IGT 5/25/2011: NYM @ CHI -- Gee, It's Supposed to Rain

[G-Fafif]

If they play...

Jose Reyes � SS
Josh Thole � C
Carlos Beltran � RF
Jason Bay � LF
Daniel Murphy � 1B
Justin Turner � 3B
Jason Pridie � CF
Ruben Tejada � 2B
Dillon Gee � RHP

[metirish]

Keith does some complaining about the weather doesn't he?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Really. He should put on another vest.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

With the fog giving the place a Wuthering High-Fastballs kinda feel, they'll try and start on time.

Coleman's debut against Metsie, so the tops of the innings should go quickly, at least.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Really, I think it's unfair that they didn't let Gee warm up before the game.

[Fman99]

Come. On.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Two walks to load the bases for the least walky club in the league... you can't say the Mets don't find creative ways to lose.

[Frayed Knot]

Ball 12 !!!!

[Gwreck]

Solo Mets fan behind Cubs dugout giving standing O to Berg as he walks off the field:

Cruel or unnecessarily cruel?

[Frayed Knot]

I think the Cubs are now just in stall mode. They're going to keep bringing in lousy pitchers until the rains come.

[ashie62]

Fuck you Pridie.

[Frayed Knot]

Two keys there:
- scoreless inning
- QUICK inning

Now we just need three more of those before le deluge.

[Ceetar]

Gwreck wrote: Solo Mets fan behind Cubs dugout giving standing O to Berg as he walks off the field: Cruel or unnecessarily cruel?

Considering how loud they cheered when the next guy threw a strike, I'd say just Cruel.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The Cubs outfield is uniformly mistress-giving-a-eulogy awkward.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I bet James Russell totally parties.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Station to station to station.

Squeeze with Gee?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: The Cubs outfield is uniformly mistress-giving-a-eulogy awkward.

Like, 12-year-old-telling-his-girlfriend's-dad-a-pornographic-joke awkward.

OMGee gets an RBI.

[Frayed Knot]

I'll trade outs for runs at this point.

Dang, I thought we were going to have another one there.

[Frayed Knot]

OK, we need three quick ones here Dillon.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The infield, however, is a polished Billy Dee Williams.

[Frayed Knot]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: The Cubs outfield is uniformly mistress-giving-a-eulogy awkward. Like, 12-year-old-telling-his-girlfriend's-dad-a-pornographic-joke awkward.

But not quite as awkward as the 16 y/o meeting the girlfriend's dad in the drugstore while trying to buy condoms.

[Fman99]

Yay, it's an official game.

Impressive adjustment made by Gee to recuperate after that first inning.

[Frayed Knot]

In other NL East news:

- Phils tied up with the Reds heading for the 9th. Cincy out-hitting Philly (and Halladay) 12-6 but had to play catch-up just to get it here.



- Nats lose again to the Brews



- Atlanta got a 2R HR from Brooks Conrad (sounds like the guy who squandered your 401K) in the 11th to beat Pittsburgh. Pirates loaded the bases in the home 9th with one out but hit into a GiDP



- Marlins are in San Fran

[soupcan]

Fman99 wrote: Yay, it's an official game. Impressive adjustment made by Gee to recuperate after that first inning.

Cubs have to bat in the bottom of the 6th though, right?

[Frayed Knot]

soupcan wrote: Fman99 wrote: Yay, it's an official game. Impressive adjustment made by Gee to recuperate after that first inning. Cubs have to bat in the bottom of the 6th though, right?

Nope, 5th -- and they done already done that.

[soupcan]

After 5 it's official, I got that but doesn't each team need to have the same number of half innings afterwards?

I'll never understand these official game rules. Sometimes they call it after 5, sometimes they play it over, sometimes they pick it up from where it stopped, sometimes they play til 2 in the morning, sometimes they stop after a certain time. Drives me crazy.

[Frayed Knot]

The only way your scenario would affect things would be if the Mets took the lead in the top of the 6th -- THEN the Cubs would need to bat.
But if the rains came in mid-inning with the Mets already ahead then the inning wouldn't count but, so what, the Mets would win anyway due to the Cubs having their five whacks at it.

[Frayed Knot]

To further complicate things, the only part of the rule they changed recently is that if a 5-plus inning game is tied when the rains come and they can't resume, they will resume it at another date [u:3o7acddu]from that point[/u:3o7acddu]. In the old days (like until two years ago) they would simply wipe out that game and replay the thing in its entirety.

[soupcan]

That helps. Thanks.

[Frayed Knot]

Philly loads the bases in the bottom of the 9th w/one out ... but then fails to score (Domonic Brown - pop out; Polanco - hard ground out) and it's on to the 10th.