IGT 6/8 Marlins vs Mets "Rain Rain Go Away"

[Fman99]

Harvey vs Fernandez, 1:10 first pitch.

[duan]

is this looking like it's going to happen?

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

weather looks fine here. Maybe some rain later but fine now

[Zvon]

Looks good.

[Zvon]

GAMEON!

Harvey deals in the first and his pitches look lively.
3 up 3 down, 1 k.

[Zvon]

Singles by Muffy and Duds put runners at the corners. 2 out... Byrd is not the wyrd. Ks.

Stranded.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

JUANDERFUL!!!

[Zvon]

Wow, Laggy waited real nice on that curve and doubles to the gap. Ike, who walked, scored by doing something around the bases that was a little faster than his walking.

Mets up, 1-0

[Zvon]

I shouldn't make fun of Davis on the bases. He had to chugAchug to go from 1st to home.

Brantly singles so there goes that.

[Zvon]

Fish tie the game by doing fishy things in the Mets general direction.

Ozuna was a fish outta water. Picked off!
1-1 after 3&1/2

[Edgy MD]

What if, after a little patience, love, and stumbles along the way, Lagares maybe turns out to be good? Any notion that he may be worth that kind of commitment?

[Frayed Knot]

Marlins continue to be the best team I've seen this year ... based soley on games vs NYM

[Edgy MD]

Fernandez has a tasty looking glove.

[Guest vtmet]

Frayed Knot wrote: Marlins continue to be the best team I've seen this year ... based soley on games vs NYM

If the Marlins only opponents since 2006 were the Mets, they would be perennial playoff contenders yearly...

[Frayed Knot]

That girl in the orange is right now texting her friends saying: WAS JUST THISCLOSE TO GRBBNG D-WRIGHT'S BUTT

[Zvon]

What I miss? Not that glove that I love seein on Wrights catch, just replayed. That was great seeing the looks on the fans faces.

We have only 3 hits? Come on Mets!

[Frayed Knot]

vtmet wrote: Marlins continue to be the best team I've seen this year ... based soley on games vs NYM If the Marlins only opponents since 2006 were the Mets, they would be perennial playoff contenders yearly...

67-69 from 2006 thru today to be exact. That complaint is more accurate if you just go from 2009 to present: 44-37 which is exactly half of an 88-win season pace

But this team is something completely different (and not in a Monty Python way).
They're en-route to maybe challenging for the worst single-season record ever, yet when we see them they're not only winning but usually look good in doing so. They hit our guys including Harvey who nobody else hits; their pitchers shut us down completely, they run, they play D, and they take advantage of every break we give them. And this is the 10th game of the season already so it's not like we're talking about just one series.
Hell, the Cardinals didn't look this good against us, neither did the Reds and lord knows the Yanx didn't either.

[Zvon]

uh-oh

[Edgy MD]

They ain't gonna break no 1962 Mets records. There's talent on this team, if under-ripe. Was nothing on the 1962 Mets like this pitcher Miami threw at us today.

Meanwhile and ominously unexpected exit for Harvey...

[Zvon]

Harvey removed from the game. No word why.

[Zvon]

Whatevers wrong it doesn't look apparent. Ronnie says maybe lower back, upper buttock.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: They ain't gonna break no 1962 Mets records. There's talent on this team, if under-ripe. Was nothing on the 1962 Mets like this pitcher Miami threw at us today..

Probably not, but their results whether it be their record (worst), hitting (worst by a lot), or pitching (bottom five) don't resemble the team we've seen ten times now so far.

[Zvon]

Wow. nice backup by Laggy. Big.

[Zvon]

Frayed Knot wrote: Edgy MD wrote: They ain't gonna break no 1962 Mets records. There's talent on this team, if under-ripe. Was nothing on the 1962 Mets like this pitcher Miami threw at us today.. Probably not, but their results whether it be their record (worst), hitting (worst by a lot), or pitching (bottom five) don't resemble the team we've seen ten times now so far.

Of this there is no doubt.

[Frayed Knot]

And the worst part about the Harvey injury (well, maybe not the worst part, but the bad part for today) is that this is now a battle of the bullpens and, two batters in, we're already in trouble.

[Zvon]

Nice. HUGEEE out

[Frayed Knot]

AND A TWO PITCH/THREE OUT ESCAPE!!!

[Zvon]

Whew.

[Zvon]

Gotta luv the innerwebs TM

[Edgy MD]

Seemed to be a festival of bad execution.

Pierre, who I imagine is one of the top ten sac-bunters of all time, faked out his own runner by pulling the ball back so late. Buck almost lost the runner hung out there by throwing before he committed to a base. Then neither the lead runner worked to give the trailing runner as much time to break as possible, nor did the trailing runner break at all.