IGT 8/14--Mets @ Pirates

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3-3, top 8.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

I was half right. It's still close, but I wish I had been right about the Mets leading.

[Valadius]

Let's go Carlos!

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Bases loaded with no outs, we need to blow this game open right here.

Come on Moises.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Damn, both the Phillies and Braves are leading their respective games by a run.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Moises delivers.

A 2 run single on the first pitch to him. Keep it going team. It's your turn Lastings.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Alou does something good.

If I'm Jim Tracy I punish Chacon by making him wear his hat properly for 5 games straight.

[Valadius]

Moises parts the Pirate-infested waters!



Two runs score!

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

That is not what the doctor ordered.

DiFelice grounds into an inning ending DP.

[Valadius]

The ugliest man alive is up at bat.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Damn. This team is trying to drive me crazy.

The Pirates open the bottom of the 8th with back to back singles off Sosa.

Wilson sac bunts the runners to second and third for pinch hitter Xavier Nady.

[Valadius]

LASTINGS SNAGS IT!

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Nady gets one run home for the Pirates with a "productive out". Two outs now, but the tying run stands at third.

In the good old days, this is when a manager would call on his closer to get a 4 out save. Unfortunately, the game has changed, so here comes Schoeneweis to face McLouth.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

It'll look like a strikeout in the boxscore. WTG, Schoey.

[Valadius]

Way to go Beltran!!!

[Frayed Knot]

By my count, Wagner has 20 "perfect" appearances this year.
That would be outings of at least 1 full inning with no baserunners.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Make that 21.

[Frayed Knot]

Make that 21 (btw, 15 for Rivera)

[Valadius]

Put it in the books!!!

Time for the Happy Recap.

[Centerfield]

Nice to get the win but they still played like crap. It's infuriating to leave runners on base, but another thing altogether to leave them on third with less than 2 outs.

We were lucky to get the tying run on Beltran's DP ball, but we got hosed by the call. Not only didn't he catch it, he was off the base if he did. Plus we dodged a bullet there with Wright's shoulder (If that were a drop, Wilson would have been called for obstruction right?) I can't believe Willie doesn't come out to argue some of these calls. Umps are human...they know that if they call the close ones against the Mets, they'll hear nothing from their manager.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Willie did argue the double-play drop.

I really felt for Jack Wilson. What an awful season.

[Farmer Ted]

I hope he has a bad night Wednesday, too. Teds in section 114. Last time we saw them in PIT they got humiliated in a three-game sweep and ruined my chance to see them clinch the pennant. Yup, it's all about me.