Makeup Game IGT; Mets - Pirates. 8/11

[Guest holychicken]

Doug Mientkiewicz batting third? Ouch.

[Guest AG/DC]

Nick Evans, showing some of that missing sextra-base power.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Evans saying, "Forget about Dan Murphy? I was here first."

[Farmer Ted]

Nick is saying "Teixeira who? No need to go FA shopping this offseason."

[Frayed Knot]

We're doing this 'grab the lead early and sit on it' thing again.

[Fman99]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Molly Beers for everyone!

Woo hoo! Let's pound some Beers.

[G-Fafif]

Ralph just retold the story of Murph and Grant having a shouting match and Murph nearly quitting to replace Curt Gowdy in Boston; and how Mrs. Payson stepped in on Murph's behalf.

Hard to imagine Bob Murphy shouting at anyone.

[G-Fafif]

Pedro Lives!

[Benjamin Grimm]

Nice job by Senor Martinez: 6 innings, 1 earned run.

[G-Fafif]

Pedro done! Just for today. Six strong, save for the walks. Encouraging.

[G-Fafif]

Renew my subscription to CANCEL!

[Benjamin Grimm]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Hey, Cancel cleared the pitcher and extended a rally. I was going to pull him from the game and send him to New Orleans immediately had he not.

Now he helps his cause by tacking on a solo homer.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

KABOM!

He wants no part of New Orleans in August.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

He knows I've turned up the heat.

[nymr83]

Cancel avoids being sent down with a HR?
i still find it hard to justify his presense on the roster

[Guest holychicken]

And once again our BP tries to make this as interesting as possible. has Smith gotten anyone out recently?

[HahnSolo]

The bullpen is not going to make this easy, are they?

[Guest OlerudOwned]

McClouth botches the "Be told to sac-bunt, miss, and homer on the next pitch" play by getting the bunt down.

[HahnSolo]

They sacrificed a guy to 3rd down 3 runs in the 7th inning? I'm sure there's a Randolph joke in there somewhere.

[nymr83]

BOOOOOOOOOOOOO

4 pitch walk to Rivas with this lead is disgusting, throw a strike!

[nymr83]

and it bites them in the ass as the tying run Mientkiewicz is now at 2nd as the tying run

[Frayed Knot]

The only guy the pen has gotten out so far is the one who (inexplicably) made out on purpose.

[nymr83]

the bullpen will cost the Mets a playoff spot. they may have already.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

For the life of me, I can't figure out why Omar has done NOTHING to upgrade the pen.

How can they keep running Feliciano out there?

[Centerfield]

I've seen enough of Feliciano.

[HahnSolo]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: For the life of me, I can't figure out why Omar has done NOTHING to upgrade the pen. How can they keep running Feliciano out there?

Schoenweis is just as bad?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Nymr83 wrote: the bullpen will cost the Mets a playoff spot. they may have already.

That should be "another playoff spot."

[Fman99]

Finally.

[Guest holychicken]

The BP is bad. . .but I wonder how much of it is just because they are tired.

Seriously, it seems like every single game all of our relievers pitch or warm up. It is just getting ridiculous.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Who do we see now? Show for the eighth and Hielman for the ninth?

Would be nice to see some more of Kunz.