IGT 8/12/06 - The Mets vs. The Nationals, Take 2

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Gary and Ron are wearing matching olive green jackets. I don't know whether they planned that or not, but they look pretty silly.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

NY Mets

J. Reyes ss
P. Lo Duca c
C. Beltran cf
C. Delgado 1b
D. Wright 3b
J. Valentin 2b
M. Tucker lf
L. Milledge rf
J. Maine p

Washington

A. Soriano lf
F. Lopez ss
R. Zimmerman 3b
N. Johnson 1b
A. Kearns rf
M. Anderson 2b
A. Escobar cf
B. Schneider c
J. Bergmann p (a Rutgers graduate, FYI)

[metirish]

Mets have Beltran and Delgado on base for Wright, both teams back in regular uniforms thankfully.

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Maine with three ground ball outs, 24 scoreless innings and counting.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

I'm getting the Washington feed.

One of the Nationals announcers said that Brian Bannister is on the 60-day DL. Is that true? Did I miss something?

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

From the Daily News this morning:

]ZIPPING ALONG: John Maine takes a 23-inning scoreless streak into tonight's outing against Nats righthander Jason Bergmann (0-0, 8.14 ERA), who is making his second big-league start. Maine's streak is 8 2/3 innings shy of the franchise record set by Jerry Koosman in 1973.

I guess we can now make that 7 2/3.

So Maine needs a complete game shutout if he wants to break the record today.

I'd kind of hate to see a Jerry Koosman record fall, but Maine has my permission to pitch a shutout today.

[metirish]

] 5/30/06 Brian Bannister Transferred from the 15-day to the 60-day disabled list.

That's from Mets.com

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Oh, that was on May 30. I thought they were describing a recent development.

So Brian's 60 days are up.

Thanks for the clarification.

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Maine's scoreless streak is the longest by a Mets starting pitcher since Leiter went 25 scoreless in 1998, Mark Guthrie went 27 scoreless in 2002.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Maine is HBP to start the third, and Reyes triples him home. 1-0 Mets

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

LoDuca's first pitch single brings home Reyes to make it 2-0

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Escobar misplay's Beltran's hit to make it an RBI triple. 3-0 Mets

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

And now Maine has three scoreless innings today. (And the streak is at 26.)

3-0 Mets after 3.

I wonder if Jerry Koosman even knows that his record is in trouble?

Is he watching from his home in Minnesota?

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Gary and Ron talking about the Green rumors and they bring up names like Jeff Jenkins and Preston Wilson, preston is not signed beyond this season.

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Nick Johnson homers and the streak is over.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Nick Fucking Johnson's solo homer ends Maines scoreless inning streak at 26.

3-1 Mets in the fourth.

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Now lets see if Maine can continue to pitch a good game, one hit through 4.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Milledge's infield single brings home Mr. Wright and gives the Mets a 4-1 lead in the 6th.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Maine has suddenly run out of steam in the 6th with an infield hit, a 2-run Soriano homer, and a single. One on, none out, and a 4-3 Mets lead.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Feliciano is brought in to face Nick Fucking Johnson with a runner on second and one out. Feliciano immediately coughs up a single that Beltran misplays, and the runner on second scores the tying run easily.

[seawolf17]

They hit Wright with a pitch! Someone defend his honor, dammit!

Hey, Mr. Met is in the house. Cool.

[metirish]

Valentin with a bloop hit RBI single,Mets take the lead 5 to 4.....how did Jose not make the MLB "comeback player of the year" list?

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

After about 55 foul balls, Porn Stash's single brings home Beltran! 5-4 Mets

[metirish]

Tucker brings Wright home and it's 6-4 Mets.....no quit in this team.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Michael Tucker's sac fly brings home Mr. Wright to make it 6-4. Porn Stash slides in safely to second base on a close play.

[Guest Edgy DC]

And Feliciano does a job keeping Soriano from coming to the plate as the tying run.

Mets.

Rock.

They do.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Sonia, your man is bunting for a hit with two outs.

Eh.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Aaaron, lead your people.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

Leave Sonia out of this. The woman has suffered enough.

Meanwhile, Heilman comes in to pitch the 8th with a 6-4 lead.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Now the tying run is on with Zimmerman up.

Kerri, talk to your man.