IGT 6/10/2011 Mets @ Pirates Gee v. Morton

[ashie62]

Two six game winners go at it with the spirit of Warhola in the air..





And Elisha Cuthbert just looks..well...Hot..

[Benjamin Grimm]

Careful... that's Jack Bauer's daughter!

[metirish]

This IGT has certainly started in a strong manner.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Careful... that's Jack Bauer's daughter!

And Ranger Sean Avery's sloppy seconds!

[Ceetar]

Gee is the only undefeated pitcher in the league.

[metirish]

Eight years ago today in Texas?

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/25876/on-eighth-anniversary-reyes-recalls-debut

[TransMonk]

Jose Reyes, SS
Justin Turner, 3B
Carlos Beltran, RF
Daniel Murphy, 1B
Angel Pagan, CF
Lucas Duda, LF
Josh Thole, C
Ruben Tejada, 2B
Dillon Gee, P

[Frayed Knot]

I was hoping to know my Pirates a little better even though we just played them recently ... but it doesn't look like that's going to happen.

So some quickie things you need to know about this weekend's series with the Buccos

- They're one game off in their quest for their first .500 mark in two decades (30-31) and a half-game ahead of us.

- it's a 4-game "wrap-around" series ending on Monday. All games except Sunday are at night.

- Friday: Gee vs Morton;
Saturday: Dickey vs McDonald
Sunday: Capuano vs Corriera
Monday: Pelfrey vs Maholm

- Now that Chris Snyder is sked to undergo back surgery, their pre-season 1st, 2nd, & 3rd string catchers are all out injured leaving them with the likes of Dusty Brown (31 ML ABs - we saw him in the last series) and yesterday's call-up Wyatt Toregas (51 ML ABs w/Cleveland in 2009). Run wild boys!!

- They played 2 12-inning games this past week taxing their bullpen, although a strong performance by Jeff Karstens in a losing effort vs Arizona last night helped somewhat.

- Jose Tabata has mostly been leading off since Andrew McCutcheon was moved to the 3-slot

- 3Bman Pedro Alvarez is still on the DL. Josh Harrison (33 ML ABs) has been doing most of the filling in and has at least one hit in every ML game he's started except one. OK he's only started 8 (he got his first ML hit at Citi) but still ...

[Guest OlerudOwned]

Morton brought the Halladay windup but forgot the Halladay control so far.

[G-Fafif]

Jose back on track, snapping his interminable 0-for-7 slump.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Tag-and-toss DP : Tejada :: dugout-railing-flip-catch : Ike ?

[ashie62]

DOO-DAH!

[ashie62]

THO-LE!

[ashie62]

Warhola says clean the bases guys!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

TURNER!!!!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

That was a pretty good inning!

[ashie62]

Now Jose is going..

KABOOM!

[ashie62]

Dillon Gee 7-0? Nice!

[metirish]

I love this team , no matter who goes out injured or who's not hitting they play hard and look like a team, fun game for JCL and family to be at.

[Fman99]

Fun to watch when you're hitting and pitching like this.

[metirish]

Fman99 wrote: Fun to watch when you're hitting and pitching like this.

of course , it's all subject to change.

[ashie62]

Fman99 wrote: Fun to watch when you're hitting and pitching like this.

Who pissed in your vodka?

[metirish]

Ashie62 wrote: Fman99 wrote: Fun to watch when you're hitting and pitching like this. Who pissed in your vodka?

Fman is not like that , probably sees me complaining a lot on twitter when the Mets are garbage.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Dillon Gee: potential All-Star?

[Fman99]

Put it in the books!

[ashie62]

books

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

In the books!!!! Good win!

[Frayed Knot]

Certainly helped that Pitt looked awful. Diaz showed why his best position is hitter.
But Gee was legitimately good, particularly after starting the game with 3 consecutive hits. Settled down right after that just like he did when he skunked Pitt last time after serving up an early 2R HR to Snyder.
Plus the bats got enough real hits in amongst the dunks and the gifts and the goofs to make it a good night. I almost forgot what it was like to gets hits from the leftfielder.




Oh, and the Cubs just scored five times in the 8th to close the Phils 7-0 lead down to 7-5.

[Ceetar]

Everyone but Gee with a hit. Reyes with three, but he's Reyes, so you know..that's a slow day.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Boo-yah from Pittsburgh, baby.