IGT 7/21/2012 LAD @ NYM: Sacrificial Game Thread

[G-Fafif]

Mets 2-0 in 2011 with me there and Batista starting, only 3-2 when Capuano started and me there. So maybe it will be a good Fonzie Bobblehead Day after all.

Ruben Tejada � SS
Andres Torres � CF
David Wright � 3B
Scott Hairston � RF
Jason Bay � LF
Ike Davis � 1B
Ronny Cedeno � 2B
Mike Nickeas � C
Miguel Batista � RHP

[batmagadanleadoff]

Black jerseys? I love you, but fuck you, Fonzie.

[Zvon]

Batista and black jerseys? This can't be good.

[Edgy MD]

"Things Fidel Castro might have said as a baseball player!"

[Zvon]

Im taking bets. How many innings does Miguel last? Does he get outta the 1st? Does he settle down? The suspense is hurting my head.

[metirish]

Batista gets two outs and then walks the next two, then gives up a hit, 1 zip Dodgers, walk.......boos

[metirish]

Zvon wrote: Im taking bets. How many innings does Miguel last? Does he get outta the 1st? Does he settle down? The suspense is hurting my head.

Hefner was up Howie said , over 30 pitches but gets out of it only down one.

Howie speculating that when Harvey gets the call it will be a road start and not in Santana's spot against Strasburg Wednesday.

[Edgy MD]

It's been his pattern as a starter this year. Crappy beginning and he settles down. Let's hope that holds.

[Zvon]

Edgy DC wrote: "Things Fidel Castro might have said as a baseball player!"

Jerseys do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the jersey for the game.

[Edgy MD]

Two out walk to Wright. Hopefully Capuano finishes innings like Batista.

[Zvon]

Much better second inning for the Batistaman.

[Zvon]

Batshit.

[Edgy MD]

A two-run, two-strike hit to a guy who's 1-36.

Crikey.

[metirish]

And it's all falling asunder here in the 3rd with 2 out.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

This is excruciating. Batista has nothing, Capuano looks good, and I'm surrounded by all manner of amateur comedians who think that yelling 'Harvey' at full volume is either clever or helpful.

The grilled bologna and Bayside fries were excellent, however.

[Zvon]

Nice scoop Ike.

[Zvon]

Valde trying to make something happen. Nice drag bunt. Good thing there was no throw cause he was way out of the baseline.

[Edgy MD]

Bay hits us back into this game!

Swan Swan H wrote: This is excruciating. Batista has nothing, Capuano looks good, and I'm surrounded by all manner of amateur comedians who think that yelling 'Harvey' at full volume is either clever or helpful.

I'd take it easy on the beer and keep my fists in my pocket.

[Zvon]

I hope Ike was mad at himself there and not the ump. We got game! 4-2 da bums.

[Frayed Knot]

At the pace this game is going we're going to be here for a while.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

I haven't had a beer at a game in ages, but I appreciate the sentiment. Instead, I'm playing cliche bingo with the guy on my left. After he yelled 'I got it' on a foul pop and 'Ump you suck' on Davis's K I just need a 'Swing batter' to win a gift card at Waldbaum's and a basket of jams and jellies.

[Zvon]

How does Hairball not catch that? Eyecurumba.

[Frayed Knot]

More two-out walks and defensive incompetence plus a 27-pitch inning despite only two base-runners, and all this from the guy who is in the game on account of the starter giving up too many two-out runs with too many high-pitch innings.

[Frayed Knot]

Uribe is hitting .180 and had walked 8 times all year coming into today ... so we walk him twice and, surprise, we get burned by it with two outs again.

[Edgy MD]

And Treanor (second greatest athlete in the family?) breaks an 0-23 slump with an RBI hit of his own. That's three runs driven in by the banjo gang (the dgang gang).

My new invention is a compartment under the stands for tucking the tarp away. Rolled up tarps should not interfere with caroms, say I.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

1. Gotta say, seeing Cedeno go after a ball at 2B wearing a 13 jersey, I had a Fonzie moment.

2. Eff this, I'm going to go drink beer with a Boy Named Seo.

[Edgy MD]

There's an Alfonzo moment!

[Zvon]

Cedeno!

[Edgy MD]

An 0-2 single for Juan Rivera in the eighth.

This is one slow-assed game.

[ashie62]

This is painful and depressing.