Redlegs @ Mets, 6/19

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Freel 3B
F. Lopez SS
Griffey Jr CF
Dunn RF
Kerns LF
Hattiberg 1B
Phillips 2B
D. Ross C
Cornrolio P

Reyes
LoDuca
Beltran
Delgado
Wright
Valentin
Nady RF
Chavez LF
Hernandez

[Guest Edgy DC]

Telling!!

[Elster88]

F'real?

[Elster88]

Ball down the right field line looked like it hit the ball boy's stool, but he hopped out of the way and got the stool up. Ball just caromed into the field by bouncing off the wall. Gary mistakenly said it hit the stool.

Anyways, the carom into the field held Reyes to a double.

Edit: By stool, I do not mean feces.

[Elster88]

I believe the Mets should've worn pinstripes again today. What the hell is the point of the white unis?

[Willets Point]

Elster88 wrote: I believe the Mets should've worn pinstripes again today. What the hell is the point of the white unis?

Better than god-forsaken black.

[Willets Point]

[Elster88]

What the ....?

Brandon Phillips coming from third on a suicide squeeze. Bunt popped up. El Duque catches the ball, runs behind him up the line, so he's between third and Phillips. Phillips stand still, backs away slowly from El Duque. So El Duque walks towards him. Phillips backs away, then suddenly waves towards first in an effort to distract El Duque, then tries to sprint around him to the left. El Duque tags him and he was out of the baseline anyway. Even if neither was true, El Duque could've just thrown to third.

One of the weirdest things I've ever seen.

PLEASE watch the highlights and see this play. It's bizarre enough that you will want to see it.

[Elster88]

Willets Point wrote: ="Elster88"]I believe the Mets should've worn pinstripes again today. What the hell is the point of the white unis? Better than god-forsaken black.

At least the black is different. It has a point...to be different. The white has no point.

By the way, the black is cool, you old coot.

[Elster88]

Keith and Gary sporting black SNY golf shirts.

They know black is cool.

[Elster88]

Lots of fouls here for El Duque. Count still 0-2, but I like what I see.

[Elster88]

I think Kelly Ripa is pretty.

[Elster88]

Reyes swinging at everything today.

The past few games he's been in "swing and get hits but don't walk" mode.

He can't seem to put the two together. I think his batting average has risen twenty points but over that span he hasn't gotten many, if any, walks.

[seawolf17]

That "Brandon" Arroyo has some kinda leg kick.

[Elster88]

Senile Tim McCarver called him Brandon a lot too during the playoffs.

[seawolf17]

Elster88 wrote: Reyes swinging at everything today. The past few games he's been in "swing and get hits but don't walk" mode. He can't seem to put the two together. I think his batting average has risen twenty points but over that span he hasn't gotten many, if any, walks.

Reyes in June:

.339 (21 for 62), .423 OBP (eight walks, but six of them came in a two-game stretch in Arizona and Philly). Still on pace for 72 walks on the season, which is pretty damn good, all things considered.

[Elster88]

I've been on a BifL kick lately, but I think today's bunt might've been for the best. Double, bunt, ground out scores the run in the first. Bronson's a good pitcher. Maybe we don't score without the bunt.

[seawolf17]

Elster88 wrote: Senile Tim McCarver called him Brandon a lot too during the playoffs.

I know. Hence the quotes.

[Elster88]

seawolf17 wrote: ="Elster88"]Senile Tim McCarver called him Brandon a lot too during the playoffs. I know. Hence the quotes.

Oh, I thought you heard it from Keith or Gary.

[Elster88]

="seawolf17"] ="Elster88"]Reyes swinging at everything today. The past few games he's been in "swing and get hits but don't walk" mode. He can't seem to put the two together. I think his batting average has risen twenty points but over that span he hasn't gotten many, if any, walks. Reyes in June: .339 (21 for 62), .423 OBP (eight walks, but six of them came in a two-game stretch in Arizona and Philly). Still on pace for 72 walks on the season, which is pretty damn good, all things considered.

That's what I was saying (I put the bold in). I could be anecdotally incorrect, but I thought he got all the walks first while his BA was still low...then started swinging and got all the hits but stopped walking.

IIRC, in the deathwatch thread his OBP went up along with walks, but his BA hovered....then the BA went up but walks have stayed the same. I haven't updated that thread in a while, but it's an interesting trend to watch.

His pace is for 69 walks right now, but I'd argue that that's pretty darn low considering the number or plate appearances he gets. But obviously a marked improvement for him.

[Elster88]

It's only a five day trend, so that's not very telling, but I'm going to keep my eye on it.

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:38 am

EDIT: .251 AVG/.326 OBP/.413 SLG//.739 OPS

29 BB, (projected 74.57)

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Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 8:09 pm

Before the 6/19 game opening the Red series:

.269/.336/.439//.775

29 BB (pace for 69 BB)

[Elster88]

Nice diving play by Delgado to his left down the line, flip to Doo K who misses the bag with his front foot and has to tap it on the way by with his back foot.

[Elster88]

A little help here. I'm a color guy not a play by play guy.

[Elster88]

A picture of Hernandez and Arroyo side by side with their leg kicks in freeze frame is disturbing.

Arroyo does some sort of Rockette-style straight-leg kick.

[Elster88]

Griffey hits the Banco Popular sign beneath the scoreboard. The old Griffey is back.

Edit: Actually it may have hit the part where the line score goes. A bomb.

[TransMonk]

Damn you Ken Griffey, Jr.!

HR for Griff, 2-1 Reds.

[seawolf17]

Did Gary Cohen jusst mention the Sword of Damocles? How literary. We might have the most well-read booth in baseball.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I have no problem with Delgado bunting against this shift.

[TransMonk]

I agree, slap one down the line...only have to get it past the pitcher.

[Elster88]

Did Reds really spawn from Redlegs?