IGT 7/4/2011: NYM @ LAD -- Unsightly Caps All Around

[Guest Edgy DC]

Finally made Loney chase a breaking pitch.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Paulino's beard looking very diabolical.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I think I'll bet about 40 Craners that Beato is coming in.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I lose! It's Boy Scout Bobby!

[Guest Edgy DC]

If he doesn't have a big arc-ing Burt Reynolds mustache, he's not Don Mattingly, so stop telling me he is.

[Piggiestomatoes]

He's hit 101 mph and it looks effortless. Go Young Bobby!

[metirish]

Keep looking Furcal cos you ain't catching that 101mph heat.

[metirish]

Angel pulls one down the third base line this time for a double.

[metirish]

Damn Turner hit agin....

[Piggiestomatoes]

You've got to be able to get that run in. Be big again Bay.

[metirish]

Was there a time this season when the Mets never got two out hits?, I ask because all they seem to do lately is get two out hits..

[Gwreck]

Mets lead the NL in 2-out runs: things I learned on the SNY broadcast.

Where was this production in 07-08-09??

[metirish]

170 two out hits to lead NL as Gwreck says...wow

[Guest Edgy DC]

It looks like the Mets have three guys they trust as set-up men now, too. Three plus if you count their tentative one-bater trust of the Byrd.

Two smutout innings by Parnell. Breath of freshness.

[Gwreck]

Great job by Parnell. I figured we were going to get Isringhausen for the 8th but Terry surprised me.

[Piggiestomatoes]

Damn, Parnell was something tonight! Let's see what we get from Frankie.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

An escape-reversal (two points!) on the usual we've-never-seen-this-guy-offensive-lockdown.

Copious two-out runs.

Two innings from Parnell. (That they were dominating was a bonus.)

Barring an epic ninth-inning collapse, this may be my most pleasant West-coast game since 2006.

[metirish]

Damn what a curve-ball from K-Rod, not sure if it was the camera angle but you could see it buckling loney all the way.

[Gwreck]

Books

[Piggiestomatoes]

Another nice bender. Other than the 2B, looking good, Frankie. Happy recap...west coast style!

[Guest Edgy DC]

Made it before 12 too. Time for some brief celebratory throwing down in the DJ room.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Really, outside of a feckless first two times through the order (attribute it to cross country blues, if you will), it was a pretty solid game, outside of a pair of poor pitch choices to Loney.

This really was the better team winning. The Mets just had more bullets. the Dodgers are faking it at too many positions: catcher, third, short, and left. Loney's a key bat, and he isn't even Daniel Murphy over at first.

[G-Fafif]

Turns out Caps was quite sightly.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's funny. As a two-time Tommy Johnian, and knocked out by soreness for an extended period in 2010, he's on the tightest pitch count on the team. He's pitched beyond the sixth twice all year, and yet he gets a decision every time out. If he leads with a lead, his team holds it for three innings. If he leaves with a defecit, his team fails to overcome it for three innings.

Seventeen starts, but only two no-decisions. Chris Young should be so fortunate.

[Ceetar]

Yesterday I came across an old Rheingold advertisement display that used to hang in a deli in Brooklyn. "Official sponsor of the '69 World Series Mets" or some such. also had two '69 WS ticket stubs, a single dominican peso, and a fake nixon dollar protesting Vietnam or some such. Why those things were taped to this display, we'll never know.

I don't know why I'm teasing this here besides that I had no time yesterday to properly photograph and post about it.