IGT #124 8/21/13: Braves @ Mets: Niese Day for a Sweep

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: I'm afraid Lagares is gonna get the payback pitch.

gets him on base. would help.

[Zvon]

2 strike squeeze!! Heads up Satin.

Keith has never seen one? Do I watch more baseball than Keith?!

[Frayed Knot]

WOW!!! A two-strike squeeze play goes sour for 'lanta.
Could be a HUGE break if Niese can take care of the PH.
Gets Wood out of the game too.

[Frayed Knot]

Now Niese is walking the call-up PHer to get to Schaefer.
Not sure I like this even though it brings up lefty/lefty.

[Zvon]

It worked. HUGE K!

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

My apologies to Mr. Niese!

[Zvon]

I don't trust the Mets doctors. How could the Braves?

Heyward heads to the hospital for see-thru pictures.

[Zvon]

fkn frddy frmn

[Zvon]

Without Heyward out there they are doomed. Turnip with the 1 out double in the 9th.

1-1

[Zvon]

Bases full of Mets, 2 out, 9th,tied 1-1.......

[Zvon]

Bunt!:?? come-on guys!

[Zvon]

Gah. I want to see that slide into second again. That was too close for Brave comfort.

[Zvon]

Keith may be more scatterbrained than me, and that's sayin a lot.

[Zvon]

Stage set for fkn frddy frmn to ruin my day. Terry will throw Rice out there in an effort to keep me in a good mood.

[Frayed Knot]

The Braves just keep rotating these pen guys who never seem to give up baserunners.
So even when they have two guys go down at the beginning of the season (O'Flaherty & Venters) a couple more just pop up in their place

Their five most commonly used guys this year are:
Kinbrel -- 0.93 WHiP
Anthony Vavaro -- 1.19
Luis Avilan -- 0.86
David Carpenter -- 1.03
Jordan Walden -- 1.06

Walden & Carpenter are new this season, and really only Kimbrel was a main cog in their pen prior to this year.

And today, with the Mets having three straight RHBs coming up, Fredi has no qualms going to his Lefty with the game on the line - and he gets away with it.

[Frayed Knot]

THROW THE CHALLENGE FLAG!!!!

[Zvon]

UHG! He was out. Gdamndagnabbittgrrrrrgah!

[Zvon]

__THE DAILY NEWS___
BURKE BLOWS!
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Edited August 21, 2013 by Guest

[Zvon]

Whats the point now shorty? Okay, get tossed.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Horrible. One pitch, and there goes the ballgame.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

What was the beef that got Terry and Murph tossed?

[Frayed Knot]

Braves 1st run: 2-out/nobody on ... then the HBP and two straight two-out hits
Braves runs 2-4: 2-out/nobody on: Three straight two-out hits

[Zvon]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: What was the beef that got Terry and Murph tossed?

Close and bad call (real time very hard to call) at first base on a fkn frddy frmn infield single.

I knew frddy would be involved in my day somehow.

And YEA! HELLZYEA MURPHY!!! Get in that umps face. I like that Muffy got vocal and animated. Terry, he was just going thru the motions.


Byrd won't lay down w/o a fight.

[Frayed Knot]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: What was the beef that got Terry and Murph tossed?

Step 1 -- Comebacker off Rice's glove by Freeman, scrambled for it and threw to 1B for the 3rd out ... but was called safe on a close play
Step 2 -- Burke in the game to pitch to the RH Johnson gives up HR on 1st pitch
Step 3 -- Murphy barking at 1B ump got tossed before Johnson had even reached 2nd
Step 4 -- Terry, bitching about Murphy's ejection, was looking to get tossed and finally succeeded.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The guy who brought in Greg Burke shares some of the blame for what happened.

[Guest Kong76]

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[bigpurple:o3hffaom]We wuz robbed![/bigpurple:o3hffaom]

[Zvon]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: The guy who brought in Greg Burke shares some of the blame for what happened.

That's tough to say. If the ump gets that call right everything changes. It was a bang bang play tho. I'm not gonna start jawin how umps suck this time, but I do wish that call went the other way. It didn't and that, for me, was the ball game. DatsAbaseball.

[Edgy MD]

Mets sorta robbed themselves by only scoring only one run.

I think the key to the game, more than the failed hit and run, was Laggy failing to tag on Murphy's flyout to Terdoslavich.

[ashie62]

metsguyinmichigan wrote: Horrible. One pitch, and there goes the ballgame.

Shit happens

[Frayed Knot]

Heyward: Broken jaw - 4 to 6 weeks.