Late Night With Terry Collins: Mets @ San Diego 8/15 igt

[Frayed Knot]

Amazing how our offense knocks out starting pitchers (literally) in mid game and then suddenly shuts down as the supposedly soft middle relievers come in.
That's twice in a row now.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Nice Ike impression from YayRadley there.

I'm not certain, but I think the "kid" going for the same foul ball in the stands kicked at a prone Duda to try and dislodge that from his glove.

[Frayed Knot]

They're allowed to ground into DPs too, right?




I thought Tejada was going to "Ike" Duda's ankle there.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Same here. Yikes.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Bunty McBuntperson up at the plate.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, let's get the leadoff guy on in two straight innings only to dig the next batter into a 2-strike call without even swinging the bat.

[Guest Edgy DC]

But we come back and get the walk from on-base addict Josh Thole.

Now this is a bunting situation.

[Frayed Knot]

With Tejada, yes it is.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Best bunt in a week.

[Frayed Knot]

Gotta get this through the drawn-in infield.

[Frayed Knot]

Well, not quite ... but it worked anyway.
Woulda been nice if Thole read that better.

[Guest Edgy DC]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Gary is all "What does Dickey have to do to get a win?" The Mets are not about Dickey!

Not about Isringhausen either.

[stevejrogers]

3 outs from 300

Career Leaders & Records for Saves
+ - Indicates Hall of Famer. Bold indicates active player. Blue indicates former Met
Rank Player (age) Saves Throws
1. Trevor Hoffman 601 R
2. Mariano Rivera (41) 589 R
3. Lee Smith 478 R
4. John Franco 424 L
5. Billy Wagner 422 L
6. Dennis Eckersley+ 390 R
7. Jeff Reardon 367 R
8. Troy Percival 358 R
9. Randy Myers 347 L
10. Rollie Fingers+ 341 R
11. John Wetteland 330 R
12. Roberto Hernandez 326 R
13. Jose Mesa 321 R
14. Todd Jones 319 R
15. Rick Aguilera 318 R
16. Robb Nen 314 R
17. Francisco Cordero (36) 313 R
18. Tom Henke 311 R
19. Rich Gossage+ 310 R
20. Jeff Montgomery 304 R
21. Doug Jones 303 R
22. Bruce Sutter+ 300 R
23. Jason Isringhausen (38) 299 R

KRod actually is # 24 with 291.

Wagner and Franco are the only two, so far, to do it as a Met.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Not about Isringhausen.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

WHYWHYWHY pitch around Orlando Hudson again?

[stevejrogers]

Also interesting, Rollie and Sutter are the only ones of that list to not play in the bigs since 1990.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Definitely NOT about Fingers or Sutter.

Two down.

[Frayed Knot]

Oh I hope that play doesn't burn us.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Whuck!

[Frayed Knot]

Fuck the 300th - the 5-game losing streak is over!!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Apparently, this IS all about Isringhausen.

[stevejrogers]

I'm sorry, I thought the idea of having an "Ace" or at least a solid starting rotation was able to get them to rack up the wins.

I mean, then why did Philly go out and assemble one of the more historic ones?

Sure it's about the TEAM, but at the end of the day, things are a lot better when the starters have more wins than relievers do.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Don't know what you're talking about there. at all. But there's plenty of time to talk about saves after getting them. Until then, there's a game on the line.

[Fman99]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: bmfc1 wrote: "6-3" is my nickname for Bay because that seems to be the result of half of his ABs. I was following.

So was I. But I do enjoy an unnecessary explanation.

[bmfc1]

Glad you got it.

[TransMonk]

Finally, the headline we dreamed of back in 1995:

Mets Win! Izzy gets 300th!

Never would have guessed it would be saves way back then...or that 292 of them would be with other teams.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I was never more sure of anything in my life than to wake up to a Mets loss this morning. So much so in fact, I misread the Schaefer thread as a 5-4 loss.

So good on the Mets for this one. Wayne's call of the final play (listen on Mets.com) was typically rotten.

[Guest Edgy DC]

It's like he's always so careful to make every part of the play part of his call, that he can fall 10 seconds behind the action. The go-ahead run scoring was incidental to his awkward verbal wrestling over Thole getting caught off second.

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I was never more sure of anything in my life than to wake up to a Mets loss this morning. So much so in fact, I misread the Schaefer thread as a 5-4 loss. So good on the Mets for this one. Wayne's call of the final play (listen on Mets.com) was typically rotten.

WFAN played it this morning, i believe it was something like "groundball to the Shortstop, who bobbles it, and Tejada picks it up and throws to first, in time!"

(Tejada seems to bobble a billion balls..)

[ashie62]

Ceetar wrote: John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I was never more sure of anything in my life than to wake up to a Mets loss this morning. So much so in fact, I misread the Schaefer thread as a 5-4 loss. So good on the Mets for this one. Wayne's call of the final play (listen on Mets.com) was typically rotten. WFAN played it this morning, i believe it was something like "groundball to the Shortstop, who bobbles it, and Tejada picks it up and throws to first, in time!" (Tejada seems to bobble a billion balls..)

Hopefully his own!