IGT - Mets v. Reds (Santana v. Cueto 7/17)

[Centerfield]

I feel like it's been a year since our last game. How much longer until first pitch?

Santana (8-7, 2.84 ERA) versus CIN: Cueto (7-9, 4.67 ERA).

Schedule says Philly is off tonight, meaning a win puts us in a first place tie.

It occurs to me that I know nothing about my enemy.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Phillies resume tomorrow with a series against the Marlins.

It would be nice if they could both lose all three games, but I'm not sure that's possible.

Although I don't want to see the Marlins win three games in a row, we've got to root for them over the Phillies, who are a greater threat to our playoff hopes.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Centerfield wrote: It occurs to me that I know nothing about my enemy.

Working on it...

[Gwreck]

New York Mets
Reyes SS
Chavez RF
Wright 3B
Beltran CF
Easley 2B
Delgado 1B
Tatis LF
Schneider C
Santana P

Cincinnati Reds
Jay Bruce CF
Jeff Keppinger SS
Ken Griffey Jr. RF
Brandon Phillips 2B
Adam Dunn LF
Edwin Encarnacion 3B
Joey Votto 1B
David Ross C
Johnny Cueto P

[TransMonk]

Reyes K
Chavez K
Wright K

Not a great start.

[TransMonk]

Delgado CREAMS one out of the stadium.

KABOOM! 2-0 Good Guys.

[TransMonk]

Santana gives it right back-to-back.

[Frayed Knot]

Is it just my imagination (running away with me) or does Santana seem have a bunch of these "give back" innings this year?
Y'know, the kind where he allows them to score immediately after being given a lead.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Well, that was probably Santana's worst inning as a Met.

Let's hope they can overcome this. They have some doin' to do.

[metirish]

Frayed Knot wrote: Is it just my imagination (running away with me) or does Santana seem have a bunch of these "give back" innings this year? Y'know, the kind where he allows them to score immediately after being given a lead.

It sure seems that way with Johan , it's like I was not surprised to see him cough it back up.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cueto's doing some coughing too.

Mets quickly get 2 back, now trail 5-4.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Geez, Delgado is killing the ball. Just a single, and prolly shoulda been an out, but he hit it pretty darn hard.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

TATiS!!

Santana gets an L of the board

[Guest AG/DC]

Pulled him one batter too late, Dustuh.

[TransMonk]

metirish wrote: ="Frayed Knot"]Is it just my imagination (running away with me) or does Santana seem have a bunch of these "give back" innings this year? Y'know, the kind where he allows them to score immediately after being given a lead**. It sure seems that way with Johan , it's like I was not surprised to see him cough it back up.

By my math, and this is just me pulling numbers while watching the game - so unofficial, Johan has gone to the mound in 31 innings where the Mets have scored runs in the previous half inning. He has allowed runs in 13 of those 31 innings:

March 31st vs. Marlins - Mets score 6 in the top of the 4th, Santana gives up 2 in the bottom of the 4th

April 12th vs. Brewers - Mets score 2 in the bottom of the 1st, Santana gives up 1 in the top of the 2nd

April 18th vs. Philly - Mets score 3 in the top of the 8th, Santana gives up 3 in the bottom of the 8th

May 4th vs. Arizona - Mets score 1 in the top of the 4th, Santana gives up 1 in the bottom of the 4th

May 10th vs. Reds = Mets score 3 in the bottom of the 3rd, Santana gives up 1 in the top of the 4th & Mets score 2 in the bottom of the 5th, Santana gives up 2 in the top of the 6th

May 17th vs. the Yankees - Mets score 2 in the top of the 7th, Santana gives up 1 in the bottom of the 7th

May 22nd vs. Braves - Mets score 2 in the top of the 2nd, Santana gives up 1 in the bottom of the 2nd

May 27th vs. Marlins - Mets score 3 in the bottom of the 1st, Santana gives up 1 in the top of the 2nd & Mets score 1 in the bottom of the 5th, Santana gives up 1 in the top of the 6th

June 6th vs. San Diego - Mets score 1 in the top of the 6th, Santana gives up 2 in the bottom of the 6th

June 17th vs. Angels - Mets score 1 in the top of the 1st, Santana gives up 3 in the bottom of the 1st

July 17th vs. Reds - Mets score 2 in the top of the 4th, Santana gives up 5 in the bottom of the 4th

The Mets scored 29 runs in the above instances and Johan gave 24 back the very next half inning.

Run support my ass.

**These were not necessarily situations where the Mets took the lead, only when they scored.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

That's pretty shoddy. I'd say kinda freaky too, prolly.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Gary catches on to my Feliciano research as he whiffs Bruce on 3 pitches.

[TransMonk]

I've got the Reds broadcast feed...and I don't hate 'em. Jeff Brantley (who I disliked when he was at ESPN) and some other guy do a pretty good job for an FSN crew.

[Guest AG/DC]

Hey, Marlon's back.

And he's hittin'.

Hello, Mr. Mendoza!

[Guest AG/DC]

Phils announcers are speculating that the Mets might pick up Sexson.

The poor guys --- 100% of their viewers know that he's become a Yankee.

[TransMonk]

AG/DC wrote: Phils [Reds] announcers are speculating that the Mets might pick up Sexson. The poor guys --- 100% of their viewers know that he's become a Yankee.

Yup...I take back what I said...these guys should surf the net before a July game if their gonna talk about possible trades.

[Guest AG/DC]

And I should get my enemies straight.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Mets kinda got screwed on getting rest over the break. They had a late Sunday game when everyone else had a day game, and they're playing tonight, one of only four games, I think.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I consider that fortunate!

Really fortunate if The Show can extract us from this

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

The Mets were on a roll. Hopefully the shorter break will keep them from losing their momentum.

[soupcan]

Boo.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Ah, fuck me. There were 2 out, nobody on.

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

That's a potential momentum crusher.

[TransMonk]

Fuck.

[Frayed Knot]

8 rums given up, 6 of them w/2 outs.