IGT, 4/26: Braves @ Mets: The Maine Event

[Guest Triple Dee]

Are you ready?
I said "Are you ready!?!?!?"
For the thousands in attendance,
And the millions watching around the world,
LETS GO METS!!!!

Since there is no KTE to speak of, here's a quick preview of the today's game;

Starting Pitchers:
Mets:
John Maine (1-2, 3.57)
Last appearance:
4/21 at CHC
6.0 IP, 2 ER
Dec = Loss

Braves:
Tim Hudson (3.0-1.0, 2.93)
Last appearance:
4/21 vs WAS
6.2 IP, 1 ER
Dec = Win

Injury Report
Mets
Moises Alou lf - Apr 25: 15-Day DL
Brian Schneider c - Apr 25: Day-to-Day
Ramon Castro c - Apr 24: 15-Day DL
Orlando Hernandez sp - Apr 23: 15-Day DL
Pedro Martinez sp - Apr 23: 15-Day DL

Braves:
Mark Kotsay cf - Apr 26: Day-To-Day
Mike Hampton sp - Apr 26: 15-Day DL
Yunel Escobar ss - Apr 25: Day-To-Day
Jeff Bennett rp - Apr 23: Day-To-Day
Tom Glavine sp - Apr 23: 15-Day DL
Mike Gonzalez rp - Apr 23: 15-Day DL

[Guest Triple Dee]

Lineups:

Mets:
SS Jose Reyes
LF Endy Chavez
3B David Wright
CF Carlos Beltran
RF Ryan Church
1B Carlos Delgado
2B Damion Easley
C Gustavo Molina
RHP John Maine

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Molina to join the scrolls. 34th No. 6 in team history!

[TransMonk]

Chipper out with a sore back, here is Atlanta's lineup:

G Blanco LF
M Kotsay CF
K Johnson 2B
M Teixeira 1B
B McCann C
J Francoeur RF
M Prado 3B
B Lillibridge SS
T Hudson P

[TransMonk]

Walks kill...immediately.

[metirish]

NY Mets are 1 -8 this season when the other team scores first...........

[Guest AG/DC]

First two guys hit it hard into outs.

Wright hits a routine grounder and it gets booted.

[TransMonk]

Walks kill again.

[Guest Triple Dee]

Walks kill again. I've seen enough. I'm going to schlufen.

[Guest Triple Dee]

Jinx. Buy me a Coke.

[TransMonk]

Hey, offense! Any time you want to help win a ballgame it would be appreciated.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

YaY. 3 hits, one inning

[Guest Triple Dee]

Offense: "Sure thing, TransMonk".

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That's some ghey footwear Wright's got no?

RBI triple, very nice

[Guest Triple Dee]

SENATOR CHICKEN!!!

[Zvon]

^Cut and paste Church's face in there someone.^

Bout time we put something together.

[Benjamin Grimm]

This is the first time in my life I've ever liked Church.

[nymr83]

nice run scoring play, Delgado might have intentionally left the base path to get in the way of teixeira's potential throw home

[Zvon]

Delgado, don't be running out of the baseline on that play...a ball off your noggin might do you good.

[nymr83]

Molina almost made it 5-2 but Prado made a leaping snag of a line drive at 3rd.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Hudson sunk. Gotay to pinch hit. Gary & Ron talking about the magnificent emptyness of No. 6.

[Zvon]

The Goat swingin for the fences,ha.

Take a seat Ruben.

[Zvon]

Reyes has to stop hittin the ball in the air.
He really really really really does.

Really.

Just pound it into the ground Jose, and run your ass off.
That'll get you outta this funk.

A fly out and two pop ups.
Gah.

[nymr83]

pushups. willie mays-hayes style.

anyway, its nice to have hudson out after only 3 innings, lets light up the atlanta bul;lpen so they'll all be tired for the next game

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Pretty scary to imagine an injury to Maine. Looks OK but...

[Frayed Knot]

This is the big leagues, you gotta tag the runners up here kid (Lillibridge)

[Zvon]

Hand cramp?

Wright should get two steals for that swipe of second.

Great slide avoids the tag.

Gettin deeper into the Brave's pen.
Gotta like that.

[metirish]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Hudson sunk. Gotay to pinch hit. Gary & Ron talking about the magnificent emptyness of No. 6.

That was fun .

[nymr83]

Delgado gets that ball out of the park a few years ago.

[TransMonk]

Nymr83 wrote: Delgado gets that ball out of the park a few years ago.

Delgado gets that ball out of the park on a less windy day.