IGT 07/01 - Mets at Braves

[Guest d'Kong76]

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[bigpurple:jln4qw2l]Gra-Klunk![/bigpurple:jln4qw2l]

[ashie62]

Man the Mets suck azz...

[Zvon]

Damn. Kimbral can bring it. I'm impressed Abreu could even touch him.

I was hoping he'd launch one just to see who would have played short, like they were talking about.

Shae Simmons. Who the fuck is he? He spells it S-H-A-E. I instantly hat this guy.

[Frayed Knot]

Gee whatta shock, chase the starter early then go 1-for-16 against four different pen guys (including two who I think were peanut vendors this time last week) with like 8 Ks mixed in.

[Frayed Knot]

Now 10 below .500 for the first time all season despite being just 4 runs below .500 so to speak (RS/RA)
Maintaining a pace like this should be really, really tough to do but we're managing to do it on a regular basis this year.

[Guest d'Kong76]

30 losses by one run is a pretty crazy amount at
this point of the season.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

The thing is, I don't think these one-run losses would be quite as stultifying if they weren't the same damn game, over and over and over-- early runs/lead, LOB profligacy, lead slipping away from the 5th through the 9th via bad bullpen work/iffy defense/general weirdness-- working over our emotional kidneys like the day-to-day of a job we just can't leave, not right now.

[Frayed Knot]

I think I remember a couple seasons ago when these ratios were even worse (i.e.. scoring more often early, giving up even more late) but that doesn't make this year's version any easier to swallow

RUNS SCORED:
Innings 1-3 -- 118 (37%)
Innings 4-6 -- 115 (36%)
Innings 7-9 -- 86 (27%)

That gap can be somewhat misleading in that winning home games often means you don't bat in the 9th therefore less chances for scoring yard, yadda, but of course we don't WIN that often at home so I suspect there are only a handful of times when we didn't bat in the 9th.
MLB-wide averages for Runs Scored are at 33.8%, 36.3%, 29.9%


Our RUNS ALLOWED seem to be more in line with league norms:
Innings 1-3 -- 100 (31.5%)
Innings 4-6 -- 120 (37.9%)
Innings 7-9 -- 97 (30.6%)


And yes, for those of you doing the math above, we are ten games under .500 despite out-scoring our opponents during regulation innings by two runs.
The negative only comes along when you throw In extra innings: 8 for/14 against



on edit: And the fact that the Yanx just now fell to .500 (thanks to their 4th straight loss) DESPITE BEING AT -34 IN RS/RA doesn't make this stuff any easier to take