IGT 7/23/13 ATL@NYM - If it wasn't for those Medlen kids...

[Edgy MD]

I love when they're talking about what a great bench player Reed Johnson is and he has an utterly hapless at-bat.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

But it in the Pooks!

[Fman99]

[Edgy MD]

Nice job, Parnell.

For a scruffy-looking nerfherder.

[Zvon]

GJ Bobby Pee. Good game. We really need more than a split here. So keep it goin. Take the next 2.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: But it in the Pooks!

Fman did that. Once.

[Frayed Knot]

It's usually a good day when your opponent's scoring ends on the 2nd pitch of the game.

[Guest Swan Swan H]

Frayed Knot wrote: It's usually a good day when your opponent's scoring ends on the 2nd pitch of the game.

Usually.

This is the third time the Mets have allowed a leadoff homer, and that was the only run their opponent scored. They won last night, and they won on August 19, 1998 when Darryl Hamilton, then of the Colorado Rockies, led off with a homer off of Masato Yoshii. That was all they got, and the Mets got two in the fourth to win 2-1.

However, on September 2, 1963 Jay Hook gave up a leadoff homer to Pete Rose, and that was it. The Mets were in the process of being shut out by Jim Maloney, and lost a 1-0 heartbreaker.

Not sure if either of those were on the second pitch of the game, but close enough.

OE: Forgot to credit Mark Simon of ESPN who posted this factoid on his Twitter account. Well, the year and hitter, anyway. The UMDB provided the details.

[Frayed Knot]

I was thinking, after I wrote that last night, that it would be possible to be down Two-nothing after two pitches and therefore your odds of that game becoming a win ticks down slightly more.