IGT 5/18/2012 NYM @ TOR: International Relations

[G-Fafif]

One pitch, one out!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

WE! WANT! IKE!

[G-Fafif]

Three pitches, two outs!

[G-Fafif]

Last three No. 16s to pitch for the Mets:

Rob Johnson
Derek Bell
Hideo Nomo

[G-Fafif]

STRIKEOUT!

1-2-3 INNING!

BEST 14-5 BLOWOUT EVER!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Rob Johnson is obviously your 8th-Inning Guy.

[Frayed Knot]

Funk that, give him Niese's next start.

[G-Fafif]

C'mon Rob, help your own cause...

[G-Fafif]

Wonder when the last time was a pitcher hit at Rogers Centre.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Hey! He hits like a pitcher, too!

[G-Fafif]

What a revoltin' way to reach Tom Seaver status.

[metirish]

This is embarrassing


but hey, maybe Batista has another good start in him tomorrow,

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Niese ought to be ashamed. Rob Johnson is awesome.

[metirish]

When the thread "memories of Rob Johnson" appears we should not forget this night , perhaps his finest night as a Met.

[Frayed Knot]

Since this mess occurred in Canada, what does Niese's ERA tonight translate to in metric?

[metirish]

Frayed Knot wrote: Since this mess occurred in Canada, what does Niese's ERA tonight translate to in metric?

Euro taking the piss now!

[MFS62]

The only good news is that tomorrow's sports pages will be filled with the mass reportorial fellatio of Andy Pettite.


Later

[Edgy MD]

Niese -3.52
Acosta -1.90
Nieuwenhuis -1.61
Duda -0.74
Turner -0.65
Cedeno -0.63
Ramirez -0.40
Valdespin -0.39
Johnson -0.16

Johnson remained on the naughty list anyway.

[Frayed Knot]

The generic 'Win Pct' figures from this game
- after 1 inning (3-0 Jays) NYM win chances = 22%
- after 2 innings (5-1) = 14%
- after 3 innings (8-1) = 3%
- after 4 innings (8-1) = 2%
- by the time Rajai Davis hit the 1st of his 2 HRs* in the game with two outs in the 5th the chances had decreased to essentially 0%, a spot they'd stay at for the remainder of the game not even ticking up on account of our 4-run "outburst" in the 8th seeing as how of the decreased number of outs remaining was enough to cancel out the only slightly reduced deficit.



* also the first 2 of his whole season and just the 14th & 15th in the 7-year/1,700 AB ML career for the #9 hitting 31 y/o

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, we've been giving a lot of rooks and journeymen their first tastes of success recently, it seems.