IGT Mets & Rays 6/13/12 - Keep your peckers up!

[Guest Kong76]

Centerfield wrote: One hitter. One hitter. One hitter. If I say it enough times it will get jinxed and the official scorer will change it to an error.

One hitters are overrated.

[metirish]

Thanks SNY, we missed the Wright error coming back from commercials.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

New. Mets. Record!!!!!

Congrats to RA.

Now, he's just over half-way to Hersheiser, which shows you just how incredible Orel's streak was.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Wright owes Dickey a perfect game and a shutout.

[nymr83]

E5 (damnit Wright!!) And a passed ball have the Rays first runner in scoring position... And another passed ball has him at thirdbase.... FUUUUUUUUCK

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Wright's buying tonight.

I love that Dickey's just pitched a complete-game one-hitter... and he's looking peeved about the run.

Edited June 13, 2012 by Guest

[metirish]

That was brilliant.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

BOOOOOOOOOO. An error and two passed balls?

[Gwreck]

Looking at that replay from the first inning again...I'm not so sure we didn't have our second no-hitter of the year here.

Game score was 95.

Put it in the books.

[bmfc1]

Great job by Piggies Tomatoes!

[batmagadanleadoff]

Second best pitched game of the season, as per game score.

RADiculous!

[batmagadanleadoff]

Fucking interleague play -- I'm rooting for the fucking Yankees tonight.

[Frayed Knot]

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Fucking interleague play -- I'm rooting for the fucking Yankees tonight.

I'm torn.
I know it's best for us the the Skanks win but I just can't bring myself to do it.
Braves have left all kinds of runners on all night and the Yanx are leading on, what else, a 2R HR.

Which reminds me, even before ARod hit his Grand Slam last night, the Yanx had the lowest BA in MLB with bases-loaded yet at the same time led everyone in grand slams.
It's like every meaningful hit they get goes over the fence - and most of those are preceded by walks and/or squibs.

[batmagadanleadoff]

RA Dickey NL Stats/Ranks

Wins 10 (1st)
K's 90 (3d)
ERA 2.20 (2d)
WHIP 0.94 (T-1st)
Quality Starts 11 (1st)
QS% 92% (1st)
K/BB 4.11 (10th)
K/9 9.0 (10th)

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: batmagadanleadoff wrote: Fucking interleague play -- I'm rooting for the fucking Yankees tonight. I'm torn. I know it's best for us the the Skanks win but I just can't bring myself to do it. Braves have left all kinds of runners on all night and the Yanx are leading on, what else, a 2R HR.

Too early for that. Mets can pass the Braves by beating them head to head, let the Yankees lose, we don't need their help.

[batmagadanleadoff]

RA widening his lead according to ESPN's Cy Predictor.

[Guest themetfairy]

[G-Fafif]

This is Doc 1985 stuff with a lower speed limit.

[Frayed Knot]

Braves finally lose 3-2 (in barely under four hours - their announcers didn't seem to know what to make of games like that).
Yanx were out-hit (as they frequently are during their wins) but Atlanta left like 13 runners on.

So we gained on both Miami & Atlanta and stayed even with the Nats all for the second night in a row.
Philly still battling in Mini-soda (maybe that's where Bloomberg should be Mayor) leading 9-8 in the 9th.

[MFS62]

Frayed Knot wrote: Philly still battling in Mini-soda (maybe that's where Bloomberg should be Mayor).

Bring back the BOC!

What would RA's numbers look like if you took out that one soggy start?
Later

[Ceetar]

MFS62 wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Philly still battling in Mini-soda (maybe that's where Bloomberg should be Mayor). Bring back the BOC! What would RA's numbers look like if you took out that one soggy start? Later

9-0, 76.2 1.65ERA 14ER 17 BB 73 K when it's not raining.

[Piggiestomatoes]

bmfc1 wrote: Great job by Piggies Tomatoes!

Happy to help. Price really ran up his pitch count but until the 5th, I thought it would be a 1-0 game. Then the juggernaut struck again.

Definitely was a Mets' crowd. Between the "Let's go Mets" and "R-A-Dickey" chants, the Rays fans were getting a bit pissed but by that time, they were greatly outnumbered.

These may have been the two best back-to-back games this season. How close was the "single" to being Wright's first error of the night?

Highlight of the night was Ike tossing a ball for my little one after the 7th. Looks like she's got a new favorite Met. Sorry, David!

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, there've been so many Mets fans the last two games, you'd think it was Miami.

[Benjamin Grimm]

According to STATS LLC, the starting pitching matchup was only the second since 1921 to feature the AL and NL wins leaders during the regular season. The other was Boston's Josh Beckett and San Diego's Jake Peavy on June 24, 2007. The Rays said it has only happened three times in the last 50 World Series, with Atlanta's John Smoltz facing the Yankees' Andy Pettitte in 1996, Toronto's Jack Morris facing Atlanta's Tom Glavine in 1992 and the Dodgers' Sandy Koufax going against the Yankees' Whitey Ford twice in 1963.

I'd like to know how it could have happened in 1921. Did the wins leader in one league get traded in-season, and then face the leader from the other league before anyone in his original league caught up?

Or are they for some reason only able to trace this back to 1921?