IGT 5/3/07 - Mets at Diamondbacks

[Frayed Knot]

- guy put in for defense makes an error ... CHECK
- guy who doesn't walk walks ... CHECK


it all points to something good happening ... unless it doesn't.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Tying run and go-ahead runs on. Damion up.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

FUCK YEAH!!!

[Frayed Knot]

GREAT GOOGLY-MOOGLY!!!!

[Gwreck]

EASLEY!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

That's how you do it, Newhan.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Easley

Doesn't

Suck!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Valverde is completely humiliated. His body language has looked terrible since the E3

[Guest Edgy DC]

[Willets Point]

This one is worth staying up late for.

[nymr83]

Wagner won't even get a save opportunity. opposite field shot for david wright!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Ka-slam.

[Frayed Knot]

Wright gives Wags the rest of the night off

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I love wins without the need of a save opportunity.

[Frayed Knot]

I've never seen a stadium with as much behind the plate and in/on dugout advertising - much of it for casinos.

[Guest Edgy DC]

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Once again, big props to LoDuca who was 0-2 and took some awfully tempting balls en route to what was a huge walk. When Easley hit it I only hoped it wouldbn't be caught; but it woulda been enough to score Green off the wall.

[Willets Point]

I don't want to hear anything about how much the Mets offense sucks after this game.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Endy opens the ninth inning with a strike out, then ends the inning with a strike out.

[nymr83]

="Rockin' Doc"]Endy opens the ninth inning with a strike out, then ends the inning with a strike out.

sucks for him but i'd be happy if that happened to us all the time.


edit-- ahhhh i'm carl everett!!



they're gonna eat me!

Edited May 3, 2007 by Guest

[Guest Edgy DC]

Let Lino!

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm Green keen.

[Willets Point]

Somehow Green's hat didn't fall off on that one.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Eleven in a row. Slam that book shut.

It's not Easley being Green.

[Willets Point]

Rockin' Doc wrote: Endy opens the ninth inning with a strike out, then ends the inning with a strike out.

His only two at-bats for the game, although he was on base earlier as a pinch-runner.

I wonder if a pinch-hitter has ever batted twice in the same inning?

[nymr83]

i'm sure it happens pretty often (a few times a season)

[Willets Point]

Really? I don't think batting around the order is all that common with the additional odds that a pinch-hitter would be one of the ones who comes up twice in the same inning.

[nymr83]

i lost what i was writing, stupid back button. do 162x16x9 to get the number of innings in a year (approximate since it wont take into account bottom of the 9ths not played and extra innings), then figure out what the frequency of batting around should be (last year's NL OBP was .343) then multiply by the number of innings in a year. from there we'd have to figure out the frequency of pinch-hitter use and assume that a pinch-hitter bats twice in 1/9th of all innings in which the team bats around, 1/4.5 of all innings where 10 hitters come to the plate, etc.
too much work for me, but that would be the framework to figure out the likelihood of it happening.

quick googling shows me that this year on april 13th chad moeller pinch hit for aaron harang in the top of the 5th and then batted again later that inning.

[Centerfield]

That 2-2 pitch to LoDuca was strike 3. Easley was out on that chopper to short in Washington. Always good to have a little luck fall your way.