IGT Monday June 18th Mets v. Orioles - Try Not to Suck!

[Zvon]

Pieface. lol. Does it always have to be Turner?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Phenomenal. His starts are going to start selling out.

[Frayed Knot]

A Really Afficient 2 hours 7 minute game on your clock.
Or, if you're like me and were busy for the first 45 minutes so were watching via DVR until you caught up, that game took just slightly over an hour and a half.

Edited June 18, 2012 by Guest

[TransMonk]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Phenomenal. His starts are going to start selling out.

Good...that should help pay for his new contract.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Howie pointed out he still has an unearned run inning streak at 42, Gooden has the record at 49.

[batmagadanleadoff]

So when's the last time before today that someone threw consecutive CG 1hitters?

[TransMonk]

The SNY broadcast says Dave Steib did it in his time with the Blue Jays (1988?).

Hadn't been done in the NL since the 1940s.

[Frayed Knot]

Other 'Thoughts on the Game'

- Prior to the no-hitter being broken up, none of the NYM outfielders had touched the ball defensively, nor had Wright.
All the outs to that point where either Ks involving just Dickey & Thole, plus a bunch grounders to Quintanilla to Ike and one from Valdespin to Ike.
The rest of those dudes could have taken the first half of the game off.

- Dickey getting back to 3B on Wright's liner kept the inning alive long enough for Ike. Should have frozen instantly of course and not made it nearly as close, but it's not like he spends a lot of time on the bases for practice.

- And speaking of Ike, a couple of nice things tonight.
You start with the Grand Slam obviously. But what I really liked about it was that may have been the first HR from him this season that reminds me of the ones he hit during his first year+ here: the kind where it doesn't look like he got it all until it finally comes down 400 feet later. His HRs this season have mostly been pulled balls where you knew they were instantly gone. Nothing wrong with those really, except that they're more likely to be the the result of simply guessing correctly and getting the cripple pitch. They still count but they don't give you the idea that he's seeing the ball or thinking through things really well.
And then there was the line-out to LF in his previous AB. Haven't seen him hit many hard to the opposite field this year. As long as we can ignore the strike-out where he went fishing for the plate-high curve I'm almost tempted to say that he's on the way back.

Edited June 18, 2012 by Guest

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Vintage Dickeyface


IMAG0770-1-1-1-1 by mbtn01, on Flickr

[Frayed Knot]

Tuesday's NY Daily News Headline:

SABATHIA TOSSES COMPLETE GAME 7-HITTER

[Ceetar]

Thoughts from the game?

The crowd was into it. Slowly at first, but building, and always more into the top of the inning than the bottom.

In a weird way, Johan Santana's no-hitter is being overshadowed. (He might have something to say about that tomorrow)

Watched Dickey from section 138, which is two over the apple. lots of fun. You could certain tell they were getting a lot of silly swings. Really Awesome. (That's what the Mets put on the board at the end)

Davis' grand slam came almost right at us, and as such was hard to judge off the bat. (Also, we saw an employee run down an inning later to the Party City deck with a bat and return with a ball. I suspect Ike wanted his first career grand slam) His line out to left field got there reallll fast.

I was enjoying watching Dickey's ERA slowly approach 2.00 on the scoreboard. I also was enjoying the (At least two) separate K corners. or dicKKKKKKKKKKKKKey corners anyway.

This team has a Cy Young, MVP, and Rookie of the Year candidate approaching the halfway mark. That's pretty cool.

First shake shack of the year. We got there, through the line, two beers at Big Apple Brews and in our seat just in time for the game to start. The game ended so fast that even waiting for Dickey to be interviewed and then leaving through traffic and we were home to Jersey by 10:30.

I'd forgotten about Brian Roberts crazy no-rbi streak until my wife noted that he only had 4 and asked if he sucked.

Curtain call for Ike was nice.

[Edgy MD]

Ceetar wrote: This team has a Cy Young, MVP, and Rookie of the Year candidate approaching the halfway mark. That's pretty cool.

Get a couple of guys into the Rolaids race and we could really be talking about something.

Boxscore attendance says 29,014. Now I know NYC can do better than that for Dickey Day.

[Ceetar]

Edgy DC wrote: This team has a Cy Young, MVP, and Rookie of the Year candidate approaching the halfway mark. That's pretty cool. Get a couple of guys into the Rolaids race and we could really be talking about something.

Wouldn't it? My wife has been to two games so far this year, has yet to see the bullpen. She needs to go more often.

Also to note: Dickey does indeed come to bat to the theme song from the Game of Thrones.

[MFS62]

Was at work and didn't see the game. Was the hit clean?
(Fucking ex-Brave)

Later

[Ceetar]

MFS62 wrote: Was at work and didn't see the game. Was the hit clean? (Fucking ex-Brave) Later

yeah, lined to the gap in right. Nieuwenhuis cut it off, but it was a clean single.

[Frayed Knot]

I think it was Duda who actually cut it off.
I was thinking as it was developing that for Reyes or another similar runner that's maybe a double even though it never got near the wall.

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: I think it was Duda who actually cut it off. I was thinking as it was developing that for Reyes or another similar runner that's maybe a double even though it never got near the wall.

watching replay, you're right, it was Duda. Looked like it might be able to get past him, but died on the grass. probably had some back spin, although Duda did cover the ground fairly well.

[Ceetar]

me in the Wright jersey.

[Edgy MD]

Nice pony tail.

[Ceetar]

unrelated to Dickey, is Adam Jones just a punk or what? His first AB in particular, I noticed he was taking a ridiculous amount of time between pitches and stepping out and walking away and around.

Then he grounded one just foul, and started running down the line well after the foul call he continued to slow and then step on first and then turn around and walk, slowly, back to the plate for the next pitch.