IGT: Braves at Mets 04/20/14

[TransMonk]

[u:l6o17crv]Braves[/u:l6o17crv]
Jason Heyward, rf
B.J. Upton, cf
Freddie Freeman, 1b
Justin Upton, lf
Chris Johnson, 3b
Dan Uggla, 2b
Andrelton Simmons, ss
Gerald Laird, c
David Hale, rhp

[u:l6o17crv]Mets[/u:l6o17crv]
Eric Young Jr., lf
Curtis Granderson, rf
David Wright, 3b
Daniel Murphy, 2b
Chris Young, cf
Lucas Duda, 1b
Anthony Recker, c
Omar Quintanilla, ss
Zack Wheeler, rhp

Swapping Curty Pants and Murphy? Made me wonder why TC didn't just swap Granderson with Duda.

Per Rubin: "Collins decided against moving Lucas Duda to cleanup, saying that he didn't want to overwhelm Duda in the same week where the Mets cleared out first base for him by trading Ike Davis to the Pirates."

Seems Terry is more concerned with coddling his players rather than putting them in the best position to win ballgames. Duda will make more than $1.6M this season. Overwhelm him.

[MFS62]

TransMonk wrote: Duda will make more than $1.6M this season. Overwhelm him.

For less than that (about $1.0M) I would permit someone to just whelm me.

Later

[Lefty Specialist]

Okay, Granderson needs to sit down. Now.

[ashie62]

Just tuning in... quiet day...

[ashie62]

how about a hit here...

[ashie62]

Tie game courtesy Dan Uggla...

[Lefty Specialist]

Yeah, but unless it's handed them on a silver platter, they can't score. Jeez.

[Frayed Knot]

Yeah, I think Uggla has all the NYM RBIs so far today.

[Edgy MD]

Go get 'em, Farnie.

You big maniac.

[Edgy MD]

Nope, Torres hanging in there.

[Edgy MD]

Ronnnie raving about how hard Simmons is to strike out and then he goes lunging at a two-strike curve in the dirt, and he still puts it in play by hitting it on a bounce.

[Frayed Knot]

We gotta quit walking Gerald Laird.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Ronnnie raving about how hard Simmons is to strike out and then he goes lunging at a two-strike curve in the dirt, and he still puts it in play by hitting it on a bounce.

That's how you go 55 plate appearances and only rack up 1 K & 2 BBs
All last season he had all of 40 &55 while coming to bat nearly 700 times

[Edgy MD]

Gattis is a fast man.

[Edgy MD]

Lets walk 'em off.

[Frayed Knot]

C'mon Brownie, end this shit!

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Simmons is frustratingly good, isn't he?

[Edgy MD]

Come on, Brownie. Hit it to Uggla, not Simmons.

[Frayed Knot]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: Simmons is frustratingly good, isn't he?

Especially since the Braves probably found him on some sugar field somewhere and signed him based on the way his swung his machete and threw rocks at the over-bearing foreman.
Six weeks later he was in the major leagues.



or something like that

[Edgy MD]

"Catch that, Simmons." --- Ruben Tejada

[Frayed Knot]

Fransworth gets the heavy-lifting part of the lineup here

[Edgy MD]

Young, I understand not quite getting to that ball, but how do you run 40 feet past it?

[Frayed Knot]

Only natural to figure that Lagares pockets that one
We're seen too much to think otherwise

Edited April 20, 2014 by Guest

[metirish]

Nice day to be at CF, lot of stuff over by the old Shea apple for the kids to do, Granderson sucks the life out of the place with each AB , hard to watch.

[Frayed Knot]

Nice inning Farnsworth.
Not only got Freddie but then got Chris Johnson w/a runner on 3rd, and he's been almost as big a PITA as Freddie lately.

Now the middle of OUR order to win this one: Wright - Murphy - CYoung - Duda

[Zvon]

Whats all this then?

[Edgy MD]

Wright suddenly unstoppable.

Murph hanging in there too.

[Zvon]

From what I've seen another wacky game, huh?

End it Duda.

[Zvon]

Zvon wrote: End it Duda.

Not the inning you fool.

[Edgy MD]

Batting with the pitcher in a shadow must be... terrifying.