IGT Wed 7/18 Mets @ Nationals C.Young v. J Zimmerman

[Zvon]

[Guest Swan Swan H]

If this guy is starting on Saturday I may just stay home.

[ashie62]

If Sandy Alderson is playing the "Lets wait and see what happens game," he will find that in that period of time is when you get fucked.

[Guest Kong76]

Note to self: don't watch game or listen on Saturday.

[ashie62]

I'm here to hit for Bay!

[Guest Swan Swan H]

I don't believe that Batista will actually start Saturday. All sorts of stuff is out there about how the organization is down on him, and hopefully this is the final straw.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Cedeno for Thole? I don't care if he hits a home run, I hate this move.

[Zvon]

Swan Swan H wrote: Cedeno for Thole? I don't care if he hits a home run, I hate this move.

Don't like it either, even with that single. Desperate measures for desperate times I guess.

[Zvon]

k, alls we need is 3 runs to tie in the 9th. We can get a lil rally goin here, right? LGM!

[Guest Swan Swan H]

That's one!

[Zvon]

[Guest Swan Swan H]

I'm hiding the knives and rat poison in case Nickeas comes up against Clippard as the tying run.

[Fman99]

Zvon wrote:

Brilliant.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

That's two!

[Zvon]

[Fman99]

Don't tease me, you Mets. Finish this fucking thing off. Get Jordany up there!

[Fman99]

Well, don't win you fucking pricks. GAHD!

[Zvon]

Yep. Just a tease. Mets, you take my heart and the core of my soul and do nasty things to them.

[metsmarathon]

dear mets,

we need a new safe word.

thanks.

[Frayed Knot]

Until the 9th inning anyway, this game was the story of the big hits we didn't get and big ones they did: LaRoche's two-out HR and then Lombardozzi's two-out double.
We play a lot of games just well enough to lose to these guys.

[Ceetar]

just ugh.

well, they're digging this hole really deep now.

their bullpen has been just as bad too. It's really been the offense this week.

[Ceetar]

Ceetar wrote: their bullpen has been just as bad too. It's really been the offense this week.

Actually they've given up more runs. 7 in 6 innings whereas the Mets only gave up 6 in 5.2.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Ceetar wrote: just ugh. well, they're digging this hole really deep now. their bullpen has been just as bad too. It's really been the offense this week.

It's almost always the offense.

[Frayed Knot]

These are the type of games the Nationals have been playing, and mostly winning, all year.
Every time I turn on one of their games in the mid innings it seems like it's still scoreless, or maybe 1 or 2-zip. That's what happens when you get nearly 70% quality starts


Of the last 13 NYM losses to the Nats this season and last -- seven have been by 1 run (including twice in extras) and two more by 2 runs
The remainder were by 3 (once), 4 (twice) and one 9-run blowout

[bmfc1]

Back from my 4th loss this year at Nationals park. On the bright side, the pizza was good for DC and the lame PA Announcer wasn't there. Sadly, his backup sucked too: at one point, he said that Ike was batting when it was Wright.

Here's the question: why didn't Shorty bring in Edgin to face Lombardozzi? There were two on and Edgin is a lefty just like Lombardozzi. He didn't so I asked my son BEFORE Lombardozzi came up, "why is Edgin warming up if he not going to come in right now?" Those were the two runs that lost the game and, to me, another example of why Shorty is an awful in-game manager. I would like to know why he had Edgin up but didn't use him with two on. Did he actually have confidence in Batista?

FK--thanks for the note on all the close losses. Maybe this is what happens when one manager is playing three dimensional chess and the other is playing checkers.

[metsmarathon]

i wish you would stop going to games there.

[bmfc1]

metsmarathon wrote: i wish you would stop going to games there.

I hear you. They won the day game a month ago without me... let's hope it happens again.

[Frayed Knot]

bmfc1 wrote: FK--thanks for the note on all the close losses. Maybe this is what happens when one manager is playing three dimensional chess and the other is playing checkers.

Yup! Every single one of those one-run losses was Terry's fault.

[bmfc1]

Frayed Knot wrote: bmfc1 wrote: FK--thanks for the note on all the close losses. Maybe this is what happens when one manager is playing three dimensional chess and the other is playing checkers. Yup! Every single one of those one-run losses was Terry's fault.

I'm glad we agree.