IGT 9/19/12 Phils @ Mets

[Frayed Knot]

... although the forecasts for getting this one in aren't looking too good. Apres Cliff Lee, le deluge.
What we'll probably see is either a DH tomorrow or both teams have an open date on Thursday as well.

If and when it does come off it'll be Matt Harvey's last start of the year before he gets shut down.
Unfortunately for Matt, the offense was shut down long before he ever got here, like sometime in early August.

He's scheduled to face Tyler Cloyd, who sounds like he ought to be out on his private yacht trying to land a marlin.
Not to be confused with his cousin Cloyd Tyler who's definitely more at home trolling for catfish in some bayou.

Edited September 18, 2012 by Guest

[G-Fafif]

Mets decide Harvey too valuable to mess around with in iffy weather, will throw Hefner to the wind tonight, if there is a tonight.

[G-Fafif]

Mets also don't care if Fred Lewis blows away.

Lewis-RF
Murphy-2B
Wright-3B
Davis-1B
Duda-LF
Turner-SS
Valdespin-CF
Shoppach-C
Hefner-RHP

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Hefner. Get off my lawn.

[HahnSolo]

Christ. Hope no one bought tickets thinking Harvey was starting.

[Guest themetfairy]

HahnSolo wrote: Christ. Hope no one bought tickets thinking Harvey was starting.

I was thinking about it. Glad I held off.

[G-Fafif]

They can all blow away, too.

Rollins SS
Pierre LF
Utley 2B
Howard 1B
Mayberry CF
Brown RF
Frandsen 3B
Kratz C
Cloyd P

[G-Fafif]

Fred Lewis and Jeremy Hefner can come inside now. Rainout. Makeup Thursday night.

[Edgy MD]

My vision of the remaining lineups of the season being Bayless got off to a good start.

[Guest themetfairy]

Is Harvey pitching tomorrow?

[Guest Mets � Willets Point]

More rainouts means more potential starts for R.A. Dickey!

Dickey, rain, rain, rain, Dickey, rain, rain, etc. He could potentially get 15 more starts this way.

[ashie62]

Fred Lewis was a "can't miss" type prospect around 2007, oh well...

[Frayed Knot]

Date updated on the IGT - as is the Philly pitcher as mgr Charlie uses the occasion of the rain-out to swap his pitching around, so we'll get Hamels today on his regular rest and Cloyd gets bumped to tomorrow.
Harvey still starting for the Mets.

[Frayed Knot]

Ashie62 wrote: Fred Lewis was a "can't miss" type prospect around 2007, oh well...

Fred Lewis was a 2nd round pick (66th overall) by the Giants out of Southern University in 2002, two years after he passed on signing w/Montreal when they picked him in the 20th round while in Junior College.
After his good season in A-Ball* in 2004, Baseball America ranked him as the #78 prospect in their pre-2005 rankings although that's not only the highest he ever got but also the only time he ever showed up in their Top-100.

Promising prospect but never exactly in the "can't miss" category.





* beware of Cal League stats for a hitter

[Edgy MD]

The only time I ever really read the words "can't miss" are in when the term is applied in retrospect by someone claiming a prospect has been oversold.

[Frayed Knot]

Well, 'can't miss prospect' or not, Fred loses his start to the rain-out and the revamped line-up as a result of Philly's switch to a LHP

Tejada - 6
Murphy - 4
Wright - 5
Hairston - 9
Davis - 3
Shoppach - 2
Duda - 7
Torres - 8
Harvey - 1

[Frayed Knot]

1st batter = Insurmountable lead

Oh well, we were in it for a while.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

OMG the Mets tied the ballgame.

[Frayed Knot]

I wonder how many votes Rob Dibble would get for biggest asshole to step on the mound over the last 27 years?


For those not listening to the TV crew Dibble was part of the topic of conversation during tonight's game

[Guest Swan Swan H]

It's a bird

It's a plane

It's SUGARPANTS

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Frayed Knot wrote: I wonder how many votes Rob Dibble would get for biggest asshole to step on the mound over the last 27 years? For those not listening to the TV crew Dibble was part of the topic of conversation during tonight's game

That depends. How many people have never heard of Roger Clemens?

[Frayed Knot]

Harvey is/was certainly one positive to come out of this season.
I'd be pressed to come up with a second one though.

Be nice if we can hang on to this one and get him the win.

[bmfc1]

Did Harvey say "we've got a good defense" as Murphy made the error?

[Frayed Knot]

bmfc1 wrote: Did Harvey say "we've got a good defense" as Murphy made the error?

Yup - although not technically an error because Ruiz didn't advance on the play.
Harvey was, of course, referring to the two GiDPs behind him earlier in the game but, yeah, that was unfortunate timing on Muffy's part.




Nice inning by Parnell - and it seems like a while since I've typed that sentence.
Even the one hit was a broken bat bloop and he had to get an extra out due to the bad throw by Murph.

[Guest The Second Spitter]

Frayed Knot wrote: Harvey is/was certainly one positive to come out of this season.

Fatsecca tomorrow morning:

"I like the kid. He's got some nice stuff. But he's no Tom Seaver. He's not Tom Seaver. Like i said, he's got some nice stuff, but he's not Tom Seaver....AND ANYBODY WHO THINKS HE'S TOM SEAVER IS SERIOUSLY DELUDING HIMSELF!!!!!!!! FOR GOD'S SAKE, HE'S NOT TOM SEAVER!!!!!!...."

" Now somebody pass me another donut because I can feel my blood sugar dropping"

[Frayed Knot]

Gotta get one (or more) of these runners in here.

[Edgy MD]

Let's go, Torres!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Well, it would have been nice, anyway.

[Edgy MD]

Surely.

Fastest guy on the team there.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

F the Phils and the Horst they rode in on.