IGT, 7/8, Happy Ollie Day

[duan]

were totally outrageously terrible.

[Guest Kong76]

"And the Mets have scored a run!" -- G. Cohen

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Whoa, what the hell is Reed doing running back to the batter's spot and stepping on the plate? Are you even allowed to do that?

[metirish]

A CPFer sighting? , pretty certain I spy G-Fafif in the front row ....not far from Trump ........Greg sporting a black Mets tee with Mets across the front.

[Theoldmole]

Just turned it on. It's a rainout, right? I'm watching a Mets classic game? They can't actually be winning 3-1.

[nymr83]

Ethier needs to be his last batter no matter what

[Guest Rockin' Doc]

Same old Ollie. He is his own worst enemy. He walks 7 batters and throws only threw 55 strikes in the 108 pitches it took him to get through 5 innings.

Little League pitchers generally throw strikes more reliably than that.

[metirish]

I think this was an encouraging start form Ollie , yeah the walks suck but damn we need this guy. Things are going to get better with him, I believe that.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Rockin' Doc wrote: Same old Ollie. He is his own worst enemy. He walks 7 batters and throws only threw 55 strikes in the 108 pitches it took him to get through 5 innings. Little League pitchers generally throw strikes more reliably than that.

His stuff looked really good though, which is reassuring. But it also plops up down on Square One of the Oliver Perez experience. If he could only put together the control, he'd be a star. He has before. He can again, right?

Probably not. I'm one of the guys biggest fans (in a personal sense, not an organization-building sense), but even I'm done being starry-eyed looking at his potential. He had his best season as a 22 year old. He set his career high for walks at 26. He's been great and awful to every logical extreme and everywhere else in between, and there's hardly a rhyme or reason to it.

So we've still got nothing to expect except erraticism. And somehow it's still better than where we were with him in April. So glad to have you back, Ollie, I guess.

[nymr83]

the mets get only 1 run as castillo and evans cant come through with the bases loaded. evans thought he walked but that pitch was close

[Guest Edgy DC]

Rockin' Doc wrote: Same old Ollie. He is his own worst enemy. He walks 7 batters and throws only threw 55 strikes in the 108 pitches it took him to get through 5 innings. Little League pitchers generally throw strikes more reliably than that.

now, now, Hyperbole Harry.

[nymr83]

Parnell gets out of the jam (of his own making), this game feels slowwww

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's a tough 20 pitches there. Do you let him start the seventh if the Mets don't score? Nine outs is tough to get, but with three righties coming, they may want to hit them with Green next inning.

[Fman99]

WOW!

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Well that's new.

[seawolf17]

[ashie] Daniel Murphy, your 2009 NL Gold Glove winner at first base. [/ashie]

[nymr83]

Murphy with a defensive highlight?

[Guest themetfairy]

Nymr83 wrote: Parnell gets out of the jam (of his own making), this game feels slowwww

The game is two and three-quarters hours long, and we haven't made it to the 7th inning stretch yet. It IS slow!

[Fman99]

Nymr83 wrote: the mets get only 1 run as castillo and evans cant come through with the bases loaded. evans thought he walked but that pitch was close

I really thought it was ball four to Evans.

[seawolf17]

You know, the more they show the Murphy replay, the stupider that little backhanded flip is, though, especially considering they followed it up with a base hit.

That ball trickles away from Parnell, and we're blasting Murphy.

[Guest Edgy DC]

seawolf17 wrote: You know, the more they show the Murphy replay, the stupider that little backhanded flip is, though, especially considering they followed it up with a base hit. That ball trickles away from Parnell, and we're blasting Murphy.

Nonsense, it's not like the runner was the potential tying run we had to keep out of scoring position. We needed the out and the out alone and creativity in getting it is most welcome.

That play turns me on, and I'm a little embarrassed about it. And if I get a few beers in me, I think I'm going to slide on down and try and chat it up.

[nymr83]

i'm not sure, i think that ball had so much hang-time that even if it misses parnell it lands really close by and doesnt advance the runner

[Fman99]

Quiet IGT.

On to the 9th, time for some insurance runs. Which apparently are also runs, this whole scoring thing seems alien to me.

I'm like Tom Cruise plopped down in front of a vagina. Not really sure what I've got here.

[Guest Edgy DC]

See, Churchie even cost us a run by going for the out, and nobody's blasting him.

[nymr83]

i'm glad to manny is leading off the 9th, i'd really hate to see him hit the game-tying shot

[Piggiestomatoes]

Wow, late inning lead. How unusual. Spent the last five days up in NY and was amazed listening to WFAN and how crazed things are -- made CPF sound like a positive affirmation get together. Not really having anything close in Tampa and listening exclusively to satelllite radio, I had forgotten how rediculous the callers are.

Haven't read through the thread but tonight actually looked like Bad Ollie with a fairly positive outcome. Two full months on the DL and they couldn't retrain him to throw strikes.

Ollie is the poster child for million dollar arm (well $36mm) and fifty cent head.

[Fman99]

Frankie v. Manny.

[Gwreck]

No walks.

Manny either makes an out, or hits it a million miles. Gotta throw him a strike.

[Fman99]

Manny wins. Now 5-4... and I predict Frankie gets the next three batters in order.

[Gwreck]

Walk to Blake is just moronic. Is he gonna hit it out too? Try a strike Francisco.