IGT 5-14-08 Nats at Mets

[stevejrogers]

Nats
Lopez 2B
Guzman SS
Zimmerman 3B
Boone 1B
Kearns RF
Dukes CF
Pena LF
Flores C
Redding SP

Mets
Reyes SS
Church RF
Wright 3B
Beltran CF
Alou LF
Delgado 1B
Schneider C
Easley 2B
Vargas P

Sticking with the hot hand...

RIGHT NOW!

[stevejrogers]

Lopez gets a leadoff double for the first hit off of Vargas.

Guzman pops up to Alou

[stevejrogers]

And Lopez is left stranded.

[stevejrogers]

Good one-two-three second frame to add to stranding the leadoff hitter in the first.

[stevejrogers]

Looks like I'm all alone here tonight.

Heh, maybe I should log on as mlbaseballtalk and have a conversation with myself...

Yeah, that would be idiotic!

End of two, no score.

Redding pitching a perfect game.

[stevejrogers]

Vargas is Traschel like apparantly, according to Hagin.

Walked the leadoff man in the third. This can't be good.

But Reyes gets a nice grab of Delgado's throw to erase Flores!

Lopez is 5 for 9 with a few homers against Vargas BTW, Hagin says that it is good that the lead runner was erased. However a wild pitch AFTER he says it moves Redding to 2nd!

AND Lopez walks. Hagin suggests that Vargas wanted to walk him because of Lopez's numbers.

Alou gets a decent grab of a Guzman fly. Zimmerman up with 2 on, 2 outs.

Zim bounces to a FC, Reyes to Easley.

Edited May 14, 2008 by Guest

[DocTee]

Meaning? Deliberate I assume?

[stevejrogers]

DocTee wrote: Meaning? Deliberate I assume?

Just slow, they didn't use Traschel's name, they just said he works slowly.

[stevejrogers]

*sigh*

NO HITTER NO HITTER NO HITTER NO HITTER NO HITTER

Hey Irish, you wanna chime in here?

[stevejrogers]

Howie is wrong on the "unofficial" title that DiMaggio held. He was voted that "award" in 1969 (my guess you could only vote for retired players) during MLB's centennial celebration.

He then took it too his grave because he HAD to be introduced for the rest of his life as "The greatest living player" despite whatever Mays, Aaron, etc did during the rest of his lifetime. So it really was an "official" title.

[stevejrogers]

Still scoreless through 4

Going to the NYTimes Archives and a Leonard Koppett article on the BBWAA Baseball Centennial Award event 7/20/1969:

Ruth and John McGraw voted greatest player & mgr
DiMaggio and Stengel got the living versions

Gehrig, Hornsby, Pie Traynor, Wagner in the infield
Cobb joins Ruth and DiMaggio in the outfield
Mickey Cochrane behind the plate
Big Train and Lefty Grove as your top pitchers

George Sisler and Musial tied for 1B for the living category
Gehringer and Cronin at 2nd and SS, and Traynor was living at the time.
DiMaggio was joined by Ted Williams and Willie Mays (only active player) in the outfield, Bill Dickey behind the plate, and Bob Feller along with a still living Grove.

Musial, Mays and Feller are the only ones still living nearly 40 years later now.

Mays was actually the only active player in the running for the greatest team lineup according to this article!

[Valadius]

KABOOM for Schneider! 1-0 Mets.

[stevejrogers]

Alou thrown out, not really for arguing, but probably muttered a flagged word as he stormed back to the dugout.

[stevejrogers]

SteveJRogers wrote: Alou thrown out, not really for arguing, but probably muttered a flagged word as he stormed back to the dugout.

That allowed Hagin to play the "truism" card essentially telling the audience to watch Alou's replacement factor in the winning play, doesn't that always seem to happen, and that baseball is funny that way.

Yeah, like the player making the defensive gem to end one frame will end up leading off the next, and so many other truisms that always seem to be played up by announcers.

[Guest AG/DC]

That's two nights in a row Delgado's saved some Met skin by digging a DP relay out of the dirt.

[stevejrogers]

Ryan Zimmerman makes it a whole new ballgame. Making that DP so much important now.

[DocTee]

This is more like an IG Monologue.

Soldier on, Steve!

[stevejrogers]

Inning ends with no extra damage.

1-1 through 5 and a half.

[stevejrogers]

According to Hagin, Ryan Church's brother is heading off to Iraq for a tour. Missed which armed forces Church's brother is in.

OE: Sasser, Phillips, Hodges. Quite a threesome of catchers to go through in posting levels!

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[stevejrogers]

Vargas still going in the 7th, Heilman is warming up in the pen

[stevejrogers]

And Vargas departs to a nice hand. Like Figueroa before him last month.

[stevejrogers]

DocTee wrote: This is more like an IG Monologue. Soldier on, Steve!

HA! Well I've seen plenty of peeps come and go this night, but only four seperate posts by three different non-me posters in this thread!

Plus I spent 4 bucks searching the NY Times archive for that All-Time Centennial Award info!

[Frayed Knot]

Story of the year so far for Heilman: He almost gets out of the inning.

[stevejrogers]

Smith gets warm in the pen...

UGH, Lopez with a two run double. Flores gets in under the tag.

3-1 Nats.

[stevejrogers]

Heilman might be at Doug Sisk/Gene Walter/Mel Rojas level (putting aside the closers like Franco and Looper) in terms of hated Met relievers.

[stevejrogers]

And its 5-1 Nats, and here comes the hook and here comes Joe Smith.

[stevejrogers]

Okay Willie, from now on, Smith deserves to be in Heliman's role!

[Guest Mendoza Line]

Smith K's Zimmerman on three pitches, and makes it look easy.

[TransMonk]

I didn't want to interrupt Steve's conversation...but I would have left Vargas in.

Heilman is just brutal so far.

[MFS62]

Nice job, Aaron.
I've seen better performances by Tori Spelling.

Later