IGT 6/7/11 Mets! Brewers! The Thriller at Miller!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I'm lightly amazed that the Jose thing and the near-misses didn't come back to bite 'em in the tuchus.

Has Monk's juju reversed the bullpen curse?

[Guest Edgy DC]

TransMonk
Put it in the books. Jose, jose, jose. Too much sun today.

[TransMonk]

Thanks to everyone who followed on Twitter last night. Admittedly, I'm not a very good tweeter.

The game was hot, hot, hot! The temperature while tailgating got up to 102 degrees. It was still 95 according to my phone at game time. We had great seats, but also the most obnoxious drunk sitting next to me at field level. By the third time he spilt beer on me (1.5 innings in), we moved to higher ground looking for a breeze.

I would have really enjoyed the low scoring pitcher's duel watching the game at home on my computer...but with the heat, the game was really rather tough to watch until the Fielder HR in the 6th. Obviously, the Metly scoring in the 7th was awesome and watching the bullpen hold the one run lead was great.

There were very few Mets fans at the game. The paid attendance was around 27,000, IIRC. I'm on a 3 game winning streak for in-person Mets games I've attended. I'll look to continue that on Thursday. Hopefully, we're going for the sweep rather than the rubber game.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Men in the Brewer booth went on and on about what a pleasant evening it was in Milwaukee.

[TransMonk]

That booth must have had AC. The record-setting heat was the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's lead story this morning.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/123449089.html

It's supposed to be hot again today, but tomorrow, high temps are supposed to fall by 30 degrees and rain is supposed to fall.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Didn't Damion Easley once hit an inside the park HR at Miller Field by hitting virtually the same spot on the outfield wall where Reyes' triple landed?

I was mightily impressed with Justin Turner's first inning walk. With two strikes, Turner fouled off four pitches, and appeared to eventually wear down the opposing pitcher. It seemed to me that Turner purposely softened his swing with the express intention of fouling off pitcher's pitches that weren't hittable with the good part of the bat, yet too close too take with two strikes.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Twas a good at-bat. Marcum also pitched a passively effective game, seeming to prefer allowing walks to hits.

[duan]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Every guy who comes to the plate I mentally scan for his potential to have been or be a Met killer. Kotsay? I can see it, but somehow more concerned that Craig Counsell's on deck.

Mark Kotsay and Craig Counsell are two guys who I don't know which is which.

[Guest Edgy DC]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Twas a good at-bat. Marcum also pitched a passively effective game, seeming to prefer allowing walks to hits.

Yeah, he was a 2010 Met yesterday. He seemed to pitch around the whole lineup and I'm glad we had just enough offense to catch up to him. That shit shouldn't fly.

[Frayed Knot]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: I was mightily impressed with Justin Turner's first inning walk. With two strikes, Turner fouled off four pitches, and appeared to eventually wear down the opposing pitcher. It seemed to me that Turner purposely softened his swing with the express intention of fouling off pitcher's pitches that weren't hittable with the good part of the bat, yet too close too take with two strikes.

Def a nice AB after Reyes had popped out on the first pitch (time to trade the mental midget obviously).
That AB (and a few others like it) plus Marcum's aforementioned passive aversion to hits helped drive him out after six innings despite pitching 2-hit ball at the time. That got us into their bullpen which in turn got us to the win.

[Gwreck]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Books! Ben Grimm for IGTMVP!

Somewhere, Centerfield and his 7.2 WARP* cries.


*Wins above replacement poster

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

CF is like the Chris Young of IGTs, a little early success, then disappeared. I'm riding Grimm like Manuel rode Fernando Nieve.