IGT, 4/22, Mets @ Cubs: Es El Hombre!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

[Benjamin Grimm]

I feel like I just watched a bunch of pitchers take batting practice in Spanish.

[Guest sharpie]

Church gets his first day off.

Good Guys
Reyes ss
Pagan rf
Wright 3b
Beltran cf
Delgado 1b
Easley 2b
Clark lf
Casanova c
Figueroa p

Bad Guys
Johnson lf
Pie cf
Lee 1b
Ramirez 3b
Fukudome rf
DeRosa 2b
Cedeno ss
Blanco c
Lilly p

[Benjamin Grimm]

Anyone know why the Mets are playing two games at Wrigley this year, and the Cubs are playing four at Shea?

Is there going to be a similar shift with another Central Division club? Or is this just one of those inexplicable quirks that comes with the wacky schedule?

Or is the pope somehow at fault?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Thought Anderson woulda got the start at 1B despite the lefty.... That was the speculation on radio last nite.

[Frayed Knot]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Anyone know why the Mets are playing two games at Wrigley this year, and the Cubs are playing four at Shea?

No

]Is there going to be a similar shift with another Central Division club? Or is this just one of those inexplicable quirks that comes with the wacky schedule?

Well, it'll have to work out to 81/81 somehow so there's got to be a different imbalance somewhere.

]Or is the pope somehow at fault?

Don't be silly, it's Heilman's fault.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

We could wind up visiting Wrigley again in the playoffs. Best Cub start since 1985, according to to this blog with a million comments already.

http://www.bleedcubbieblue.com/

[Willets Point]

Goofing off on the job officially begins.

I'm watching the enthralling pitch-by-pitch on mlb.com.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah, looking good, Delgado.

[Guest themetfairy]

There's no excuse for the Mets not to be bitch slapping Ted Lilly around!

[Guest AG/DC]

Blacked out? The Hell?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cubs have the bases loaded with none out in the second.

Cedeno batting.

DEE-FENCE!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I want a triple play, and I want it NOW!!!!!

[Benjamin Grimm]

How about a caught looking and a GDP?

Mets get out of it!

[HahnSolo]

Nicely done, Nelson.

[Frayed Knot]

Hank White hits into a GiDP by rolling one to Joe King

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I go around hoping for a triple play at all times, but that is an acceptable alternative.

[Guest AG/DC]

Nelson is touched by the hand of God right now. Mets are scuffling and the homeboy is immune.

[Guest themetfairy]

Whew!

[HahnSolo]

Nine up, nine down for the good guys.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Still scoreless through 3.

I wonder if Figueroa's family is back at Shea, watching the game on TV from Billy Wagner's luxury box?

[nymr83]

Ted lilly is PERFECT through 10 batters, thats right, he's throwing a PERFECT game... (you can still jinx those things right?)

[Benjamin Grimm]

You can try!

For a second I thought Pagan had plunked in an extra base hit, but it was foul by a fair amount.

[Benjamin Grimm]

And there's the actual extra-base hit.

Pagan doubles into the gap between right and center.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Pagan with a revenge smash.

[Willets Point]

HahnSolo wrote: Nine up, nine down for the good guys.

I'm glad the no-hitter ended.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Lilly, pitching carefully to Wright, walks him.

Now Beltran...

[nymr83]

jinx successful.

now lets try again... lilly is throwing a SHUTOUT, he's SHUTTING OUT the Mets.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Beltran walks too.

Delgado, bases loaded, one out.

I smell a double play. I'm thinking a grand slam will be nicer. (And will smell nicer too.)

[Frayed Knot]

Carlos I walks, be a nice time for Carlos II to break out.