IGT 4/18/07 - Mets (Maine) at Marlins (Dontrelle)

[Gwreck]

New York Mets
Reyes
LoDuca
Beltran
Delgado
Wright
Alou
Green
Valentin
Maine

=cyan]Florida Marlins
Hanley Ramirez SS
Dan Uggla 2B
Miguel Cabrera 3B
Mike Jacobs 1B
Josh Willingham LF
Joe Borchard RF
Alfredo Amezaga CF
Matt Treanor C
Dontrelle Willis P

[Guest Kid Carsey]

Didn't really expect to see Lo Duca.

[Benjamin Grimm]

He'll get his injury, whatever it is, looked at after the season ends.

[metirish]

Just tuned in,Mets up 2 - 0 ,what happened?

[Benjamin Grimm]

I turned it on at 3-0.

Not a great start for Dontrelle, huh?

[metirish]

No it's not,and now it's 4 - 0 with the bases loaded....2 out.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

I don't know if the current Mets have a kangaroo court, but what the hell was
that non-slide into second by Alou? The only thing you can control in a base-
ball game is hustle and grit, and ya gotta make that throw to first as difficult
as possible.

[Guest iramets]

Good call. I'm listening on the radio, so I didn't see it, but ya gotta hustle.

[Guest iramets]

metirish wrote: No it's not,and now it's 4 - 0 with the bases loaded....2 out.

Marlins go quietly in the bottom of the first, as someone used to say.

"Don't ask, Dontrelle" seems to be the policy tonight.

[Guest iramets]

A walk for "Belch, Ron" as Tom McCarthy pronounces it, followed by D-Wright's 25-straight-games single. First and third, two out.

[Batty31]

Willis is having a meltdown....8-0

[TransMonk]

I don't know about Reyes going home on that wild pitch. Do we really need Reyes to be sliding into Willis at the plate with a seven run lead? Thank god he didn't hurt himself.

[Guest iramets]

Haven't you heard? He's Jackie Robinson.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Old fashioned asswhoop.

[Elster88]

The Marlins' scoreboard has, in their photo of Green standing in Times Square, Borat in the background giving the thumbs up.

I'm amused.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

I don't have the sound on loud, they were talking about it on SNY broadcast.
I don't get the joke, but I haven't seen or know too much about that guy or the
movie.

[metirish]

Elster88 wrote: The Marlins' scoreboard has, in their photo of Green standing in Times Square, Borat in the background giving the thumbs up. I'm amused.

Seems like they are doing it for all the Mets players...not sure what the connection is....

[Gwreck]

The two errors in the first killed the Marlins...but it wouldn't have mattered much. Mets were smacking Dontrelle around.

Beltran's shot was a direct line drive, just barely over the scoreboard in left field. We'll get some delayed love for him here...

[Guest iramets]

Jose now has as many doubles as triples (3)--surprised it took him this long to catch up.

[Willets Point]

Phooey!

[Guest Kid Carsey]

With the sound down low and doing some stuff I didn't realize that a no-no
just got broken up ... probably best because I would have typed something
about it and got blamed for the forty some odd years of no no-nos not getting
put to rest.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Isn;t Joe Bordhard responsible for some other crime against Metdom?

I'm thinking he hit a crushing HR for them against us last year? Right?

[Guest iramets]

Valentin drives one in, Mets up 9-2

[Guest iramets]

Chavez pinches for Maine, who gave up 2 hits and 2 runs in 7.

[Gwreck]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Isn;t Joe Bordhard responsible for some other crime against Metdom? I'm thinking he hit a crushing HR for them against us last year? Right?

Yes. Definetly. I remember this from talking to the Marlins fans (yes, they do exist...in small numbers) at Spring Training.

[TransMonk]

Good stuff from Maine tonight. It was great to see one of our starting pitchers lead off the seventh inning...hopefully that trend will continue for him.

[Gwreck]

Found it. 2-run homer against Glavine in the bottom of the 8th on May 27th last year. Was inconsequential though, Mets won 7-4 (was 7-1 at time of homer).

[Guest Kid Carsey]

TM: >>>It was great to see one of our starting pitchers lead off the seventh inning<<<

Not to mention bat in the top of the first too.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Thanks. That Borchard is always making it less of a blowout for them.

[Guest Kid Carsey]

I'm a little worried about Heilman, it took four pitches in the ninth.