IGT - Nats at Mets - 4/11/12 - Game Six

[Frayed Knot]

1:10 'Condom' Game -- Strasburg vs Santana

[Ceetar]

Mets lineup is out somewhere. Duda batting third.


I'm torn between an early lunch so I can be on the radio/at bat by the time the game starts, or late lunch and going somewhere to watch the beginning. hmm..

[TransMonk]

I've decided I'm skipping lunch. LGM!

[Edgy MD]

Oh, man. We always lose when we call it a condom game. 150% of the time, I'm certain.

[TransMonk]

Prophylactic game?

[Ceetar]

Anthony Rieber ? @therealarieber wrote: Lot of outs in Cedeno's bat. If Wright is out a while, Collins seems determined to find them.

Did Ronny kick Tony's puppy or something? He tweeted earlier that Ronny "fooled" Collins with his three hits yesterday.

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

The Pencil Eraser Game as they call it in the UK.

[G-Fafif]

Ruben Tejada � SS
Daniel Murphy � 2B
Lucas Duda � RF
Ike Davis � 1B
Jason Bay � LF
Josh Thole � C
Kirk Nieuwenhuis � CF
Ronny Cedeno � 3B
Johan Santana - LHP

And Roger Craig is throwing out the first pitch on the 50th anniversary of the first Mets game, when he also threw the Mets' first pitch.

Let's Go Mets!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ceetar wrote: Anthony Rieber ? @therealarieber wrote: Lot of outs in Cedeno's bat. If Wright is out a while, Collins seems determined to find them. Did Ronny kick Tony's puppy or something? He tweeted earlier that Ronny "fooled" Collins with his three hits yesterday.

Well, yes. Because as an offensive player, Ronny Cedeno was, is, and most likely shall always be-- what's that French word? Ah, yes-- shitte�.

[Ceetar]

well yeah, he sucks, but just seems harsh coming from a beat writer. Nor am I sure what his point is. That Turner should be playing today?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The Tyrna does have a better-- if still not traditionally "good"-- bat, and about six times the ML experience at third.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Washington
I. Desmond ss
D. Espinosa 2b
R. Zimmerman 3b
J. Werth cf
M. DeRosa lf
A. LaRoche 1b
X. Nady rf
J. Flores c
S. Strasburg p

NY Mets
R. Tejada ss
D. Murphy 2b
L. Duda rf
I. Davis 1b
J. Bay lf
J. Thole c
K. Nieuwenhuis cf
R. Cedeno 3b
J. Santana p

[Edgy MD]

Ian Desmond
K

[TransMonk]

Lotsa pitches in that first inning, but no runs across.

[Ceetar]

TransMonk wrote: Lotsa pitches in that first inning, but no runs across.

I wonder if we'll get to a point once it's warmer where Santana's feeling good and at like 102 pitches and Terry trots out and Santana shoos him. I hope so.




Thole guns down Espinosa at third for the final out.

[Edgy MD]

Stephen Strasburg's lone prior start against the Mets. Pretty middlin'. Game score of 53.

Let's chase this guy.

[Benjamin Grimm]

TransMonk wrote: Lotsa pitches in that first inning, but no runs across.

27 to be exact. If he keeps that up, he'll be lucky to go four innings.

[Edgy MD]

Gameday suggests a lot of pitches at the knees are getting called balls --- for both teams.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: Stephen Strasburg's lone prior start against the Mets. Pretty middlin'. Game score of 53. Let's chase this guy.

I watched it in Philly.

[Edgy MD]

Well, that was a sweet little opportunity lost there.

Twenty-six pitches for Strasburg, too, with only 10 going for strikes. It's Squeeze City out there. Not a typical ump behavior on a getaway day.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Strasburg looks annoyed in the dugout. As per GKR, the Nats continue to yap at plate ump Larry Vanover as if they were gray-uniformed purse chihuahuas.

[TransMonk]

That's two days in a row that the Mets have opened up the game with a runner on second and no outs, but have failed to score.

I do not have a bigger baseball pet peeve.

[Edgy MD]

Santanny's turn to get squozen. Bags juiced, one out, St. St. up.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Ugh. Wild pitch scores a run.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Damage limited to one run as Santana fans Desmond.

I wonder how many of the players are actually wearing condoms?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

As Ron points out, Thole's inability to get the glove out of the way while blocking-- the pitch bounced up off the mitt's heel, rather than down off his chestplate/mask-- makes that wild pitch, and a one-run deficit.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Guys! interviewing Roger Craig in the stands.

"We went in thinking we were going to win a lot more than 40 games. [Casey] was great to play for, he was just so easygoing, so happy."

[Long pause]

"He didn't teach very much."

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Ike Davis is killing this team. I demand we kill him.

[Ceetar]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Ike Davis is killing this team. I demand we kill him.

Kill the jew? Good Friday was last week.

[TransMonk]

Yeah, WTF. It's not like his spring was horrible. He hit that walk-off against the Yanks just a week ago.