Tradition! - Mets at Giants IGT 7/31/12

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Swan Swan H wrote: It's 12:04. The two girls that moved into the apartment one over a couple of months ago have chosen tonight to apparently hang something in the stairwell adjacent and are hammering on the wall. geeze. You don't watch a lot of Cinemax, do you?

lolol.

Cmon Daybid Rye

[Frayed Knot]

Man Posey blocks a lot of shit back there.

[metsmarathon]

sugar.

[Frayed Knot]

A little between innings musical interlude in honor of midnight EDT recorded at, where else, the Midnight Special

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[Guest Swan Swan H]

Lincecum gives Wright the ol' jellyleg to get out of a jam and preserve the lead.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Valdespin out on a pitch that nearly nicked Teufel.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

This IGT has gone about the way the game has.

[Frayed Knot]

Somehow Jeremy Affeldt gets to pitch two consecutive innings - in a save situation no less - and yet the world did not fall off its axis.

[TransMonk]

I hat baseball.

[Edgy MD]

Sorry to fail in fandom on this one. Two nights ago, I napped for two innings in the middle and woke up to game-tying homer by Scott Hairston. Last night I doubled down, napped for two innings, and woke up to David Wright whiffing with the bags juiced.

I kept the game going but I faded off to sleep again. A sleep most heavy and inky.

[MFS62]

Why didn't Wright start?
Is he hurt?

Later

[TransMonk]

Collins wanted to give him a rest. It was up to David as to whether he wanted to face Linecum on Tuesday or Cain on Wednesday.

Wright chose Cain.

[Ceetar]

Looks like Ike could use a day too.

[Edgy MD]

Tehotty too.

[Frayed Knot]

Ceetar wrote: Looks like Ike could use a day too.

Ike actually hit two balls hard last night but was robbed both times (sliding stop by The Riot at 2B, leaping grab by Crawford at SS).

It still looks however as if he continues to decide to swing (or not) before the ball is even released which results in either him whiffing badly when his guess isn't right or his bat "running into one" when it is and the ball goes rocketing off somewhere.
The problem is that those good outcomes seem like the result of chance more than anything resembling working the count or thinking out the AB, and the balls he didn't hit hard last night he must have missed by at least 15 inches each.