IGT 06/01/08 Sunday night, Dodgers at Mets

[Benjamin Grimm]

Church in the starting lineup!

LA Dodgers
J. Pierre lf
M. Kemp cf
J. Kent 2b
J. Loney 1b
R. Martin c
D. Young rf
B. DeWitt 3b
L. Maza ss
H. Kuroda p

NY Mets
J. Reyes ss
L. Castillo 2b
D. Wright 3b
C. Beltran cf
C. Delgado 1b
R. Church rf
B. Schneider c
E. Chavez lf
J. Santana p

[Guest AG/DC]

Plus Castillo.

I'm guessing Randolph wants this series bad.

[Elster88]

I do too. "It's only one game", but when your 150 million dollar ace is going I figure it's important to win the series and avoid the split.

[Guest AG/DC]

Maybe there'll be a transaction or two after the game and a couple of fresh bodies to meet them on the coast.

[Elster88]

Alou too?

[seawolf17]

Miller: "A beautiful night here in New York, in the shadow of the legendary Yankee Stadium."
Morgan: "Tonight we see the Mets take on Yankee great Joe Torre and the Los Angeles Dodgers."
Miller: "You know, Joe, Yankee Stadium is really just a few minutes away from where we are right now."
Morgan: "Johan Santana pitching for the Mets tonight. Here's a guy who probably should have been a Yankee this year."

I should get hired as a Sunday Night Baseball scriptwriter.

It's going to be a long night listening to them spooge over Torre for nine innings.

[Fman99]

No offense to ol' penis-nose over in the other dugout but I hope to see the Mets thrash these stupid Dodgers tonight. Good to see Church back in the lineup.

[Elster88]

I like the way Chavez plays the outfield.

[bmfc1]

If you have Fox Sports Atlantic, the NO Zephyrs are on live. Nelson Figueroa on the mound. David Newhan batting cleanup for Round Rock.

http://neworleans.zephyrs.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=g_box&gid=2008_06_01_nozaaa_rreaaa_1&did=t588&sid=t588

[Elster88]

I'm really not in the mood for Morgan and Miller.

Morgan so far on Santana:
Not effective against slap hitters.
Velocity down.
Not throwing sliders as much.
Gives up too many home runs.

Maybe those are all true.

[Zvon]

A double by Pierre off Wrights glove and a Kemp rbingle makes it 1-0 LA.
Nice piece of hitting by Kemp.
That was a nice pitch he hit.

[Zvon]

Nice pick off.
Excellent run down.

[Elster88]

Reyes is going to hurt himself.

[Elster88]

Goddamit stop bunting.

[Zvon]

Lead off single by Reyes.
Thats 32 straight he's reached base.
One more game reaching safely he beats the Strawmans Met record of 33.


And Jose steals second

[Zvon]

Tie this game Mr Wright!

[Guest themetfairy]

Zvon wrote: Tie this game Mr Wright!

Zvon speaks, David listens

[Zvon]

YES!
Bloop single by Wright drives in Reyes.

1-1 Mets.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Robbed!

[Elster88]

Slide please Reyes. Beltran was telling him stay to the right. Willie tried to sternly tell Reyes but Reyes walked right by him.

[Zvon]

NO! He was safe!

Maybe not on replay.
Dunno if he had possession of that ball.

[Elster88]

Remeber that Verducci article where he said the umps got a total of four calls wrong at first for an entire year? The day after I read that article was the Washington game that had four blown calls at first. Since then it feels like I've seen three games where there HASN'T been a blown call at first.

Carlos Delgado, warning track power.

Edited June 1, 2008 by Guest

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Santana is a monster!

[bmfc1]

For NO, Chris Aguila has two homers tonight. He's a righty OF with 14 HRs this year. How about calling him up and sending Evans down?

He hit 2 out last night as well. And one on Friday. He's not on the 40 man roster.

http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?n=Chris%20Aguila&pos=LF&sid=milb&t=p_pbp&pid=430894

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[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Church gave it a ride!

[Elster88]

Church with a lazy pop fly in his first at-bat back. Got to the track but he kinda hit it straight up.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Nice to see Church back in the line up. The team could really use his bat.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Damn close! Wright earned that Gold Glove, screw Chipper.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Great barehand play and throw by Wright, but Kemp just beats it out for a single.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Web gem!!!!