IGT 9/12/06 - Mets at Marlins

[metsmarathon]

loduca's on thrid now. sorry to ruin the suspense.

[Valadius]

Now we're up to Delgado on Yahoo Sports.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Chavez walks in a run by being so short. Mets up by two.

[metsmarathon]

spoke too soon. lodua now in the dugout, having been walked in thanks to endy.

[metsmarathon]

and its pitching change time

[Guest Edgy DC]

Girardi is making a move.

Goodnight, kids. To bed with me.

[TransMonk]

Chavez with an RBI walk.

Green will face a new pitcher and try to stay away from the platinum sombrero.

[metsmarathon]

tempting kharma, i see?

i need to get the wifey a tvhead, tho the surgury looks risky.

[Valadius]

Now Yahoo Sports is all caught up (I think).

[metsmarathon]

edgy messes with kharma, and the inning is over.

[Valadius]

Enter the Nightcrawler. One away.

[Valadius]

Calm down Billy! Take it slow!

[TransMonk]

Dammit, Edgy! Uggla up with 2 on, 1 out.

[metsmarathon]

cabrera up. 2 down. still 2 on.

[TransMonk]

2 away! C'mon Billy!

[metsmarathon]

and the payoff pitch is coming up after a brief conference on the mound.

[TransMonk]

Mets win!

Braves eliminated!

For the first time in about a dozen years I'll be rooting hard for Atlanta to win 2 tomorrow.

Great IGT tonight...I'm going to bed.

[Valadius]

WE DID IT!!!!!!!!!

[metsmarathon]

and the governor calls with edgy's reprieve. cabrera strikes out on some high cheese.

ding dong the witch is dead

atlanta's awful streak is OVER!

[metsmarathon]

so.. wait...

now whaddo we do for triple happinesses...?

[Valadius]

We still don't like the Braves.

Right?

[TransMonk]

We love the Braves tomorrow and Thursday. If we win tomorrow and the Braves sweep the DH tomorrow, then we clinch.

[Guest ScarletKnight41]

[MFS62]

How can you not like a team whose star player names one of his kids after Shea Stadium?

Later

[Centerfield]

Great IGT guys. I was out with a work event...so I missed most of the game. My wife mentioned that she was initially upset that Bobby V was left off the poll question, then felt vindicated when Keith wouldn't let it go.

Awful game for the guys in blue tonight. Maybe they had trouble warming up again after the rain delay.

[Guest Yancy Street Gang]

Oliver Perez with 11 strikeouts in 5 innings.

This is only the second time a Mets pitcher has ever struck out ten or more in five innings or less.

The first time was, you guessed it, Sid Fernandez against the Cubs on July 30, 1986.

Only one pitcher has ever done it against the Mets. That was Scott Sanderson of the Expos on September 16, 1982.

In all three cases, the pitcher went 5 innings, struck out 11, and gave up 4 runs, all earned.