IGT 06/29 Mets at Pirates

[Guest d'Kong76]

NY Mets at Pittsburgh
When: 1:35 PM ET, Sunday, June 29, 2014
Where: PNC Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Ageless New York Mets right-hander Bartolo Colon looks to continue his stunning career renaissance when he seeks his seventh consecutive victory on Sunday in the finale of a four-game series against the host Pittsburgh Pirates. The 41-year-old Colon is gunning for his ninth win, which would be one more than he managed in any season from 2006-11. Eric Campbell had three hits Saturday filling in for injured captain David Wright to put New York in position for a split.

Saturday's 5-3 setback thwarted Pittsburgh's attempt to move three games over .500 for the first time since April 10 and marked only its second loss in the past eight games. Pirates center fielder Andrew McCutchen, who has 25 RBIs in 26 games this month, is riding an eight-game hitting streak and is 3-for-8 lifetime against Colon. Edinson Volquez, who has struggled throughout his career against New York, draws the start against Colon in the series finale.

TV:
1:35 p.m. ET, SNY (New York), ROOT (Pittsburgh)

PITCHING MATCHUP:
Mets RH Bartolo Colon (8-5, 3.67 ERA) vs. Pirates RH Edinson Volquez (5-6, 4.35)

Colon won his third straight start with a dominant effort against Oakland - the team he won 18 games with in 2013 - on Tuesday, striking out eight and permitting one run on four hits over eight innings. Colon is 6-0 over his last seven turns, allowing a total of eight runs while pitching at least seven innings in each of the victories. He overpowered Pittsburgh on May 28 with a season-high nine strikeouts in 7 1/3 scoreless frames.

Volquez bounced back from his worst outing with one of his best, shackling Tampa Bay on one run and five hits over a season-high eight innings. Volquez, who will turn 31 on Thursday, was pummeled for eight runs over 2 1/3 innings in a 11-4 loss to Cincinnati in his previous outing. He did not factor in the decision against the Mets on May 27, giving up only two runs in five innings, but is only 1-5 with a 6.63 ERA lifetime versus New York.

WALK-OFFS:
1. An MRI exam on Mets 3B Wright's ailing left shoulder revealed a bruised rotator cuff. He will be re-examined on Monday.
2. Pirates RHP Ernesto Frieri, acquired from the Los Angeles Angeles on Friday in exchange for Jason Grilli in a swap of desposed closers, retired all three batters he faced Saturday in his Pittsburgh debut.
3. Mets LF Eric Young Jr. swiped three bases Saturday to improve to 21-for-23 on steal attempts.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Eric Young, Jr. - LF
Ruben Tejada - SS
Daniel Murphy - 2B
Curtis Granderson - RF
Lucas Duda - 1B
Eric Campbell - 3B
Juan Lagares - CF
Travis d'Arnaud - C
Bartolo Colon - RHP

[ashie62]

My igt thanks Kong

[ashie62]

I will start tomorrows on a win???

[MFS62]

Maybe I should have said I'd change my name to pitch against the Mets. It worked yesterday.
OK, Ike. That's for you.
C'mon Zippity. Get 'em back. And more.

Later

[Lefty Specialist]

That's it, I'm cherry-bombing your mailbox.

[ashie62]

Why was my igt hijacked?

[Frayed Knot]

We're doing a very good job today of the one to two hits per inning trick, but then none while they matter.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Ashie62 wrote: Why was my igt hijacked?

I wasn't thinking, Se�or Ash ... lo siento mucho.
I take full responsibility for the LOB'n the Mets are
putting up this afternoon.

[Frayed Knot]

1st inning
Runner on 2nd -- Granderson flies out

2nd inning
Runner on 1st -- Lagares Pop out, d'Arnaud fly out

3rd inning
1st & 3rd -- Murphy K's, Granderson Fly Out

4th inning
Leadoff double -- GO, K, IW, K

5th inning
Runner on 1st -- Granderson Fly Out

6th inning
1st & 2nd, none out -- Lagares Fly Out, d'Arnaud GiDP

7th inning
Runner on 3rd/1-out -- Tejada K's, Murphy lines out



So while maybe it's a stretch to say we should be leading this game, we should certainly at least be in it.
Out-hitting the Bucs 9-7 thru 7

Edited June 29, 2014 by Guest

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Good thing we fired that awful coach responsible for the rotten situational hitting.

[Frayed Knot]

Granderson finishes up the series with an 0-for-Pitssburgh

[Frayed Knot]

Pirates, meanwhile, bunched 7 of their (now) 8 hits all in two innings, and went out 1-2-3 four times.

[MFS62]

Ashie62 wrote: Why was my igt hijacked?

Try putting the correct date on it next time. Made us think it was an old IGT, not today's game.

Later

[MFS62]

We were denied watching them break a team record for the most hits without scoring a run. The record of 10 (IIRC) is still on the books.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

And if they had just kept it close by scoring once or twice in the early innings those late runs w/could have tied it up or put us ahead, and maybe even more so, the hits would have made Hurdle and/or his relievers soil their pants a few batters earlier and then who knows what happens.
The nothing early then runs late strategy winds up being the opposite of our usual MO

[ashie62]

MFS62 wrote: Ashie62 wrote: Why was my igt hijacked? Try putting the correct date on it next time. Made us think it was an old IGT, not today's game. Later

I did it after the first I was flustered

[Guest d'Kong76]

Sorry I flustered you, it was unintentional.