IGT #51: Marlins at Mets, 5/31/15

[Gwreck]

Mets were 15-8 in April. They won't make .500 in May (12-15 so far) but really should be able to dispatch the lowly Marlins on getaway day.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Miami at NY Mets
When: 1:10 PM ET, Sunday, May 31, 2015
Where: Citi Field, New York City, New York
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Having won their first road series since April 21-23, the Miami Marlins will go for a three-game sweep of the New York Mets in Sunday's series finale. The Marlins, who had dropped 14 of 17 games entering the series, followed up Friday's 4-3 victory by swatting four homers - two by Giancarlo Stanton - in Saturday's 9-5 win.

Stanton broke out of a 6-for-44 rut with his two blasts, which measured a combined 877 feet and gave him the major-league lead with 44 RBIs. New York has lost 12 of 19 and its pitching staff is becoming a question mark after giving up at least eight runs for the fifth time in the last 11 games. Shortstop Ruben Tejada notched his second straight two-hit game and drove in three runs Saturday, one shy of his total from his first 20 games of the season. The Mets attempt to avert the sweep by sending Bartolo Colon to the mound to face David Phelps.

TV: 1:10 p.m. ET, FSN Florida (Miami), WPIX (New York)

PITCHING MATCHUP: Marlins RH David Phelps (2-2, 3.56 ERA) vs. Mets RH Bartolo Colon (7-3, 4.82)

Phelps lost his second straight start by giving up four runs, including a pair of homers, over six innings in a 4-2 defeat at Pittsburgh on Monday. He also allowed four runs over five innings versus Arizona in his previous turn, which followed a six-start span in which he went 2-0 and permitted a total of six earned runs. That included a 4-1 loss at New York on April 17 that dropped Phelps to 0-1 with a 5.73 ERA in three career starts versus the Mets.

Colon halted a two-start losing streak last time out by holding Philadelphia to three runs over six innings. Colon was shelled in his previous two starts, giving up 15 runs and 18 hits over 9 1/3 innings. The 42-year-old Dominican, who has surrendered two walks in back-to-back outings after issuing one in his first eight starts, has split a pair of decisions against the Marlins this season and is 4-3 with a 3.42 ERA in seven career starts against them.

WALK-OFFS:
1. Marlins SS Adeiny Hechavarria (shoulder) missed Saturday's game and will sit out Sunday as well.
2. Mets 1B Lucas Duda has hit safely in six straight games and knocked in a run in five in a row.
3. Marlins LF Christian Yelich is 10-for-29 during a seven-game hitting streak.

[Guest d'Kong76]

@cgrand3 RF
Tejada 3B
Duda 1B
Murphy 2B
Flores SS
@Jmayberryjr44 LF
@juanlagares2 CF
@Anthony_Recker C
Colon P

@kcmets #cpftoocool

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Mayberry gets the start over Cadaver who lost both of these first 2 games for us by making poorly timed, nonproductive outs.

Me & the Pail are headed out shortly and expect to catch at least one Stanton HR in the first row of the UD in LCF.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Cadaver! Love it... hopefully in June he'll rise from the dead.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Gordon, 2B
Prado, 3B
Stanton, RF
Bour, 1B
Suzuki, CF
Solano, SS
Yelich, LF
Phelps, P
Solano, C

[ashie62]

I like Mayberry in the lineup.

Cadaver made me laugh.

[ashie62]

2 baserunners, 2 outs and now Wilmer.

[ashie62]

The Flores abides 1-0 Mets.

[ashie62]

Colon doubles, holy moly!

[nymr83]

Colon!!!

Fuck you, DH advocates.

[Gwreck]

3rd hit and 3rd RBI of the season.

[Gwreck]

Another Kaboom for Wilmer Flores.

[ashie62]

That's 8 for Flores.

[Zvon]

Ashie62 wrote: That's 8 for Flores.

Who's counting? Har.

[MFS62]

That guy Bour is a real pain in the ass.

Later

[Frayed Knot]

This is one of those games where it seems like we should be winning, but aren't.
Biggest problem is letting Phelps off the hook with two straight non-innings since the Flores HR. He was at 80+ pitches in the 4th and on the verge of getting his ass run out of the game but hasn't broken a sweat since. A couple of at'em balls has helped his cause too, but the last thing we needed to give him was quick outs.

[Zvon]

Bye Phelps. Seasick up in the pen.

[Zvon]

Was Tom #37 on the Trojans?



OE: I do like that jersey.

[Zvon]

Rubin's BIG

[Gwreck]

Familia on in the 8th to face Stanton with the tying run on first. I like this move by Terry.

[Zvon]

Gwreck wrote: Familia on in the 8th to face Stanton with the tying run on first. I like this move by Terry.

I agree. That might have been the most important out of the game.

[Gwreck]

--> Books!

[Guest d'Kong76]

First place very sniffable again.

[Guest themetfairy]

[Frayed Knot]

Losing two of three to a division opponent is never a good thing, but it's nice to do that and gain a game on 1st as the Nats were simultaneously getting their asses swept out of Cincy who had been stumbling around lately at least as badly as the Marlins.

[Zvon]

I missed a lot of this one but I saw all the good stuff.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Nice day at the park. Warm but breezy, good guys won, Pail shopped for a replacement for his NIUEWENHUIS jersey and I was thrilled when he selected DUDA. Would have gone for a SYNDERGAARD if they had them in kids sizes.

HARVEY and WRIGHT tees gathering dust on the shelves.

[Ceetar]