IGT, Friday 8/7/09 Mets v. Padres

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

It's actually kind of funny.

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Wouldn't have happened if he still wore cool goggles.

[Piggiestomatoes]

Nice win for the Friars. Tough little bastards. SS who hadn't played above A ball before this year beats the Muts with a GS. Why don't we have anyone like that?

[Guest Edgy DC]

My PotG generator gives Rodriguez a score of -14.63.
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[Frayed Knot]

Frankie's last 13 batters faced:

5 hits (1 1B, 3 2B, 1 HR),
4 walks (1 intentional),
1 error (Cora),
3 retired (1 K, 1 deep FO, 1 shallow PO)

= 7 runs

[Guest Edgy DC]

Now, a sane takeaway from this game is, "Hey, that Stokes guy has sure earned a lookisee. Maybe we'll pull Rodriguez back until he re-asserts himself. Give Stokes a few shots."

Baseball don't work that way no more.

[Guest Kong76]

Seems like just yesterday the season was down the toilet and it's already
hit the streets.

[ashie62]

Went to bed eigth inning feeling good..Nice way to start the morning

Are the Mets better right now than anybody?

Uh, guys, you can shave now

[metirish]

I didn't stay up but from reading this page obviously it was bad. Just watched the lowlights on my MLB app and wow Frankie is getting hammered throwing junk up there.

On the play at the plate to tie this up who made the cutoff throw , Schneider looked like he did all he cold with that throw.

[Frayed Knot]

="metirish"]On the play at the plate to tie this up who made the cutoff throw , Schneider looked like he did all he cold with that throw.

The newly called-up and just-in-for-defense Andy Handy is your culprit. He got rid of it quickly and the throw was hard - but putting it on the 1st-base side of the line is the worst thing you can do there, If anything err to the 3rd base side. Worst that happens there is the catcher gets killed.

And maybe I'm just imagining things but it seems that just about all our relay throws this year have been just off enough to prevent a bunch of outs. They're either in-between bounces, or on the wrong side, or whatever. That's why I thought it was a stupid move to send that big lug home - a better throw has him dead and there were no outs at the time. Of course when your closer faces 5 guys and retires none of them it kind of doesn't matter.

[MFS62]

On the pitch just before the slam, the batter was struck out. The replay showed the pitch got at least a few inches of the outside corner. But the ump called ball three.
Why?
I blame Schneider.
Instead of keeping his glove steady and "framing the pitch" for the ump, he caught the pitch and moved his mitt a few inches toward the center of the plate. That's called "pulling the pitch" and is a ploy catchers have used for ages to try to make umps think a pitch off the plate was really a strike.
In this case, I think the ump felt that Schneider was trying to fool him, and called it a ball without really seeing that the pitch was a strike.
Called strike three and who knows what the outcome is?

Later

[Guest Kong76]

I'm watching SNY HD Encore (the last three innings) and the bottom is about
to fall out. I think they need to change the name of the show dependent on
what they are replaying for jeebusake.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I blame the ump when the ump blows a call.

[Guest Kong76]

The replay shows didn't do that ending justice in just how craptacular that
was. That last AB was painful even knowing what was going to happen.