IGT Wed Aug 1 Mets @ SF

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Byrdak in for a one-out cameo, and gone.

Rauch in next, presumably to bunt.

[Frayed Knot]

Frayed Knot wrote: Swan Swan H wrote: I'm sure the rule is what it is, but why aren't the runners on 2nd and 3rd? That's where they would be were there no interference and Thole got thrown out at first. Because to remove the incentive for the offensive team to commit an intentional interference the remedy is that all runners return to their original bases.

Think about a situation where the bases are loaded w/1 out, bottom 9, tie game.
Batter hits what looks like an easy 6-4-3 DP but the runner on 1st decides to simply play free safety and "intercepts" the throw to 1st. Yeah he's already out, but without the 'runners return' rule his team wins the game.
The umps, in that situation, also have the option to call the batter out when the interference is so obviously intentional - but you get the idea.

[Frayed Knot]

7 hits + 8 walks + 1 HBP + 1 error + 4 SBs somehow = 2 runs.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Those corners that Cain was getting from Dale Scott for the first few innings seem to have dried up and flown away.

No matter.

[Zvon]

Nice inning by Rauch. We need some insurance like NOW daddy! No matter who gets the ball in the 9th.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Frayed Knot wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: Swan Swan H wrote: I'm sure the rule is what it is, but why aren't the runners on 2nd and 3rd? That's where they would be were there no interference and Thole got thrown out at first. Because to remove the incentive for the offensive team to commit an intentional interference the remedy is that all runners return to their original bases. Think about a situation where the bases are loaded w/1 out, bottom 9, tie game. Batter hits what looks like an easy 6-4-3 DP but the runner on 1st decides to simply play free safety and "intercepts" the throw to 1st. Yeah he's already out, but without the 'runners return' rule his team wins the game. The umps, in that situation, also have the option to call the batter out when the interference is so obviously intentional - but you get the idea.

If they call that a DP it's three out and no runs score anyway. It would never happen to end a game, but if it happens with none out the run from third should score whether it's intentional or not, since they didn't make a play on that runner.

I'm not saying it's not the rule, just that I disagree with the reasoning behind it.

[Frayed Knot]

Hey Terry, here's a thought for your upcoming 9th inning dilemma -- why not try the guy who's given up just 3 hits and 2 walks combined over his last 8+ innings, had a .115 BAA and 0.66 WHiP during July?
And here's the good part ... he's already in the game and has thrown only 10 pitches.

[Edgy MD]

Hey look! Big-time scoring opportunity!

[Edgy MD]

I'm not sure if I wouldn't run for Davis and Murphy.

[Frayed Knot]

Mets have 1 hit w/RiSP tonight -- and that one didn't even get a run in.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

You've GOT to be kidding me.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Hey Terry, here's a thought for your upcoming 9th inning dilemma -- why not try the guy who's given up just 3 hits and 2 walks combined over his last 8+ innings, had a .115 BAA and 0.66 WHiP during July? And here's the good part ... he's already in the game and has thrown only 10 pitches.

Oh, dear, that would be lovely.

And they fail to score again.

[Zvon]

GAHZOOGLES!

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Jason Bay has become Joe Btfsplk.

[Zvon]

If Parnell walks Posey to start I may have to turn this off.

[Edgy MD]

Eleven of the last 15 Mets have reached.

Two outs on Los Gigantes.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Bobby Pee.

[Zvon]

OOO, we got a call there on Hunter. I dunno Mex, didn't look like a strike to me. But Ill take it.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

[bigpurple:38t9rzzx]METS
WIN
THE
DAMN
THING[/bigpurple:38t9rzzx]

[Ceetar]

Mets are 1-0 when I'm sick and have a hot toddy during the game.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Insurance runs are overrated.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Books?

/Scratches head
//Goes to bed

[Frayed Knot]

I was sure they were going to blow that one since the 3rd inning.
But they somehow managed to blow their opportunities to blow it.

[Zvon]

Wow, wacky,wacky game. Good job Parnell.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Ceetar wrote: Mets are 1-0 when I'm sick and have a hot toddy during the game.

Any word from your neighbors tonight? Did they get a pizza delivered?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

That game doesn't deserve a postgame handshake. It deserves a postgame shrug/embarrassed slink-away.

[Frayed Knot]

Ceetar wrote: Mets are 1-0 when I'm sick and have a hot toddy during the game.

Mets are 51-54 this year when I'm pounding vodkas trying to ease the anxiety.



OK that's not really true but tonight was one of those times I should have been drinking.

[Ceetar]

Swan Swan H wrote: Ceetar wrote: Mets are 1-0 when I'm sick and have a hot toddy during the game. Any word from your neighbors tonight? Did they get a pizza delivered?

nope, all quiet over there tonight.

[Edgy MD]

Swan Swan H wrote: Eli has several Whitesides, Buster is a bit of a Posey, Brett's parents thought he was quite a Pill, Justin is probably Christian, Pagan's no Angel, Gregor is not nearly as Blanco as Barry Zito, and all of Hensley is Clay, not just his feet.

This needs to be celebrated.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

From espn.com:

The Mets had 20 baserunners, partly courtesy of nine walks, a hit batter and an error. The last team to have that many baserunners and produce only two runs in a win? That would be the Padres in 2008, against the Mets no less, according to Mark Simon of ESPN Stats & Information.

The indispensable UMDB reminds us that it was this beauty, which ended with Scott Schoenweis walking the bases loaded (the last intentional), and then pushing across the game-ending run on a HBP. It was the first of three straight 2-1 losses at Petco, two of which were walk-offs. The other walk-off loss ended when Pedro Feliciano surrendered a leadoff home run in the 10th to Scott Hairston.

OE: Typo cleanup (in in the 10th)

Edited August 2, 2012 by Guest