IGT 08/25, NY @ AZ

[Guest KC]

NY METROPOLITANS
Reyes SS
Cairo 2B
Beltran CF
Floyd LF
Wright 3B
Jacobs 1B
Diaz RF
Castro C
Martinez P

AZ DESERT ZEEKS
Counell 2B
Tracy RF
Gonzalez LF
Clark 1B
Glaus 3B
Green CF
Clayton SS
Snyder C
Vazquez P

[Valadius]

But you said you weren't starting it tonight...

[metirish]

He has to now, KC is on a streak...

[Guest KC]

I weighed going back on my word and everyone blaming me for Pedro
getting shell shocked and the blaming won. Enjoy everyone, I'm gonna
record this one and watch it tomorrow afternoon.

[Valadius]

Jacobs moves up to 6th. Inevitable.

[Valadius]

Game on in 10 minutes.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I was shitting a brick as this page loaded fearing some other Cranepoolian started this thread.

Tuff to sit Matsui after his strong game yesterday.

[metirish]

It would be nice to see Beltran do something, when was his last home run, seems like ages ago.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Well, as someone had hoped, LuGo gets hit with a pitch. I'm "watching" the game on MLB.com Gameday, so I dunno if it was intentional or not. But it happened.

[Frayed Knot]

And there's your HBP/retaliation.
Howie & Gary speculating that Matsui's plunking had to do with his delay in getting to the plate following some sort of helmet mixup in the dugout.

[Valadius]

And Matsui was laughing as he went to bat then, which pissed off the D-Backs pitcher.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Uh oh, Pedro having one of his ugly control 1st innings.

[Valadius]

Come on Pedro, use your curveball.

[Guest The Brooklyn Bum]

Oooh, I'm so excited for the game.

LGM!

[Valadius]

What'd I say!? He used his curveball and struck him out.

[metirish]

You said it Val, Petey did it, great pitch, lets hope that was his bad inning.

[Valadius]

Floyd finally gets a hit.

[Valadius]

David Wright hits again!

Here comes the Jake-Monster!!!

[Guest OlerudOwned]

1st and 3rd with no out for the Man-Beast called Mike Jacobs

[Valadius]

KA-BOOM-BOOM DIAZ!!!!!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I got a bad case of VD!!!!

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Victor Diaz follows Jake's RBI DP with a 2 out blast. 2-0 Metskies.

[Theoldmole]

[Guest The Brooklyn Bum]

2 down, 16 to go.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Lead off walk for Pedro. He's throwing a lot of balls so far. Lets hope the O (and bullpen) can carry.

[Valadius]

How weird is this outing for Pedro?

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Martinez responds to me by K'ing the side. I'll take it.

[metirish]

Looks like Pedro has found his groove, that was sick.

[Valadius]

Pedro didn't even try to beat out the throw.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Pedro's not doing much wrong IMO. We've seen him take an inning or two to get up to speed plenty of times -- and at least they're not hitting him around.