IGT 4/3/2013: SDP @ NYM -- Head'less Padres in Topless Park

[Edgy MD]

Managers, stop pulling effective starters. Ninety-four pitches? Come on.

[Guest Mr. Met Puppet Guy]

"No, Mr. Met. I know the game is over, but why would we leave? Where would we go?"

[G-Fafif]

Another satisfying nine innings at Citi Field, albeit another nine degrees in the stands. But when Harvey is on, it's balmy as all get out.

Beautiful young man.

[Guest vtmet]

Edgy MD wrote: Managers, stop pulling effective starters. Ninety-four pitches? Come on.

He did labor a bit in the last inning...1st start of the year; it was freakin' cold; he's still basically a rookie; Mets don't have a good injury track record; and the game was pretty much out of reach...Normally I agree on this point, but tonight I wouldn't have sent him back out for the 8th inning...

[Guest vtmet]

Zvon wrote: metirish wrote: Total cliche of course but Harvey just looks like a pitcher. ...and a hitter.

and if Terry Collins was Tony LaRussa, Harvey probably wouldn't be batting 9th when he pitches...

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Managers, stop pulling effective starters. Ninety-four pitches? Come on.

2nd game of the season, cold weather, large lead, a near-rookie who's never pitched more than 160 innings in a year, coming off an off-day with relievers who have yet to see action ... I had no problem with it.

[Edgy MD]

It's a quick trip from "they can use the work" to "they're getting too much work."

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: It's a quick trip from "they can use the work" to "they're getting too much work."

for the starters too though. Gotta incrementally go longer in the games. I mean, we know they probably won't got much deeper into the game than that with Harvey but I don't think him, or Niese, should jump to 110+ until they've done 100 a couple of times.

[Guest vtmet]

Edgy MD wrote: It's a quick trip from "they can use the work" to "they're getting too much work."

as far as the "they can use the work" concept...2 blowouts situations; wouldn't have been a good time to let rookie Jeurys "break the ice" in 2013 and get a little Familia with the Citi Field mound in chilly conditions? Terry used 7 out of 8 relievers, using the guys that he'd want to use Thursday afternoon in a tight game but didn't get the rook in for some experience when the games weren't on the line...

[Edgy MD]

Zvon wrote: Hawkins looks 20 years younger than Atchison.

This point wasn't lost on me. Hawkins looks like a lean young athlete fresh from school and he's 40 years old.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I think I got more wood from the Doodoo homer than from Harvey's performance, although both were woody.

[G-Fafif]

Duda...he got great wood on that homer.

We're talking about batting, right?