IGT: MetsNats #1 9/17

[Zvon]

OMG!
They walk Pujols-
Cards batter Ludwig hits one into the gap in right center, a booming shot,...and Rowand....I can't call it a great catch....I dont know what to call it,lol.

I don't know if he lost it or thought he was called off or what, but he made the play into a stumbling slapstick grab.

But he does make the catch and it stays 12-11 Phils.

Look for that play on baseball highlights near you.
Insane...if that ball would have dropped....

AND THEN ROWAND LEADS OFF THE 9TH WITH HIS SECOND BOOMER OF THE GAME!
Carp on a carpsicle.

[metirish]

bmfc1 wrote: Back from RFK. I'm not ashamed to admit that I left after the 7th. With my son not wanting to be out too late on a school night (what's wrong with that boy?) Boy did that game stink.

Nothing wrong with that boy,sucks that you got to see a stinker but cool that you got to meet Edgy and missus.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I think they should send Reyes to Alaska and use that guy at short.

Can you imagine all the blood that will be shed if we take this all the way? W-o-w.

[Zvon]

Last of the 9th for the Cardinals.
Phils reliever Gordon and closer Myers are not available.
Cards have 1st and 2nd, 2 out.

[Zvon]

UGH!
Rosario Ks Branyan to end it and the Phils win.

WOW.....
I mean OW!

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm in the same seats tomorrow night with my friend Paul the Pirate fan. I expect my puddle of tears will not have dried up.

For the love of Kevin Costner, that was some bad baseball.

Jorge Sosa, go home with that ball. DUH!

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

Not the first time a Met pitcher on a comebacker has looked to second only to wonder wtf Castillo is.

This is blame-Willie stuff: These plays are supposed to have been ironed out till they were 2nd nature in PStL. But, at first glance, I thought that was a DP ball too.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Really? Man on third is breaking on contact and a dead duck. He's the threat there. Get the guy on third for the second out and be cahnfident you can get out of a two-out, first-and-second situation. You're a playoff pitcher.

[Valadius]

Hey Edgy, I think I'll be at the game tomorrow.

[metirish]

Johnny Dickshot wrote: Not the first time a Met pitcher on a comebacker has looked to second only to wonder wtf Castillo is.

I wondered the same thing when I saw the replay but I'm thinking that Castillo assumed that Sosa would go home with that throw,still should have been at the bag I suppose.

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

I'm not saying what So-so did was right, necessarily: I'm saying that if he did it right, Castillo was out of position. Regardless, this is stuff they practice over and over in spring training, or were have supposed to, so when a ball comes at you in that situation doing the right thing is 2nd nature.

It just isn't with the Mets, as so many balls back to the pitcher this season have illustrated.

[metirish]

And SNY had a great freeze frame of Mike Difelice screaming at Sosa to throw home right from the get go,why did Willie double switch him into the game anyway?

[Guest Johnny Dickshot]

He thought he could get 2 IP out of him.

LoDuca apparently was pissed off at being the switchee. There's a new one.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Well, Castillo was with Minnesota during spring training if he's the one who blew it there. Infield awareness is on Sandy Alomar.

Anyhow, that's where my heart died. And the man typing this isn't a man at all but walking corpse. I've only come in today to feast on the brains of my co-workers. BRAINS!

[Frayed Knot]

I think what happened is that everyone in the park heard DiFelice screaming for home except Sosa - so the middle IFers assumed he was going home and weren't expecting a throw. It was Sosa not seeing either Reyes or Castillo on the base w/glove out that caused him to belatedly turn around and go home.

Castillo was still close enough to receive a throw had Sosa made one, it's just that he wasn't looking like he was expecting one and that spooked Sosa.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Yancy Street Gang wrote: They're playing like a team on the verge of a historic collapse.

Not that I'm proud of this, but I think I was the first one here to say the collapse word and it was at the beginning of this thread.