IGT - May 4 - Mets at Rockies

[Gwreck]

Screw the Rockies. Screw Tulowitzki who seems to burn us every year. Screw that stupid purple dinosaur. We're not getting freaking swept.

Eric Young Jr., lf
Daniel Murphy, 2b
David Wright, 3b
Curtis Granderson, rf
Chris Young, cf
Lucas Duda, 1b
Travis d'Arnaud, c
Omar Quintanilla, ss
Dillon Gee, p

Rockies
Charlie Blackmon, rf
Charlie Culberson, ss
Carlos Gonzalez, lf
Nolan Arenado, 3b
Justin Morneau, 1b
Michael McKenry, c
Corey Dickerson, cf
DJ LeMahieu, 2b
Jhoulys Chacin, p

[Gwreck]

Whoops, didn't see the other one that KC started.

[Guest d'Kong76]

We gotta win one eventually! Right?

NY Mets at Colorado
When: 4:10 PM ET, Sunday, May 4, 2014
Where: Coors Field, Denver, Colorado
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Colorado's Jhoulys Chacin comes off the disabled list to make his first start of the season when the red-hot Rockies go for a four-game sweep of the New York Mets on Sunday. Colorado improved to 5-0 in home series this season with a wild 11-10 victory Saturday on pinch-hitter Charlie Culberson's two-run walk-off homer after the Rockies erased a 6-0 deficit with an eight-run fifth inning before blowing 8-6 and 9-8 leads, and trailing 10-9 entering the bottom of the ninth. Colorado, which has won six of its last seven games and is 12-4 in its last 16, is 11-4 at home while averaging 7.8 runs at Coors Field and batting .350 at its spacious ballpark.

The Rockies' Nolan Arenado continued to validate his solid rookie season with a grand slam Saturday and extended his hitting streak to 23 games � the longest active run in the major leagues. New York's David Wright continued his assault at Coors Field with three more hits and is 5-for-9 in the series to raise his average to .391 in 133 at-bats in Colorado. Mets right-hander Dillon Gee has delivered three straight quality starts and tries to atone for a subpar performance in his last outing at Coors.

TV:
4:10 p.m. ET, SNY (New York), ROOT (Colorado)

PITCHING MATCHUP:
Mets RH Dillon Gee (2-1, 2.88 ERA) vs. Rockies RH Jhoulys Chacin (2013: 14-10, 3.47)

Gee pitched eight innings and allowed three hits and four walks while striking out six in New York's 4-0 victory over Miami last Sunday. The 28-year-old Cleburne, Texas, native hurled seven shutout frames three starts back, allowing three hits in the Mets' 5-2 victory at Arizona on April 16 before yielding two runs and losing to St. Louis on April 22. Gee lost in Colorado 8-4 on April 16, 2013, in a game that was delayed two hours because 8 inches of snow had to be cleared off the field.

Chacin set a career high for victories last season before being shut down early in spring training with a strained right shoulder. "I'm feeling good, no soreness other than the usual soreness from pitching,'' the 26-year-old Venezuelan told the Denver Post during his rehabilition period, which consisted of two starts with Class A Modesto and a pair with Triple-A Colorado Springs. Chacin is 1-1 with a 1.80 ERA in four games (three starts) against New York, including a 2-0 loss Aug. 7.

WALK-OFFS:
1. New York RF Curtis Granderson continues to work out of his deep early season slump as he had two hits and scored a run for the sixth straight game while increasing his average to .170 by going 6-for-15 in the last four contests.
2. Mets' starters began the season with 26 straight outings of at least five innings, but haven't gotten through the fifth in the first three games of the series.
3. Arenado's streak is tied for second-best in franchise history with Dante Bichette (23 in 1995), trailing only teammate Michael Cuddyer (27 last season).

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Runs help. So does the other guy striking out. So... 2-for-2, so far.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Duda bides, indeed. Three walks in three trips.

Darno could probably use a touch more of that-- he's one bad day from accidentally getting back on the interstate.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

13 baserunners in five innings, and only four in. This does not bode well for the game, post-third-turn-through-the-order-for-Gee.

[Edgy MD]

Culberson seems like a guy who doesn't pick up the curve at all. Of all the guys in this lineup to have let beat you.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

0-for-51. Cripes.

[Edgy MD]

That's the home field advantage there. The Rocks hit one 410+ feet to dead center, the baserunner on first is canny enough to tag and go to second. The Mets hit one there, Lagares is past second with his jaw dropped and has to hustle back to first.

[Frayed Knot]

I didn't see the 1st inning. What was the story on the fly-ball/DP that ended it?
Was Muffy being dopey/frisky again?

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

And-- phee-yew-- Gee is through six without blemish.

Didn't see that first here, either.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

EXTRA: DUDA SWINGS
Moves bat through air; makes effective contact with ball

[Frayed Knot]

EXTRA: DUDA SWINGS Moves bat through air; makes effective contact with ball

And with it he gets the kind of hit that Ike simply wasn't getting since about his 1st season.


btw, it just occurred to me that last night's meltdown wrecked the Recker win streak

[Edgy MD]

Looks like the Roxx have Turk Wendell '99 on the mound.

[Edgy MD]

Bring your hook, Terry.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

I don't even think he likes the song so much; between the walk-up music and the Duck Dynasty tonsorial stylings, I think Blackmon may just really want you to know how much he digs underaged chixxx.

[Frayed Knot]

I'll say this for Abreu, I don't think he's had a bad AB yet.

[Frayed Knot]

Is it just me or have the between-inning gaps been particularly long today?
It seems like they come back from their two-minutes commercials and then everyone is standing around for another minute or two.

You wanna know why most games go over three hours today Bud? ... there's one reason right there.

[Frayed Knot]

Just a guess here, but I don't think Ruben turns that DP.
To me he often seems content to take the easy out, possibly out of fear of messing up by trying the harder play.

[Guest themetfairy]

[Edgy MD]

When does Gee pitch next?

[Frayed Knot]

Bad News -- Lost three of four
Good News -- Could be in (well, tied for) 1st place by the end of tomorrow (1 game out of 1st, 1/2 game out of 2nd at the moment)

[Fman99]

Enjoyed today's game. Bring on the Fish.

[Edgy MD]

Philadelphia, Denver, Miami.

Who made this schedule? Steve Miller?