IGT #19 ESPN Sunday Night Baseball!

[stevejrogers]

Jon Niese looks to pick up the series win as the nation looks on!

[Edgy MD]

Sunday night baseball in April in the Northeast. Not a pretty thought.

[Benjamin Grimm]

Ugh! I hadn't realized it was a night game!

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Jon Niese looks to pick up the series win as the nation looks on!

ROGERS! We're looking to close out a series win against the Evil Empire right in their unholy den of evil, with the aura of St. Derek the Rangeless hovering right there in the building, and you're starting a potentially epic IGT with:

Jon Niese looks to pick up the series win as the nation looks on!

Come on, man! Bring your A Game!

You need something like: Jon Neise, representing pretty much all that is good in life, takes the hill against the soulless thugs who have harmed much of our very existence on a game televised nationally so even people in Michigan get the chance to watch.

Niese, fresh from being run out of Friday's game simply for exercising his First Amendment right to free speech, will face a charmless lineup led by a player so vile, his own team practically begged to have him get suspended for use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs for an entire season. Considering that the Yankees as a team generally look the other way when needle pierces flesh -- hell, they're retiring the number of a confessed abuser this year -- ARod must be really, really bad to have around.

Luckily Niese is backed by an cast of heroes that are so good, even their injury replacements step up and save the day. And we got more of them in Vegas, too, just waiting to take a stand for America. We're so good that we can reel off 11-game winning streaks even when our All-Star second baseman has apparently completely forgotten how to play the game.

A Game, Rogers.

[Guest d'Kong76]

NY Mets at NY Yankees
When: 8:05 PM ET, Sunday, April 26, 2015
Where: Yankee Stadium, Bronx, New York
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Less than 24 hours after having their 11-game winning streak halted, the New York Mets returned the favor by denying the New York Yankees a fifth straight victory with an 8-2 romp behind ace Matt Harvey. The Mets, who own the best record in baseball at 14-4, look to capture the Subway Series in Sunday night's nationally-televised finale at Yankee Stadium.

Rookie catcher Kevin Plawecki clubbed his first major league homer - one of three hit by the Mets - and drove in three runs Saturday. Juan Lagares, who had his 10-game hitting streak end in the series opener, tied a career high with four hits and scored three runs for the Mets. Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira collected three hits and homered for the third time in the series to boost his season total to eight. Alex Rodriguez has cooled after his hot start to the season and is 2-for-18 over his last five games.

TV: 8:05 p.m. ET, ESPN

PITCHING MATCHUP: Mets LH Jonathon Niese (2-0, 1.50 ERA) vs. Yankees RH Nathan Eovaldi (1-0, 3.12)

Niese is coming off his best outing of the young season on Tuesday, surrendering a solo homer among four hits over 6 2/3 innings in a 7-1 victory over Atlanta. The 28-year-old Niese has permitted one earned run in each of his three starts, but he was reached for nine hits over 6 1/3 innings by Philadelphia in his previous turn. Niese is 1-1 with a 2.05 ERA in four career starts versus the Yankees, who are batting .311 against him.

Eovaldi halted an 11-start winless drought dating to last year with Miami by limiting Detroit to one run on eight hits over a season-high seven innings Tuesday. The 25-year-old failed to go past 5 1/3 innings and yielded eight hits in each of his first two starts, both no-decisions. Eovaldi struck out a career-high 10 against the Mets early last season but was pounded for six runs in 4 1/3 innings at the Mets in mid-September.

WALK-OFFS:
1. Teixeira belted his 371st career homer, moving into 75th place on baseball's all-time list.
2. Mets 2B Daniel Murphy is 6-for-17 and RF Curtis Granderson is 3-for-5 with a homer against Eovaldi.
3. Eovaldi is looking to win back-to-back starts for the first time since May 21-26, 2014.

[Frayed Knot]

Yanx are hoping they've landed a diamond in the rough with Eovaldi who they got from the Marlins over the winter in exchange for Matin (the devil wears) Prado. He just turned 25, though is already in his 5th ML season, and is one of those guys who's always talked about as having great "stuff" even though his results over a four years w/LAD & MIA have yet to match the projections as he's as likely to pitch a turkey as he is a gem.
So we'll see lots of mid-90s numbers and talk of "heavy sink", but his K numbers are nothing special (barely above 6 per/9 in this K-happy era) and, while his walk rates are decent, his hits allowed are consistently over 10/game including last year when he led the majors in hits allowed (223). The only thing he really excels at is keeping the ball in the park [<1 HR/9] so the Yanx prolly figure that their improved IF defense (now that they've gotten most of the old men off the field) will be a good match for him.

I'd love to see him get his ass kicked.

[Lefty Specialist]

Frayed Knot wrote: I'd love to see him get his ass kicked.

Yes. It's a nationally televised game, and it'd be nice to come out of it with the whole nation murmuring, "Hey, those Mets are pretty good this year" around the water cooler tomorrow morning.

[Frayed Knot]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: I'd love to see him get his ass kicked. Yes. It's a nationally televised game, and it'd be nice to come out of it with the whole nation murmuring, "Hey, those Mets are pretty good this year" around the water cooler tomorrow morning.

Plus there's just the whole thing where Yanqui fans are resigned to the fact that CC is going to be mediocre at best (for like $80 more million) and that Tanaka's elbow ligament is down to the thickness of a linguine strand (for about the same $$) which could snap at any moment, so to have one of their few young hopes get his ass kicked (on national TV or otherwise) would just thrown another worry log onto their fire.

[stevejrogers]

Mets Guy in Michigan wrote: Jon Niese looks to pick up the series win as the nation looks on! ROGERS! We're looking to close out a series win against the Evil Empire right in their unholy den of evil, with the aura of St. Derek the Rangeless hovering right there in the building, and you're starting a potentially epic IGT with: Jon Niese looks to pick up the series win as the nation looks on! Come on, man! Bring your A Game! You need something like: Jon Neise, representing pretty much all that is good in life, takes the hill against the soulless thugs who have harmed much of our very existence on a game televised nationally so even people in Michigan get the chance to watch. Niese, fresh from being run out of Friday's game simply for exercising his First Amendment right to free speech, will face a charmless lineup led by a player so vile, his own team practically begged to have him get suspended for use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs for an entire season. Considering that the Yankees as a team generally look the other way when needle pierces flesh -- hell, they're retiring the number of a confessed abuser this year -- ARod must be really, really bad to have around. Luckily Niese is backed by an cast of heroes that are so good, even their injury replacements step up and save the day. And we got more of them in Vegas, too, just waiting to take a stand for America. We're so good that we can reel off 11-game winning streaks even when our All-Star second baseman has apparently completely forgotten how to play the game. A Game, Rogers.

LOL! You are right, that's the last time I'll attempt to toss up an IGT via a mobile device!

Should also add that this will be done as the Met faithful brave the insufferable ESPN broadcast team, whom most likely will be discussing past history more so than present day foibles of the home team.

[Frayed Knot]

btw, Mark Teixeira is on pace this year for 72 HRs and 36 doubles, but just 27 singles.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Granderson-RF
Lagares-CF
Duda-1B
Cuddyer-LF
Murphy-2B
Campbell-3B
Flores-SS
Muno-DH
Plawecki-C

Niese-LHP

[Lefty Specialist]

Show me the Muno! Interesting choice for DH.

[Edgy MD]

Curious why they wouldn't start him at segundo and let Murph concentrate on hittin'.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Like Murph is concentrated in the field?
Yanks not revealing their lineup... it's top secret!

[TransMonk]

Edgy MD wrote: Curious why they wouldn't start him at segundo and let Murph concentrate on hittin'.

My thoughts exactly.

[TransMonk]

Lefty Specialist wrote: Frayed Knot wrote: I'd love to see him get his ass kicked. Yes. It's a nationally televised game, and it'd be nice to come out of it with the whole nation murmuring, "Hey, those Mets are pretty good this year" around the water cooler tomorrow morning.

The Braves and Nats both lost today, too. This is a great chance to extend those leads even more.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Gardner LF
Young CF
Roidreeguess DR
Tex 1B
Beltran RF
Headley 3B
Murphy C
Drew SS
Petit 2B

Oliveoyl P

[Frayed Knot]

No Ellsbury, no McCann, no Gregarious vs the lefty.
Plus I guess McCann needs to sit the night game after the day game.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

GRANDERSON KABOOM!!!!

[Theoldmole]

GONE!!

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

And Lagares rips one! Is that his fifth hit in a row?

[Theoldmole]

Are they going to show that fucking strike zone all night?

[Edgy MD]

Oh, man, the thing about a cold Sunday night is that if the Mets can get ahead early, the Yankee fans will all bail early.

[Guest cooby]

Nice to see two out of three of a series on TV. God bless the subway series.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Man, I thought Lucas had that one.

[Edgy MD]

Defense saving Eovaldi twice in a row.

[Theoldmole]

Who does this guy think he is...Lagares?

[Edgy MD]

Two-zip.

Gloves have kept it from being 4-0.

Would be nice to get Murphy in on this.

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

Wow, I think Murph nearly killed Teixiera there.

[Guest d'Kong76]

TheOldMole wrote: Are they going to show that fucking strike zone all night?

Unfortunately, yes... f'n annoying, it's not a video game.