IGT 9/20, Marlins at Mets

[Guest KC]

The server has been down since a little before game time - hosting issues
probably still from last weekends maintenance. (at least that's the company
line). Thanks for everyone's patience.

Score is tied 1-1 through four and half. Anyone watching not think that Del-
gado isn't a lazy fucktard who left his rook ss looking dumb please state
your case.

Oh, and the lineups ...

Pierre cf
Conine lf
Cabrera 3b
Delgado 1b
Encarnacion rf
Lo Duca c
Mordecai 2b
Andino 22
Burnett p

Reyes ss
Diaz rf
Beltran cf
Floyd lf
Wright 3b
Piazza c
Jacobs 1b
Hernandez 2b
Benson p

[Theoldmole]

Just got here and just got to the game -- 2-2 in the 8th, Zambrano in.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

knock...knock...Is this thing on?

2-2 in the top of the 8th. Zambrano pitching in relief of Benson.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Piazza takes a bashing from Conine but holds on for a close tagout as Cornelius "Cliff" Floyd picks up assist #14.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Hernandez whiffs and his first hit is still an abstraction.

[Guest Edgy DC]

So, Beltran supposedly robbed LoDuca of a big hit earlier. Anybody see it?

[Guest Edgy DC]

Todd Jones comes on to pitch the ninth for the first time since that ten-run ninth on Saturday.

The Marlins are as loaded with secondbasemen as the Mets. At least they're now on their third secondbaseman of the night.

[Guest KC]

>>>Anybody see it?<<<

Ran it down, it wasn't as special as F X and Ted made it sound.

Beltran's AB in the ninth was just freakin' depressing ... six more years?

Going to extra innings.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Yeah, that stunk.

Whether this is as good as Beltran will be or not, I guess the Mets sort of have to proceed as if this, indeed, is as good as he is.

I'm really curious about batting him second.

[Guest KC]

He ain't no number 3 as is for sure.

Piazza putting on a mini-catching clinic with a nice foul ball pop-up to
end the top o' the tenth.

Piazza due up.

Piazza goes 6-3.

Jacobs does too.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Baltimore coming back in the Bronx, now down 10-6 at the stretch.

Metskies in the bottom of the tenth. Piazza up.

[Guest KC]

I'm doing it again, I'll pipe down.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Miguel Cairo has replaced Anderson Hernandez on a double-switch as Aaron Heilman has come in for Roberto Hernandez and thrown a scoreless eleventh.

Cruel double-switch if your name is Hernandez.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Marlins are on their fourth secondbaseman.

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Alfonseca whiffs Diaz and the Mets now have two hits through 11 innings.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Mike Mordecai, the Marlin starter tonight three secondbasemen ago, has actually just arrived for the team after spending the season managing in the New York-Penn League.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Edgy DC wrote: Mike Mordecai, the Marlin starter tonight three secondbasemen ago, has actually just arrived for the team after spending the season managing in the New York-Penn League.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=2167473

Crazy.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Heilman makes up for a leadoff hit to Marlin 2B v.4.0 by getting 3 sexy outs.

Beltran, Floyd, Wright...

[Guest OlerudOwned]

And I just realized I've been talking to myself.

Guess things (understandably) died down around here while I was on my little hiatus.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Hail Heilman! 3 Ks over 2 innings, including Miguel "Phenom" Cabrera.

Let's get one.

[Guest Rotblatt]

Beltran sucks.

0-5 tonight.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Attrition Stats:

Met Bench Castro DiFelice Matsui Mientkiewicz Offerman Self Williams Woodward	Florida Bench Aguila R Easley R Willingham R
Met Pen Bell R Glavine L Graves R Hamulack L Ishii L Looper R Martinez R Padilla R Seo R Takatsu R Trachsel R	Florida Pen Beckett R Johnson R Mecir R Messenger R Mota R Quantrill R Resop R Valdez R Vargas L Villone L Willis L

Only unit short is Florida's bench. But Willis is really another hitter there.

[Guest Edgy DC]

]Beltran sucks.

Has he proven it?

Double by Wright (hit number three!) and an intentional walk to Piazza leaves a big spot for Jacobs.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Yea Jake Monster!

The Mets Win! The Mets Win!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Jacobs doubles to right and BABY METS WIN!

[seawolf17]

Mike Jacobs, Professional Hitter.

[Guest Rotblatt]

JAKE MONSTER!!!!

A single down the line drives in Wright from second and the New York Metrs have won the ballgame!

2 outs in the 12th, Wright laced a double into the gap, and Moehler walked Piazza to face Jake, who took two balls then a nasty strike on the inside part of the plate, then dribbled the next pitch up the first base line for the winning hit.

A very, very satisfying win.

Lets Go Mets!

[metirish]

Nice job by Jake, Mets make the hits count tonight, Jake is on the club house report sounding all juiced, good for him

[Guest Rotblatt]

It's not fair to say Beltran sucks, I suppose. He's just . . . average.

Which is not what we paid for, but that's not really his fault.

Well, it is, but only when we lose. When we win, he's just a victim of circumstance.

So some serious kudos to Hernandez and espeically Aaron Heilman.

Mini kudos to Zambrano, too, but he wasn't nearly as sharp.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm calling that a double.

I think Atlanta winning tonight cuts the Mets divison elimination number to one.

[Guest Edgy DC]

]2 outs in the 12th, Wright laced a double into the gap, and Moehler walked Piazza to face Jake, who took two balls then a nasty strike on the inside part of the plate, then dribbled the next pitch up the first base line for the winning hit.

For posterity here, the strike was swinging, not taken, and the game-winning hit was solid, not dribbled.