IGT 4/29/06 - Mets/Atlanta - Glavine/Thomson

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Julio Franco gets a nice hand from the Atlanta fans as he comes to pinch hit with Matsui at first with one out.

[nymr83]

Why did Matsui just stop in the basepaths???? wheres the takeout slide??? at least do that "i'm pretending to duck but really getting in your way" thing...

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Franco grounds with a broken bat ground ball 4-6-3 double play to end the inning.

[Guest Hillbilly]

Matsui's hit gives him an 8 game hitting streak. That's every game he's played in this year. Time for Billy to earn his money.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

It's in the hands of Wagner now. Chipper, Andruw, and Francoeur due up for the Braves.

[nymr83]

Wright bobbles one charging hard, its ruled a hit...

[Guest Hillbilly]

Yuk! Gotta make that play.

[Guest GYC]

Here comes the 2-run HR by Andruw.

[nymr83]

a perfect double play ball hit to Reyes, 6-4-3.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Andruw grounds into a 6-4-3 DP. Just one more out to go.

[Guest Hillbilly]

Double play. Very, very nice!

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Francoeur whiffs on a high fastball in the eyes.

Mets 1 Braves 0

[nymr83]

[Guest Hillbilly]

I'm pleased! Glavine, the Duke and the pen get it done! Some nice D too.

[TransMonk]

All the other NL East teams lose again.

Division lead to 7 games.

Nice to win 2 games in a row in ATL. Glavine is a stud.

[Guest Hillbilly]

A seven game lead in April is just sick!

[Guest old original jb]

A clean, crisp game. The ability to have players like Heilman and Sanchez pitch the late innings, and the difference between Wagner and Looper has been really evident this season. It's nice to have hope in low scoring games.

[Guest cooby]

I was thinking Chipper hit that ball to Wright on purpose just in hopes he'd bobble it. Worked out anyway


Hey, maybe Lo Duca is the Mets MVP

[metsmarathon]

gary cohen hurt my ears on that strikeout...

[nymr83]

let all Schaeffer voters who did not see the game know that Cliff Floyd made two incredible defensive plays.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Probably nominate Cliff in the POTG Poll just for his glove work in LF tonight. During his last plate appearance, Cliff had the Braves announcers going on and on about his great defense tonight. Probably not going to garner him any votes in the poll, but certainly worthy of a nomination.

[seawolf17]

Huge, huge, huge win. That was a lot of fun.

[seawolf17]

Huge, huge, huge win. That was a lot of fun.

[Guest cooby]

There must have been several of us watching on TBS. They're on again next Friday night!

[DocTee]

And tomorrow--

[Guest cooby]

Really!? I thought when they were signing off they said the next TBS Braves telecast was Friday

[Frayed Knot]

Nymr83 wrote: Why did Matsui just stop in the basepaths???? wheres the takeout slide??? at least do that "i'm pretending to duck but really getting in your way" thing...

He figured if he kept running he'd run into the tag play and make the DP easier. By stopping he at least made them make two throws.
Not a big deal because it was a simple DP either way but I didn't see it as laziness or brain-lock.

[nymr83]

i think you gotta make the hard slide, if they reach down to tag you theres no throw, if they dont tag you they gotta get out of your way coming in. i wasn't really calling it "brainlock" just wondering why he didnt slide.

[Frayed Knot]

Because the man with the ball was between him and the bag. He was still too far away to slide and continuing to run would - or at least Could -have made himself an easy tag target. There would have been no take-out slide because the ball wouldn't have been fed to the bag.
It's a split second decision which made little difference either way.

[nymr83]

it sure didnt seem that way to me but oh well.