IGT 4/27 NYM@MIA Collins Avenue Shakedown

[Guest Mets Guy in Michigan]

MURPH!!

[Zvon]

[Edgy MD]

OH BASEBALL!

[Guest themetfairy]

[bigpurple:ytt8zfs5]Muffy![/bigpurple:ytt8zfs5]

[Zvon]

Sneaky Soupy.

[Frayed Knot]

Sunday night's blooper aside, Campbell is a really good baserunner.

[Frayed Knot]

Would have liked to get that extra run in, but oh well.
Now we need a quick bottom 9 and we wind up both with the 'W' and keep inside the two hour barrier.

[Edgy MD]

I was thinking Laggy might steal third. Cishek is in his own world out there.

[Frayed Knot]

Daniel Murphy: Beer hog.

[Zvon]

Nice play Murph!

[Guest d'Kong76]

Murph flashing the Schaefer leather.

[Edgy MD]

Danito!

[Edgy MD]

SCHMETS!!

[Guest themetfairy]

[Zvon]

After Gee coughed it up I did not expect a comeback. But this years Mets, I dunno, they don't seem to like losing too much.

[dgwphotography]

1:58 - that was a crisp game.

[Frayed Knot]

Couple of oddities:
- Game Time = 1:58
- Winning Pitcher = Carlos Torres who threw ONE pitch

[Centerfield]

It's ok. Gee only threw like 7.

[Lefty Specialist]

[Edgy MD]

April 27, 1973, is the team record for shortest nine-inning game, I believe. It went only 1:36.

But that technically went only 8 1/2. And the Mets lost, so...

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

What a weird game. The two guys at the top of endangered species list win it.

The Mets may have flaws in the meantime but nothing close to the kind of fundamental fuckup who'd put Ozuna in centerfield every night, and Cishek in to close games. We deserved to win!

[Frayed Knot]

How to finish a game in under two hours

Below are batters/pitch chart for each side last night: first chart is for the top half of the innings (Cosart and then Cishek in the 9th)
and then the second one if for the bottom halves (Gee, then 1 pitch from Torres, then the 9th inning from Familia).
Not until bottom 8 & top 9 were there more than 4 batters in any half-inning. The only 2 baserunner inning prior to those (top 6th) also had the game's only GiDP between those two runners.


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Check out those middle innings for Gee: 6 pitches thrown in the 4th, followed by by 10, 5, and 7.
28 pitches is less than ONE inning's work in some cases and would be considered reasonably efficient for two full innings.

[table:beg0dx1k][tr:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]Inn[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]Batters[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]Pitches[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]Hits[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]Walks[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]Ks[/td:beg0dx1k][/tr:beg0dx1k][tr:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]1st[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]3[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]8[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][/tr:beg0dx1k][tr:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]2nd[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]4[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]8[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]1[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][/tr:beg0dx1k][tr:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]3rd[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]4[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]15[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]1[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][/tr:beg0dx1k][tr:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]4th[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]4[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]6[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]1[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][/tr:beg0dx1k][tr:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]5th[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]3[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]10[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]2[/td:beg0dx1k][/tr:beg0dx1k][tr:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]6th[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]3[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]5[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][/tr:beg0dx1k][tr:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]7th[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]3[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]7[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][/tr:beg0dx1k][tr:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]8th[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]6[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]12[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]3[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]1[/td:beg0dx1k][/tr:beg0dx1k][tr:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]9th[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]3[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]15[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]0[/td:beg0dx1k][td:beg0dx1k]1[/td:beg0dx1k][/tr:beg0dx1k][/table:beg0dx1k]

[TransMonk]

0 walks by Mets pitchers last night too.

What a great game! One to remember, especially if the team continues to be successful this season.

Did anyone else see Figgy imply a loss during the post-game teaser before the ninth inning? Something like, "Dillon Gee threw 70 pitches. I'll show you why the last 4 cost him the game."

It's not over 'til it's over, Nelson.