IGT: June 11, Beer garden vs Tea garden

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

You gotta give the guy a start to day after the big bomb last night, right?

The Mets had as many walks as hits last night, and it was nice of the Brewers to walk the bases loaded so Taylor could get that hit.

[TransMonk]

MGIM has the mojo workin'!

LGM!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

The Bucket and the Pail will be in the park tonight. Pail is predicting a 5-2 win.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: The Bucket and the Pail will be in the park tonight. Pail is predicting a 5-2 win.

That's awesome! Have a great time!

[Edgy MD]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: The Mets had as many walks as hits last night, and it was nice of the Brewers to walk the bases loaded so Taylor could get that hit.

And they said the patient approach wasn't working! It only took, what, 64 games?

[Guest d'Kong76]

Milwaukee at NY Mets
When: 7:10 PM ET, Wednesday, June 11, 2014
Where: Citi Field, New York City, New York
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The New York Mets try to build on a rare offensive outburst when they host the first-place Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday in the middle contest of a three-game series. New York snapped a six-game losing streak after scoring six or more runs for only the second time in 26 games in a 6-2 victory over Milwaukee on Tuesday. Catcher Taylor Teagarden, who was making his Mets' debut, hit a grand slam, improving the club to 11-for-64 with the bases loaded this season. "If I could help get the monkey off the back, whatever it takes," said Teagarden, who was called up from Triple-A Las Vegas on Sunday to replace the struggling Travis d'Arnaud.

"(Teagarden) didn't know you weren't supposed to get a hit," said manager Terry Collins, who received a vote of confidence from general manager Sandy Alderson prior to the game. Milwaukee, which is 3-3 on its eight-game road trip, saw its lead in the National League Central trimmed to four games over St. Louis. New York rookie Jacob deGrom searches for his first major-league victory in his sixth turn and opposes Wily Peralta, who finally received ample run support to snap a five-start winless streak (0-4) in his last outing.

TV:
7:10 p.m. ET, FSN Wisconsin, SNY (New York)

PITCHING MATCHUP:
Brewers RH Wily Peralta (5-5, 3.03 ERA) vs. Mets RH Jacob deGrom (0-2, 3.19)

Peralta yielded four runs and five hits in five innings of Milwaukee's 8-5 victory at Minnesota on Thursday. "The hitters picked me up and I appreciate that," the 25-year-old Dominican Republic native told reporters. "And I had a lot of great defense behind me, too. ... I need to work ahead in the count. I've been working behind hitters. That's why my pitch count has been so high early." Peralta, who was 0-4 with a 3.64 ERA in his previous five starts while receiving a total of seven runs of support, defeated the Mets in his only appearance against them 3-0 in 2012 after yielding two hits in eight innings in his fourth major-league appearance.

DeGrom began his career with four quality starts before yielding four runs, five hits and three walks in five innings, but received a no-decision in a 7-4 loss to the Cubs in Chicago on Thursday. "It wasn�t his best outing by any means, but certainly it was fine,� Collins told reporters of the 25-year-old Florida native. DeGrom, who struck out 11 in his previous start, has 28 in 31 innings while sporting a 1.16 WHIP and .194 batting average against.

WALK-OFFS:
1. Milwaukee CF Carlos Gomez has reached base in 25 consecutive games - the longest streak in the majors, while New York RF Curtis Granderson's run stands at 22 - second-longest in baseball.
2. The Mets have 21 losses this season after holding a lead - most in the majors.
3. Milwaukee RHP Mike Fiers on Tuesday made his season debut after being recalled from Triple-A Nashville, and allowed a hit and a walk in a scoreless eighth.

[Frayed Knot]

You know the old saying; if it ain't broke, tinker with it only slightly.
Cy Oung gets swapped out for Abreu, while Brewers stay the same except for switched 1B-men


Ruben Tejada, ss
Daniel Murphy, 2b
David Wright, 3b
Curtis Granderson, lf
Bobby Abreu, rf
Lucas Duda, 1b
Taylor Teagarden, c
Matt den Dekker, cf
Jacob deGrom, rhp


Scooter Gennett, 2b
Ryan Braun, rf
Jonathan Lucroy, c
Carlos Gomez, cf
Aramis Ramirez, 3b
Khris Davis, lf
Mark Reynolds, 1b
Jean Segura, ss
Wily Peralta, rhp

[Benjamin Grimm]

I think Teagarden should play every day, until he stops hitting grand slams.

[Edgy MD]

Tejada, though... . Suddenly, Susan, you're a leadoff hitter!





Teagarden looks like a funny guy. Droll, if nothing else. Look at that Nathan Lane-quality eyebrow knitting.

[ashie62]

What happened to Flores at short?

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Back-to-back d's in the line-up. Had Travis stuck around, it could have been a 3-d feature. You get special glasses for that -- small ones.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Well, there's one run!

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Aaaaand, we give it right back...

[ashie62]

WTG Grandy ughh

[Guest d'Kong76]

Curtis not terribly inspiring again in the top of the
5th out there in left.

[Frayed Knot]

deGrom getting both lucky & unlucky tonight.

[Frayed Knot]

The game the Brewers are playing tonight is exactly the type of game we've been losing this season - the only difference being that they didn't score all their runs in the 1st inning.
It'd be really nice if we could pull one of these out after giving away so many of them lately.

[Ceetar]

could we some runs? just 4 or 5?

[Frayed Knot]

I'd feel a lot better about our chances to tack on some runs if Wright had actually gotten a ball out of the infield in his last 35 or so ABs

[Edgy MD]

Keith Hernandez: a HEWJ Elvin Bishop fan.

Never would have guessed.

[Edgy MD]

Been a long time since I've seen a ballplayer packing a wad of chew as big as the one K-Rod is working on now.

[Guest d'Kong76]

What's a HEWJ?

[Edgy MD]

Grandy in to the Shift is going to be title of my next volume of poetry.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Guess it's secret code.

[Frayed Knot]

Keith Hernandez: a HEWJ Elvin Bishop fan. Never would have guessed.

Keith described Bishop, playing at his northern CA HS senior party, as part of "a local band". But I always thought of Bishop as a southerner, so I looked it up. Turns out he's from Everywhere Man!

Wiki-P: Bishop was born in Glendale, California, and grew up on a farm near Elliott, Iowa. His family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma, when Bishop was ten. There he attended Will Rogers High School, winning a full scholarship to the University of Chicago as a National Merit Scholar finalist. He moved to Chicago in 1960 to attend the university, where he majored in physics. In 1963, he met harmonica player Paul Butterfield in the neighborhood of Hyde Park and joined Butterfield's blues band, with whom he remained for five years. Their third album, The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw, takes its name from Bishop's nickname.[1] In 1968 he went solo and formed the Elvin Bishop Group, also performing with Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper on their album titled The Live Adventures of Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper. The group signed with Fillmore Records (presumably in the SF area), which was owned by Bill Graham, who also owned the Fillmore music venues.

What's a HEWJ?

Francesa would pronounce it YUGE

[Guest d'Kong76]

I researched too:
Why buy HEWJ?
1. Seeks to provide local currency performance of stocks in Japan
2. A way to manage currency risk in a Japanese stock allocation - may benefit from a strengthening U.S. dollar relative to the yen but will also be affected by a weakening U.S. dollar
3. Use to express your view on exchange rate movement and macroeconomic events

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Kind of a lackluster effort eh? Got nothin offensively and it didn't appear as though that pitcher was particularly good. If we're going to lead off with our shortstop it has to be Flores. I don't know what orders Terry is under but wtf to the maxx. About as cold as a June 11 could be out there. But brewers fans next to us caught a tshirts and gave it to the boy. Brandon the TV ticket guy rode the 7 home with us.

[Edgy MD]

It's spelled and pronounced HEWJ within the confines of my bedroom.

Anybody who spends a portion of his broadcast getting all giddy that Big Head Todd & the Monsters are playing in Amagansett, and hoping like hell out loud that there's truth in the rumors that Elvin F. Bishop is going to join them onstage has got to be a HEWJ fan.