IGT 95 - 7/21/05 vs Padres - Peavy vs. Ishii - For the Sweep

[Elster88]

Fathers
Young, LF
Loretta, 2B
Giles, CF
Nevin, 1B
Nady, RF
Greene, SS
Fick, C
Blum, 3B
Peavy, P
=blue]
Metropolitans
Reyes, SS
Cameron, RF
Beltran, CF
Floyd, LF
Wright, 3B
Anderson, 2B
Mientkiewicz, 1B
Castro, C
Ishii, P

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

A shoutout to seawolf, who indicated that he would be at the game!

[Elster88]

A five pitch walk to the first batter.

[Elster88]

The first pitch to Loretta is a ball, prompting a "coaching visit to the mound".

[Elster88]

A 6-4-3 groundout, a walk to Giles, and a fly out by Nevin, and the no-hitter is alive through one.

[Elster88]

Nothing of note in the Mets half of the first or the top of the second. 0-0.

[Elster88]

6 up, 6 down for Peavy. Still no score.

[metirish]

Doug Mientkiewicz homers (10) on a fly ball to right field.

[metirish]

Bottom 3RD B:1 S:3 O:1
Ramon Castro strikes out swinging.

[metirish]

Kaz strikes out swinging, Reyes singles to RF,Cameron flies out, inning over, 4th,Nady groounds out to Reyes who flips to 1st

[Elster88]

A belated

for Minky.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Through 4 complete, it's your New York Mets 1 and the San Diego Padres 0.

[Elster88]

Young walks with two outs and is thrown out trying to steal second.

5 IP, 3 H, 1 K, 4 BB, 0 R for Ishii.

[Elster88]

Castro! 3-0 Mets!

[Elster88]

Ishii walks, and Reyes follows with a "soft single to right."

Where is everybody? We're trying to sweep here people.

[metirish]

cool

[Guest Edgy DC]

Reyes steals second, and Itchy scores and Reyes advances on the subsequent throwning error.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Gary described Castro's HR as "the hardest hit ball we've seen by a RH hitter all year" on a line over Casey's number.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Then Cameron dubbles like Barney Rubbles.

Freaking cool. Let's play in the NL West next year.

[Elster88]

I like Reyes batting leadoff, especially on a team with no other leadoff options.

[Frayed Knot]

The beat-down is on!

Ee-Shee out-pitching Pee-Vee in this here I Gee-Tee

[Elster88]

Now let's just avoid an Ishiimiddleinningmeltdown and rest Bert and Loop again.

[Frayed Knot]

]Let's play in the NL West next year.

Well that's not going to happen of course -- but we can take some solace in the fact that these are only games 7, 8, & 9 this year for us against the very weak west* which is less than any other NL East team. This could be time to make up some ground**.


* I saw some 'Since June 1' records the other day: no one in the West had anything near a .500 mark. Colorado was actually best and they were all a bunch of 18-25 type marks (or worse).

** Last time we said something like this we wound up getting our clocks cleaned by Seattle & Oakland

[Guest sharpie]

I like Reyes, period. I wish he'd get on base at a greater clip but he has a high fun factor which shouldn't be overlooked.

[Elster88]

Bert and Loop:

[Elster88]

The top of the sixth started with a walk and a single, but Ishii pitches out of it.

Top 6TH B:4 S:1 O:0
Mark Loretta walks.

Top 6TH B:0 S:0 O:0
Brian Giles singles on a line drive to right fielder Mike Cameron. Mark Loretta to 2nd.

Top 6TH B:2 S:3 O:1
Phil Nevin strikes out swinging.

Top 6TH B:3 S:2 O:2
Xavier Nady flies out to left fielder Cliff Floyd.

Top 6TH B:0 S:3 O:3
Khalil Greene strikes out swinging.

[Guest holychicken]

Elster, tripod is a beotch and won't let you link to pictures hosted by them. . .all I see is "hosted by tripod"

[seawolf17]

Nah, I'm here. Decided it wasn't worth driving 90 minutes to see Ishii give up fifteen baserunners in four innings.

Guess I was wrong!

Either way, too many kids there today.

[Willets Point]

Who are these hitters playing in the Mets uniforms today?

[duan]

i've caught since the 4th innning and they've simply been playing great baseball.