IGT 5/8 - Mets @ Phils

[Piggiestomatoes]

Step away to prepare for a meeting tomorrow and the good guys string together a big inning. Thought I was jinxing things by turning it back on for the last half inning. I'd have felt bad if they knocked in that tying run.

[Fman99]

Gary sez Francisco getting a rest after saving three straight. The Wookie looms in the pen.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Nice one, Byrdman.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Loogit the wheels on dat Baxter dere.

[Fman99]

Nice hit and run there, Collins pushing all the right buttons tonight. First and third, no one out for Captain Kirk.

[Fman99]

Yeah, baby, insurance, just like I tolds ya.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Nieuwey is an animal.

[Piggiestomatoes]

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Kirk!!!!!!

That's a big insurance run!

[Fman99]

PiggiesTomatoes wrote: Step away to prepare for a meeting tomorrow and the good guys string together a big inning. Thought I was jinxing things by turning it back on for the last half inning. I'd have felt bad if they knocked in that tying run.

I actually missed the Duda RBI while putting Fgirl down for the night. Glad I got to see the buffoonery that let the tying run come in, good stuff there.

[Fman99]

Lucas Duda again! Fucking A, how great is the two out RBI hit?

[Guest themetfairy]

Doo Dah! Doo Dah!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Go Doodoo

[Piggiestomatoes]

Who comes in for the 9th if Frankie's got the night off? Kenneth Parnell?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

How do you pronounce this second Phillefty's name, anyway? Is it "save-ree," like, "This guy isn't someone I'd trust to save receipts?" Or is it "savory," as in, "This LOOGY's meatballs are savory!"

Anyway, Rauch on to finish the thing.

[Piggiestomatoes]

Rauch doesn't scare me as much with a three run lead.

[smg58]

PiggiesTomatoes wrote: Rauch doesn't scare me as much with a three run lead.

It certainly makes it easier to rest Francisco.

[Guest vtmet]

PiggiesTomatoes wrote: Rauch doesn't scare me as much with a three run lead.

any Mets reliever since we traded Turk Wendell away scares the crap out of me with a lead...they seem to pitch well when we are losing, but not so well with a lead (particularly vs the Phils)...Even as a teenager, I went to a Mets game at the Vet; Mets had a 6-0 lead in the 7th and lost 10-6 with Orosco on the mound...

[Fman99]

Hellz yeah

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Put it in the friggin books. The book of Philly Humiliation, that is.

[Piggiestomatoes]

Another happy recap. Oh, so sweet in Filly.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Happy recaps and all, I would NOT want to be a Met fan driving back from this one. (Given this and what happened across the street half an hour ago.)

[Frayed Knot]

It appears that we're getting this winning formula thing down pat:
1) Get the lead-off runner on
2) Leave him there while we strike-out or maybe walk, but never even sniff an XBH that might possibly drive him in
3) Then get eleven-teen straight two-out singles.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

In the books and raise the flag!!!!

[Piggiestomatoes]

Wow. Went back and watched the top of the 7th. With Valde on first and two outs, Torres had two strikes before his base hit. Thoroughly enjoyed the fillies imploding the last two nights. Christmas in May.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I know it's only a couple of games but hard not to be impressed by what Torres can do when he's going right.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I know it's only a couple of games but hard not to be impressed by what Torres can do when he's going right.

Co-signed. It's like Pagan minus a little pop/explosiveness, and plus a good deal more plate discipline/judgement.

[metirish]

Baseball eh?, with the way things started would never have thought we would win. Howie is still mixing up Frank Francisco with Francisco Rodriguez.....

[Edgy MD]

I actually went out last night around the fifth inning, feeling reasonably confident that the fate of the game was in good hands. I came home from my 9:30 showing of The Avengers fulling expecting to see a victorious score displayed on my desktop computer, and I did.

I'd love to gloat. While folks were snarking about the "Mehts" this preseason, I was growing in confidence that this was a darn good team getting better. (The Avengers, on the other hand, I found to be "Meh.")

I'd love to gloat, but I know fully well about other shoes, and if fortunes don't turn soon for the Mets, they undoubtedly are preparing to do so in some other corner of my existence. (I have other corners.) So I'm trying to keep it cool here. Trying. But I'm consumed by urges to high-five folks through computer screens.

[Ceetar]

my other shoe dropped in the terms of a $2500 vet bill, so that means the Mets shoe won't right?