Labor Day IGT - Mets @ St Louis

[Frayed Knot]

Hopefully the remnants of hurricane Isaac are gone so we can get this game in and have the Cards suffer the wrath of hurricane Isaac Davis instead.
It's the first game of three for the Mets who are coming off having won three straight series [2 of 3 v Houston; 2 of 3 v Philly; sweep of Miami] since that disaster of a four-game sweep against Colorado - and my IGTs are on a roll here.

2:15 EDT - McHugh vs Kelly (sounds like a prize fight from about 70 years ago)

- McHugh had a meh and shortened [4.2 IP] start for Buffalo since his rather stunning ML debut 11 days ago against the Rox [7 IP, 0 Runs, 2 Hits, 9 Ks]. He figures to have a tougher time against the harder hitting Cardinals.

- Joseph William Kelly is also a rookie: 6' 1"/185; R/R; 24 y/o, a 3rd round pick by the Cards out of UC-Riverside in 2009, will be making his 16th appearance and 14th start in the big leagues.
4-6; 3.61 ERA; 1.47 WHiP -- he's coming off a rough outing vs the Pirates where he got hit for 5 earned on 8 hits and 3 walks in 5 innings and took the loss. Has never faced the Mets and may not even be able to spell Mets for all we know.
Also, every time I hear the name 'Kelly' I hear it in the late actor Robert Shaw's voice, or rather in the Irish brogue that Shaw used in 'The Sting' for his character of Doyle Lonnegan as Lonnegan spoke to the Robert Redford character that was posing as a guy named Kelly. "Where ya from Kelly?"

[Ceetar]

Murphy breaks up the no-hitter with 1 out in the first.

[Ceetar]

and the United State's first supreme court justice does the same in the bottom of the first with a double Duda'd into a triple .

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Looked more like an out Duda'd into a triple.

[Ceetar]

Swan Swan H wrote: Looked more like an out Duda'd into a triple.

Well, a faster guy probably gets there. But if the idea is for Duda to be a slow but capable outfielder, he's gotta learn when his legs won't get him there. He's gotta learn to play the position, not learn to be faster.

[Edgy MD]

Can we talk about Strasberg some more? Come on!

Middle of the sixth, Mets down 4-0.

[Zvon]

Ceetar wrote: Swan Swan H wrote: Looked more like an out Duda'd into a triple. Well, a faster guy probably gets there. But if the idea is for Duda to be a slow but capable outfielder, he's gotta learn when his legs won't get him there. He's gotta learn to play the position, not learn to be faster.

Spot on. Bay probably would have had that. Duda had no chance. He should have gone on an angle back to the corner instead of that zippity duda thing he did there.

[Zvon]

SCORE SOME RUNS YOU BUMS!

[Zvon]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAchoooooooo!
Another blow from Ho-Jo's nose!



Bless you.

[Guest themetfairy]

ShopVac gets us back into the game.

[Zvon]

Triboom! from Torres. 2 runs are nice but not enough. MORE RUNS YOU BUMS!

[Edgy MD]

Very handsome rally.

Two innings to get two more back. Big stuff here.

[Edgy MD]

Six straight scoreless --- if brief --- appearances from Carson.

[Edgy MD]

And it won't be seven. BoooOOOooo!

[Frayed Knot]

Not a scoreless outing for Carson anymore.
And yet another poor OF throw negates the possibility of an out.

[Edgy MD]

Oh, yeah, I certainly wasn't counting that outing. Just rooting. In futility, at that moment.

But tying run on deck at the top of the order. Grind it out, Mets.

[Edgy MD]

[bigpurple:2cdasa4g]Fuck yeah Murphy![/bigpurple:2cdasa4g]

Two innings to get at least one more. COME ON, SHaMS!

[Frayed Knot]

Now t'would be nice if Dabid chooses this AB to NOT ground out to SS the way he's seemingly done for most of his last 3 dozen ABs

[Zvon]

MurphBOOM!

If we'd stop giving runs back it'd be tied.

[Edgy MD]

Frayed Knot wrote: Now t'would be nice if Dabid chooses this AB to NOT ground out to SS the way he's seemingly done for most of his last 3 dozen ABs

Popout. Your humblest of wishes fulfilled.

[Frayed Knot]

We're not quite in Thole territory where I consider hard ground-outs to be a sign of improvement ... but it's getting there.

[Edgy MD]

Davis walks. Can't really pinch-run for him with Cede�o, because he might come up in the ninth, I guess.

[Edgy MD]

Gets to second on that hit, but he's riding the local.

[Zvon]

[Edgy MD]

Let's go, Mets!
Let's go, Mets!
Let's go, Mets!

[Edgy MD]

Just a hit, Kelly.

[Edgy MD]

Oh, froof.

Anybuttz, Torres, Thole or Cede�o, and Tejada in the ninth.

[Edgy MD]

Those pinch-hitters look to have improved our outfield defense as well.

One out, runner on second after a walk and a sacreefice. Lefty Descalso facing Edgin.

[Frayed Knot]

It's outings like today which pretty much absolve Terry of the charge of not throwing away his reliever roles and instead leaning on Parnell as his go-to guy in tough spots.
Bobby's as likely to have off days as any of the other culprits.

[Edgy MD]

A 3-2 count and whoosh! Strikeout.

Do you go after Robinson the righty or Jay, who's better but lefthanded?