IGT 5/17 Matt Harvey at Cubs

[Guest Swan Swan H]

How about a little insurance? A bit of a buffer? Some slack, Jack? Breathing room. A comfort zone, if you will. A fucking run or two.

[Zvon]

Swan Swan H wrote: How about a little insurance? A bit of a buffer? Some slack, Jack? Breathing room. A comfort zone, if you will. A fucking run or two.

LETS!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

GO!

[Guest Swan Swan H]

[Zvon]

Ha. Those two Cubs suck.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

A guy named Castillo dropped a routine popup. I have a sudden twitching in my neck.

[Zvon]

Show us you're a real closer Bobby! Show em all!

[Zvon]

Whew. Am I gonna be shittin my pants on every out?

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Edited May 17, 2013 by Guest

[Zvon]

YES!good job Parnell! gj Harvey! GJ METS!

[MFS62]

I dreaded this game. This morning, the weather forecast for Chicago was cold and raw, with possibility of rain. I remembered it was under similar conditions there that Paul Wilson first injured his arm.
That's a sigh of relief you hear.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Now you're being silly. Firstly, you're probably thinking of Tim Leary. The record shows that Wilson went down mid season after an early June start at Atlanta. His lone appearance in Chicago, he pitched a 10 strikeout complete game.

Secondly, while rain threatened, it's been perfectly temperate in Chicago.

You don't really read out-of-town weather forecasts in order to reference scarcely relevant Met history in worrying what can go wrong, do you?

[batmagadanleadoff]

Mets appealing Harvey earned run
By Adam Rubin | ESPNNewYork.com

CHICAGO -- The Mets are appealing to Major League Baseball to slice Matt Harvey's ERA from 1.55 to 1.41, which would be within one point of the major league lead shared Clayton Kershaw and Shelby Miller. The thrust of the argument is that there should have been a straight error on Ruben Tejada's throw that bounced past Ike Davis and allowed Anthony Rizzo to score from second base in the first inning Friday. Instead, Alfonso Soriano was awarded an infield hit. There also was an E-6 charged for allowing Rizzo to score from second base. In essence, official scorers are asked to reconstruct what would have happened had a previous error not been committed. The infield-hit designation meant there should have been only one out, in the scorer's estimation, when ensuing batter Nate Schierholtz sent a line drive to center field. Had there been a straight E-6 designation, Schierholtz's subsequent lineout to Rick Ankiel would have been the third out of the reconstructed inning and Rizzo would have been stranded at third base -- making Rizzo's run unearned. Even with the infield-hit designation, which meant there should have been only one with Rizzo at third base leading into Schierholtz's lineout to center, Harvey got an unfavorable ruling. The scorer decided Rizzo -- had he been at third base and not scored on the error -- would have then come home on Schierholtz's liner to Ankiel as a sacrifice fly. Would Rizzo probably have scored on the shallow lineout to the strong-armed Ankiel? Probably not. But the scorer deemed otherwise.

http://espn.go.com/blog/new-york/mets/post/_/id/67290/mets-appealing-harvey-earned-run