Mets @ Braves, Labor Day 05

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

AFL
Reyes
Matsui
Beltran
Floyd
Wright
Mientkiewicz
Castro
Diaz
Traxxxx

=red]CIO
Furcal
Giles
C Jones
A Jones
Hollandsworthless
Francoeur
LaRoche
Estrada
Thomson

[nymr83]

Matsui, in a minor display of doing the right thing, hits it to the right side moving reyes over to third with 1 out.

[Zvon]

single and a steal and Matsui moves him over.Good ol Reyes on 3rd.
Now come on Beltrannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.


Y!ESSSSS

beltran with the rbi double!
thats the way to start it.

Im not here 100% but I hope to be soon.

1-0.

comeonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Cliffy

[Zvon]

Met killer Chipper Jones ties it with a laserbeam double.
dagnabbitt.

Settle in Trachsel..settle in. Get a groove

[Guest KC]

Cy Traxxxx is looking very human this afternoon.

[Frayed Knot]

Inning 1:

Reyes - 1B & SB
Matsui - GO moves Reyes
Beltran - 2B to RF
Floyd - FO
Wright - FO


Furcal - chopper back to the mound
Giles - 2B
CJones - RBI 2B
AJones - GO (nice play by Wright)
Hollandsworth - BB
Francoeur - GO


Both pitchers were made to work in the 1st. Thomson (29) & Trax (28) both threw a buncha pitches.

[Zvon]

Mets had 5 2 out RBIs yesterday.
A winning team has to do that chit.

That Francouer guy.
Keepin him down is big.

Ive been watching him cuz i picked him up the week after he came up on one of my fantasy baseball teams, and he has been doing nothing but hitting and driving in runs.
The kids sick.

Trachsel takes care of him to end the inning, and believe it or not , thats big.

1-1

[nymr83]

we're still in the top of the 2nd? wow. PITCH FASTER!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Matsui is such a better player than Cairo.

[Zvon]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Matsui is such a better player than Cairo.

he made a great play on that grounder.
HeSgOtDaRaNgE.

[nymr83]

they both suck. we want hernandez now!

[Zvon]

YEA.
Bad hop single for matsui and he steals 2nd.

Did you see him bow to the ump at 1st right before that.
I think thats kool.

Do it again beltran

[Frayed Knot]

Cliff leaves 2 on after a bunch of loud fouls.
70 pitches for Thomson thru 3.

[Zvon]

OUCH!
damn, that Androo Jones is havin a hellOFaYEAR.

45th homer.
he'll probly hit 50, and he cant be juicin.

He goes yard on Trash.


Atl up. 2-1

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Geez. Another coupla nice plays by Matsui.

[Zvon]

awsum inning in the field for matsui.
Talk about range.
Almost robs that single then makes a clean pick of the shorthop linedrive and turns it into a double play.
Great play.
very niiiiiiiiiice indeed

[Zvon]

damn that AndrooJones.

He looked like he creeped up on that liner.
What a catch.

Robs Reyes and thats big, keepin him off 1st.

[Zvon]

I used to love watchin Dykstra dive head 1st into linedrives, but Jones makes it look so smooth.

It looked kinda like this:

[Zvon]

Wright smacks his 37th double.
Nice pieceAhitting there.
Went with the pitch

[Zvon]

lead off single for Diaz.........nice.

Trachsel blows the bunt....not nice.

Reyes check swing grounder gets a Met kinda roll and stays fair! YES!

1st & 2nd, one out....Matsui.

ComeONNNNNNNNNNNNNN..........

ouch....he swung at ball 4 twice and fouled it.
and he gets the walk.

bases juiced.
One out.
We have to plate a run here, with Beltran up.
Ill take it anyway we can get it.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Let's just face it: Beltran sucks.

[Zvon]

OMG and shit on a stick.
beltran hits the fly and Francouer throws Diaz out at the plate on the tag.
Double play

What a throw.
DAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMNDAMN

[Theoldmole]

Double fucking play.

[Zvon]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Let's just face it: Beltran sucks.

he aint livin up to his contract, but Im not the one payin him.

Diaz shoulda bowled estrada over there and removed him from the game with extreme prejiduce.

Now the Braves get the lead off double and tag up on beltran.
Beltran dont even make it look close with that throw.

Mets appeal, to no avail.

Trachel has done what he does over 90% of the games he starts (not sure if that a real or accurate stat) goes deep into a game and keeps his team in it. He has pitched well so far, but if the Braves score here it takes alot of wind out of our sails.

Big K for the 2nd out.

get out of it trashy

[Zvon]

whew.........he gets out of it.
No matter what happens (if trash should pitch more, and he might if he dont bat this inning,up to 95 pitches) I think Trachsel has pitched a fine game here.

You hold the Braves to 2 runs in a game like this during the stretch run, you should hit and beat em.

Damn that shift on Floyd.

a basehit is a wicked groundout.

*Z shakes his fist at the TV*
DAMN YOU BOBBY COX!!!!!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

That's how you do a sacfly.

[Zvon]

huminahuminahuminaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Wright walks.
Mienky singles him to third.
And he just slides in safe taggin up on Castros fly to center.

If Jones threw him out I would have throw the TV out the window.

Chipper robs Diaz with a diving grab of his grounder for the 3rd out.

But the Mets tie it.

Now i dunno.....Im not a pitch count freak, so its not that, but I wonder if you run trachsel back out there. he's been gettin a lil more reachable every inning.

Im thinkin we could use a fresh arm here for the hold, but we shall see the way the ball bounces.
Trachsel stays in.

[Guest KC]

Traxxxx comes out to pitch the eighth and has really looked quite good
since my earlier smug comment. Sorry Traxxxx.

[Zvon]

lead off single by the Braves.

I dunno,i guess you HAVE to let Trash start the inning.

But i think he's done his job for the day and now someone else should be doin theirs.

Big break for the Mets with the pop up out on the bunt.

[Zvon]

now he must keep up with the Jones's.

This is alot to ask of trachsel