IGT - 6/23 - Mets at Phillies - Rubber Match

[Guest Rotblatt]

Mientkiewicz goes boom.

[metirish]

Bloody great, Mink seems to have found his stroke..

[Frayed Knot]

Top 7:
Mientkiewicz - HR
Ishii - GO
Reyes - 1B (3rd hit o the day)
Cammy - K (Reyes steals 2B)
Beltran - BB

and now the Phils will go to the pen specifically for Cliff Floyd nemesis Rheal Cormier (Cliff's like 1-for-80 against him or something).

Fran was calling Cormier "Frenchy" the other day - and while he is a Franch Canadian I have no idea if that's a real nickname or something Fran just invented.

[Guest holychicken]

Call me sentimental. . . but I still get pumped when piazza comes to bat with the bases juiced.

[Centerfield]

Bases loaded for Batch.

[Frayed Knot]

And Cormier screws up that strategy by plunking Cliffy - 2 out, bags loaded, Piazza vs Frenchy.

[Guest holychicken]

And he grounds into a fource out :(

[Frayed Knot]

'Drinkin Buddy' goes deep w/1 out.

4-2

[metirish]

H Bell relieved K Ishii.
Rollins stole second
J Michaels singled to right center, J Rollins scored, J Michaels to second advancing on throw.
Ring onto pitch..

4-3

[Frayed Knot]

We're gonna regret not scoring any of those 'tack-on' runs.

Now 4-3 as Bell allows an RBI-1B
Ring in to face Abreu

(first they hit the Bell, now they have to put up with the Ring)

[Guest holychicken]

Bell comes in, Rollins steals second and scores on Michaels' single.

Ring coming in. . .

[Sandgnat]

Well isn't this set up nicely for Burrell to ruin the day...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Ring
Bell

The Jingle Jangle Kiddie Korps not getting it done today.

Come on, 'Bert'!

[Guest holychicken]

A walk to Abreu brings Burrell up and Hernandez in.

[MFS62]

Please, please don't make a winner out of that Met Killer Rheal Cormier.

Later

[Guest Rotblatt]

bleh. Ring gets squeezed, if I read Gary's tone correctly, and walks Abreu after a full count. Burrell up, and Robo in to face him.

Way to waste pitchers, Willie!

[Guest holychicken]

No sweat. . . hernandez Ks him (we need a smiley that is a backwards K)

[Guest Rotblatt]

Burrell K'ed!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Do we have enough bullpen left to get through two more innings?

[Guest holychicken]

Can you get a hold if your team doesn't win?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yes.

[Guest holychicken]

Cool, thanks edgy.

Hernandez gives up a single to utley but gets Pratt to fly out to cameron to end the inning.

9th inning, baby!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mel Rojas II just lowered his ERA to 2.03.

[Guest KC]

Looper shuts down Abreu with a comebacker to end it. 4-3 the suckass Mets
who can't do shit right.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

We win!!!

[Guest Edgy DC]

The dope is that there's still hope.







Either that is the dope is the guy posting that there's still hope.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Like in May, the one game in the Phillies series the Mets lost was the one I attended....

But I'm just happy they took 2 out of 3. Yea for us!

[Centerfield]

Mets win! Hooray beer!

[Willets Point]

Mets win!!! This is going to be the turning point on the way to the pennant. I can feel it!!!!

[Frayed Knot]

]Way to waste pitchers, Willie!

Willie played the pen just fine today IMHO. The buttons didn't always work correctly, but I thought he pushed them in just the right order.

* If he leaves Ishii in once he put a runner on in the 7th we'd be killing him for 'not learning his lesson' from Kaz's earlier bad innings -- so he brought in Bell to face the righty Michaels
* Once Bell gave up the single we'd have thrown Willie to the wolves if he left him in to face the lefty swinging Abreu -- so he went to Ring
* Then when R^3 walked Abreu, we'd have skewered him on a stick and stuck him in Dickshot's Chinese pig cooker if he left the LHP in to face Burrell -- so Willie did the logical thing and brought in the righty Roberto (excuse me, Mel II) for Pat the Bat
* Then left RH in to work the 8th, and Loopy for the 9th

I got no problems with any of that.