IGT 5/3/13: Mets vs. Braves - Let's Keep The Streak Going!

[Edgy MD]

If they can finish this off, they gain on two teams ahead of them in the schedule, and one behind.

[Frayed Knot]

Biggest spot in young Familia's MLB career.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Edgy MD wrote: Hey! Check it out! Valdy in the infield!

Better than Recker on the mound.

[Edgy MD]

Was Davis holding his back after that play?

[Edgy MD]

So, these Gattis guy --- are those roidy muscles or what? Look like big, meaty wrestler arms.

[Fman99]

That's ah two ah

[Fman99]

Good guys win! Fuck you Braves fans!

[Zvon]

YES!

[Guest themetfairy]

Books!

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Now that's a closer!

[Frayed Knot]

Jeurys Familia = Saver
Craig Kimbrel = Save Blower

[dinosaur jesus]

Had 'em all the way.

Best win of the year?

[Frayed Knot]

With the Mets winning, the Islanders winning (also come from behind), the Knicks winning, and the Yanx losing ...
I'm officially declaring this a [u:2rev0i9u]Quadruple Happiness Day[/u:2rev0i9u]

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Swan Swan H wrote: Now that's a closer!

That's-a ma boy.

[JUST caught up to you guys on DVR, as the game ended.]

[Guest themetfairy]

Frayed Knot wrote: With the Mets winning, the Islanders winning (also come from behind), the Knicks winning, and the Yanx losing ... I'm officially declaring this a Quadruple Happiness Day

It's quite the day!

[Edgy MD]

Coming from behind twice, and hanging in there with the winning run on third and one out. I call that a character builder.

Let's not root for Recker-on-the-mound appearances. Ever.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I can't help myself-- I do like my Weird Baseball Things. (Though, honestly, in my head, it's college fireballer Ike doing the pitching.)

But, yeah, Hyoo-Rees fulfilling his destiny is far better.

[Edgy MD]

I like weird baseball things too. But let's cycle through all the non-weird stuff first.

[Ceetar]

gut-wrenching loss for the Braves.

love it.

[Guest vtmet]

Ceetar wrote: gut-wrenching loss for the Braves. love it.

Braves are over-achieving a bit, they deserve a little bad luck every once in a while...

Justin Upton is on pace for a 68 HR season...he's a good player, but he's not that caliber of slugger...when does the euphoria of playing with his brother and near his childhood home wear off?

[Guest Swan Swan H]

vtmet wrote: Ceetar wrote: gut-wrenching loss for the Braves. love it. Braves are over-achieving a bit, they deserve a little bad luck every once in a while... Justin Upton is on pace for a 68 HR season...he's a good player, but he's not that caliber of slugger...when does the euphoria of playing with his brother and near his childhood home wear off?

Hopefully before it kicks in for his brother.

[Guest vtmet]

Swan Swan H wrote: vtmet wrote: Ceetar wrote: gut-wrenching loss for the Braves. love it. Braves are over-achieving a bit, they deserve a little bad luck every once in a while... Justin Upton is on pace for a 68 HR season...he's a good player, but he's not that caliber of slugger...when does the euphoria of playing with his brother and near his childhood home wear off? Hopefully before it kicks in for his brother.

Bj's performance isn't really a surprise to me...A free swinging "power" guy from a good hitter's park in the AL that "suddenly" strikes out over twice as often as he gets a base hit when exposed on a daily basis to the NL lineup scheme of things...

The AL East has some of the best hitter's ballparks in the majors. He's had 97 of his 121 career HRs in an AL East ballpark (697 of his 993 games)...Which means that he's had a HR in 13.9% of the games that he's played in an AL East park; and he's had a HR in 8.0% of the games that he's played elsewhere...

[Edgy MD]

Can we discuss the amount of bridge jumping that would be going on had the Mets dropped a Bayvian contract to sign Upton?

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: Can we discuss the amount of bridge jumping that would be going on had the Mets dropped a Bayvian contract to sign Upton?

B.J.? Didn't want him. I asserted that I'd rather have had Pagan.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Last night's game reminded me a bit of this one, which was Darryl Strawberry's debut. My wife had an apartment full of women for some Tupperware deal or something, so I decided at the last minute to go. The Mets were down 3-0, but tied it on a pinch-homer by Danny Heep in the 8th and a two-run shot by Dave Kingman in the ninth. Carlos Diaz gave up a run in the tenth, but Hubie Brooks (who was benched for the just-called up Tucker Ashford) homered in his first AB in the bottom of the tenth. Jesse Orosco pitched three scoreless innings before George Foster won it in the thirteenth with a three-run shot.

Not an exact parallel, of course - home vs. road, game winning homer vs. a couple of singles, but the feeling of the two late homers to tie it brought this one back to mind.

[Benjamin Grimm]

It's sometimes strange to be reminded that Tom Seaver and Darryl Strawberry were teammates on the Mets.

[Edgy MD]

Swan Swan H wrote: Last night's game reminded me a bit of this one, which was Darryl Strawberry's debut. My wife had an apartment full of women for some Tupperware deal or something, so I decided at the last minute to go. The Mets were down 3-0, but tied it on a pinch-homer by Danny Heep in the 8th and a two-run shot by Dave Kingman in the ninth. Carlos Diaz gave up a run in the tenth, but Hubie Brooks (who was benched for the just-called up Tucker Ashford) homered in his first AB in the bottom of the tenth. Jesse Orosco pitched three scoreless innings before George Foster won it in the thirteenth with a three-run shot. Not an exact parallel, of course - home vs. road, game winning homer vs. a couple of singles, but the feeling of the two late homers to tie it brought this one back to mind.

So many cool things happened that day. Among the coolest was that the two guys who had just played themselves out of the lineup --- Heep and Brooks --- ended up coming off the bench as heroes. Add the presence of Seaver, the always-cool-to-matchup-against-Soto factor, plus the extra innings. By then, the novelty of Strawberry's debut had become a secondary storyline. Straw batting third, the thought (in my mind anyhow) was that it looked like we had a good new hitter with power, and then he went 0-4, with other heroes breaking through, and you file that away, until in extra innings, he hit this amazing arcing moonshot that I had never seen from a lefthanded Met in... ever. That it went a little foul and didn't win the game in extras was only a little disappointing. I suddenly realized that we didn't have a good hitter with power, but rather the most profound power-hitting talent in the league. I felt a little dirty. Other, bratty rich kids --- they get gifts like this. I don't. I was happy that my new owners had re-acquired the remains of Seaver, Staub, and Kingman.

Make-goods on past sins. That was the best I had conditioned myself to hope for until that moment.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

It sure would be nice to see this one added to the scant inventory of Mets Classics played and replayed on SNY.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Swan Swan H wrote: It sure would be nice to see this one added to the scant inventory of Mets Classics played and replayed on SNY.

Yes. I "stayed in" that Friday night because I had the SATs the next morning. Did not study for a second.