IGT #33 5/12/12 Mets @ Marlins

[Ceetar]

Mets
Andres Torres - CF
Kirk Nieuwenhuis - LF
David Wright - 3B
Lucas Duda - RF
Daniel Murphy - 2B
=#FFBF00]Ike Davis - 1B
Ronny Cedeno - SS
Mike Nickeas - C
R.A. Dickey - RHP



Fish
=#40FF00]Reyes SS
=#FF0000]Infante 2B
=#0040FF]Ramirez 3B
=#FFFF00]Morrison LF
=#40BF00]Stanton RF
Sanchez 1B
=#800000]Bonifacio CF
=#FF4000]Hayes C
=#40FFBF]Nolasco P

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

You've got almost all the colors in the Marlins' uniform pallet represented there.

[ashie62]

Havent seen Thole much lately. Is he hurt?

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Yup, he's on the new seven-day DL after Ty Wiggington nailed him in a play at the plate.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

On the Tweetwaves, "David Wright" and "MVP" trending in New York.

[G-Fafif]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: On the Tweetwaves, "David Wright" and "MVP" trending in New York.

How's #jitteryoverreactontoeverylatestthing doing?

[Frayed Knot]

Finally a big hit!
I was thinking this game was destined to see about 2.3 LOBs/inning.

Now we just have to make sure that Dickey's hand isn't broken and we're OK.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

"Omigod, that Tiesto drop is sick!"

[Applauds wildly, whoops]

- Diehard Marlins fans enjoying today's game from the Clevelander

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Between the beard and the thousand-mile-stare, Nickeas today looks like he's auditioning for a community-theater production of "The Deer Hunter."

[Frayed Knot]

Starting pitchers have to taken out with one shot

[Ceetar]

geeze, so when do we seriously start talking about Wright hitting .400?

[Frayed Knot]

Mike Baxter: Pinch-hitting doubles machine

[Ceetar]

the guy broadcasting with McCarver: "How does All-Star R.A. Dickey sound?"

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

This guy with McCarver is a genius.

Love the nonstop insurance-runnin'. Foot-on-throat is a new concept for this team.

[Gwreck]

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[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

A performance like this after yesterday's disappointment feels like winning a million bucks on a giant fish-pachinko machine.

[Ceetar]

Ike Davis and David Wright are hitting .288 combined.

[Frayed Knot]

I could have done without seeing the Marlins knock out 13 hits - although holding them to three runs while doing so is certainly OK (even if probably not repeatable).
But we issued fewer walks, fewer HBPs, ran the bases better, played better 'D', and had 16 hits of our own - so there!

[batmagadanleadoff]

Two opinions from Tim McCarver from this afternoon's Mets game on FOX:

1) Tim is sure that Strawberry's moon-shot '88 homer off the Olympic Stadium roof in Montreal was the longest HR ever hit in the history of MLB. And Tim's taking that opinion to his grave.

2) The Mets ain't gonna re-sign David Wright: it can't be done given the team's financial mess.

[ashie62]

That was fun! Only question I would have is did Terry need to use so many pitchers in a blowout win?

[Fman99]

I thought it was a 4 PM start. I missed nearly the entire thing... caught the last two inning on the iPhone while sunning myself in the backyard. Nice win for the good guys.

[Edgy MD]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Two opinions from Tim McCarver from this afternoon's Mets game on FOX: 1) Tim is sure that Strawberry's moon-shot '88 homer off the Olympic Stadium roof in Montreal was the longest HR ever hit in the history of MLB. And Tim's taking that opinion to his grave. 2) The Mets ain't gonna re-sign David Wright: it can't be done given the team's financial mess.

(1) Defensible, but probably untrue. (2) Silly.

[Edgy MD]

Howie Rose paid tribute to Tim McCarver on today's radio broadcast and as he recounted the groundbreaking work McCarver had done as a Mets broadcaster it broke a brother's heart to think what he has slipped into.

My other observation on today's game is that if the team had played a little more cleanly, they'd have gotten 15 runs. It's a blessing that they're coming up with these two out hits, but so often that comes after being unable to make productive contact with runners in scoring position and one or no out. Or after baserunner blunders in the face of what contact they've had.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Ashie62 wrote: That was fun! Only question I would have is did Terry need to use so many pitchers in a blowout win?

5-run lead for most of the latter innings, most of it with guys on base... so Terry played safe.