8/30/13 NYM@ WAS

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Don't look now, but Washington suddenly has a shot at a playoff slot.

Sure it'd been a longshot, but really this season came to an end four weeks ago this evening, when after a big win in Game 1 of a day-night DH at Washington, we lost Harvelous' game 2 when we scored only 1 run, Muffy gave it away on an error, and Ryan Zimmerman walked-off Hawkins.

I beleive we were just a game behind the Nats going into that one, but we followed that with a listless effort Saturday and Torres got smoked Sunday and that was that for the Mets season.

The Nats have since been off to the races as what once was a 1-game lead over us is today 7.5 and the Nats are a long-but-not-insurmountable 6.5 out of a wild card spot.

It almost could have been us but for the Wright & Harvey & Parnell & Hef injuries, the fact that we can't hit most nights, etc etc. But, the Nats were much the same, once upon a time.

Gee vs. Zimmermann

[Frayed Knot]

Jayson Werth, in particular, has been ridicul-hot for the Nats: .412/.505/.671 in August

[bmfc1]

Murphy hit two HRs off Zimmermann in G1 of that doubleheader. JCL was right about G1 of being the apex of the Mets hopes for contention. Crap, that means that G2 will be shown on MASN all winter. The infamous game from last year where someone named "Valdespin" hit a clutch HR and then booted a groundball in extras was just about shown on a loop. I'll be there tonight.

[G-Fafif]

[u:3r2atc1q]THEIR LONG NATIONAL NIGHTMARE[/u:3r2atc1q]

Eric Young, Jr. � LF
Daniel Murphy � 2B
Andrew Brown � RF
Ike Davis � 1B
Juan Lagares � CF
Wilmer Flores � 3B
Travis d�Arnaud � C
Omar Quintanilla � SS
Dillon Gee � RHP

[bmfc1]

[u:6r2i4kuy]THEM[/u:6r2i4kuy]
Denard Span, cf
Ryan Zimmerman, 3b
Bryce Harper, lf
Jayson Werth, rf
Ian Desmond, ss
Adam LaRoche, 1b
Wilson Ramos, c
Anthony Rendon, 2b
Jordan Zimmermann, rhp

[Frayed Knot]

Ex-Nat Michael Morse gets re-routed back east (to Baltimore) just in time for the other NYC-v-mid-Atlantic showdown this weekend.
Not having near the year he had last season. Be nice if he goes on a Soriano-like HR binge this weekend.

[Edgy MD]

Tejada's hitting .295 / .347 / .379 // .725.

Humor me and call the guy up.

[Benjamin Grimm]

He's gonna be a September 1 guy, I think.

[Guest vtmet]

Edgy MD wrote: Tejada's hitting .295 / .347 / .379 // .725. Humor me and call the guy up.

he would just be rotting on the bench with den Dekker, who probably would have been better off being left in AAA playing every day instead of rotting on TC's bench while TC decides that Andrew Brown is going to be the next Daryl Strawberry...

[Edgy MD]

It's both a little early (it's been three games) and a little late (the regular season is over like tomorrow) to cry out that somebody's rotting.

[Guest themetfairy]

Ike's 2-run Kaboom gives the Mets a 2-1 lead!

[Zvon]

themetfairy wrote: Ike's 2-run Kaboom gives the Mets a 2-1 lead!

I hat missing KaBOOMs.
OO, replays up. Opposite field. Nice. Thats big.

[Frayed Knot]

Four full innings in under an hour ... what a concept!!
In the Matsuzaka game the other day, where were they an hour in - top of the 2nd maybe?

[Zvon]

Travis, my little double machine. DONT STRAND HIM! At least get him over to third. Pull a crazymurph d'man.

[Zvon]

Yikes. Its not even 9 and we are in the 8th!
Muffy, my alternate double machine...


BTW, great open JCL. It almost got me actually interested in this game. Almost.

[Zvon]

Ha! No yips there. Zimm just sucks.
Muffy scores from second on the infield hit! Excitment!

[Fman99]

Gee dealing tonight.

[Zvon]

Fman99 wrote: Gee dealing tonight.

I wasn't gonna say anything til it was over...
But he still is. Lombard ran into one, thats all.

3-2
Pens suddenly busy.

[Zvon]

Q thought Flores was gonna cut that off and was a lil surprised when he didn't.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

He has Ricewater in his veins.

[Fman99]

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

[Exhales, releases groin muscles so as to let testicles descend from throat area]

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Siddown, The Roche.

BOOKS. God, is spoiling fun, or what?

Edited August 30, 2013 by Guest

[Fman99]

Put it in the books!

[Zvon]

Wow. Did not see that 3rd strike call coming. METS WIN! GJ Geericehawk. Very good game.

[Frayed Knot]

Found myself on the edge of the seat sweating out and wanting this win than any other recent game. For a while I thought that Lombardozzi HR was going to be the death rattle.
A series sweep this weekend would essentially kill the Nats post-season hopes and I'll take Wheeler/Niese over Haren/Ohlendorf.


And we got a break on that 3rd strike. 1st one was borderline, 3rd one was out beyond that.