IGT - Braves @ Mets -- Fri Aug 26

[Frayed Knot]

I/we are on a one-game winning streak so it's clear there's no stopping this momentum.
Well, OK, maybe Tim Hudson can stop it seeing as how he's 8-1 w/a sub-2.00 ERA over his last 12 starts including holding us to one 1st-inning run over 8 innings the last time we faced him ... but hey, that was three weeks ago, practically another lifetime.
He faces Chris Capuano who is ... ummm, fresh off a pinch-running appearance.

It's the calm before the storm game - and one in which viewers can count the number of times Keith makes some sort of comment about how Irene is going to affect his cross-LI driving and/or patio furniture.

[Ceetar]

yes, if nothing else Keith's hurricane talk will be entertaining tonight and Sunday if they play.

[Frayed Knot]

If we win tonight we sweep the series!!!!

[bmfc1]

METS:
1. Angel Pagan (S) CF
2. Ruben Tejada ® SS
3. David Wright ® 3B
4. Lucas Duda (L) RF
5. Nick Evans ® 1B
6. Josh Thole (L) C
7. Justin Turner ® 2B
8. Jason Pridie (L) LF
9. Chris Capuano (L) P

Braves:
1. Michael Bourn (L) CF
2. Martin Prado ® LF
3. Chipper Jones (S) 3B
4. Dan Uggla ® 2B
5. Freddie Freeman (L) 1B
6. David Ross ® C
7. Alex Gonzalez ® SS
8. Jose Constanza (L) RF
9. Tim Hudson ® P

Edited August 26, 2011 by Guest

[metirish]

"@AdamRubinESPN: Jason Bay has been scratched with a jammed right shoulder. #mets"

Insert joke here

[ashie62]

Mets-Braves..Tomorrow and Sunday Cancelled. Makeup by DH 9/8

[Benjamin Grimm]

Cappy perfect through four!

[Frayed Knot]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Cappy perfect through four!

And now the obligatory post where we say that broken bat hit is all your fault.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Capuano gets through the 6th clean: second rarest pitching feat to the Met no-hitter.

[Frayed Knot]

Nice two-out hits before that in bottom 5.
I'd hate to have our current 12-1 base-runner advantage and not have at least a small lead.

[bmfc1]

I don't know where else to put this... the world revolves around the MFYs says the MFYs:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2011/08/yankees-furious-with-orioles/1?csp=34sports&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomSports-TopStories+%28Sports+-+Top+Stories%29

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Nice game for Capuano.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

[Frayed Knot]

Nuthin' else to say but, WOW!
The kind of game where you figure your PotG voting by asking; 'OK, who gets the other 4 points?'

And except for Pagan running to 2nd when he shouldn't have, or Pagan forgetting the number of outs at one point (not a factor as it turned out) it was virtually a perfect game all around. Couple of two-out hits, two nice plays by Turner, and a whole lotta Cappy.

[Chad ochoseis]

Frayed Knot wrote: Nuthin' else to say but, WOW! The kind of game where you figure your PotG voting by asking; 'OK, who gets the other 4 points?' And except for Pagan running to 2nd when he shouldn't have, or Pagan forgetting the number of outs at one point (not a factor as it turned out) it was virtually a perfect game all around. Couple of two-out hits, two nice plays by Turner, and a whole lotta Cappy.

Good to know Capuano can do more than pinch run.

Howie seemed to think that Pagan's attempt to get to second was the right move - it was just luck and perfect Brave execution after the wild throw that got him.

[G-Fafif]

Capuano's Game Score of 96 -- taking into account hits, walks, strikeouts, runs -- best of any Met since David Cone's 19 K slinkoff to end season in 1991, and tied for third-best ever in Mets history. Cone's was 99, Seaver's 1970 1-hitter vs Phil was 97 and Cap is tied with Qualls Game and an overpowering Dick Selma shutout from 1965 for third.

[G-Fafif]

And we didn't lose the first game of a homestand for the first time all year.

[Gwreck]

Best game of the year? I say yes. Big tip of the hat to Capuano for a great performance. I was sure that the Uggla hit would trigger the usual 4-run inning but he got through it. Golden sombrero for Bourn was nice. Only thing that I was disappointed about was that they didn't show the post-game interview with Kevin on the Jumbotron.

Angel forgetting how many outs there were was really ridiculous. If we weren't so short on capable players, I'd bench him for a game as penalty.

[Frayed Knot]

Chad Ochoseis wrote: Howie seemed to think that Pagan's attempt to get to second was the right move - it was just luck and perfect Brave execution after the wild throw that got him.

Yeah, it wasn't horrible - I was just looking for nits to pick on an otherwise near-perfect night. Only problem was that he never looked to see if the play was being backed up. It was, plus the Braves got a good bounce making the play not all that close. He also could have used a more aggressive slide.
The worse play was him not running on a 2-out fly ball although that one mattered less.


Nats just lost on a walk-off 2B
Creeping back up towards third place.

[G-Fafif]

bmfc1 wrote: I don't know where else to put this... the world revolves around the MFYs says the MFYs: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/dailypitch/post/2011/08/yankees-furious-with-orioles/1?csp=34sports&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+UsatodaycomSports-TopStories+%28Sports+-+Top+Stories%29

MFY's crying over Irene forcing Orioles to reschedule inconveniently for them. Boo-hoo, no off day.

How about they take off the last 28 days of October?

[MFS62]

Rip that statue of Jackie Robinson down* and replace it with a statue of Capuano.
A REAL Met hero.

Later

* = actually, drop it on Chipper from about 5,000 feet.

[Frayed Knot]

I don't know where else to put this... the world revolves around the MFYs says the MFYs: http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... Stories%29 MFY's crying over Irene forcing Orioles to reschedule inconveniently for them. Boo-hoo, no off day.

Caught a portion (but not all) of the O's announcers (Gary Thorn) talking about this story.
The Bal'mer angle on this is that the Yanx apparently cooked up the scenario they wanted to see happen and submitted the plan to whoever decides these things without ever consulting the home-team Orioles on the matter and then got all mad when it didn't automatically happen.

Needless to say, Buck Showalter is only too happy to pull for whatever option says the biggest 'FU' to the Yanx.

[Gwreck]

Capuano's game score of 96 is the best in the majors this year.

The Ervin Santana no-hitter was a 94; Verlander also had a 94 (and a 90 for his no-hitter).

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'm too lazy to look this up but his last start had to have resulted in his worst game score of the year.

[Gwreck]

Actually, only his fourth worst (a 39).

The bad ones:
April 14 in Colorado (gives up seven runs in 5.2) - 28
April 28 at Washington (4 runs on 10 hits in 5.2) - 35
June 1 vs. Pittsburgh (fails to retire first 5 batters in the 7th, they all score) - 37

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

God damn, will this be a fun highlight batch to watch over and over tomorrow night, while getting progressively sauced.

[G-Fafif]

Thought that struck me as Caps struck out Braves was, "Bet we could get a pretty good prospect for this guy by Wednesday." I hope scouts from contending teams waited the full nine before beating it out of town.

[Fman99]

I thought this too, actually. He'd make a nice deadline deal for some hot shit prospect... and the Mets have enough kids in AA/AAA to fill rotation spots for September.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'm going to guess the prospect won't necessarily be hot shit. But yes, he suddenly has a value he didn't have before.

[ashie62]

Best Met pitching performance of the century.