IGT 8/3/06 - Mets (Pedro) at Marlins (Dontrelle)

[Gwreck]

New York Mets
Reyes SS
LoDuca C
Beltran CF
Delgado 1B
Wright 3B
Valentin 2B
Woodward LF
Milledge RF
Pedro P

Florida Marlins
Hanley Ramirez SS
Dan Uggla 2B
Mike Jacobs 1B
Miguel Cabrera 3B
Josh Willingham LF
Jeremy Hermida RF
Cody Ross CF
Miguel Olivo C
Dontrelle Willis P

[Gwreck]

FWIW, the lineup originally had:

4 - Wright 3B
5 - Franco 1B
6 - Marrero LF
7 - Valentin 2B

Franco scratched with the Flu, Marrero scratched with a stiff neck.

[Guest KC]

The August flu in Florida has gotta suck bhmb's.

[Guest cooby]

Boy, these things really suffer without Steve

[metirish]

Beltran is doing it all right now...Carlos just made a great catch at the wall in CF.

[stevejrogers]

cooby wrote: Boy, these things really suffer without Steve

In midst of an Excel class mid-term review. Microeconomics coming up in an hour!

Accreditation College stinks...

IONA HERE I COME in 2007!

[metirish]

]IONA HERE I COME in 2007!

I'll say nothing...

[stevejrogers]

Getting alot of material for "Things I didn't say today" right now...

GO PEDRO!

[metirish]

Nothing quite like seeing a Pedro AB

[seawolf17]

(I will not make fun of someone who's excited about going to Iona... I will not make fun of someone who's excited about going to Iona...)

Nice catch by Beltran. What a season this guy's having.

[stevejrogers]

seawolf17 wrote: (I will not make fun of someone who's excited about going to Iona... I will not make fun of someone who's excited about going to Iona...) Nice catch by Beltran. What a season this guy's having.

Fairfield U Class 1999 working on some biz courses gearing towards an MBA at some point. Live close to Iona so I'm going there shortly. Masters in Journalism, then MBA afterwards.

[stevejrogers]

Man I WISH I was watching tonights game right now...

Nothing like a classic pitchers duel. Should have Tivoed the game...

Microec is a better class though

[seawolf17]

Just messin' with you. S'all good.

Tough DP from Woodward in a spot where a hit would have been key. I'm disappointed with Woody this year; I feel like he's been a real hole in the roster, wherever he's played.

[Guest martin]

i dont think i have ever seen a more tired look on a player's face than flu-ridden 47-year-old 3-base-running franco.

[seawolf17]

Jacobs homers in the bottom of the sixth to give the Marlins the lead, then the flu-ridden Julio Franco singles to right pinch-hitting for Pedro in the top of the 7th... but the ball skips by Willingham in right, Franco chugging all the way to third base before passing out and dying.

Reyes up with a chance to tie it up.

[seawolf17]

And he does with an RBI groundout. HUGE HUGE HUGE hustle play by Franco. Gotta love what he's done this year too.

[seawolf17]

We saw a little bit inside Dontrelle's psyche there; he got riled by a strike-three-that-wasn't to Julio Franco, then after the hit, ranted and raved on the mound until his teammates subdued him. He got out of the inning on a flyout to LoDuca, but continued barking at the umpire after the inning ended.

Still would love to see him in the blue-and-orange.

[seawolf17]

Another beauty of a grab by David Wright, backhanded and on the short hop up the line to end the bottom of the seventh. Let's pick up some runs, boys.

[seawolf17]

Hey! The Mets grounded into another DP! That's fourteen GIDPs today, if you're scoring at home. Middle of the 8th, still 1-1.

[seawolf17]

I've never flown solo on an IGT before... this is both exciting and nerve-wracking all at the same time.

[seawolf17]

Keith and Gary have been obsessed with Miguel Olivo. We've learned two things, ad nauseam, about the Marlins' catcher:

(1) He LOVES first-pitch fastballs, and therefore, those advance scouts have prepared the Mets well, because they're not throwing him any.

(2) He "runs well for a catcher." What the hell does that mean? That's one of those baseball catchphrases that's just stupid. Either you run well, or you do not. Jose Reyes runs well; for a catcher, for a shortstop, for a leopard. I do not run well; not for a catcher, not for a third baseman, not for a 30-year-old assistant director of undergraduate admissions. There is really not much of an in-between, but Gary & Keith have been obsessing over it with Olivo for three nights.

[seawolf17]

Heilman allows Olivo to get a hit (on a first-pitch changeup), then a sac and a walk puts runners on 1st & 2nd with one out.

Then K's Uggla. Sweet. Here comes Jacobs.

[seawolf17]

And he walks Jacobs to load 'em up for the ever-dangerous Miguel Cabrera, with the tying run on third base in the form of the speedy Miguel Olivo.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Mighta been a good idea to try Feliciano or Oliver or Ring there.

[Elster88]

Heilman.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Oh Jeezus. LoDuca suxxx at those plays at the plate.

[seawolf17]

Might have been a good idea if Sanchez hadn't gotten in that cab.

A double down the line scores EVERYONE as LoDuca misses the tag! What the hell happened?!??!

Ah, he dropped the ball. Sunuvabitch.

[metirish]

Heilman three nights in a row, I don't think so....bollox

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Rally, you Mets:

] Well I wont back down, no I wont back down You can stand me up at the gates of hell But I wont back down Gonna stand my ground, wont be turned around And Ill keep this world from draggin me down Gonna stand my ground and I wont back down Hey baby, there aint no easy way out Hey I will stand my ground And I wont back down. Well I know whats right, I got just one life In a world that keeps on pushin me around But Ill stand my ground and I wont back down Hey baby there aint no easy way out Hey I will stand my ground And I wont back down No, I wont back down

[Elster88]

Jacobs foot kinda knocked it out of his glove.