benge Hit! Let Benge Hit!

[Edgy MD]

Waggy should hit for MJ.

[Edgy MD]

I guess we're the only team in the league that didn't scout Freddy Fermin?

[Lefty Specialist]

Well, that was nice.  Benge living up to his billing- in every step towards the bigs he started slow then turned it on.  He seems to be getting comfortable now.

And nice outfield defense all around.