IGT 8/17 Pirates @ Mets

[Guest KC]

Sanchez 3B
Redman CF
Bay LF
Eldred 1B
Doumit C
Castillo 2B
Restovich RF
Wilson SS
Fogg P


Reyes SS
Cairo 2B
Beltran CF
Floyd LF
Wright 3B
Offerman 1B
Diaz RF
Castro C
Glavine P

[Guest KC]

Mets technically have only one catcher until the mystery call up appears.
I really wasn't aware that they can't say who until he shows up? Woodward
is the emergency catcher, who said in short pre-game interview, he'd rather
not be called into action but is ready. (paraphrasing, of course)

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mr. Met should be the emergency catcher.

Welcome back, Carlos.

It would be nice to get through an August without a cascade of injuries.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Two out and a runner on second, Glavine gets behind 3-0 on Bay, who homered in the first. He goes ahead and intentionally puts him on, ending a three game walkless streak.

[seawolf17]

Jacobs wearing #27, for mbtn.com reference.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Last player to lead the league in hits for the Buccos.

My first guess is Bill Madlock.
Second is Johnny Ray.
Third is Matty Alou circa 1969.

[seawolf17]

Madlock. Good guess.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Beltran scored the first run from first on a single?

Wow. Now he bunt singles.

[seawolf17]

And now he steals second. How 'bout that Beltran?

So they walk Floyd. With nobody out. To get to David Wright.

MORONS.

[Guest Edgy DC]

And he steals easily. And they walk Floyd. Let's hope nobody ever gets around to reading the book on Wright.

[Frayed Knot]

Concussion, what concussion?
(a statement which can be taken one of several ways)

[seawolf17]

And a WP moves the runners up.

Ralph suggests walking Wright.

Which, if you're crazy enough to walk Floyd, isn't so crazy.

As Wright drives in two with a base hit.

[seawolf17]

Andy Van Slyke, 1992. Never would have guessed him.

[seawolf17]

OOTS: Royals have lost 18 straight with a loss in Seattle. Yowza.

[Guest Edgy DC]

For most of his career, Andy Van Slyke was useless against lefties. His batting average split sometimes like .352/.180.

[Valadius]

Maybe getting busted up knocked something in Carlos's head back into place.

[seawolf17]

LLOYD: This Floyd guy is dangerous.
COACH: Maybe we should walk him.
COACH 2: Didn't we walk him last time?
LLOYD: Yeah, because he's dangerous.
COACH 2: Who's on deck?
LLOYD: Some Wright guy. Young kid. We can get him.
COACH: Yeah, good plan.
COACH 2: Yeah, good plan.

[Valadius]

Wow. McClendon has no clue what he's doing.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Kris Benson may be saying the same thing right now.

[Frayed Knot]

Diaz - in the span of less than a week since his callup - has had a 2 HR game, a 3-K game, several GiDPs, plus a 9th inning check-swing groundout w/tieing run on 3rd and 1 out. And in his early season stint had a few weeks where he was hitting .400+, followed by several weeks of sub-.200 hitting.

Isn't this the kind of feast/famine complaints that fans have about Cameron?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, but Cameron was mailing it in.

Another bad call by Angel Hernandez burns Reyes. On the other hand, it was closer, on replay, than I thought.

[Guest Edgy DC]

This'll be a save --- or hold --- situation for Heilman, with the tying run on deck.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Wow! Heilman's revenge.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

I much prefer the Spanish broadcasts. I don't get annoyed with them, but I never have a problem following the games.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Beltran should steal and see if they walk Floyd again.

[Theoldmole]

On radio?

[soupcan]

FSNY is broadcasting in Spanish tonight.

MSG is English.

[Valadius]

This looks quite familiar...

[Guest Edgy DC]

O-o-T SB:

Chicago 4 Houston 2 (9) Yay!

Atlanta 7 Los Angles 2 (6) Boo!

Florida 6 San Diego 0 (F) Big Boo!

Philadelphia 4 Washington 3 Eh...

[Guest Edgy DC]

The Mets have Graves and Looper up in the pen.

I guess they're expecting this to be easy... or hard.