IGT, May 1: Mets @ Phils

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Just as I suspected, Delgado is not in the starting lineup. Neither is Castillo or Castro.

Reyes, ss
Cora, 2b
Murphy, lf
Beltran, cf
Wright, 3b
Church, rf
Tatis, 1b
Santos, c
Pelfrey, rhp

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm going to come out and advocate for some retroactive DL placements. Short benches suck.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'll renew my call for the 27-man roster.

Hopefully Delgado and/or Castillo will at least be available to pinch hit.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Chan Ho Park pitching for the bad guys.

Two years ago yesterday!

[nymr83]

]Reyes, ss Cora, 2b Murphy, lf Beltran, cf Wright, 3b Church, rf Tatis, 1b Santos, c Pelfrey, rhp

Cora shouldnt be batting 2nd, drop him down between tatis and santos and move everyone else up a spot.

[metirish]

Is Delgado on the DL or " day to day" and in a weeks time when he is still not right he then will go on the DL.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Nymr83 wrote: ]Reyes, ss Cora, 2b Murphy, lf Beltran, cf Wright, 3b Church, rf Tatis, 1b Santos, c Pelfrey, rhp Cora shouldnt be batting 2nd, drop him down between tatis and santos and move everyone else up a spot.

I don't disagree strongly, but you said the same thing the other day yet Cora went out and had a very good day at the plate.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: ="Nymr83"] ]Reyes, ss Cora, 2b Murphy, lf Beltran, cf Wright, 3b Church, rf Tatis, 1b Santos, c Pelfrey, rhp Cora shouldnt be batting 2nd, drop him down between tatis and santos and move everyone else up a spot. I don't disagree strongly, but you said the same thing the other day yet Cora went out and had a very good day at the plate.

This Cora-batting-second business absolutely REEKS of Willie-move.

[batmagadanleadoff]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: ="Nymr83"] ]Reyes, ss Cora, 2b Murphy, lf Beltran, cf Wright, 3b Church, rf Tatis, 1b Santos, c Pelfrey, rhp Cora shouldnt be batting 2nd, drop him down between tatis and santos and move everyone else up a spot. I don't disagree strongly, but you said the same thing the other day yet Cora went out and had a very good day at the plate.

... which makes it likelier than usual that Cora will suck today. Not a good thing because Cora usually sucks, anyway.

[bmfc1]

The writers are tweeting that Delgado might go on the DL. I looked at the Buffalo roster to see who might get called up. Yeesh--no wonder they are 2-16. Nick Evans is hitting .102 (3 HR out of his 6 hits).

http://buffalo.bisons.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=t_ibp&cid=422&stn=true&sid=t422

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Cora, sucking as assured, draws a walk and scores on a HR from Muffy. 2-0!

[Zvon]

[batmagadanleadoff]

So what are the odds Cora gets on base in his next at-bat, being that he walked his first time up? He's due for some out-making.

[Zvon]

We should have scored more here in the 1st.
Chan Ho Park looked like he wanted to be anywhere but Citizens Band Park.
Then he gets the DP from Church.
Dagnabbitt.

I'll Take the 2.

Lets see some pitching Pelf.

[Elster88]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: So what are the odds Cora gets on base in his next at-bat, being that he walked his first time up? He's due for some out-making.

That's not how probability works.

[Zvon]

Mets plate two on sac flys, including one that showed Pelf Power�

4-0 Mets.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Lets build that picket fence.

Phils have good outfielders.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Beltran to me looks impossibly slow, Jeez.

[Zvon]

See Beltran?...sliding isn't THAT dangerous.

Nice tag by Carlos on a short fly to right makes it 5-0.

[Zvon]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Beltran to me looks impossibly slow, Jeez.

Thats cuz he's so fast.
Its just he looks slow to the human eye.

[Gwreck]

I thought Beltran looked slow there too. But I was glad to see him using proper sliding form.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I know he's one of those guys who doesn;t appear like he's moving hard when he's moving a lot, but watch that replay and see how long it takes him to really accelerate. His 0-to-60 looked sluggish, let;s put it that way.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Nice to see Chan Ho hasn't changed much.

[Zvon]

Gotta get out of this Pelf.

[Gwreck]

Tough spot with Ibanez up and bases loaded. If Pelfrey wants to put some guys on, ok, but man up and get the out here, thanks.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

If it was Burrell he'd have hit it over the fence.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Top of the order coming up. Gotta keep scoring.

[Zvon]

A frakin broken bat single plates 2.

I was just jokin about Beltran. He always looks slow as shit to me...or, not in high gear. Like he feels 100% is not needed. Very rarely do I think he's goin all out, in the field and on the bases.

Look at that.
The runner goes and Feliz hits it in the vacated hole.
ugh.

[Zvon]

Yep.
Gotta answer right back.


I get the Phils feed here.
I miss hearing Harry.

[Guest Kong76]

Re: Beltran running home, I thought at the time to myself, "why isn't he in
more of a hurry?" He's lost a step a little, I don't think he's slow yet. It's like
in the outfield, he seems to know how fast and how much energy to use to
get where he has to be to get whatever done. I'm not forgetting the nice
bounce so otherwise he mighta been out. Ahh, never mind.