Cardinals @ Mets 5/20 ++<<--Game Thread-->>++

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Not for nothing but if this series was really a showdown of 2 playoff clubs or whatever the Cardinals looked like the clearly dominant one last night, and its important for the good guys to respond right NOW!!!!

Pitching matchup, who cares. We need to hit with the better teams. That is all.

Edited May 20, 2015 by Guest

[Guest d'Kong76]

St. Louis at NY Mets
When: 7:10 PM ET, Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Where: Citi Field, New York City, New York
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The St. Louis Cardinals haven't posted back-to-back road wins against the New York Mets in the same series in 10 years, but they have a chance to end that drought Wednesday in the third of a four-game set at Citi Field. The Cardinals broke out of their recent offensive funk away from home with a 10-2 drubbing of the Mets on Tuesday, matching their run output from their previous seven games combined at Citi Field.

St. Louis, which had been limited to three runs overall in its last road games, rebounded from Monday's 2-1, 14-inning setback by pounding out 15 hits to level the series at a game apiece. Mark Reynolds clubbed his first homer in 14 games as part of a three-hit night and Randal Grichuk contributed three hits and three RBIs one night after striking out five times. Daniel Murphy's two-run homer - his first blast since April 27 - accounted for the lone runs in the most lopsided defeat of the season for New York, which dropped into a tie with Washington for first place in the National League East. Bartolo Colon goes for his seventh win Wednesday against Cardinals right-hander Carlos Martinez.

TV: 7:10 p.m. ET, FSN Midwest (St. Louis), SNY (New York)

PITCHING MATCHUP: Cardinals RH Carlos Martinez (3-2, 4.73 ERA) vs. Mets RH Bartolo Colon (6-2, 3.86)

Martinez bounced back from a pair of wretched performances with a solid effort against Detroit, permitting two runs and seven hits while matching his season high with eight strikeouts over five-plus innings. He was battered for seven runs in each of his previous two turns, which followed a three-start winning streak in which he allowed three runs in 19 innings. He has yielded one run over 5 1/3 innings against the Mets.

Colon was hit hard for the second straight outing, permitting six runs (five earned) in five innings against Milwaukee on Friday. It marked the third time in four starts that the soon-to-be 42-year-old Colon has yielded at least four runs and the seventh time in eight outings he has coughed up at least one home run. Colon has never lost to the Cardinals, logging a 4-0 record and 2.77 ERA in six career starts.

WALK-OFFS:
1. Cardinals LF Matt Holliday has reached base in 39 straight games, a streak dating to last season.
2. Mets LF Michael Cuddyer has hit safely in five games in a row.
3. St. Louis hasn't posted consecutive wins in the same series at New York since May 14-15, 2005.

[ashie62]

I guess this is the igt.

LETS GO METS!!

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Grandy
Campy
Doody
Cuddy
Muffy
Wilmy
Laggy
Wecky
Colony

[Lefty Specialist]

Glad Recker's on the bench so Steve Gelbs has someone to talk to.

[Edgy MD]

See now, I thought "Wecky" was Recker, but only now am I realizing that he means PLA-Wecky.

This is why I need the medication.

[ashie62]

Them

Wong 4
Carpenter 5
Holliday 7
Adams 3
Peralta 6
Molina 2
Heyward 9
Grichuk 8
Martinez 1

[TransMonk]

Edgy MD wrote: See now, I thought "Wecky" was Recker, but only now am I realizing that he means PLA-Wecky. This is why I need the medication.

I did a double take, too.

[ashie62]

I thought it was Wecky Greene.

[Zvon]

1-0 them already. Lags got beat in center again.

[Frayed Knot]

Cards have had the leadoff hitter on in 7 of the last 11 innings -- 5 of 9 Tuesday night and the first two tonight. And most of the ones they missed were after last night's game was already out of reach.
Ain't gonna win playing that way.

[ashie62]

And Lags got beaned.

[Frayed Knot]

And now it's 8 innings of 12.
Also, when the Cards have more hits [u:7keq5quq]per inning[/u:7keq5quq] than the Mets have in the whole game, I don't think that's a good thing.

[Frayed Knot]

The hell with the Kentucky Derby: Bartolo beating out an infield hit is the most exciting two minutes in sports.

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, but he's missed out twice now on scoring the tying run..

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Jeez.

[Zvon]

Unfuckinbelievable. Bofat deserves to lose.

[Edgy MD]

Heyward likes the ball on top of his shoes.

[Frayed Knot]

And now it's 9 leadoff hitters on in the last 13 innings.

[Edgy MD]

Duda's mistake was jumping, I think.

[Zvon]

I had to step off. This team will drive ya crazy. Missed all this.

So Heyward homers, and then another error? And more runs? Stepping off again.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Playing like shit again.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Fire Terry? No focus, lazy dumb plays everywhere.

[ashie62]

This one's done.

This team needs a young skipper, not this vain old fart.

[Frayed Knot]

I was just about to ask if these muthafuckers ever hit a ball AT a fielder - but now that hardly matters.
Of course the fact that on those rare occurrences when they do hit one in the vicinity of one of our guys we can't field it properly makes it moot anyway.

[Centerfield]

Fire the team. This team is fucking awful.

[Zvon]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Fire Terry? No focus, lazy dumb plays everywhere.

I continue to think this will not help matters at this point. These guys are MLB ballplayers. They should know how to tag up. What was he even doing off the base? If it dropped he could jog home and if it didn't he should have been set to tag.

They do need some kind of shakeup tho, and cutting Newy loose wasn't it.

[nymr83]

Lots of sloppy tonight but Colon just doesn't have it, why is he even out there this inning? Conceding the game? Eating innings?

[Zvon]

On Grichuk's double, in real time, it looked like the Mets fielded it in slow motion.

[Frayed Knot]

And just in case you've lost count, that's 10 leadoff hitters on in the last 14 innings and, in some cases, leadoff hitter[u:1an26x0h]S[/u:1an26x0h] have reached base.