IGT 5/15/13 Mets at St. Louis Cardinals

[Edgy MD]

That was a better, cleaner game than they've been playing.

Still absolutely deserved to lose.

[Zvon]

Can't be wasting good outings from the guys we don't expect good outings from.

Mets lose

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Too bad it was larded with unfortunate shit like the dropped tag, the wild pitch, the unfinished DP, the 0-on, 2-out, 2-strike rally, etc etc etc

[Guest vtmet]

Zvon wrote: Can't be wasting good outings from the guys we don't expect good outings from. Mets lose

do you know what the odds are for a bad pitcher to have a good outing on the same day that a bad offense scores runs? you've got a better chance at craps in Vegas...

Mets have the 2nd lowest batting average in Major League Baseball at .227 (and how many of those hits came in the first 2 weeks of the season)...and the Mets pitching staff is tied for 4th highest "batting average against" at .267 (and that's with Harvey/Parnell combining to only allow 36 hits in 72+ innings)...simple arithmetic says that when Harvey isn't pitching, we most likely have almost no chance of competing, let alone winning...this team plays like the 1977 Mets when Jerry Koosman lost 20 games while pitching relatively well (the season after he won 21 games)...and now they have a lefty version of Dave Kingman at 1st and a lefty version of Dave Kingman in Center...

[Guest vtmet]

I think that I was being a little harsh on the 1977 Mets...as bad as that offense was, they still had a better batting average (.244 vs the current .227) and a better OBP (.313 OBP vs the "drive up the starter's pitch count" current team's mark of .302)...

and even the pitching staff had a much better ERA (3.77 vs the current 4.59)...

this team could use a Bruce Boisclair, a Nino Espinosa, a Skip Lockwood and a Bob Apodaca...

[Edgy MD]

What team couldn't?

The Cardinals will cry for mercy before all is said and done.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: Never come out hacking when you're down by more than one in the ninth, Lucas.

No. BE MORE AGGRESSIVE ALWAYS.

[Edgy MD]

Wow, always? Really? If he gets on base, should he be stealing second and then third?

You know what a home run is worth in that situation? Exactly as much as a walk or a single or a hit batsman or an error. You get aggressive in the ninth when you are the run that matters --- the tying on go-ahead run. Until that guy comes to the plate, the job of everybody else is to not make outs.

That's good fundies.

[Ceetar]

sorry, I was being sarcastic and mocking about the people that insist Duda is too passive and (before this recent slump) his 900+ OPS was worth nothing because he had no RBI.

[Edgy MD]

Sorry. Missed that.