IGT 5/15-Brewers@Mets- Colon goes for his 7th win!

[Zvon]

I hope the Mets are as ticked off as we are and take it out on Milwaukee. We need to end this recent slide here. The Nats are at our heels.
Brewcrew (12-23) will throw Kyle Lohse (2-4, 7.03ERA) at New York. Bartolo Colon (6-1, 3.30) will pitch for the Mets (20-15).

[Guest d'Kong76]

Milwaukee at NY Mets
When: 7:10 PM ET, Friday, May 15, 2015
Where: Citi Field, New York City, New York
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After a dismal series in Wrigley Field, the New York Mets try to re-establish their home dominance when they begin a three-game set against Milwaukee on Friday. The Mets produced a total of five runs and suffered one walk-off loss in the first three games against the Chicago Cubs before losing a four-run lead in a 6-5 setback Thursday afternoon in the series finale.

That capped a 2-5 road trip for New York, which is hoping to build upon its 13-3 home record. Bartolo Colon gets the nod for the Mets and will be looking to extend his streak of 40 1/3 innings without a walk, the second-longest stretch in franchise history behind Bret Saberhagen (47 2/3 in 1994). Following a 7-3 surge, the Brewers dropped the last two games of a 10-game homestand to the Chicago White Sox, both 4-2. Milwaukee's injury-marred campaign continued with the loss of shortstop Jean Segura, who suffered a fractured pinky on his right hand and was placed on the 15-day disabled list Thursday.

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

PITCHING MATCHUP: Brewers RH Kyle Lohse (2-4, 7.03 ERA) vs. Mets RH Bartolo Colon (6-1, 3.30)

Lohse got the win despite allowing four runs and seven hits in five innings against the Cubs on Saturday, yielding at least one home run for the seventh time in as many starts this season. He has his worst hit rate (10.2 per nine innings) since a rocky 2010 campaign and the highest home run rate (2.3 per nine) of his 15-year career. The 36-year-old allowed only an unearned run in eight dominant innings of a no-decision at New York last June, but is 2-4 with a 4.68 ERA lifetime versus the Mets.

Colon, who will be appearing in his 450th career game, has been a big part of the Mets' home dominance, going 3-0 with a 2.18 mark in three starts at Citi Field. He went on the road to become the National League's first six-game winner Sunday in Philadelphia, letting up four runs in six innings of a 7-4 triumph. The 41-year-old is 3-1 with a 3.97 ERA in six career starts against the Brewers, his lone loss coming nearly 16 years ago while a member of the Cleveland Indians.

WALK-OFFS:
1. Mets RF Curtis Granderson is 8-for-17 with two homers against Lohse.
2. Brewers IF Hector Gomez, who will get the bulk of the playing time at shortstop with Segura out, has eight extra-base hits among his 14 hits this season.
3. The Brewers have won 12 of their last 15 games in New York.

[TransMonk]

I feel like this series is a big test. If the Mets can't beat the worst team in the league at home then they have hot probs.

Time to get right...especially with the best team in the league coming in next week. A horrible home stand could throw this whole thing right off the rails.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I'd like to think that the series in Chicago was an example of the axiom that you're never as bad as you look when you're losing.

I guess we'll find out if that's the case here.

Having Bartolo going against the Brewers at [crossout:16w7srhg]Shea[/crossout:16w7srhg] Citi seems like a good way to snap this losing streak, but I'm not having an easy time being optimistic right now.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I guess batting the pitcher 8th is gonna become the new norm?

CGomez CF
Parra LF
Braun RF
Lind 1B
Ramirez 3B
Gennett 2B
Maldonado C
Lohse P
HGomez SS

[Guest d'Kong76]

Granderson, RF
Lagares, CF
Duda, 1B
Cuddyer, LF
Murphy, 3B
Flores, SS
Monell, C
Tejada, 2B
Colon, P

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Granderson, RF
Lagares, CF
Duda, 1B
Cuddyer, LF
Murphy, 3B
Flores, SS
Monell, C
[crossout]Tejada, 2B[/crossout] Hererra, 2B
Colon, P

Terry says the team distributed the wrong lineup...

[Guest d'Kong76]

Big night for Dilson on the horizon!

[Edgy MD]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Granderson, RF Lagares, CF Duda, 1B Cuddyer, LF Murphy, 3B Flores, SS Monell, C [crossout]Tejada, 2B[/crossout] Hererra, 2B Colon, P Terry says the team distributed the wrong lineup...

Another scandal by the fucking Mets!

[G-Fafif]

Not so fast there; it seems to have been re-revised:

Granderson - RF
Lagares - CF
Duda - 1B
Cuddyer - LF
Murphy - 3B
Flores - SS
Monell - C
Tejada - 2B
Colon - RHP

[ashie62]

Per Bovado the Brewers are a -170 favorite Colon & Lohse

wtf?

[G-Fafif]

"Dilson Herrera tore a fingernail, nicked by a hit ball pregame," according to Rubin's fill-in.

[TransMonk]

Awesome! A short-handed bench for what seems like the 20th time this season.

[ashie62]

Gonna be a long weekend for the Mets and longer for Terry Collins IMHO.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I expect a sweep and at least a game in the standings.
Game face, mucker fothers!

[ashie62]

Was that fafif they just showed waving.

[Zvon]

Wasn't 100% watching. If it was I'll replay it and get a screenshot later.

If shots like Flores's aren't going to drop in for us we are in trouble. Great play by the lying cheater guy.

[Zvon]

wow. Shit, that was like a 2 iron off Gomez's bat. How does that guy get to score?

OMG, Curtis fucks up big time.

[ashie62]

This is embarrassing.

[Zvon]

Maybe I should take that back. Nah, he cheated, he lied, he just went yard.

[ashie62]

Ashie62 wrote: Per Bovado the Brewers are a -170 favorite Colon & Lohse wtf?

Vegas knows we suck. Goodnight.

[Zvon]

Once again they will lambast Flores and, like last night, I don't think it was his fault. Mex pointed out Duda's horrible footwork there. I think we would have had the runner if Duda stuck to the bag.

I'll have to take another look at last nights throw, but at the time I didn't think it was as bad a play as I've been reading all day. And Recker's passed ball is hardly mentioned.

But everyone will pile on Flores.

[Edgy MD]

I'm thinking of something stinky and it begins with... M!

[ashie62]

Manager

[Guest d'Kong76]

Holy crap! Turn on the tube and homer for run number 6.
What the hump?

[Zvon]

Ashie62 wrote: Manager

We need a big shake up but I don't think that's the answer.

Parra...he never hits homers. Grrrrr.

[Zvon]

Colon done after 5, down 6-0. Mets have..what? 1 hit? This is embarrassing against any Brewer pitcher.

[Zvon]

Bumper Cap in, searching for the strike zone, which he has not been able to find as of late.

[Edgy MD]

Let's get this guy just 'cuz.

[Frayed Knot]

In order to 'get to' this guy someone actually has to hit a ball hard first.
Even the long(-ish) fly outs and including the play by Braun, every shot off NYM bats tonight has far too much air under it - except for all the K's looking of course.

Were suddenly back to the days from a couple years ago when everything seemed like it was being hit by a wet newspaper.