IGT 8/8/11 Padres @ Mets

[Frayed Knot]

Rockin' Doc wrote: Sweet! Heath Bell helps the Mets along with a wild pitch. Zippity Duda delivers.

Great read by runners Turner & Wright on that not-so-far-away WP.
Pridie got a bit lucky earlier in the inning advancing on the Pagan K/WP (if he was out that - and he almost was - he deserved a whipping) but the second one was key.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Bell had a wicked curve dropping down to the ankles, but smartly or fortunately, the Mets let them pass (except for Pagan) for wild pitches. He got some hittable fastballs by some guys, but kept returning to the hammer with disastrous results.

[Ceetar]

I'm looking forward to themetfairy's breakdown of the Acela Club's dessert.

[Fman99]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Well, that was a pleasant way to end the evening.

America, FUCK YEAH

[G-Fafif]

From the Dept. of the Obvious: That kicked ass.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Awsome. Gave me the powa to make it back over the Williamsburg bridge tonite (where I died and took a bus home).

Go Mets!

[Piggiestomatoes]

Was looking to throw something through the TV when they went down 8-4. What a tremendous win. Go Manchild!

[Ceetar]

PiggiesTomatoes wrote: Was looking to throw something through the TV when they went down 8-4. What a tremendous win. Go Manchild!

whatever you threw, the Mets would've hit.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

After that postgame interview-- and, preceding it, many more like it-- I move that we adopt the nickname "Yay Radley" for young Mr. Duda.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

And really, we oughta release Igarashi already.

I mean, thanks for trying and all.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Probably no releases imminent with rosters expanding in three weeks. Pelfrey and Beato made their own trouble. I'd hate to bring it all down on the guy who came in with runners on base. Right now, the best candidates to knock him out are Thayer and John Lujan, and it's not like there's a burning need to look at either of those two. He won't be displaced until after the season at the earliest, I think.

Sorry to hear that Taylor Buchholz isn't expected back this season.

[Guest themetfairy]

We were in the house tonight to celebrate MK's birthday. D-Dad participated in the between-inning trivia contest and was given a $200 Acela Club gift certificate with the caveat that it had to be used tonight and it had to be used by the 5th inning - double desserts for MK and his friends.

That and the amazin' come from behind victory made this a very happy birthday indeed!

[Guest Edgy DC]

I guess it's good that you had a crowd. What kind of prices does the A Club have that a family is expected to drop $200 on a moment's notice? I guess the only other plans are (1) to make fast friends with another party, or (2) get profoundly loaded.

Anyways, I'm not saying this is an eponymous game (I didn't even give Duda my PotG vote) but it's quite the historical hashmark.

Duda came off as quite the mumbling introvert on the post-game interview.

[Guest themetfairy]

I guess we could have gotten a bunch of drinks or a bottle of champagne or something like that.

We weren't going to have a second full dinner, that's for sure!

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: I guess it's good that you had a crowd. What kind of prices does the A Club have that a family is expected to drop $200 on a moment's notice? I guess the only other plans are (1) to make fast friends with another party, or (2) get profoundly loaded. Anyways, I'm not saying this is an eponymous game (I didn't even give Duda my PotG vote) but it's quite the historical hashmark. Duda came off as quite the mumbling introvert on the post-game interview.

Yeah, Duda definite didn't seem the prototypical baseballer.

that $200 is ridiculous. I always boggle when they announce that. But maybe the idea is that you do drag a ton of people there and they 'experience' the Acela Club and want to go back? I mean, it is a cool place, it's just not a place I'm looking to be during a baseball game.

[Ceetar]

page was too big for my scanner, but here: it's $45 for dinner. I think you can an entree and all the market table stuff. But I don't know, I haven't eaten there, just toured it.

[MFS62]

What kind of miracle can a burger perform for $45?

Later

[Guest Edgy DC]

Overlooked at the end, but David Wright almost broke the snoozing home plate umpire's leg with a takeout slide.

[Gwreck]

Not printed on that menu: it's another $10/person if you want a table with a view of the field

[Guest themetfairy]

page was too big for my scanner, but here: it's $45 for dinner. I think you can an entree and all the market table stuff. But I don't know, I haven't eaten there, just toured it.

Yes - one entree and the market table stuff (which is quite good).

The irony of the evening was that D-Dad won his gift card after we took MK and his friends there for a big birthday dinner. We had actually contemplated dessert, but passed on it (it's not included along with the dinner). But with $200 in house money, it was dessert time!

But seriously - whom could it hurt to let people use the prize on another day? Unless they just want to use it during their non-prime time. Which is tough - the place opens at 6:00 (making it virtually impossible to complete a meal before first pitch) and closes before the game is over (wasn't the old Diamond Club open after games? Why shouldn't this be as well?).

[dgwphotography]

Ceetar wrote: from the mouths of babes... My 13-year old, after Wright's homer: Have you noticed that Wright always homers when they're already ahead, and not when they're behind? stop letting him listen to WFAN.

Her, and she doesn't listen to WFAN

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=17805671&c_id=nym

Here's a video of Wright's HR (I think). The guy in the blue shirt where the ball lands is my friend Paul, the gray haired guy in the Mets 69 shirt who catches the ball is his dad.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Paul owes the Mets his allegiance.

I tell you, the play of the game was Wright catching that foul pop. He had every reason to quit on that, and didn't.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Edgy DC wrote: Paul owes the Mets his allegiance. I tell you, the play of the game was Wright catching that foul pop. He had every reason to quit on that, and didn't.

That play, and the first-pitch DP to the previous batter were key. Bell had just gotten up to warm after Baxter's hit, so a fast inning could only help our cause, I was thinking.

[HahnSolo]

dgwphotography wrote: dgwphotography wrote: from the mouths of babes... My 13-year old, after Wright's homer: Have you noticed that Wright always homers when they're already ahead, and not when they're behind? stop letting him listen to WFAN. Her, and she doesn't listen to WFAN

Sugarpants� HRs this year

April 2 � Mets trail 2-0. fifth inning, solo shot. Go on to win 6-4.
April 11 � Mets trail 7-4. eighth inning, solo shot. Go on to lose 7-6
April 21 � Mets lead 1-0. fourth inning, solo shot. Go on to win 9-1.
April 24 � Scoreless. First inning, 2-run shot. Go on to win 8-4.
April 24 � Mets lead 6-1. Fourth inning, solo shot. Go on to win 8-4.
May 13 � Mets trail 4-3. eighth inning, 2-run shot. Go on to win 6-4.
July 24 � Mets trail 3-2. seventh inning, 2-run shot. Go on to lose 5-4.
July 27 � Mets lead 5-1. seventh inning, 3-run shot. Go on to win 8-2.
August 8 � Mets lead 2-1. third inning, 2-run shot. Go on to win 9-8.


So he really only has two "piling it on" home runs, on April 24 and July 27.

[seawolf17]

I clicked the TV off when the ball hit the ground behind Pagan. I'm a bad fan.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Our late-starting in-game-thread failed to pause and note Duda's debut as a cleanup hitter. While one should certainly hope that Duda has a future there, and the Mets so need him, Collins had done a good job of not forcing the issue --- inserting all sorts of goofy alternative solutions (Murphy, Hairston, Paulino) before trying the big guy.

Kudos to Terry for his restraint, and now that a combination of serious attrition and Duda finding his comfort zone has made the assignment almost unavoidable, wouldn't you know it, but the big lug came through. Well played.

Too bad there's a lefty going tonight, which means he'll either be picking splinters or find himself in the back end of the lineup?

Speaking of his lefty bat, Baxter's lefthandeness makes him a little more redundant with Duda, Pridie, Harris and such than Evans was, doesn't it? They pretty much have to start Duda against the lefty tonight, don't they?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

He can start Evans at 1B and Bay-Pagan-Hairy in the outfield if he wants. The problem with that OF is Pagan vs. the lefty, I wonder if he still leads off.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Oh, Evans is still here. Then never mind.

(Of course he is. Two slots opened up and two Mets were added. I even saw him in the dugout last night.)

[soupcan]

seawolf17 wrote: I clicked the TV off when the ball hit the ground behind Pagan. I'm a bad fan.

Yeah, me too...and that's stupid because this team really has been doing this comeback thing all year.

We should know better.